salith @salith@computerfairi.es

a word of warning: the current spam wave (colorful qr codes) makes use of a url shortener that collects your IP address and a whole bunch of information from your browser. don't follow those qr codes, report and move on

Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/steam-games-will-now-need-to-fully-disclose-kernel-level-anti-cheat-on-store-pages/

#Steam #AntiCheat #PCGaming

REMINDER FOR NON-BRITS:

Kemi Badenoch, the new leader of the Consertive party, is a woman of colour.

But she's also:
— a climate change denialist
— denies institutional racism exists
— a militant transphobe who wants to strip transgender people of civil rights
— believes the British Empire was beneficial to its colonies
— opposes marriage equality

... She's the most right-wing leader the party's ever had.

(TLDR: She's the antithesis of Kamala Harris.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/nov/02/tory-leadership-election-results-live-kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-new-conservative-leader

This meme has become popular on social media, lately.
#satire #billionaires #recycling #humor #economics #press

dear God/Santa hear me out I've been very very good

This is so good it just has to be fattening!

I posted this on Tumblr. I didn't think it would go far. But ... people have clipped it from Tumblr, shared in on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, it's had at least ONE AI read on Tiktok, and a few on Youtube ... so ... just so you know who posted it ... Hi. My pharmacist stole my deadname.

Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels

A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain it was a misunderstanding got unbanned, but that was a tiny fraction of them; there were more than a few bonus-transphobia parting shot DMs, often aimed at me because I was the first mod alphabetically.

And after a few weeks of this slaughter... the chat became a civil paradise. It was a much healthier environment than before we began showing the pronouns and causing all the most toxic people to volunteer their identity at once. People who are really gross on one axis tend to be unpleasant on all of them.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaand there it is

#bluesky

@jeffowski

Is there any #amputee in #London looking for left-handed gloves? I have a lot of these from over the years of buying gloves and needing only the right sides.

Definitely interested if you also happen to have right-handed gloves for me 😁

#AmputeeExchange #CripShare #Disability @disability

In 1951 a tiny piece of tumour was taken, without knowledge or consent, from Henrietta Lacks. The extraordinarily malignant cancer killed her, but in the lab the cells, known as HeLa, continued to live and divide, becoming the first ever functionally immortal human cell line. HeLa was used for numerous scientific advances and her cells are traded around the world for serious money; it is estimated they collectively weigh more than 50 million tons... (1/2) @bookstodon #Bookstodon #RebeccaSkloot

Xenia plushie when

Once again for the folks in the back.

I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

no, seriously, FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY

Based on new data, I've changed my mind about the belief that "People don't change their minds based on new data."🙂🙃

My previous belief was based on the great research on the "backfire effect," done by Brendan Nyhan in 2010. But in 2020, Brendan did new research, showing that he was wrong about people not changing their minds.🙃🙂
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1912440117

He showed that presenting the right data the right way, does cause people to change their minds. This was the right data and way for me.

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We're hearing increasing reports of GPs refusing to prescribe HRT for trans people, even when they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic.

If this happens to you or has happened to you in the past year:
1. Let us know: https://tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT
2. Check out our 'My GP is refusing to prescribe' resource: https://transactual.org.uk/medical-transition/my-gp-is-refusing-to-prescribe-my-hrt-what-can-i-do/

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Transition #NHS #HRT #Testosterone #Oestrogen