Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

I'm a straight cis dude. I have never felt any gender dysphoria or even thought about trans people at all until I made a couple of friends who happened to be transgender.

I was exposed to a few more trans people through my friends, and a few more on Twitter. Then I moved to Masto and was exposed to many, many more transgender voices.

Not once in my more than 5 decades of this mid existence have I ever seen any trans person talking about how they regretted it, or was having second thoughts. To the contrary, all I have *ever* seen is joy. Folks who are happy that they can be themselves and feel comfortable in their own bodies.

Conservatives/right-wingers are trying their damndest to marginalize and erase trans folks, because they're terrified that people like me, who otherwise never gave it a second thought, might be exposed to the joy and realize that trans people are just people. Right-wingers want to portray anyone who's not cis, straight, and white as some kind of deviant. Don't fucking let them. They're wrong.

(edited to change "Republicans" to something more generic, because this is far from just a U.S. problem)

The train station WiFi captive portal defacement incident has lead to the arrest of somebody who works at the provider of the service. https://news.stv.tv/scotland/man-arrested-after-wifi-at-scotlands-busiest-train-stations-displays-islamophobic-messages

My team at Mozilla is hiring an engineer with Linux & Android low-level experience. This is a fully remote job.

We deal with all sorts of down-to-the-metal topics: IPC, sandboxing, libc & kernel interactions, memory management, signal handling, linkers, compilers etc... But also Linux/Android-specific graphics stacks and UIs.

And no, you won't have to deal with AI, I promise.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/6271288/

#GetFediHired #FediHire #Hiring #JobOpportunity

Southern Water are making plans to contract for water to be shipped across the North Sea from Norway in the face of fears of drought.... and the costs? its going to be added to customers bills.

So, lets get this right; SW has under-invested, water is not being stored well & leaks from pipes have further lessened storage, so after one of the wettest summers on record, they're going to bill customers to rectify a problem that their (in)actions caused!

business as normal, then!

#water
h/t FT

#Gaza #Palestine

An Israeli airstrike struck a home in Jabalia town of northern Gaza, killing four members of a Palestinian family, including a couple and their two disabled children.

The Palestinian Civil Defense confirmed the deaths in a statement, saying, “An Israeli airstrike on the Batsh family home in Jabalia resulted in the deaths of four Palestinians.”

The airstrike destroyed the house, caused extensive damage to neighboring homes and properties.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-airstrike-in-northern-gaza-kills-couple-their-2-disabled-children/3342990

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️

#BBCNews - Ship carrying explosive fertiliser heads to UK waters
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g95721leo
The ship, loadee with ammonium nitrate, owned by Maltese firm Ruby Enterprise, set off from the northern Russian port of Kandalaksha in July.

#Musk hits back after being shunned from UK summit
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c756d56d2dro
"I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts," Mr Musk claimed on X. (A claim factually wrong)

The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests. So is the theory broken? https://phys.org/news/2024-09-universe-smoother-standard-cosmology-theory.html #science

“I think individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content in the grand scheme of this,” Zuckerberg said.

Can you feel the arrogance?
Can you smell the disdain?
Can you taste the contempt?

“Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train AI models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn’t valuable enough for it to matter."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254042/mark-zuckerberg-creators-value-ai-meta

So it was only a hundred years ago- 1924 -when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts

She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.

At the time the consensus was that stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.

It took 4 more years for a man to claim the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.

It's all hers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

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https://stallman.org/articles/benevolence.html

US citizens: call on Israel to comply with the UN General Assembly vote calling for Israel to withdraw its army from the occupied …

Moon's surface reproduced in Europe to prepare for future missions

Europe is seeking to place itself at the forefront of missions to the Moon with a facility covering almost 1,000 square metres that reproduces the lunar surface to train astronauts for future missions.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/09/25/moons-surface-reproduced-in-europe-to-prepare-for-future-missions

Like most humans, I don't actually want to be rich. I just want to never have to worry about money.

There's a difference.

I play with my toddler's marble run when I'm home alone because I can build much better runs when she's not around to interfere.

@baldur UBI would end up as libertarian in most cases, unless you nearly dismantle capitalism first. And if you do that, you don't really need UBI as such...

[Back to the far side ... of the #Moon] Tel est l'intitulé de ce documentaire consacré à la mission Chang'e-6, qui emporta l'instrument #DORN (IRAP & @cnes ) sur la face cachée de la #Lune et rapporta des échantillons de #régolithe lunaire.

Ce documentaire détaille les enjeux de cette mission, les #collaborations internationales (France, ESA, Italie, Pakistan), le déroulé et les attendus de la mission.

A voir et revoir, ici : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6AdXCVY1w

High school flag football: Week 5 scores

Check out this week’s latest Los Angeles area high school flag football scores. #press

https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/story/2024-09-25/high-school-flag-football-week-5-scores?utm_source=press.coop

The Case Against Academic Publishers

It seems appropriate to pass on news of a federal antitrust lawsuit being brought in the United States against six commercial academic publishers, including the "Big Four" (Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley). The case is filed by lawyers Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein. The plaintiff is Lucina Uddin, Professor of Psychology at UCLA. I suggest you read the full document linked to above for details, but in a…

http://telescoper.blog/2024/09/25/the-case-against-academic-publishers/

Some chemicals make you feel good. Other chemicals will burn your mustache off. Science is complicated