It is so wholesome to see #transmasc people exploiting #homophobic #Transphobic rules designed to keep #trans and #transfemme people out of #MissItaly to prove a point.
In 1992, Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half during a performance on SNL in protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church. Bless you, Sinead. Welcome to Heaven.
Attached: 1 image Dr James Barry died #OTD 1865. Born female in Cork but lived his adult life as a man. He got his medical degree from Edinburgh and joined the British Army in South Africa. Rose to rank of Inspector General of Hospitals. He performed 1st (successful) caesarean by a European in Africa. The doctor who signed his death cert said: "it was none of my business whether Dr Barry was a male or a female – that I thought it as likely he might be neither" #LGBTQIhistory #Mastodaoine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon)
So many things scare me right now.
But chief among them is this feeling that most cis folks who support trans rights lack conviction — while the anti-trans campaigners are full of passionate intensity.
It's pretty easy to see what rough beast is slouching our way.
Just saw someone advocating progressive movements organize on the Fediverse.
BE VERY VERY CAREFUL ABOUT SAYING STUFF LIKE THIS.
-Most fediverse tie-ins are not architected to protect you. For instance, Mastodon Direct Messages are not encrypted and admins can access them.
-Most instances are hosted by ordinary people who don't have the time, knowledge, or resources to fight subpoenas in either criminal or civil actions.
Meet here. Support each other. Cheer each other on. Show solidarity, and elevate and amplify each other.
Organize in much more restricted environments, like end-to-end encrypted messengers like Signal.
"Vast regions of the #Antarctic coastline were #IceFree for the first time in the observational record.
"To say unprecedented isn't strong enough," Dr Doddridge said.
"For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-levels-nosedive-five-sigma-event/102635204
Antarctic sea ice has usually been able to recover in winter. But this time it's different, with levels taking a sharp downward turn at a time of year when sea ice usually forms reliably — and experts are worried.
Hey, US folx? Here's where we're at.
Without IMMEDIATE repercussions, this pretty much puts paid to the idea of the political right and the rule of law. And yeah I know, "it was always blah blah" w/e NO.
What This is is literally an entire state opting out of the norms that keep our country even moderately functional. That is DIFFERENT.
Without even that thin veiled pretension to rule of law, most of you haven't seen the kind of thing that we're in for, in your politically cognizant lifetimes. Alabama republicans needs to be taken to task on this, and SWIFTLY.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/alabama-gop-refuses-draw-second-black-district-supreme-court-order-rcna94715
Alabama Republicans rejected calls to draw a second majority-Black congressional district, instead creating a map that Democrats say completely ignores a recent ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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