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politics, good and bad, trans 

Good: Changing my name on official gov docs has been painless and they understand that trans people exist and have rights.
Bad: Some laws are old and dumb and politicians are getting in the way of changing those.
Good: The things that are closely important to me re being trans have been great.
Bad: The media and politicians are shit.

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politics, good and bad, trans 

The way Rishi Sunak made a transphobic comment in PMQs and didn’t even apologise after the fact for it is just incredible. It put me in a retrospective mood today thinking about how the start to my trans journey has been.

Good: GP is really supportive of me transitioning.
Bad: GP surgery hasn’t changed my name despite having been told months ago.
Good: My employer and coworkers have been supportive.
Bad: Council were not helpful re name change.

i drew the four of us who front as a quick and dirty profile picture for shared services. it was a bit of a rush job but it looks good as a profile picture so im happy

An important aspect of the hacker ethos is the "got so mad at broken proprietary thing that I fixed it myself" attitude. It runs explicitly counter to the cop mentality half of infosec has these days.

Photos of the original jury-rigged server for Ultima Online.

This setup was not remotely unique for the early days of online services. Most of those were literally just a bunch of hard cabled PCs put together.

(Thanks to Mr Talida for fixing the orientation)

Crunchyroll is shutting down the Funimation streaming service and deleting everyone's purchased copies of stuff, while also hiking their own prices.
Stop paying for streaming media. Buy things you actually own. Or get it elsewhere.

@tryst They may have not been great but I am fond of the form factor from an aesthetics perspective.

Really been enjoying playing Honkai Star Rail 2.0.

Here's some art we got last year, by knuckleb0ne of it as a Trailblazer!

@tryst It’s the same with my local place unless you’re willing to go and sit in the waiting room every morning. It’s incredible.

Oh no! I’m crushing!!!

Sharkler from “B-Robo Kabutack” is a REALLY cute shark robot!!!!

robot girl with "this machine kills fascists" painted on her chassis

Oh no! I’m crushing!!!

Sharkler from “B-Robo Kabutack” is a REALLY cute shark robot!!!!

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