Renbymon 💜💛🏳️‍⚧️ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

new ref sheet!

🎨 curly-collective.com

Only Amiga makes #FanartFirst possible!  This one is for the owner of my Mastodon instance, @Violet .

"Keeping VLC free and without ads is a no-brainer. I know people focus a lot on that part but, for me, it’s just the way it should be and it’s not difficult for me to keep it like that... Sure, more money would be fun, but most of the people I know who have more money are annoying." -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf

https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/kempf-interview-vlc-videolan

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/g6cqr/iama_vlc_media_player_developer_ama/

https://usesthis.com/interviews/jean-baptiste.kempf/

#OpenSource #NonExtractiveSystems

Wasn't quite expecting this from the BMA (British Medical Association), but they have come out fighting against the Cass Review

https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-to-undertake-an-evaluation-of-the-cass-review-on-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people

Here are some highlights for those who don't want to follow the link:

Members of the BMA's Council recently voted in favour of a motion which asked the Association to 'publicly critique the Cass Review', after doctors and academics in several countries, including the UK, voiced concern about weaknesses in the methodologies used in the Review and problems arising from the implementation of some of the recommendations.

This is followed by:

The BMA is calling for a pause to the implementation of the Cass Review's recommendations whilst the task and finish group carries out its work. It is expected to be completed towards the end of this year. In the meantime, the BMA believes transgender and gender-diverse patients should continue to receive specialist healthcare, regardless of their age.

And then by:

The BMA has been critical of proposals to ban the prescribing of puberty blockers to children and young people with gender dysphoria, calling instead for more research to help form a solid evidence base for children's care – not just in gender dysphoria but more widely in paediatric treatments. The Association believes clinicians, patients and families should make decisions about treatment on the best available evidence, not politicians.

This feels like a real middle finger up to Wes Streeting🖕 who recently proposed making the ban permanent as the new UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

#BMA #PressRelease #trans #transgender #UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #CassReview #PubertyBlockers #TransYouthAreLoved #TransKidsDeserveToThrive #TransKidsDeserveBetter #TransKidsDeserveToGrowUp #WesStreeting

"...the British Medical Association (BMA), voted in favor of a resolution to publicly critique the #CassReview used to crack down on gender affirming care for #trans youth in the United Kingdom, calling its recommendations unsubstantiated."

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/british-medical-association-calls

Glad to have friends who responded to me letting them know on Saturday I was mildly ill with "...unless... *what if it's finally happening?*" in relation to getting yinglet TF'd. No further clarification necessary on what was meant, they know how bad I want it

#YingletStories

Sincerely hoping the racist rioters in #Southport get custodial sentences exceeding those of the #JustStopOil protesters. Disruptive protests and a public nuisance, right?
Not holding my breath though

Avatar change for August - we're getting a lovely spell of summer at the moment and everything's generally quite vibrant, so let's go hypercolourful for this month. Old classic from Anjila.

(One point for Masto for being able to enforce square-shaped avatars, so these ancient arts show in their full glory)

I modded a #gameboy today for a friend. It just so happens today is the 35th anniversary. It had a new IPS display, new power board, new speaker and speaker amp, tempered glass screen lens and an amazing new milled aluminum shell from Boxy Pixel. It also had a weird issue where sound would come out of the headphone jack but not the speaker, figured that out too. Super happy with this build and so is its owner. #retrogaming

My finances have been junk for the last couple of months, so I'm doing a public personal savings accountability thing for life improvement goals! Plan for Yinglet Increasement, more details here, updates coming regularly:

https://cohost.org/AviYinglet/post/7110559-plan-for-yinglet-inc

this is what a senior software engineer looks like

“Opinion: What’s behind the AI boom? Exploited humans”

https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/07/30/opinion-whats-behind-the-ai-boom-exploited-humans/amp/

> In Iceland, we visited data center workers who documented the energy-intensive nature of these centers, which consume more electricity than Icelandic households combined.

One of the reasons why this shit makes me so angry. This is directly threatening Iceland's energy transition as it's soaking up all excess capacity

final version of game build with last minute fixes is up on steam. now we wait

in other news: new box art who dis

(see https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails for more info)

#morsecode #HamRadio #amateurradio #meme #hamradiomeme

MIT OpenCourseWare is an incredible resource https://www.youtube.com/@mitocw/playlists

PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool

Hall, I got ganged up on by a bunch of squirrels again

Never thought I would end up drawing this meme outfit so often

Anyway, it was fun, I tried to give each squirrel a pose with a certain attitude, I hope you can tell each got different personalities haha.

#FurryArt #MastoArt