RT @gnat@twitter.com
@doctorow@twitter.com http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190318-can-we-reinvent-democracy-for-the-long-term sounds like the kind of thing you'd be interested in. (via @rogerdennis@twitter.com, http://www.rogerdennis.com/ideaport/?p=1080)
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The fortune teller regarded the crow perched upon her scrying orb. Her window was open, so its presence was not inexplicable.
It held in its beak a large silver coin.
"Are you an omen?" she asked in a cautious, polite tone.
The crow puffed up and shook its head, then dropped the coin into her payment bowl.
"Ah, I see," she murmured, taking a seat," This will work better if you sit elsewhere."
The crow hopped down obediently.
I refuse to not swoon at all of the tech lesbians who I don't understand AT ALL. that shit is like magic and they're just like "yeah, well if you hash your c++ and encrypt the SDK wait- you don't run Linux? well.. idk if there's a winblows program for this but...." and I'm like "haha, this one time France had a revolution and I can write like 10,000 words on it and nobody will care"
The GenX Curse:
May you live long enough to see people you possibly hung out with on IRC in the 90s run for president.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/
Hundreds of thousands protested in Algiers in biggest demo against President Bouteflika’s 20-year rule since protests began last month.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-algeria-protest/algerians-hold-biggest-anti-bouteflika-protests-idUSKCN1QW0VV?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29
RT @larissaeglasser@twitter.activitypub.actor
If you don’t #StandWithChelseaManning then un-fucking-follow me right now.
#TransRightsNow #DefendWhistleblowers https://twitter.com/sparrowmedia/status/1104041263446351874
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/larissaeglasser/status/1104043686806069248
Lucy was sure of her gender identity from a very young age: she insisted to her parents that she was a girl, that her name was Lucy, and that she would wear a dress when starting school. Surprisingly for the time, the doctor they brought her to recommended they accept her.
Doing another thread on a figure from trans history for #InternationalWomensDay, this time on Lucy Hicks Anderson; a trans woman of color who was a prominent socialite, Prohibition era liquor seller, and brothel Madam in Ventura Country California during the 1920-40s.
RT @occultbabe@twitter.activitypub.actor
i just really think we should normalize sword gifting as a romantic gesture again
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/occultbabe/status/1103855852237324289
oh I can do my art posting here too! i'll update the tag to #JeMaArt though
Stopping Estrogen before surgery
Current UCSF tran healthcare guidlines say this is unnecessary.
I have been looking for the link and passage and I *finally* found it.
http://transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=guidelines-feminizing-therapy
Right before the citations: