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Any Discworld fans here? I suddenly had an image of Death coming to a newly transitioned trans person on Discworld just to collect their deadname.

BE AT EASE. IT IS NOT YET YOUR TIME. I'M ONLY HERE FOR THE NAME.

#trans #transgender #Discworld #TerryPratchett

I have a question for trans women who have done a vaginoplasty. I had the catheter for urinating removed yesterday and since then I have a constant feeling of needing to pee. I am using the toilet every 90/120 minutes and the quantity seems normal to me, and I know that irregular urination is to be expected after the surgery, but this feels like too much. Given the changes to the urethra, is this a matter of "re-training" my urinary system? Should I try to avoid going so often so that my bladder gets used to a proper, less disruptive schedule, or does this go away with time?

Thank you for the answers, boosts are appreciated!

#Trans

I think I'm getting old. Find myself irrationally grumpy at people asking for mutual aid because they don't have enough money to eat... AT FUCKING CONFUZZLED.

GrapheneOS: Where Licenses Matter More Than People

GrapheneOS could have shipped real accessibility support. They had a screen reader. They had a libre speech engine — one they requested a feature from. They got that feature.

And then they said no.
Because the license was GPLv3.

They’ll ship sandboxed Google Play Services.
They’ll let you install GPLv3 software from their app store.
But a working screen reader for blind users?
Blocked. On principle.

This isn’t a technical limitation.
This is not a matter of priorities.
This is cruelty by ideology — and they’re proud of it.

So here it is. My full public dissection of the excuses, the hypocrisy, and the sheer contempt they’ve shown to the people who need privacy and security most: the disabled.

They chose licensing purity over basic humanity.
I chose to write this.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/grapheneos-where-licenses-matter-more-than-people/

#GrapheneOS #Accessibility #FOSS #Blind #DisabilityTech #Inclusion #GPLv3 #espeak #a11y #Security #FreeSoftware #DisabilityRights #Android #Rant #TechShame

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

that "Google made their search results worse on purpose to get more ad impressions" article that's going around is based on an internal email chain from a legal filing, in which an employee mentions this potential approach for increasing engagement metrics... as an example of a bad approach and not something they'd be comfortable doing.

based on my reading, there's nothing in here that says they actually did it. I can't see anything in there that supports that claim.

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf

Today the FA has proven what most of us already knew: Football is an institutionally bigoted, tribalistic pastime and does nothing but foster hate & division.

There is a concept in psychology of "othering" - an "us and them" mentality that promotes and encourages discrimination. One of the first examples given of it in studies? Football.

Protest the FA's decision to ban trans players. If you don't you're as much a shitbag as they are. No discussion.

Incoming rant.

Stop using AI/LLM tools. Just stop. Especially if you're using them as a lark.

I'm going to be my most judgemental self here. If you post something that's generated by a LLM, (you know, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc) I will assume:

You don't give a shit about stealing from artists/writers.

You don't give a shit about the earth burning up.

You don't give a shit about clean, drinkable water.

You don't give a shit about people & their creative work.

#NoAI

Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men
Trans men are real men

#transrights #transmen #transrightsarehumanrights

Dear Canada

You are going to be given every excuse not to vote.

You'll be told there is already record turn out. You'll be told, the polls already favor the conservatives, losing. You will be told, that exit polls favor someone else. You may even be told, that it looks like someone else has won, before the election is over.

The same thing happen in the United States, and people felt confident, Donald Trump was going to lose. Do not make our mistake.

#Election #Vote #Canada

Let's talk about xPal, which purports to be an encrypted messaging app. https://xpal.com

Anyone that reads my blog probably already knows where this is going.

If this post accidentally reaches escape velocity and people that don't know me find it: Hi, I'm a furry cryptography nerd. Usually when I talk about so-called private apps, it's to disclose vulnerabilities in them.

(Today, I just don't have the damn energy to do a formal write-up.)

Let's start with how they market their app.

Ah, Pope Francis croaked. Another high profile reactionary transphobe bites the dust.

Catholic popes aren't and can't ever be allies, short of dismantling the entire rotten structure.

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20240402_dignitas-infinita_en.html