updated introduction
Hello Computer Fairies! Time to update the #introduction
It's me, maj, from Berlin and sometimes Hamburg, Germany. I live my life as a queer polyam Agender in my 40s. The pronouns are they/he.
I do earn money as a software engineer and architect in a corporate environment which contradicts my leftist heart. I do like video games and scifi tv shows a lot. I am also a foster parent of a now young adult.
I toot and sometimes rant about daily stuff in English and German.
Die Debatte um die Verfassungsfeindlichkeit der AfD steht still. Das Gutachten liefert jetzt die notwendige Analyse und handfeste Belege. Der Bundestag muss es kennen.
Sorge jetzt mit dafür: Sende gleich eine E-Mail an die Abgeordneten in deinem Wahlkreis! PLZ eingeben, Name eingeben, absenden.
RE: https://dresden.network/@der_raDDler/116764590464310287
Kleine Erinnerung an die, am heutigen Mittwoch (24.06.) stattfindende Bürgerinneninformation zum letzten Abschnitt der #RadrouteOst. Die AfDer trommeln schon fleißig die Parkplatzbeweiner zusammen. Daher wäre es wirklich wichtig, wenn viele Fürsprechende für die Fahrradstraße kommen.
Germans not understanding the violence in their own country
I've been talking with like some normcore Germans recently and unintentionally let the topic get to the rise of fascism, and what came of it is that most people here don't see fascists as a *physical* threat, to them in particular. the fact that they are German and white means they never underwent street harassment for political, let alone violence. they think this is some niche thing that happens rarely and to someone else.
I don't have to ask to know that their threat model puts Islamist terrorism as a higher threat for them than nazis. I'm not even talking about the racism, I'm talking of this big glaring failure in their threat model.
like once someone asked me, as a loaded question, if I'm ok with some of us sacrificing ourselves, then (because I defend direct action). and I was like, the nazis have stockpiled weapons and post them on social media and romanticise pogroms in shooting galleries and tell us directly, "soon all of you will be hanging from the lamppost", etc. in what timeline do you live in that you imagine that does *not* involve them shooting at us? do you think what, we're going to get Die Linke in power at some point and the 30% of AfD voters will be like, oh welp, we lost, time to sell all those piles of ammunition on kleinanzeigen? let's close all the little nazi farms with the nazi communities running nazi schools to teach little nazi children how to be nazis and turn them to Montessouri?
what people here miss is that both times I was attacked with violence, it wasn't because I was trans, or immigrant, or confrontational. I didn't dress "political" back then, I didn't have tattoos, it was too cold for my body to be visible, and I pass as white. no one thinks I'm an immigrant until I speak, and even then they think I'm from somewhere in Europe, because Germans generally don't know that white people live in the third world, and nazis aren't known for their socieogeographical sophistication. no, in both cases where they made a first move and finally gave me the excuse to beat up some nazis, the trigger was, the nazis saw me removing white supremacy or pro-Hitler stickers that they had put on public spaces. (I've been also harassed many many times for looking queer or dressing political, but every time so far they backed down upon confrontation; the times where I was downright assaulted, it was due to the sticker wars).
when you create a character for me in Tomodachi Life, don't forget my catchphrase: "you may not be interested in violence, but the violence is interested in you."
say you're on a major tram stop downtown and see a sticker that says "white race" (in English) and has a little logo of soldiers with raised hands (in German). do you remove the sticker, or do you lower your head and walk on? if you pick 1 congratulations, you are also currently under the risk of being bashed with a metal bat, as much as I was. the other day a young German couple was attacked with machetes in Berlin, and the trigger was they were seen leaving a leftie bar. the violence is already here and has been for years. if you pick 2 then I guess you can enjoy a violence-free life for a few more lines of that poem.
Die Schufa verlagert Bonitätsdaten von 69 Millionen Menschen in Deutschland auf AWS-Server und spricht dabei von »Datenschutz, Sicherheit und digitaler Souveränität«. Das ist blanker Hohn.
