Millie @Atatra@computerfairi.es

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

wishing everybody unironically mourning the #pope today a very "congratulations on looking past the queerphobia of a public figure representing an entire oppressive religion built on hatred"

A lot of people seem to think it’s funny to make disrespectful jokes about the Pope dying. And they’re right.

So there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives app developers on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows money for including a library that sells users network bandwidth. Infatica [1] is just one example, there are many more.

I am 99% sure that these companies are behind the effective DDoS attacks many webmasters have to deal with since months. This business model should simply not exist. Apple, Microsoft and Google should act.

1/n

[1] https://infatica.io/sdk-monetization/

hhhhhheeeeelll yeaaaaahhhhhh

nubby's alright

oh blip this worked better than i thought it would

Finally put something on the domain I bought a while ago: https://sinclai.re

friends don't let friends use webp

UK petition:

Protect Disabled people who cannot work from planned cuts to benefits

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/721547