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Truscum: Stop gatekeeping who can be trans with this cat-ear wearing programming poly nonsense!

oh wait

"The regular expression does not cope with comments in email addresses. The RFC allows comments to be arbitrarily nested. A single regular expression cannot cope with this."

i guess no regex is fully RFC compliant then

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there are a lot of email validation regexes that claim to catch almost all valid addresses but i've only ever seen one claim that it matches the RFC perfectly, and it's incredible

ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822

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selfie ec 

out of work but it's finally chilly and I love it

Peter Thiel is my favorite billionaire because he's what the villain would be in a particularly hamfisted communist cyberpunk novel, but he exists in real life

It's official. The stereotype about trans men is that we're all werewolves now. If you feel left out, don't fret; you just have to get bit by a transwolf to join the club.

@melissasage That was a typo. They meant to say nobody was dating [i]them[/i], because they were trying to curry favor with incels. Hence "Spinster".

@melissasage It's true. We're one of those trans couples you hear so much about these days.

I don't feel excluded by trans programmer catgirl stereotypes, but I [i]do[/i] feel excluded by laws that specifically discriminate against me, and stuff like being afraid to use changing rooms at the local rec center, or go outside without a binder on, so...

Petition to start trans programmer werewolf stereotype for trans men

I am personally very offended by the trans programmer catgirl stereotype. How dare they make fun of my girlfriend

Every few months, we as trans must ritually re-enact the 70s-80s feminist sex wars discourse

Why didn't anyone kinkshame Frank Oz for build a giant plant puppet that could eat people?

A friend suggested today that it's time for a manifesto and I agree. Another friend in another conversation mentioned that "free software" and "open source" are not relevant terms for what we need. I also agree.

It's time for something new. A new, community-centered ecosystem.

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I'm increasingly of the opinion that the way forward for us is to build a dual-purpose Commons: one where our communities can freely partake and share and collaborate and learn and build each other up, while those who seek to profit on their own terms put cold hard cash down.

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