average double Predestination enjoyer.

yeah but like, would time flow linearly there? why doesn’t God just keep the souls on ice and thaw them when ready?

I fell trees!

you can use “fell” as a transitive verb. it’s a little archaic but sounds cozy.

I think there’s a lot of truth to what you’re saying, though there’s a little more to the story. for reasons I don’t understand, the UK specifically has always been terfier than other Western countries. more lgb-friendly, but historically anti-trans. MumsNet was full of terfs with very similar demographics to Rowling years before trans awareness hit the spotlight.

I think we did a poor job educating potential allies and making a case for ourselves, in a way that got weaponized against us, but terf ideology is as old as Janice Raymond and second-wave feminism. I’m not sure Rowling specifically would have ever been on board.

she had a reputation for racial stereotyping even before she went mask-off as a terf, decades back. like naming the one Asian character Cho Chang (sounds like ching chang chong; both names are from different Asian countries), naming the one Black character Kingsley Shacklebolt (King from MLK, shackle from slavery), naming the Jewish character Anthony Goldstein, naming an Irish character Seamus Finnegan…

…it’s not that she was necessarily super racist, she just used very stereotypical/over the top names for her characters. so I don’t hate her for being racist, I hate her for being transphobic.

at least a lot of them got clapped.

RFC 98 was co-created and championed mostly by a person who has a history of within-organization agitation, first within Google, and now within Nix. They have a history of social activism and labor organization, and as far as I can tell, they are employed or contracted in various capacities that allow them to pursue these goals. By any reading, they are extremely polite and accommodating in the absolutely mind-endingly long RFC 98 doom-shedding.

I’m very confused about where those is going. the way it was prefaced made it seem like they were about to blame said co-creator from a right-wing perspective, but then the end of the paragraph affirmed their cordial collaboration and politeness.

as far as I was aware, the drama was largely Determinate Systems making a lot of QoL improvements gated behind their products + flakes eternally in beta and then the contract with Anduril

tell me it still ships with ddate

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my play would to be to send a picture of Dick Cheney and say this will have to do until they sober up and we can talk :)

cis women compliment (and get complimented on) their appearance all the time. trans women like that too. so yeah, without reference to them being trans, 100%.

but getting clocked sucks, so even if you’re supportive and an ally it’s not good to make a reference to them being trans unless they’ve told you. (though definitely don’t lie, even for flattery, since we’re insecure about false compliments in general.)

but if they tell you they’re trans, or if you find out through some way not connected to their appearance (e.g. they show an old ID)… then, and only then, compliments on their physical appearance are absolute catnip. I remember once checking into a motel and showing my old ID, and the person at the front desk said “sorry, he has to be here in person for me to accept his ID” - he thought I was my own sister lol. that was one of the greatest moments of euphoria in my entire life! he was worried he’d offended me once I explained I’d transitioned but I was like “nah bro, you can’t imagine how good that made me feel.”

Starcraft had some great lines like that too.

prison is just super late stage capitalism 😔

depends on where you aim it…

huh, I could have sworn there was a format for long-term archival, like 50+ years. I guess the GitHub Arctic Code Vault project went with microfilm using some very custom equipment to produce it all. but maybe everyone just uses tape (which is fun! but a bit less durable, and more finicky about being stored well)

I think there are some optical media like that. the discs are cheap but the readers are made of mithril.

let me guess, you’d remove trans people like me from society because you consider us mentally ill? that’s usually how this playbook goes.

pssh, it also says “this incident will be reported” when I get my password wrong.

eh I have moderate to severe, clinically diagnosed OCD and I didn’t mind it getting bandied about thusly.

I mean, there’s passion for something and there’s hyper-specific, extremely deep niches. I think it’s common to be into plants and nature and science and such, but to devote eight full volumes to ferns specifically is just… very specific.