Q: what do you mean when you say you're a "radical feminist?"
A: I mean that I'm a feminist seeking an end to patriarchy and male supremacy, rather than a liberal feminist seeking explicit carve-outs ("rights") for women and feminine people under patriarchy.
Q: ew, a radical feminist? like J.K. Rowling?
A: TERFs like JKR call themselves "radical feminists," but their beliefs and actions are geared toward maintaining patriarchy through enforcing the violent, oppressive heterosexual regime. therefore, I don't believe that TERFs are radical feminists any more than I believe that "national socialists" are socialists.
Q: what's a transfeminist?
A: a radical feminist whose primary goal is the liberation of trans women and transfeminine people.
Q: wait, why just trans women and transfems? what about-
A: I aim for the liberation of all people under the queer umbrella.
Q: well then why do you primarily advocate for transfems?
A: "TIRF" is an oppression-reversal psyop geared toward painting transfems who don't perform transfeminine labor as oppressors to the rest of the trans community.
Q: so you only believe that transfeminine people are oppressed?
A: no. there are many axes of oppression. I choose to primarily focus on writing about trans women and transfems, and I've also written in the past about my non-binaryhood, Jewishness, disability (wear a fucking mask), mental illness, and fat body type, among other things.
Q: if you're not a trans woman, then why do you group yourself in with trans women?
A: because I'm an AMAB person with a feminine gender who takes estrogen, other people treat me like a trans woman for most intents and purposes.
Q: all of this doesn't sound intersectional. do you believe in intersectionality?
A: yes, and if you're asking me this question, then you should probably go read Kimberle Crenshaw. and, while you're at it, read Talia Bhatt too.
Q: do you hate men?
A: no. I hate masculinity, patriarchy, and male supremacy. it just so happens that the vast majority of men - and also some non-men - don't question the violence inherent in those institutions.
Q: wait - you hate masculinity? how is that any different than hating men?
A: "man" is a gender. masculinity is the oppressive set of beliefs and behaviors that most men adopt under male supremacy.
Q: what about non-toxic masculinity?
A: even attempts to reclaim masculinity in non-toxic forms rely on oppositional sexism - that is, masculinity as protective, assertive, and logical, as opposed to a weak, passive, and emotional femininity. because oppositional sexism can only reinforce patriarchy, I don't believe that "non-toxic masculinity" exists.
Q: do you believe that men can be oppressed for being men?
Q: what about men's issues? don't men have unique experiences of oppression under patriarchy?
A: as a mutual put it a little while back (paraphrasing): "men's issues" don't exist. non-men experience everything that men do, except for the privilege of being men.
Q: doesn't refusing to acknowledge misandry, or talking shit about men, hurt trans women and transfems?
A: no. patriarchy, heterosexuality, and AGAB normativity hurt trans women and transfems. if a trans woman is hurt by people shit-talking men, then the fault lies both with the doctor who took one look at her penis when she was a baby and wrote an 'M' on her birth certificate, and with the institutions that enabled that doctor - not with the radical feminists who seek an end to all of the above.
Q: do you hate trans men and transmasculine people?
A: no. however, because I refuse to coddle transmasculine people's feelings, I periodically conflict with the minority of transmascs who expect every transfem they run across to perform labor for them.
Q: why do you write about transmasculine misogyny so much?
A: because it's (1) increasingly everywhere on Queer Fedi in particular, (2) mostly unacknowledged by the queer community as a whole, and (3) mostly targeted at transfems.
Q: why do you use 'transemasculation' rather than 'transmisandry' or 'transandrophobia?'
A: because transmasculine oppression is based primarily around people trying to coercively re-gender them into cis women. under patriarchy, no men or masculine people are oppressed for the fact that they're men or masculine.
Q: are you enbyphobic?
A: well, I am non-binary, so if you're going to accuse me of being self-hating, then you'd damn well better bring a mountain of evidence to the table.
@TerceiraTalvez 🔻 Oh wow, thank you, these are strong comparisons and I feel shy in light of this. 😊 (Sometimes silence seems to come in different shades of darkness...)
Hello everyone. I have a question for streamers, but more specifically blind streamers. If you wanted to have your chat messages read aloud with TTS, what recommendations do you have for programs that do this? Thanks in advance. #Streaming #BlindStreamers #Gaming
depends on the platform you're using I guess. I try to avoid autoreading as I feel like it can be super distracting. Even my bot got annoying after a while as it wanted to read at inopportune times.
haven't used this in a while, but it worked really well when I did. Lets you have messages read with a SAPI voice of your choosing as well as review them with an invisible interface. github.com/metalalchemist/VeTu…
It is finally time to play Bits and Bops. Get ready to tap your toe along with some catch tunes. https://store.steampowered.com › app › Bits__BopsEnjoy the s...
