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Dan

@neomiasma

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I’m just this guy, you know?

Today's Doonesbury nails it.

#Comic #Doonesbury #Immigration #ICE

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

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Simon Tatham Aug 14

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!

PuTTY

Free software SSH client for Windows and also Unix, including an xterm-style terminal emulator.

“What next, should I have a computer that eats my dinner and fucks my wife?” is one of those perfect sentences that just sticks in your head

Ben Royce 🇺🇦Aug 11

Sometime in your life, you might encounter an entitled insufferable controlling and abusive busybody, who has to intrude with overly judgmental accusations and deranged attempts to punish you over simple disagreements or nothing at all

There's a number of ways to deal with them

Some terrible, some ok...

Some spectacular:

😂

Paul Kater Aug 5

Somebody who sounds exactly like you when yelling out of a passing vehicle is your Dopplergänger

Ricki Yasha Tarr Aug 1

Matthew Malthouse Jul 29

20 years ago and still…

#politics #FreeSpeech #internet #tech

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Paul Kater Aug 5

@paulk Tell this to J K Rowling, but then she has enough money now to believe that what she THINKS is right.

Paul Kater Aug 5

@DjityDjity And enough to 'convince' others she is right. I know.

I will tell her next time I see her. Promise.

@paulk @DjityDjity https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981

The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces

Children in a remote village in the Dominican Republic have an extremely unusual condition.

BBC News

Paul Kater Aug 5

That's amazing!

Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Aug 9

These kids are lucky they don't live in the US.

@paulk @DjityDjity

@rgulick @paulk @DjityDjity If they would, the US might get used to the fact that gender cán change.

Clinton Anderson SwordForHire Aug 5

@DjityDjity @paulk

That canky munt needs to fuck off all the way into the sun.

Wilfried Klaebe Aug 6

@ClintonAnderson And then back out of it and into the black hole in the center of the galaxy.

@DjityDjity @paulk

@DjityDjity There's a social disease of great wealth, which isolates people from others, the rest of the world, and even objective reality. We see a lot of that disorder these days. It's unhealthy for everyone involved.

@paulk Yep, I did enough molecular biology/genetics, and had some close friends whose genetics is very much not 'one of the two', never mind sexuality stuff, to simply know that anyone insisting there is a tidy binary is sadly ignorant and/or cruel.

Blacky The Pirate Aug 5

@paulk
Vom Bildungsweg bei mir ähnlich, mit anderen Fächern 😉

Leider bekommen viele Leute nicht die Möglichkeit nach der Schule auf College & co zu gehen. Was nicht heißen muss bei binär stehen zu bleiben. #klassismus

Und ich fürchte, auf der anderen Seite ist vielen "Binäris" trotz Bildung die Komplexität egal

Paul Kater Aug 5

@Blacky Oder die haben gar nicht den Sinn um sich darein mehr zu vertiefen.
Einfach und keine arbeit.

Douglas Edwards

@paulk At ALL levels, science education needs to do a MUCH better job of distinguishing simplified models and approximations from exact, truly exceptionless scientific laws. "Among mammals, males are XY and females are XX" is a very different kind of generalization from the law of conservation of energy.

Paul Kater Aug 5

@dedicto Unfortunately most closed minds don't want to know and preach there are only 2 genders...

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖Aug 5

@paulk @dedicto Back in 1967, when my biology class did sexual reproduction, my school textbook actually mentioned that there were exceptions. OK the book called such people ‘hermaphrodites’ (illustrated with a line drawing from antiquity) and overstated how rare variations were but it was nearly sixty years ago and we at least had a clue that nature wasn’t binary.

Paul Kater Aug 5

@christineburns You had a very progressive school/biology class then. Hooray for that. In 1972 my school didn't reach out that far.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖Aug 5

@paulk @dedicto It wasn’t a new textbook either — at least ten years old I’d guess.

Paul Kater Aug 5

@christineburns
That's even more brilliant to read. All the world should know about this and teach it.

@paulk People fail to appreciate their own ignorance -- the limits of their own knowledge, and the superior knowledge of experts. I have a basic idea of how my car works, but I'd be stupid to tell a mechanic he's wrong about it, and my gut instinct or whatever I learned at 12 is better.

Francis Mangion (M) (VR/AR/*)Aug 5

@paulk #interesting

crazyeddie Aug 5

@paulk Sort of like "economy 101" that supposedly teaches such things as, "buy low, sell high," for stock.

For those who don't know: To judge whether you should buy or sell a stock the current price it is at isn't what you want to look at. You want to look at its tangent (the level it's currently changing at) as compared to the general market. You buy when that number is very positive (price is increasing) and sell when it drops and doesn't look to go back up.

Buy high, sell low.

@paulk when I study us law and political practices I learn fact can be irrelevant in politics and in law. That’s just the way it is..

👁Pooka🫣Boo🫵Aug 5

@paulk Gotta love science, even when it makes things more complicated.

@paulk Fortunately, people did not start this division in the educational system until this very beautiful time. If they had done so, humanity would have become extinct a long time ago.

オチュー🕊🇵🇸Aug 5

Paul Kater Aug 5

@otyugh Fabulous!!
Thank you.

