British MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion, marking the biggest step forward in reproductive rights in almost 60 years.

(Abortion was previously legal in limited circumstances in the UK, but during COVID police began charging women under a law from 1861: they can no longer be prosecuted.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/17/decriminalisation-abortion-vote-mps

So I'm currently trying to game out in the next 14 days (before the new mastodon.social TOS goes into effect)¹ switching from m.s to GTS.

If you use GTS: What does "using" GTS, from the web frontend², look like to you? Would you mind showing me a screenshot?

¹ Please don't use this thread to talk about this. See my other thread or the github issue I'll be posting after my class today

² My understanding is GTS supports multiple web frontends in theory. I don't know if multiple exist.

With all the horrible news coming from Palestine, Iran, and Israel, it is easy to forget the context.

And the context is that Netanyahu is on trial for bribery in Israel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

But I'm sure this in no way influences his decisions that accidentally create a gigantic distraction and provide massive political cover for him.

So I live in what is considered a “ferry community” in the Seattle area, in that the quickest, well, most direct, way to get to Seattle is on the State or County ferry across Puget sound.

Anyway, there are lots of little community groups for ferry commuters etc, and overnight they all started reporting that employees of Washington State Ferries received an email that informed them that ICE agents would be working on ferries in coming days.

Now, no way of 100% confirming that is true yet, but given the way things have been going, I wouldn’t be surprised.

And just to say - that’s messed up. The state ferries are technically part of the state highway system - people rely on them to get to work, to medical appointments. What’s next, checkpoints on actual highways?

I’m often on the ferries, so my plan as always in these situations is to maliciously comply. Ask for my papers? You’re getting them, slowly, and buddy we’re going to talk for the full half an hour of the ferry ride about ever item of gear on your belt. We’re talking about how you got into this line of work. Polite small talk as a weapon, disabling you from talking to anyone else.

#seattle