Daniel

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Header picture taken on March 15, 2020. The camera is pointed southwest from the easternmost shore of Quonochontaug Pond in Charlestown, RI, USA. I was hanging my food in a bear bag from a tree in the backyard of my parents home - practicing for my impending Appalachian Trail thru hike. The sun had already set and we were deep into the blue hour, but the sky is a beautiful blue to orange ombre that reflects off the pond. Two days later the AT was closed due to Covid-19.
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Hello #trans Mastodon - does anyone have information on how an immigrant, or long-term work visitor to Germany can get testosterone and other routine transmasc care while there? They'd be coming from the United States and working in a PhD program at university. North Germany, if it matters!

I'm going to assume they have familiarity with the language, if your resources are in German. Thank you.

#transmasc #testosterone

One of the #MetaFilter mods, travelingthyme, suffered a catastrophic car crash during a cross-country move which killed their father and destroyed most of their possessions. Please consider helping them if you can afford to. https://gofund.me/db99439e

I have the cure for whatever ails you: A reading list.

(Don't worry. There won't be a test.)

https://terikanefield.com/making-sense-of-it-all-a-journey-through-books-part-1/

Remember the first bunch of people who click will get an error 500 message. Yes, it's still there.

Making Sense of It All: A Journey Through Books (Part 1) - Teri Kanefield

I woke up on the morning of Wednesday, November 9, 2016, feeling as if I had just lived through the election of 1824. That was an election that pitted John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson was a populist, a hothead, a demagogue, an unrepentant enslaver, a slaughterer of Native people, and a speculator […]

Teri Kanefield

Being rude at someone for the (usually) honest mistake of failing to provide Alt Text on an image is UNACCEPTABLE.

But someone simply requesting/reminding you to provide Alt Text is not them being rude or passive-aggressive or “performative allyship.” 🧵 1/

I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚

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G'bless @timnitGebru and her colleagues at DAIR for the work they do in AI as voices of sanity (in an increasingly insane field run by AI boys with their malign faux philosophies), evidence (they continue to perform vital research), caution (about present-tense harms, not future-shock bullshit), and generosity (sharing their research and perspective openly).

This is one of Heather Cox Richardson's best:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-29-2023

She has written about these ideas at length in two of her books, To Make Men Free and How the South Won the Civil War.

I discovered her books while I was writing the Making of America series. When I got to volume 5, FDR, I realized I needed a deeper understanding of how the parties evolved. That was when I found To Make Men Free (a history of the Republican Party.)

December 29, 2023

When asked at a town hall on Wednesday to identify the cause of the United States Civil War, presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley answered that the cause “was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms, and what people could and couldn’t do…. I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are…. And I will always stand by the fact that, I think, government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people.”

Letters from an American

As much as I don't like Twitter, I do miss all the calendar sales that it used to drive. I'm down over a $1,000 of income that would have come from Twitter calendar sales. That sucks.

If you want a calendar, you can get it here: https://www.lulu.com/shop/bryan-hansel/northern-landscapes-calendar-2024/paperback/product-2m29j64.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Northern Landscapes Calendar 2024

A year worth of landscape images from northern Minnesota. These photos, taken by landscape photographer and outdoor photography instructor Bryan Hansel, cover a wide range of subjects in the northland. For this year's calendar many of the images come from Cook County, Minnesota and Lake Superior. The images show sunrises from Artist's Point, waterfalls from the Temperance River and Cascade River, a sunrise near Hovland, a harbor scene from Grand Marais, fall color scenes from Cook and Lake Counties, and a peaceful cabin in the snow.

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I cannot wait to watch this show! Murderbot, the ultimate TV fan, was always destined for TV. Congrats, @marthawells!!! https://deadline.com/2023/12/alexander-skarsgard-star-murderbot-apple-chris-amp-paul-weitz-1235668011/
Alexander Skarsgård Stars In 'Murderbot' Sci-Fi Series Ordered By Apple

Apple TV+ has officially picked up Murderbot, a 10-episode sci-fi drama series starring and executive produced by Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård (Succession). Based on Martha Wells’ bestsell…

Deadline
If you're a Substack publisher who is bumping up against Substack's ambition to boost far-right (and anti-trans) voices, lemme just say that Buttondown is lovely and easy to use, and they give amazing customer service.