Ich fragte, ob im Text absichtlich nur Männer gesucht werden und kam die Antwort "Nein, gerne auch Frauen und ein paar junge ADFCler". Soweit für mich fein (ich weiß, es ist nicht inklusiv, aber es ist schon mal einen Schritt weiter, den ich wertschätze).
Einen Tag später eskalierte diese für mich abgeschlossene Situation, ein Mann beschwerte sich, dass er es anstrengend fände, wenn der ADFC Ortsgruppe unterstellt würde (durch meine Frage vom Vortag) sie sei nicht
Still love the Cadence for day to day. I could be in a meeting reviewing code on it, since Google Meet does cancel out the sound it makes, and so much more fits. About one sentence or full line of code. Reviewing indentations can work just as well, although one line of code may be several unindented lines of Braille if the line splits at a word. Still, not hard to scan lines for indents. Works well. I know it can't do unbroken graphics to the same extent as DotPad or Monarch or Graphiti, but gosh darn it, 96 characters of text in a multiline pocketable style was too attractive to not pass up, and will be very worth it when I travel next year. I can fit one in a pocket, since it is about the size of an iPhone Pro.
#ArcaneChat 2.33.1 is on its way to #GooglePlay and #FDroid and should be available in the upcoming days, can't wait? for other download options check arcanechat.me/
Among the enhancements are:
More metadata protection: protect message recipients
More resilience: new experimental feature to use several addresses per profile (multi-relay)
it is super easy to do, you only need to go to chatmail.at/relays select one relay you want to add, click the QR code that will appear in the relay page, that will prompt you to add a new address to your existing selected profile
in Advanced settings > Relays you can see your list of relays/addresses and add/remove or change or select which one should be your main address (used for sending)
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
Wo bekomm ich in Wien Laptop-Pickerl mit Tux und am besten den Buchstaben "Linux" drauf her? Muss die Kinder ja umfassend indoktrinieren. Das Lehrmittelzentrum an der TU gibt's in der Form ja nimmer?
Protests outside of an Apple Store in Portland, Oregon continue in retaliation to ICEBlock being removed, as protestors show up in Santa suits to demand the app's return and Apple stand up to authoritarianism. appleinsider.com/articles/25/1…
Protests outside of an Apple Store in Portland, Oregon continue in retaliation to ICEBlock being removed, as protestors show up in Santa suits to demand the app's return and Apple stand up to authoritarianism.
Advice for frequent travelers: Get a travel router. It makes everything easier and more secure. At a bare minimum, use a custom DNS like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8.
Where I am, I have a really stable 100+Mb connection, but deathly slow DNS. Switching to my own travel router on the same connection makes things DRAMATICALLY faster, even routing back through my home network.
I just published a Substack on the coding resources I recommend for beginners. I cover FreeCodeCamp, W3Schools, Codecademy, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, and the Apple App Development class from @techopolis.social. I also mention Sean Allen, Paul Hudson, Traversy Media, and Fireship. taylorarndt.substack.com/p/cod… #Coding #LearnToCode #iOSDev #Tech
The federal government is rolling out a $1.7-billion initiative aimed at attracting more than 1,000 top researchers from around the world to Canada over the next decade.
KI-Tiervideos wirken auf viele süß, überraschend, herzerwärmend, emotional, aber sind komplett gefälscht. Sie zeigen Fantasietiere, vermenschlichte Szenen, perfekte Gefühle. Doch genau das ist das Problem: Diese Videos verzerren unser Tierbild. Wildtiere wirken wie Haustiere, Stress wie Zuneigung. Menschen können echtes Tierverhalten immer schlechter einschätzen. Tierleid wird übersehen, echte Tiere missverstanden.
Edit: If you feel like you got a lot out of this piece, I'm sure Rob would definitely appreciate some subscribers to his newsletter and tips/a paid subscription if you can afford it! It's not easy making a living as a writer.
Turns out sans serif is woke. At least they didn't switch to White House gilded script. At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/poli…
Here is the story of Times New Roman from my upcoming book, Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad JeffJarvis.com
the year is 2026, you and your polycule are planning a robbery on a shipment of DDR5 RAM because the puppygirl really wants to upgrade the communal gaming PC and she used her puppy eyes to convince you all it has to be done
Seriously people, if you're going to put work into making your blog look beautiful you HAVE GOT to see what it looks like with large minimum font size (not zoom). At my default 20pt minimum font size this blog gives me roughly 4 words per line.
