Light @light@qoto.org

@kakafarm You're pro-Israel, aren't you?
Why?
https://kaka.farm/posts/2025/06/11/the-social-media-sketch-by-monty-python.html

@OpenComputeDesign I know I do.

@quasi @erici
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-national-legal-risk-assessment?hide_intro_popup=true
>For transgender adults, the primary legislative concerns include adult gender affirming care bans, [...], prohibitions on drag specifically aimed at trans people and pride events, [...]
These seem like genuine violations of liberty to me.

>For transgender youth, the most concerning laws are those that [...] mandate medical detransition.
This seems like a step too far as well. Isn't that just going to "mess up" their bodies even more? (Assuming for the sake of argument that it does do that)

cc: @taylan @cy

@georgia

>Guidance given to counsel by the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales states: "The fact that the victim made a sexual advance on the defendant does not, of itself, automatically provide the defendant with a defence of self-defence for the actions that they then take." In the UK, it has been known for decades as the "Portsmouth defence"[42][43][44] or the "guardsman's defence".[45] The latter term was used in a 1980 episode of Rumpole of the Bailey.
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_panic_defense)

This is absolutely fucked up regardless of the gender of either party.
If someone takes a pass at me they are getting their shit kicked in. And I, at the very least, should be able to claim diminished responsibility.

#law #ethics #UK #UKlaw

@Blackgendermoderate The full story, from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/benjamin-lay-abolitionism-racism-slavery-dwarfism-quaker
>The snow protest was by no means Lay’s only performed, dramatic, nonviolent act of radicalism. Quaker neighbors of his kept a young “negro girl” as a slave, and continued to justify the practice, even in the face of his exhortations on both the evil of slavery in general and the “wickedness” of separating enslaved children from their parents. When the neighbors refused to listen, Lay invited their six-year-old son into the cave where he lived and innocently entertained him throughout the day. The boy’s parents panicked. The Village Record, a local newspaper, later described how Lay “observed the father and mother running towards his dwelling; as they drew near, discovering their distress, he advanced and met them, enquiring in a feeling manner: ‘What is the matter?’” The parents, understandably terrified, explained that the boy had been missing all day. Lay is said to have paused, and said: “Your child is safe in my house, and you may now conceive of the sorrow you inflict upon the parents of the negro girl you hold in slavery, for she was torn from them by avarice.” Taking the Bible as his model, he seems to have generated living parables to show people the evil of their ways. (Another version of this story claims that the child was a three-year-old girl.)

When I heard the word "kidnapped" I assumed it was more violent.
This guy was more based than I thought.

@taylan
Which one is it?

I would say there's a lot of hate speech against cis and trans-identified men. Particularly exemplified in Emma Faber.

@waltermasterson @taylan
That's not that far off reality. I remember seeing a video of a bunch of white people lining up to kiss some black men's boots.
The black people had a bunch of loudspeakers through which they were yelling about how "this is the lord's work right here".

@taylan
Government, ban this idiot