ln @ln@chaos.social

In the wake of this defacement, I want to plug the project. The walkawiki is a project for collecting resources and knowledge on sustainable as well as communal housing and living. Please check it out and if you see somewhere you can help, don't hesitate to get involved.

https://walka.wiki

Gargron has officially denied the winning option in the poll and announced that he is refusing to implement it anyway, before closing any and all discussion on the pull request.

Mostly because he does not want it, but as well, based on a combination of two options on the poll that aren't the same adding up to 47% or "half".

Please stop using vanilla Mastodon, he's making quite clear that this is his project and his project alone, and the community wants do not matter to him.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10629#issuecomment-501741304

reminder that the guy #BryanLunduke that claimed mozilla is sponsoring "#antifa email" is marketing director at #purism.
He claimed that #mozilla would by this, support a domestic terrorist organisation. In fact they where supporting riseup.net a hosting collective focused on security.
see here for reffer: https://todon.nl/@paulfree14/100317193468374457

When I was pointing him out on his errors and miss understanding of what antifa actually is, he claimed me doing libel. I gave him my word that he will be driven off from here, when he does not change his agenda.

...now he's back as marketing director of #purism. How to respond to this?
cc @purism

see also:
https://twitter.com/BryanLunduke/status/1139231935102775296

it has been 51 days since "Accept richer text from remote statuses #10629" was opened!

it has been 25 days since he closed it and then made a poll, which said to include it in mastodon.

it has been 25 days since he has last commented on it at all, if i remember correctly.

gargron is turning into jack as far as commenting on the issues with the software is going, in my opinion.

please remind him to do the work he was meant to do

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10629

So I've been thinking a lot about what makes most cis people so annoying when it comes to trans people (and generally most gnc people). The thing is, they seem to view transition as "going to" rather than "coming from" ("was a boy, became a girl", for example, as opposed to "is a girl, has been assigned male at birth")

A lot of cis people seem to stop asking questions when instead of saying I'm trans I say that I have to take hormones because my body doesn't naturally produce them so my puberty was delayed, or when I say that I used to think I was a boy but then realized it wasn't for me, so why can't they just get that people transition sometimes?

Well part of it is that they can't understand what it's like to be another gender, but the concept of being something on the inside and later having it revealed through outside is so prevalent throughout fiction (think a lot of superheroes etc) that it can't be just that. Of course there's heavily gendered socialization and trans people and allies alike have a lot to unlearn from that, but at a more basic aspect, I think it revolves around the need to preserve normality.

[Next paragraph will contain transphobic rhetoric]
If we consider the "norm" to be a person with nothing added, a tattooed person would be abnormal, for example. (Although the 'norm' is largely made by privileged groups and serves to denigrate a lot of people trans and cis alike)
To a cis person, when I say I'm a trans girl, they hear "abnormal boy", I modified myself and became a girl. When I say I had a hormone problem or used to think I was a boy, on the other hand, they hear "abnormal girl" or " previously abnormal girl", I'm a girl and problems happened to me which I solved.

[Okay the transphobia is over]

I think this might come from a sort of fear of willful modification of the self. If we take most superheroes, their superpowers either happen to them or they're given them, they don't decide to become heroes and then pursue superpowers (although interestingly those characters are portrayed in media, but mostly as villains or morally ambiguous characters)

If I decide to take hormones and change my presentation, I'm going against the norm. If I had an issue during puberty and fixed it, it's assumed that I went back to the norm.

I think this would be very interesting to examine in science fiction (since cyberpunk's on the menu these days) since the willful modification of human bodies is rarely fully embraced, but I digress.

Now, some norms are artificial and require willful modification of the body, and going against them can cause severe backlash, I'm thinking mainly of girls shaving their legs, but there are many others. It is however important to notice that these are always either temporary or justified as 'beyond logic' (like getting circumcised when converting to a new religion, although a lot of people are very critical of that)

So we've established that the entire lens through which cis society views trans people is false, what's the answer? The spirit trapped in the wrong body explanation doesn't feel right and doesn't really address the issue (since the body is normal, the spirit is considered abnormal), so it feels like an impass and I'd love to hear about suggestions.

ADHD stands for amphetamine deficiency/hyperactivity disorder, DSM committee do not @ me on this

@ln @goat she wasn't bluffing

I misspelled toothache with tootache.

I guess that works here.

If you're disappointed from #E3 why not try Goat Simulator 2019?