I'm not going to read the damn article like this, no matter how good the words are. Yes, I can switch to "Reader View" but I shouldn't have to.
An earlier version of Trump's National Security Strategy specifically said that the US should try to break up the EU, to get Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland to leave
From the Blinux list, my thoughts below the quote:
"Hello to all.
This is partly a (re)introduction and some good news (news for definitely not all, but some) of you.
This message is actually send to two lists, as I have no clue how big intersection of the member lists there are (I suppose huge, but not complete), so sorry for double receiving, you who are in both lists.
And now, with the disclaimers out of the way... I started to be interested in Linux, say ten or twelve years ago (don't remember exactly). Through a set of happy coincidences, I managed to get a job at Red Hat in the desktop team, and because accessibility was in the times of the reorg an important thing, a tools and accessibility team actually was created. It is quite a small team, and the majority of people on it do not have work time to do anything with accessibility (we're maintaining some of the Gnome apps, we do RHEL packaging, testing etc.).
However, I am working on the accessibility related things every day, so don't be afraid to ask something, mention your issues, and such.
Personally, in terms of distributions, I use GNome on Arch (personal laptop) and Fedora (work laptop), so I have the most experience with these setups, but I definitely used Mate, and tried Kde for some time as well.
And, that's it for now. "
So, a small team, that barely has time to do what the team is about. This is really sad. This is what people with disabilities get from one of the biggest Linux companies there is.
This holiday season, remind your friends that buying Harry Potter crap literally funds #transgender genocide.
I am not even remotely being hyperbolic here. JKR gets a cut, and she funnels it to groups that have successfully curtailed trans freedoms in the UK and are working to make things even worse.
I think the dumbest modern criticism of media is "this thing doesn't follow physics, therefore it's bad/a flaw in the media". I've seen this levied at Attack on Titan and Avatar: The Last Airbender lately and it makes me want to tear my hair out
I am so stubborn about not using AI. You have no idea.
I will even go as far as writing my own texts, drawing my own images, writing my own code, and reading the whole article or email just by myself. Crazy stuff.
i've made 45 bilingual (eng/esp) copies of the Riot Medicine Field Guide, a concise companion book to the Hakan Geijer's robust protest medic text. i printed these specifically to distribute to action medics, though the content is informative for anyone and functions as a good hook for anyone interested learning more about street medicine.
if you would like one for yourself or as gift to someone ('tis the season!), please email me the address at <fallrise@riseup.net> and i will send one -- i am happy to cover the ~$4 shipping, but am willing to accept donations. if you have a medic crew and would like some for yourselves or for trainings, i can send you a box.
he producido 45 copias bilingües (esp/eng) del libro Medicina Para Motines: Guia De Campo, un complemento al texto grande sobre la medicina por manifestaciones, escrito por Hakan Geijer. los imprimí para distribuirlos a médicos con experiencia, pero el contenido es informativo y interesante por todos, y el libro sirve bien como introducción por ellxs que se interesan la medicina de la calle.
si ud. quiere un libro por su uso o como regalo a alguien, favor de mandarme un email (fallrise@riseup.net) con la dirreción postal y mandaré una copia. tengo la capacidad a pagar el gasto de envío (~$4 USD), pero sí aceptaría donaciones. si ud. es parte de un colectivo de médicos y quiere varias copias por usar en el campo o para entrenamientos, le puedo mandar un cajita.
se encuentran los textos originales en forma digital en (aunque el libro de texto está solo en inglés): riotmedicine.net/
Bývalý kouč Štybara o Pogačarovi: Neuvěřitelné, kolik toho dokáže sníst. V čem je výjimečný? isport.blesk.cz/clanek/ostatni… prostřednictvím @wallabagapp
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wow, @pluralistic has really made a splash with #enshittification, very exciting to see. I hope people take a breath and try to understand the underlying challenges that makes confronting antidisintermediation so challenging, many of use have been engaged in this struggle for years. If it was easy, we would have smashed big tech ages ago, cc @ntnsndr, @techworkersco, @disco_coop
The latest round of tech working mobilization inspired by Cory's "enshitification" framing is amazing to see, tho I can't help bracing myself for the inevitable wasted energy as people rush forward without understanding counterantidisintermediation
Das Lehrmittelzentrum an der TU gibt's in der Form ja nimmer?
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#pollution #amazon #oregon #health #environment #tech
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
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