leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

It's that time again. There was no active UK parliament petition about #nonbinary identities being recognised in law, so I made one.

#UK #petition: Recognise nonbinary people's genders in law and in identity documents

Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659107

Track signatures here: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/659107

Deadline: 11th October 2024

To whoever needs to hear this:

Your blog is better without an image than with an AI-generated one. I came here to read your words — let them stand for themselves!

If you *must* use an image, and some soulless AI mockery would suffice, do this instead:

Step outside, and take a photo of wherever you are.

Include a lot of sky, if you can.

This implicit "here's where I am" is a better reflection of your work than whatever midjourney or stable diffusion would splort out.

Journey into space with Captain Rhys Griffiths in ‘Reborn’, a furry sci-fi novel by @jfrcoates

Now available on our website

Still so happy about how my pride pins came out. I'm wearing mine every time I go out. :>
You can get one of these beauties here: https://ko-fi.com/s/9194908864
#KofiChallenge

Some of our departed friend Lucian's estate is up for auction.
Some may be of interest to the engineering lot here.

Bunch of vintage electrical test equipment (avo 8, philips scopes) Some AV stuff, some radio stuff and lots and lots of vintage electrical stuff (hairdriers, teasmaids, other appliances)
a few old educational kits too.

https://auctions.ramco.uk/auctions/8875/ramco-11355

All proceeds are going towards the storage costs of the rest of the collection and helping out his mother.

Eyes off the techtronics scope..... I'm tempted >.>

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, | don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

Discord just announced a change to their Terms of Service, which restarts the clock on when you can opt out of binding arbitration. All you gotta do is read the "Opt-out" paragraph of Section 16 & send an email to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com from the email address you use to log in which states something as simple as this:

I am confirming that as of the date of this email, I am choosing to opt out of binding arbitration to settle disputes with Discord.

https://discord.com/terms

Boosts pls.

I hate using the word Fedi or Fediverse around non-fedi people. Like, anyone will hear you say that name and they'll look at you like you just said something very very different.

So I now I call it: "The Pub"
Because now you can be even more confusing with it, but people will be more understanding.

Example:

"Oh yeah, I saw someone talk about this on The Pub the other day"

The UK has removed every state, territory and country that allows transgender people to correct their legal gender on a "self-id" basis from the list that they offer streamlined gender recognition to.

25 US states (+DC), 4 Australian territories, and 25 entire countries have been cut.

Nobody has even been accused of abusing the process. The changes were spearheaded by Kemi Badenoch for the sole purpose of hurting transgender people.

I appear to have been specifically targeted. In April of 2022, I was the first person to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) as nonbinary in the UK. Though my application for was granted, my GRC was never issued. I filed a lawsuit on 15 November 2022.

Kemi Badenoch was made a defendant in her capacity as the Minister for Women and Equalities. She put out a statement on 6 January 2023 that she was going to update the list.

On 4 December 2023, details were leaked to The Daily Mail. They ran an article giving my state of birth, California, as a prominent example of places on the chopping block.

Legislation was introduced two days later, which even included a comment that in no circumstance would anyone be able to apply as nonbinary based on foreign recognition.

Of course, this is all circumstantial. 😠

Folks living in the UK who qualify under the old list have about two weeks to apply for a GRC before the change takes effect.

The UK's standard process is so burdensome that less than 5% of transgender individuals in the UK have been able to obtain a GRC.

These overly strict rules do not make anyone safer.

I have written up some more details here:

https://rya.nc/activism/uk-slashes-foreign-gender-recognition.html

(I keep forgetting hashtags)

#trans #transgender #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #uk

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