RE: https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666

For those who still wish to play Principia on Android, here is a useful infographic for how you will be able to install Principia on your Android device going forward.

Thanks Google for the helpful instructions!

#android #foss #opensource #sideloading

If you're not in the know: Ray Blanchard is the originator of "autogynephilia," and Lisa Littman is known for using highly biased methods to try and validate "rapid onset gender dysphoria."

Don't respond to them. Tell your friends not to respond to them. Tell them to tell their friends.

https://masto.ai/@transworld/116251795958925187

As an Oregonian, a biologist, and someone with a deep and unwavering love for the old growth forests of the PNW, I implore you to submit a personalized public comment opposing this short-sighted rule change at the BLM. Loss of what remains of Oregon's old growth forests would be an irreversible tragedy. #Conservation #Forests #Oregon #Biodiversity

https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announces-plan-to-fell-oregons

Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.

While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.

Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.

My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.

🏇 🐎 🐴

Have you sat on a horse?

Please boost for scientific accuracy.

hello, critters! i've set up a new fundraising goal over on my kofi page, as i unfortunately have some unexpected costs i need to cover - my cat Achilles needs to go to the dentist!

i would really appreciate any help i can get 💛

https://ko-fi.com/tuxedodragon/goal?g=0

Question: When you drink, which hand is your dominant one and which one do you normally use to drink with?

Clarification: You do not need to always drink with your preferred drinking hand, if you have a preference. You just need to do it enough to be able to note the clear preference. So if you are a left handed person who drinks with their left hand 70% of the time, you can just say "I am left handed and drink with my left hand."

That said, if you use your dominant hand 60% of the time, you're free to pick "I am left handed and I drink with either hand." I am leaving the cutoff to you as to what you consider the "either hand" threshold. That's just kind of an example. Admittedly plenty of this will be left up to you to define for yourselves.

So I would consider myself right handed. I do seem to have some traits of cross dominance, but I am not well read enough on this at this moment to throw out the notion that I'm right handed. That said, I've noticed that when I drink, I'm comfortable with either but moooost of the time I drink with my left hand.

So I would vote "I am right handed and I drink with my left hand."

Anyway, if you see this and don't mind, feel free to #BoostForReach

And if you have anything you want to talk about in regards to hand dominance or just drinking (because not all of us have the full use of our hands or even have hands), I would be interested in reading about it. ^_^

Recently I heard someone say "It sucks that there's only really one social media site left", by which they meant BlueSky.

A few days ago, I read a long thread from a very capable and intelligent retro-game romhacker and do-it-yourself indie tech enthusiast about how nothing can replace Discord, and thus all attempts to do so will fail. Their thesis was, effectively, "Don't even try, just fold".

And I am shouting from the rooftops: There are better ways. We can resist centralization. We can design with redundancy in mind. We can build and maintain something that serves our needs, rather than something that serves us to corporations and governments.

BUT IT WILL REQUIRE WORK

IT WILL REQUIRE INITIAL DISCOMFORT

The idea that the alternatives are not easy, not glossy, not a one-stop-shop for everything - The idea that some of the burden of maintenance and moderation were put on a corporate ledger as a loss leader, and that anything without that for free is inferior...

THIS ATTITUDE HAS TO GO.

There will be nothing perfect, but there will be options. They will not be the same, but they will be both functional and empowering.

On this journey, the paved road you used to take now has a toll, and the cops can pull you out of your car and beat you for any reason. Yes, carving a dirt path forward is less appealing. It takes work. It's bumpy. It's dirty. But it can get you there safely, and you can build it with friends to make it more uniquely yours than the manicured asphalt could ever be.

It will not be free. It will cost sweat and effort.

But we *have to fucking try*.

Do not give up before you try, just because the corporate interests have captured your notion of perfect.

Resistance requires WORK!!

It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine nonbinary Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.