As I understand it thwre's a German phrase which translates as an innoccuous sounding "I didn't know", which is illegal in Germany because of its association with Holocaust denial. It's possible in the 1940s when media was tightly controlled, that there were people who didn't know. That is not the case today in an era of mass media and social media. They will always have known. A lot of people may not survive Trump. If you survive, make sure they don't get away with saying "I didn't know".
I would like to try #Pixelfed. But the pixelfed dot social server requires you not to post about anything illegal in the USA. So I can't. Why? I'm a trans person. Trump has made it clear he's going to "put an end to trans ideology", which is likely to mean "Being trans on the Internet" becomes de facto illegal in the USA as the excuses to prosecute become very broad. I'd try it if it had a European server. But right now it's problematic without one. Anyone know of an EU pixelfed server?
The UK gpvernment are jumping on the AI bandwagon. What could possibly go wrong.
I wrote about the #shittycamerachallenge for Hackaday.
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Release Your Inner Ansel Adams With The Shitty Camera Challenge
Social media microblogging has brought us many annoying things, but some of the good things that have come to us through its seductive scrolling ar...
There's a parliamentary petition for an independent review of the Cass report into gender medical services for young people. It's a highly problematic document commissioned by the previous government and shaped by anti-trans viewpoints. If you're a Brit, you can sign it, whether you live in the UK or not. Please do.
Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
Petition: An independent evaluation of the Cass review on child gender services
We believe that trans healthcare should be based on unbiased research that is peer reviewed. We think that the Cass review's findings have led to r...
"SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET, so we DEMAND you address it, repeatedly!" is from the same drawer as TERFs endlessly demanding "DEBATE MEEEEE!" to rehash the same points. It's appropriate to evaluate and call out bad stuff when you see it. But in there lies a responsibility to ensure that what you are claiming has a basis in fact, and your primary source isn't an abuser. Otherwise you just become the abuser too.
It's a point worth making, if your're a European or other technology company looking to hire top American talent, Trump's election represents a golden opportunity. A huge number of trans people are very anxious to leave the USA right now, and among them are a lot of people in the technology sector. They wouldn't normally be in the international jobs market, snap them up before someone else does. Curious? Talk to [@trans_rescue](
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Ok, a bit of good news from this year. Dora Richter was one of the first trans women to receive gender reassignment surgery, in Berlin. She was for years believed to have died in the Nazi raid on the Institut fΓΌr Sexualwissenschaft, the world's first gender clinic, because she disappeared afterwards This year it was found that she got away from Berlin to her home village in what is now Czechia, survived the war and forced relocation to Germany, and died an old lady in the sixties.
A long night last night, a complication with a [@trans_rescue](
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 ) passenger somewhere else in the world to deal with. Such things have no respect for sleep. We have more than one passenger directly affected by the war in the Middle East at the moment, and it's straining our resources. If you support what Trans Rescue does, please consider a donation.
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It's peak UK government, that they agree to hand over the Chagos islands to Mauritius at last, while also completely excluding from the process the Chagos islanders they evicted back in the 1960s.