Millie @Atatra@computerfairi.es

rest in peace giant bomb 2008-2022

#lesbiaboard version 1.4 is out and live! 🎉

https://github.com/transbian-alliance/lesbiaboard/releases/tag/1.4
https://forums.transbian.love

it occurs to me that a large portion of the #fediverse might have my home instance https://computerfairi.es silenced so i figure an announcement from here might get more traction:

i've recently released #ditherinator, a tool for real-time palette-reduction and dithering of images:

https://maple.pet/ditherinator

i've wanted a tool like this for years and i'm glad i can share it with you now!

please post cool pictures you make with it tagged #ditherinator so i can see them!

Pretty pleased with the load times, too. These are full-screen images ranging between ~20 and 38KB each. I got okay results with the usual Floyd-Steinberg dithering in GIMP, but I remembered #Ditherinator exists and that gave me a lot more control and way better results. The ability to turn down the amount of dithering is really helpful for the tile-based compression, since it allows more solid white and black spaces.

https://maple.pet/ditherinator/

hi for my build date anniversary i'd love for people to play with #webgbcam and #ditherinator and show me the cool pictures they make with them thank you

https://maple.pet/webgbcam
https://maple.pet/ditherinator

Hey folks, we just had a bunch of big expenses come in during a time when we don't have any income due to lack of work and a gap in my disability payments. if anyone can help us make up the deficit and put food on the table and keep us supplied with vital meds, it would be really appreciated. please boost if you can't donate, reach really matters #transcrowdfund #mutualaid https://gofund.me/580dbcb4

Being trans in the UK is expensive!

wowie zowie look at all this activity come join the fun https://forums.transbian.love

#fedihire #getfedihired #fedihired Help my sister! https://tacobelllabs.net/@Angela/114388372091254095

I was just laid off! If you are looking for a web dev with 20+ years of experience, most recently five years doing #Elixir and #PhoenixLiveview, please hit me up! https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-quinton/

what's especially insidious about all of this is that, in queer communities at least, these traits are universally celebrated in cis women and people commonly perceived to be cis women (i.e., femme/non-transitioning AFAB enbies).

our communities love it when cis women are assertive, speak up, advocate for their needs, or express sexual agency.

transfeminine people don't get that privilege, because we're perceived as men - and men already get too much of all of the above.

nevermind the fact that we're not men, and we never have been - and that transfem people are more likely to be violence, abuse, SA, and trauma survivors than perpetrators, especially at the hands of the very same cis men whose sins we're saddled with.

when I say that transfeminine people are pressured into the role of fawning mommy-girlfriend in order to distance ourselves from our perceived masculinity, I mean that in the most literal sense of the phrase.

both in queer-specific spaces and the world at large, everyone is constantly scrutinizing us for signs of perceived "maleness."

if we assert boundaries or advocate for ourselves, we're expressing male entitlement.

if we display any perceived anger or aggressiveness, that's our male socialization poking through the veneer of femininity.

if we speak up too much or too loudly, that's us flaunting our male privilege.

if we're the least bit sexually forward, it's because of our "masculine sex drive."

it's little wonder that so many of us are browbeat into subsuming our true selves behind a fawning caricature of patriarchal femininity.

Petitions in the UK:

Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793

Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159

favourites are not sympathy, and especially on the fediverse favourites are not an algorithm booster

reply or boost if you have anything besides enjoyment for a question

if you use a brainless favourite click to mean anything besides "i enjoy the content of this post", you are putting way too much onus on the receiver to pretend to know you had any other meaning for it