Help raise funds for Ruby: a USian trans woman in her 20s who is trapped with transphobic, abusive, alcoholic father who forces her to become drunk against her wishes, flee US and marry Britt, who is raising funds for Ruby's immigration as well!!

Goal: 1957/3200 dollars

Link:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ruby-flee-the-us-and-join-her-fiancee-in-germany

Tags: #GTFOmyState #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #TransCrowdFund #crowdfund #crowdfunding #fundraiser #fundraising

"He was wholly engrossed in his task."

Our Lady of Darkness, by Fritz Leiber

#Page42

"I got out several cords of stumps in plowing, which supplied me with fuel for a long time, and left small circles of virgin mould, easily distinguishable through the summer by the greater luxuriance of the beans there."
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
(Yes it was the nearest book, I was surprised too)

#Page42

Rules of the game:

-Grab the nearest book
-Turn to page 42
-Find the 2nd sentence
-Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag and write the rules as a comment to it
-Grab the nearest, not the funniest or coolest book

About sex segregation in sports...

[Note: here "women" and "men" can be read as "cis women" and "cis men," but usually when I talk about women and men I mean all of them, cis, trans, nonbinary, and more.]

Despite what some people say, sex segregation in sports is NOT for the protection of women's health. Women are not that fragile.

Sex segregation in sports is for the protection of men's egos, which are that fragile.

We don't know women's true capabilities at the current moment. We are barely beginning to emerge from a long period of enforced ignorance about women's capacity for strength and athletic achievement. Example number one million or so:

For decades, the idea that “lighter is faster,” was the reigning mythology passed on by most track coaches when it came to conditioning, especially to endurance athletes. Coaches would encourage young female runners, who often have higher body fat percentages than their male counterparts, to lose weight to improve performance.

Today, many women runners are flipping the script. They’re discovering how dangerous undernourishment can be – including the risks of disordered eating – and are seeking out coaching that supports proper fueling. The old model of coaching for thinness is gradually giving way to an emphasis on strength and stamina.

Undernourishment by athletes competing at high levels can have a number of bad health effects; one of them is bone micro-fractures. I have seen TERFs citing the prevalence of micro-fractures among women athletes as proof that women need protection from competing with men--but in reality it's evidence that women in sports are being systematically discouraged from adequately nourishing themselves.

Until sexism is eradicated, nobody can make any blanket statements about women's capacity for athletic achievement.

#Sexism #Transphobia #Misogyny #Sports #Olympics #Running #WomenAthletes

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/08/nx-s1-5065821/olympics-track-field-female-runners-fueling-performance

Wie ich höre gab es einen live Stream. Elon war dabei und Donald. Aber sonst fast niemand. Elon sagt, war ein DDoS-Angriff.

Entweder ist dieser Stream kaputtgegangen, weil Elon soviele Leute entlassen hat, dass die verbliebenen keine stabilen Stream mehr hin bekommen.

Oder der Stream ist gehackt worden, weil Elon soviele Leute entlassen hat, dass die verbliebenen einen Hack nicht mehr wirksam verhindern können.

Donald soll Trump gratuliert haben, dass er so viele Leute entlassen hat. Hat aber niemand mitbekommen, dass so viele Leute entlassen wurden, weil ja alle offline waren, weil so viele entlassen wurden.

Und Volker Wissing versteht so wenig von digitalisierung wie nicht mal Elon und Donald zusammen.

@SheDrivesMobility @BlumeEvolution