Der US-Cloud-Act kann Amazon zur Herausgabe von Daten verpflichten, auch wenn die Server in Europa stehen. Wer hochsensible Finanzdaten einem US-Konzern überlässt, handelt nicht souverän, sondern bequem.
Und das Beste: Man kann seine Daten bei der Schufa nicht einmal einfach löschen lassen, sondern höchstens falsche, veraltete oder unzulässig gespeicherte Einträge korrigieren oder entfernen lassen.
WTF?!
Intersex pride.
Of all the letters in LGBTQI, I think Intersex people are unique in that we often get added to the rainbow by society as soon as we are born, and unlike other queer people, our families often "know" about us long before we do.
There is a conspiracy of silence to stop intersex kids from knowing about themselves. The reason "normalizing" surgery is done early in life is precisely because the event will not be remembered. In my case, my earliest memory is recovering from such surgery. It took decades to understand what that fragmentary memory was.
Unlike the other letters of LGBTQI, intersex conditions often come with significant medical concerns. Amongst other issues, I had an endocrine crisis leading to severe arthritis in my early years. But my doctors were so intent on bolstering my normalized identity, they could not acknowledge or treat the problem. Ultimately, I accidentally fixed myself by starting hormone therapy as part of gender affirming care.
The origin of this medical and social control is the 1950s era anxiety that if the child has an "abnormal" body, they will grow up gay. As bizarre as it may seem, the pathologization of intersex and the resulting nonconsensual and deceptive treatments are a form of "queer prevention" therapy.
Intersex pride is about acknowledging that bodily diversity is the real normal. Intersex pride is about demanding treatment for the real health issues and an end for nonconsensual cosmetic treatments. Intersex pride is about resisting the identity policing and secrecy that society deems "good for us".
Ihr habt ja bestimmt mitbekommen dass der neue OB von #aschaffenburg zum #csd die Beflaggung öffentlicher Gebäude mit 🏳️🌈 Fahnen ablehnt. Die örtliche Zeitung macht dazu gerade eine Umfrage und ich denke ihr sollte da mal vorbeischauen …
Sagt mir doch gern Bescheid, wenn ihr vonnem Job in Berlin wißt für jemanden mit kaufmännischer Ausbildung und 20+ Jahren Sachbearbeiter-Erfahrung in verschiedenen Branchen (von Arbeitsamt bis Vivantes, von Bank bis Werbung, zuletzt Energiewirtschaft).
#GetFediHired #GetFediHired
Happy Pride!
Non-binary and transgender identities can be dated as far back as Mesopotamia, when Enheduanna (writing centuries before Gilgamesh) wrote:
"To destroy, to create, to tear out, to establish are yours, Inanna. / To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inanna."
Of significant note are the Pilipili; cultic performers that, though born women, ritually are given spears and become men. They can be contrasted with the Gala, who were born men and ritually become women.
This trend continued in ancient greece with the Galli; worshippers of the goddess Cybele who castrated themselves and became women. Achilles was said to have lived among them as a youth and married as a woman; though later plays (some as late as the 1500s) have him instead born as a woman because if he was born as a man he would "overthrow the gods".
There was even a transgender Roman Empress, Elagabalus. She was heavily criticized for dressing as a woman, and hanging out with what we would currently today describe as her gay friends. (love that for her). And her experiences match up almost one to one to current descriptions of what we call gender dysphoria. Here's some quotes:
"She would ask philosophers and even men of the greatest dignity whether they, in their youth, had ever experienced what she was experiencing."
When Aurelius addressed her with the usual salutation, "My Lord Emperor, hail!" she bent her neck so as to assume a ravishing feminine pose, and turning her eyes upon him with a melting gaze, answered without any hesitation: "Call me not Lord, for I am a lady."
"She asked the physicians to contrive a woman's vagina in her body by means of an incision, promising them large sums for doing so."
