politics, good and bad, trans
Ultimately things are okay! They could be better but I’ll be okay.
What I have experienced boils down to this: the way the country works from a procedural and rights perspective is supportive (aside from changing gender marker on gov docs). From a political and media perspective it’s horrible.
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.
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.
hug update!! hug update!!! go hug all the things https://github.com/Mynotaurus/Yingmotes/releases/tag/v2.1
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers with AI are often outright lying. Often, they’re instead replacing local employees with remote workers paid peanuts in India and other developing countries.
“So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: ‘AI stands for “absent Indian.”’”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/
The MATV/cable headend gear arrived last week and it wasn’t in a great state; it had been packed in situ so some stuff broke in transit. It’s not a huge deal to repair though, just some plastic pieces.
Gonna try looking into the software over the next couple of days. Tried to work on it last night but for some reason I couldn’t get the Pi I wanted to use connected to the WiFi.
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