Omarchy is a product of David Heinemeier Hansson, who calls for, among other things, the mass deportation of non white folk from Europe and "Western Nations" in general. He's also transphobic, but that's a much smaller part of his catalogue of hate than his racism.
Dropping the system developed by a raging nazi racist is probably a good idea too!
It's not an achievement, but this is pretty rare
This is a photo from March. Kaity and I went to the unveiling of the largest trans flag in the world, and Kaity got this photo of me sitting in front of it
These two derps were standing on a rock in my local creek a couple of years ago
This was me yesterday, for TDOV (It's already April 1 here in Australia) sitting in front of the worlds largest trans flag. Photo taken by the wonderful @supakaity@piefed.blahaj.zone.
Today is 9 years since I came out to my then 11 year old kid, and tomorrow is 9 years since I started medically transitioning.
I was 41 years old then. Trans awareness was just on the upkick. Everyone knew Caitlyn Jenner. Laverne Cox had appeared on the cover of TIME magazine... Yet I was still the first trans person most people had met.
At the time, my understanding of gender was very binary, and my own goals pretty much consisted of "Get transition out of the way, blend back in to the world, and get on with life without much talking about the trans thing"
But, I went to my first Pride, and I was changed forever. I was surrounded by my people, which wasn't something I'd ever felt before. And with time, I came to have a more nuanced understanding of gender, and the artificial nature of the binary. And I also came to appreciate my own queerness, and completely lost the desire to blend in and hide amongst the society that had made it so hard to accept myself in the first place.
And now, I can't help myself. I run gender diverse events, I create spaces and help foster queer communities. I stand loud and visible and proud, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I see all of you glorious bitches, bastards and ne'er-do-wells, and I love you all!
This was me yesterday, for TDOV (It's already April 1 here in Australia) sitting in front of the worlds largest trans flag. Photo taken by the wonderful @supakaity@piefed.blahaj.zone.
Today is 9 years since I came out to my then 11 year old kid, and tomorrow is 9 years since I started medically transitioning.
I was 41 years old then. Trans awareness was just on the upkick. Everyone knew Caitlyn Jenner. Laverne Cox had appeared on the cover of TIME magazine... Yet I was still the first trans person most people had met.
At the time, my understanding of gender was very binary, and my own goals pretty much consisted of "Get transition out of the way, blend back in to the world, and get on with life without much talking about the trans thing"
But, I went to my first Pride, and I was changed forever. I was surrounded by my people, which wasn't something I'd ever felt before. And with time, I came to have a more nuanced understanding of gender, and the artificial nature of the binary. And I also came to appreciate my own queerness, and completely lost the desire to blend in and hide amongst the society that had made it so hard to accept myself in the first place.
And now, I can't help myself. I run gender diverse events, I create spaces and help foster queer communities. I stand loud and visible and proud, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I see all of you glorious bitches, bastards and ne'er-do-wells, and I love you all!
The recent lunar eclipse, taken in Brisbane, Australia!
Turn myself in to a millionaire
It's emotional manipulation designed to make you feel worthless and unlovable to others and yourself, whilst also making you feel like the only person that actually wants you is him. The ultimate goal is to keep you with him, no matter what he does by making you believe that only he will put up with you.
There was even an entire standards document drawn up (as a practical joke), called the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP 1.0). To this day though, there the server status response 418 - I'm a teapot still exists. It was defined as part of HTCPCP as the error code returned when you tried to get a teapot to brew coffee :)
Web nerds took their coffee seriously! Or maybe they didn't? Does doing up an entire standards document as an april fools joke count as serious or unserious?
You aren't setting up your childrens accounts. You're setting up your accounts to show that you're not a child. And suddenly, every single thing you use, from apps to websites, is gatekept behind an API that is controlled by the government. If checking age on social media is all it ever does, then sure, whatever. But that isn't all it will ever do. It will creep further and further, and the details you need to provide will increase, one shitty government term at a time. And then one day, they'll able able to decide that people in your country shouldn't be able to see safe sex information, or abortion information, and the framework to deny the whole country access is already there, and just one small tweak away from locking you out of information that is deemed inappropriate.
Blood moon
The lunar eclipse at its peak, as seen from Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia.
1 second handheld exposure on an OM-1 Mk II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO, so it's not quite as crisp as I would have liked.
Post processing done in Darktable
Keith Boden Wetlands, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia
Taken with an OM-1 Mk II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO
Post processing completed in Darktable
Taken with an OM-1 Mk II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO
Noise reduction with RawForge. Image post processing done in Darktable.
I grew up in a racist town, and was indoctrinated on racism in my youth. It never sat right with me, but even so, I still struggled with racist thoughts that would jump in to my head when I encountered indigenous folk.
Someone said to me though that it's not the first thought that jumps in to your head that matters, because that's what you've been trained to think. What matters is what you do after that thought has appeared.
And that's stuck with me. It helped me be aware of the impact of indoctrinated hate, whilst also not getting tied up with guilt over my inability to completely purge myself of the indoctrinated bullshit.
It allowed me to retrain myself, and to make sure the shit I was raised with doesn't get passed on to my own kid.
The fact that the dev behind brave is a homophobe isn't opt in though...
Mostly because they used to rule the world, but everything they touched wasn't gold, it was all yellow
This pretty much was my job up until recently, though we get better leave than that in Australia.