Gayness, on the other hand, can be associated with diverse creatures such as sheep, penguins, sperm whales and wasps. Wasps split off from the rest of us ~270 million years ago; so either this is convergent evolution or gayness is at least 270 million years old.
The oldest art depicting gay sex is about 10,000 years old, dating to mesolithic cave rock art in the Grotta dell'Addaura in Sicily.
Which is all to say, in this Pride season, let us remember that Pride is fundamentally not a celebration or a fair or a festival. Pride is a protest, a riot, a refusal to die in the face of constant discrimination and the absolute hatred of a society that does not want you, but cannot get rid of you.
Fuck Trump. Fuck Nazis. Be gay, do crime.
Happy Pride!
Ich muss dringend etwas für meine Fitness tun. Früher war ich im Schwimmverein. Von allen Sportarten erscheint mir Schwimmen noch als das kleinste Übel.
Sport begleitet mich schon lange nicht mehr. Aber ich muss wohl wirklich etwas ändern.
Da ich hochgradig sehbehindert bin, bin ich ab der Umkleide ohne Brille prädestiniert, mich zu verlaufen oder versehentlich in der falschen Dusche zu landen.
Darum suche ich ein Wesen aus Hamburg, das Lust hat, 1x pro Woche mit mir schwimmen zu gehen. Der Eintritt geht auf mich. Ich brauche eigentlich nur etwas hilfe bei der Orientierung.
#Hamburg #Schwimmen #Sehbehinderung #Inklusion #Blind #Barrierefreiheit
5.000 Überreiche halten 27,3 % (!) des Gesamtvermögens in Deutschland. Tendenz logischerweise zunehmend.
Aber yo, lass mal den Sozialstaat schrotten und über Arme lästern, anstatt die Reichen vernünftig zu besteuern, total logisch.
Hallo Welt! Ich mache als Hobby schöne bunte Zines über digitale Themen. Grundlagenwissen für alle in verständlicher Sprache und mit KATZEN. Das erste Computerkätzchen gibt es heute 🥳
Der Plan soweit: Ich mache immer eine Print-Version, die kann man über den Shop kaufen.
2 Wochen später gibt es die barrierefreie, kostenlose Online-Version und im Shop zum Kaufen eine Druckvorlage in schwarz/weiß für alle, die die Infos günstig weiterverbreiten wollen.
Mal sehen, ob der Plan hält.
Job in Hamburg:
Buchhaltung und Büro für internationalen Einsatz für Seeleute
Teilzeit. M/w/d
Wir nehmen auch Leute mit noch wenig Erfahrung.
Bitte weitersagen!
https://seemannsmission.org/unterstuetzen-sie-das-headoffice-der-deutschen-seemannsmission/
Verspätungen mit #Deutschlandticket lassen sich nicht entschädigen.
Nein?
Doch!
Oh!
Mit #RonnyRefund könnt ihr euch eure D-Ticket-Verspätungen über den Monat zusammenrechnen lassen und sobald die Bagatellgrenze von 4 EUR überschritten ist, bekommt ihr einen #Schriebs für die #DeutscheBahn generiert, den ihr nur noch per Mail abschickt.
Alle Infos ums Wie und Warum sind auf der Webseite in einem FAQ nochmal zusammengefasst.
Damit es nicht untergeht: Die #USA stufen ab sofort #Transgender als #Terroristen ein. Exakt so formuliert in der soeben veröffentlichten "Counterterrorism Strategy 2026" auf Seite 7.
Zwei Dinge dazu:
1. Die Faschistenbande im Weissen Haus ist moralisch vollkommen verwahrlost und kühlt ihr Mütchen, indem sie auf eine vulnerable Gruppe einprügelt.
2. Betroffene brauchen unsere uneingeschränkte Solidarität.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf
Tja, dann kauf ich da dann auch in Zukunft nix: Keine Möbel mehr von Höffner, Möbel Kraft und Sconto. Spenden an die #fckafd sind eine absolute #brownflag!
yours truly agender nerdy trans guy (white) -- private account of @maj