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The impact of a generation of people receiving next to no education about LGBT+ people existing is difficult to quantify, and difficult to measure. How do you even begin to measure the stigma, and the impact of over a decade of invisibility?

Even in 2014, a Stonewall survey found that 37% of primary school teachers didn't know if they were allowed to teach about LGBT+ issues. And even in 2019, anecdotal reports suggested some librarians thought Section 28 was still in effect.

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In May 1988, legislation passed in the UK "prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities. It was in effect for a decade and a half, with massive impact on the LGBT+ community. This is a brief history of Section 28.

Might be making want to prioritise running an L5R game at some point soon.

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Just a PSA - if you normally watch the "no panic button" shorts on YT / TikTok... Today's one is *very* very dark. It really should have some trigger warnings for abusive relationships and suicide.

With my mum in hospital for the second time in 6 months, did some retail therapy.
Ghost of Tsushima is a good PC port.

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We're here
We're queer
Connection reset by peer

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anyone putting this pattern in a beat saber map should be banned from beatsaver and never be allowed near a map editor ever again, i just clapped the fucking shit out of my controllers hitting one

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In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-foc

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

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Don't let a minority of bigots and transphobes persecute those who need medical help. Please sign if you live in the UK.

Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards petition.parliament.uk/petitio

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Protonmail is cop friendly. Any reasonable privacy aware email provider would hash the secondary email, not store it as cleartext. I implemented secondary email hashing for Riseup to prevent exactly this thing, over a decade ago.

restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-

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Huelsbeck is chaotic good Tommy Tailirico because he got pointed to a Koshiro song he plagiarized a bit at one point and was instantly "yeah that wasn't great of me. I was listening to a lot of his OSTs at the time. Would never do anything like that now" lmao

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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

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1. Microsoft buys Japanese studio Tango Gameworks
2. TG releases Hi-Fi Rush
3. HFR is nominated for and wins several awards
4. HFR sales extremely well
5. MS executives praise game
6. MS posts 17% year over year revenue increase in 2024
7. MS layoffs entire studio

???

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PSA for anyone using signal groups to organize during protests 

tl;dr: please check that both options in settings > privacy > phone number are set to "nobody"

if "who can find me by my number" is "everyone" (the default), signal will reveal the association of your account and number to group members who already know your number, which, considering the possibility of schools collaborating with police and providing student info, may or may not be a plausible way to de-anonymize you!

#signal #signalapp

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"Before I introduced a screen time limit, there was too much watching of YouTube. We need rules!"

Idk, mate. Have you considered that screen time issues are related to the lack of spaces for kids and teens to do things? Because most kids I work with would love to have something to do that isn't "go to the mall and wander aimlessly every weekend," which is all they've got other than their phones or whatever.

These spaces were disappearing when *I* was a kid, and I'm almost 40. Hell, even as an adult, there aren't many places for me to go because they all fucking cost money just to find a "community." Not to mention how uncomfortable they all are.

You can change behaviours by creating a world where kids and teens can freely exist and stop ostracising them from society, among many other things.

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