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Meet Chinese sports shooter Zhāng Shān, the reason skeet shooting is sex segregated. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, she dominated the then integrated skeet shooting competition winning Gold, defeating the men. The International Shooting Union banned women for the 1996 Olympics.

God forbid a man has hobbies

it's very unfortunate that non-musicians associate MIDI mostly with Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth. even admitting that General MIDI specifically was never great, Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth is really not a good General MIDI synth…

uuuuu i really have to write that blog post or make that youtube video don't i. there's just… so much misunderstanding about this topic because most people haven't been cramming their head full of knowledge about obsolete standards for the last year and a half of their life

the worst thing is that Microsoft themselves have made a somewhat better synth: DirectMusic (part of DirectX). i don't know why they made the default Windows synth suck and only use the better one in games. maybe it was too much for an average 1996 office PC.

defeated in the breaststroke, huh

I want to see an otherwise boring binary trans person apply for a GRC with a note that says "since the GRP cannot rely on medical evidence in decision making, I believe that the requirement to provide it violates my right to privacy".

This press release undersells the judgement.

The court made it clear that the Gender Recognition Act does not require any medical treatment at all beyond a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to get a Gender Recognition Certificate, and that the Gender Recognition Panel cannot use any medical treatment or lack thereof against the applicant.

This brings up the question - if no medical treatment is required, and the gender recognition panel cannot use information about it against the applicant, why is it required?

Also, a strictly binary identity is not required to be eligible for a Gender Recognition Certificate.

https://www.39essex.com/information-hub/insight/gender-recognition-panel-decision-set-aside-family-division-high-court

Draw vs IRL lol

proposing the replacement of hot girl summer with hot girl autumn

Tweet by byroncclark:

"I feel like to many people don't recognise fascism because they think fascism will arrive selling oppression and tyranny, but if you're part of the privileged group fascism is selling you safety, normalcy, and tradition"

Went for a midsummer hike with frens ^^

#lichensubscribe #Mosstodon #finnishnature

A MOD DAY IN NANCY’S WORLD

"Establishing that AI training requires a copyright license will not stop AI from being used to erode the wages and working conditions of creative workers. ... Our path to better working conditions lies through organizing and striking, not through helping our bosses sue other giant multinational corporations for the right to bleed us out." –
@pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/21/off-the-menu/

#Copyright #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

This is way too satisfying.
(Mac Portable ejecting floppy in space)

here's some more music i made https://soundcloud.com/hikari_no_yume/listless-daydream