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.

How Hitler seized power:

— Demonize opponents.
— Create crises.
— Weaken the press.
— Declare a state of emergency.
— Undermine elections.
— Make the rule of law irrelevant.
— Rule by executive order.

If the U.S. falls, it will be because of those who sat on their hands.

We are adding a new rule to the server:

Posts with sexual imagery depicting real people must be owned by the same people or have clear consent to be used in this manner.

This is to stay within the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 aka Coco's Law: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/act/32/enacted/en/print

We feel the need to be explicit due to the rise of LLM-powered abusive imagery.

We will also need to draw a harder line so eg: porn resharing accounts will be blocked.

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech

Men, I need you to understand something, and this is going to be difficult so I'm going to hold your hand while I say this.

If you:
- don't sexually assault women
- don't make jokes about sexually assaulting women
- don't support the sexual assault of women
- don't enjoy being in the company of men who do

That doesn't make you a "good man". Okay? You aren't a "good man" for not doing those things. That makes you a *normal man*. Those men, who get off on assaulting women? Those are predators. They aren't normal, and you don't get a trophy for not being a predator.

Okay?

Just tired of the bar being buried a dozen miles underground so how about we raise it up just a teensy bit.

Lost my wallet this afternoon in Sidney BC. If this were twitter-of-old, I could reasonably tag this with where I lost it ( #Sidney #SidneyBC #yyj #VictoriaBC) and hope that someone might see it and reconnect me with it. But, sadly, I don't think fediverse has quite the same level of reach. And I'm certainly not signing up to facebook or whatever to try asking there.

Hopefully someone found it and did something reasonable, like dropping it in the post.

Update: Someone found it!!

Vladimir Nabokov Creates a Hand-Drawn Map of James Joyce’s Ulysses

https://www.openculture.com/2013/08/vladimir-nabokov-creates-a-hand-drawn-map-of-james-joyces-ulysses.html