Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
boosted
uspol, gender markers & passport safety //
I'm seeing a lot of messaging like "get a passport with your correct gender while you still can"
and, up front, I have no idea what trying to transition in a foreign country is like or if it matters what the gender marker on your country of origin is if you don't live there any more
but it seems to me that if you are looking at a passport as part of an emergency escape plan to escape gender identification related violence, you want your gender to be as difficult to identify as possible.
"give me the names and addresses of everyone who's ever changed gender markers on their driver's license / passport" already happened in Texas (and maybe Ohio?). it's a trivial database query to write.
I just don't think this is a great time to put "fyi I'm trans" into the government's files on you.
@lioness It's unlisted. 404 if I click the link, but it loads if I paste the link into the search box on my instance.
@lioness that link is a 404
@12 I wish I could cuddle more of my friends and casual acquaintances. -Esme
mn/st paul politics
No on city questions. Both seem questionable (unsure that vouchers for childcare make sense as a solution, or what effect lining up other races with US presidential elections would actually have).
Incumbent for all judge races except Paul Yang.
mn/st paul politics
As is my tradition, looked up my sample ballot the Sunday before election day. Currently likely to:
Vote DFL in all the partisan races. Just not seeing other candidates I can support.
Yes on constitutional question. I gather it's renewing a fund that exists already and is used to do important work, though I'm not a fan of lotteries.
Esme Povirk
boosted
How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.
In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/excerpt-from-blind-spots-by-marty-makary/
pandemic
It's weird to me that now people reassure with "it's not covid" as if being sick and spreading other communicable diseases is actually fine.
@sota767 Maybe next time I'm asked about dietary requirements I should be like PLEASE WHOLE GRAINS.
@sota767 The thing I worry about with this isn't weight, it's digestion and blood sugar. I had to make dietary changes to regulate those things and they're just being steamrolled right now.
Esme Povirk
boosted
If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.
Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.
Esme Povirk
boosted
Annoying edge cases: non-binary person who identifies as binary.
Not as a binary gender, but as having the gender "binary". Like the gender options are "man", "woman", and "binary".
0 uses 0/1 neopronouns, of course. 0 says 1s never been happier with this gender and pronoun choice, it really works for 1.
@mcc That is very inconvenient for the admittedly weird way I want to develop for it, which is to dump posts into a static html file chronologically sorted with posts from other places and not think about any interaction beyond that.
Also there's just.. no easy way to get a post's url from the API? They give you a weird at: url and you have to take it apart and slot the pieces into an https: url?
Well now that I can see some actual post data, this bluesky thing is super complicated.
Well darn, I was kinda hoping I'd have more to read about while waiting for my vaccine appointment.
Joined Aug 2018
