I think I need to say this. The word "Drama" in the hackerspace community needs to get in the sea. People dismiss the result of toxic behaviour as "Drama", and it allows the toxic behaviour to continue while usually the victim of the toxicity is blamed for the "Drama". How many times do you have to hear "Drama", before realising something is wrong? If I hear that word being used in this way, you will hear me explaining this again in no uncertain terms.

I have a #FediHire for everyone, via [@trans_rescue](

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) . American, cybersecurity grad, certified RedHat SysAdmin, network, & pen tester. Needs work urgently to stabilise situation. I think those qualifications are attractive enough that someone out there among those of you who follow me because I write for @npub135mg...490p will be looking for them. I think I'm right in saying that this job can be done remotely too, if you ain't close. Come on Mastodon, do your thing.

If you are a British trans person, join a trade union. If they come for you in the workplace, you will need a big stick. When it happened to me, I was very glad of my union membership.

Yesterday I was in Berlin, and made a trip to the Magnus Hirschfeld memorial. It's close to the site of the world's first gender identity clinic, raided by the Nazis in 1933. Not on most tourist itineraries.

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.

Hackaday

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.