Trans Woman Forced To Compete Against Men Swims Topless In Protest

https://gomag.com/article/trans-woman-forced-to-compete-against-men-swims-topless-in-protest/

Bigots and their law can't stand a chance against this badass woman

> she protested the new policies by wearing a men’s swimsuit, leaving her topless. She has been told by Swim England that if she continues while competing, it is up to the referee to disqualify her. "They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume"

#transrights #trans #transsports #sport #transRightsAreHumansRights

We swore an oath. We're fighting back.

https://18f.org/announcement-of-legal-challenge/

"I think sometimes programmers forget that their primary job is to create a world where we need less programmers, not more."

I've consistently expressed various forms of this sentiment on https://blog.codinghorror.com since 2004, I posted those specific words in 2018, and .. that's still the job, people. That's the job. Always has been. Always will be.

One of the things that made 18F special was our joyfulness. We recognized the humanity of our work and of each other, and we valued that. We leaned on each other for support both professionally and personally, and we set out to have fun together while delivering high-quality digital services to the American people.

Our partners recognized that in us as well. Our joy and our fun were infectious. We soon made friends at our partner agencies, and they regularly remarked on not just how professional and competent we were, but also how much fun we were.

One of the tools we used to share our joy was with our custom Slack emoji. Over our 11 years, we curated quite a collection of over 7000 emoji. These tiny pictures let us express ourselves quickly and effectively, too. :facepalm: says, “Oops, I messed up.” :battery-low: says, "I'm tired or struggling today.” :ish: means “That's kinda right, but also kinda wrong."

Anyway, the original 18f.org website was a display of all the custom emoji created by 18F over the years (minus the ones of colleagues' faces and pets, for privacy reasons). When our office was unceremoniously abolished and staff placed on admin leave, we decided to repurpose the site for good cause – it now hosts archives of our guides (which are :chef-kiss: fantastic) and our blogs.

But today, I put our emoji site back online. You can find it at https://emoji.18f.org.

(This site also displays our collection of giraffe facts, but that’s a topic for a whole other post.)

Yeah, this is silly. But 18F were the biggest goobers in government, and that's no contradiction to also being "the gold standard" of technologists, as our political leadership called us just days before shuttering our office. In fact, being goobers made us better technologists. The fun and joy improved our team relationships and helped us manage the unrelenting stress of public service. I am proud of my time as a government goober, and I'm glad that we open sourced everything so that it can continue to live on even after the joyless ketamine klowns tried to take us down.

Well then, #synadia wants to withdraw #nats from the #CNCF to slap a #BUSL on it. 🫠

Even with being the main contributor, you shouldn't be able undo a donation. ⚰️

For me, pushing the point to use #AGPL. Makes extremely difficult to try to relicense like this.

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protecting-nats-and-the-integrity-of-open-source-cncfs-commitment-to-the-community/