ORCACommander Aug 5

@paulk there are entire classes of information i call "lies we tell children to keep thing simple and shut them up and the truth makes us uncomfortable" that people take far too long into their adult lives without revision

zombiecide Aug 5

@paulk I've been thinking about how we can spread the joy of discovering new ideas for things people thought they knew

to avoid this being stuck at decades old middle school knowledge of most of the world

Jonathan Carreño Aug 5

@zombiecide @paulk it's hard to teach humility. The first step towards learning is accepting and embracing your own ignorance.

zombiecide Aug 5

@jocarren I don't want to shove people into humility and feeling ignorant, I want them to find joy in learning and surpassing their previous state

Jonathan Carreño Aug 5

@zombiecide @paulk you misinterpreted my words.
There is nothing wrong with ignorance, you have to be humble and admit ignorance in order to learn new things.
Most people seem to believe they already know everything they need, that is really sad to me.

zombiecide Aug 5

@jocarren *waves with hands* many people feel threatened if they feel humble or ignorant
now, I don't think it's bad to feel either every once in a while, but I don't want to spread those feelings, and I don't want you to think we're agreeing in this case

Jonathan Carreño Aug 5

@zombiecide fair enough

Martin Vermeer FCD Aug 6

@jocarren @zombiecide Though, the core thing is to get comfortable with not knowing everything, because for most things by far, that is the state all of us are in. The knowledge of each of us, and of all of us together, is a little island in a huge sea. And it is a-okay.

"we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting"

La Dame d'Azur Aug 5

@paulk Okay but maybe we shouldn't be teaching middle schoolers that there are only two genders.

Paul Kater Aug 5

@blueorchestra The powers that teach should change, indeed.

Kevin Russell Aug 5

Helpful hints on memes.

Mastodon moved HIDE and ALT to the far right because most Mastodon writers write left to right, to avoid covering words.

Don't put meme words under interaction buttons, also.

ジギーくん Aug 5

@paulk Bachelor's? I was taught about intersex conditions in middle school!

Paul Kater Aug 6

@zigi_now9 Not all countries are the same. I don't know when / where Rebecca Helm was in school. This can make a big difference.

ジギーくん Aug 6

@paulk Yeah, I mean my middle and high scholls were relatively "high class", so there's probably some privilege on my part here.

Overdrawn at the Gravitas Bank Aug 5

Many of them are the same people who object to teaching basic biology in any coherent fashion, that is to say including natural selection.

They generally, really, would rather instead to appeal to the Bible…which they also generally don't know well.

Fun fact: Some Hebrew sages take the 'he created them male and female' line of Genesis' in the first human creation story as meaning that Adawm & Khava were androgynous…though,of course,other sages think the first bunch were sniffing glue.

🅰️ ®️ ✝️ U Aug 5

@paulk When i looked at humanity, i saw it was not about the topic, but about power.

K_L_Cooper Aug 6

@paulk
Most Republicans never heard of "middle school"!

Paul Kater Aug 6

@k_leyton_cooper And from what I read in the media, they seem set on making their bible the only thing fit to be taught.

🤦‍♂️

William Pietri Aug 6

@paulk Totally agreed. It's like the "Pluto is a planet" people. It's not about the facts, it's about their discomfort learning anything new. And I feel for them, because unlearning the old and feeling wrong can be uncomfortable. But their discomfort can't justify harming others.

Paul Kater Aug 6

@williampietri Exactly. This is how it's always been and no one will change our perception of it.

Stone minds...

Sheogorath Aug 6

@paulk Now that I think about it, it isn't too surprising, given that many people didn't have a biology class since middle school, that talked about these topics.

Paul Kater Aug 6

@sheogorath Or their middle school didn't touch this.

Auscandoc Aug 6

@paulk Thanks for reposting this. I’d “lost” it.

Paul Kater Aug 6

@auscandoc My pleasure!

@paulk this narrative is bad tho. the whole idea that gender and sex are different at all was the thing that convinced the masses to accept the terf framing of their bigotry as a concern instead of an anti-everything argument.

there is no sex vs gender, there is only sex and it is entirely made up and serves no other purpose than to obfuscate human experiences.

and if you can call your identity as a gender, you can just as much call it a sex, and it will change absolutely nothing for you or for science, but it will remove the one argument the far right needs to work properly against this very topic, at least if they still want to recruit undetected among the masses

@paulk ->Recyclinghof ...

@paulk A simple truth of life is that there will always be people behind in knowledge. And they will be the majority.

So, no, this isn't the cleverest argument.

Respect is something that even the simple should aim to cultivate. I think that's the way to go about the matter in hand.

Paul Kater Aug 11

@olivesspeaks I don't see an 'argument' here. It's a statement.
Some people haven't moved past middle school.
This is what it says.
Respect is always good. Trying to educate people too. For that, you need to point things out, like Miss Helm does in this meme.

@paulk I felt like it means, in a way, to say that some people think like that because they are uneducated.

Something didn't feel right to me.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Paul Kater Aug 11

@olivesspeaks Words without sounds can be interpreted in many ways. I see how this could strike you in that manner.