maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

UK folks: Please write to your MP and ask them to request the Supreme Court of the UK to grant "Castellucci v Gender Recognition Panel" permission to appeal.

I'm seeking a Gender Recognition Certificate matching my birth certificate based on a straightforward reading of the Gender Recognition Act.

#uk #trans #lgbtq #nonbinary

computer fairies is 8 years old today ! 🎉 🍰 🥳

I have a very old hand scanner lying around that has drivers for Windows 3.11. For it to work, it has to be calibrated by scanning a calibration sheet from the manual, which I don't have. (found nothing on the net either)
Scanning anything does satisfy the software, but the calibration is way off then. It looks fine while scanning, but when it applies the calibration, it messes everything up.

But I found a solution. :) 🧵 1/X

greetings to:
@mavica_again and @foone

#retrocomputing #graphics

I joined the Fediverse in 2018, but only became highly active in 2023.
The state of the transgender community was some terminally diseased bullshit: you could disrupt federation by throwing the name of any trans girl you dislike to #Fediblock with nothing more than accusations of social adjacency to the wrong people. Destroy hundreds of connections over trumped-up charges. Many of my dear friends are no longer on the network because of this.

I found the network split into two hermetic clusters i like to call Tech Mastodon and Queer Fedi. The first is barely aware of the second, eager to gentrify it, and to speak over us.

I have written about these topics at length, and taken action about them.

I wrote an article that focuses on a nonprofit named #IFTAS, due to their penchant for enabling abuse against us - this is a very long article, and the next links are more summarized:
https://aria.dog/barks/ethics-in-transgenderism/

Once I learned the #FediForum virtual conference was co-organized by a transphobe, me and friends dug up all the receipts in time, before they were concealed. I delivered an uninvited counter-talk, which is a good summary of our dysfunctional social dynamics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy5O2LjeuDY

You might prefer to read this transcript: https://aria.dog/barks/mastodon-trust-and-safety-at-the-terf-conference/

The transcript also contains a section about death threats I received about this video, which US nonprofit companies i criticized multiple times, #Nivenly and #IFTAS, decided not to take action about, despite platforming the person who made those threats. IFTAS, in particular, had a previous history of transphobic death threats from its staff, and tried to conceal the evidence. Meanwhile, Nivenly used the name of a dead trans woman to deflect accountability, then said the death threats didn’t happen.

So long as death threats are in play, i have no inclination to be civil: my community’s penchant for civility is the reason we are easy to speak over.

Do not follow me to keep up with those topics, try @fedilore instead. Me, i just pop out of random wells to chastise you, without warning, and will try to keep my activity mostly away from this account.

BTW: Queers always keep receipts, and we’ll be gay much longer than gentrifiers will be solvent.