🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

"What kind of robot are you?" ..."I'm a robot that wants to live in your under pants" -- LEXX

God I love B-rated sci-fi!

So apparently J.K. Rowling went from feminist idol to TERF this week.

While I myself am very vocally anti-sexist I must admit as a community the majority of feminists will throw you under a bus the second you step one ideological toe out of line. She backed that horse through much of her modern career trying to pander to the feminist community to increase her fame in insincere and largely meaningless gestures. She made her bed and now she has to lie in it.

Personally this is why I am so blunt and willing to discuss or consider unpopular ideological views in any group. I know this will be the outcome no matter how hard I try so might as well be intellectually sincere in my public evaluations of the world.

With that said I'm not clear on J.K.'s actual opinion beyond a few vague tweets so I cant say if the attacks have any justification.

She does seem to think sex is immutable, strictly speaking she is right, it is the genders that trans-people change, not their sex. But the ore important aspect is that unless you are a medical doctor talking about someones genitalia then any use of pronouns you choose or the word "male" and "female" are and have historically been references to gender not sex.

So while her statement strictly speaking was a bit of a non-point, it does suggest she is rather clueless as to the linguistic and underlying considerations of the discussion.

"If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals." -- Sirius Black

#HarryPotter #quote

@pschwede No it would scale at a logarithmic time complexity. Which is still very low carbon footprint at any scale relative to the network it can support.

Description for seeing impaired:

"A sign in front of a church that says "At the end of the day, I'd rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude."

Forgot to add an image caption. Here it is:

A twitter post with an added title that says "This didnt age well". The twitter post is a very old post of Trump saying "Dear Clintons, You know what's deplorable? Being impeached!!! #BasketDeplorables"

Thats some serious truth that seems more evident in mastodon than most social media I've been on...

#uspol

LOL, I have to admit, Trump excels at one thing: being a laughing stock.

#uspol #trump #impeachment #impeach

I'd say this sums up our philosophy on #QOTO rather well