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It is so 2025 that a film with a trans storyline that the trans community fucking despises wins some of the most prestigious film awards in the world and the cisgender winners don’t even mention what’s happening to the trans community in the very country they’re accepting the awards in

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

bluequake is faster than the USGS page which is somehow not surprising at this point

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Do folks not realize that equating a tiny penis with nefariousness is a bad, ableist, and kind of transphobic thing to do. Especially when you do so in a trans person's replies. My dick is small. That doesn't make me a complete asshole.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

ok I think enough speakers have confirmed their talks that we can start sharing some of our talks with you all behold: 14 of what will be the 17-18 talks that make up #NBPy 2025. https://pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2025/talk/ ENJOY #Python #sfba #PyCon

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

me: the reason both options suck is that you can’t express an adjacency matrix in json coworker: yeah, it has to be an ad-json-cy list

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It's going to be more important than ever to avoid police when people are in crisis. Here's a useful list that includes crisis hotlines and warm lines that do not contact police: translifeline.org/resources/co...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

boyfriend asked what kind of cake he should make for my birthday; i said an untitled goose game cake, and HE DELIVERED

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

for new followers or folks who’ve missed previous announcements: i DJ as a hobby, and i’m finally getting back on my Twitch game for the first time this year! come enjoy some chill sunday afternoon deep house at 5 PM PST: twitch.tv/samkimbrel

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

The #NBPy 2025 submissions window closes this week! Want to join us on-stage? Then get your proposal in by end-of-day Friday. All the details and links at https://2025.northbaypython.org/speak #NBPy #Python #PyCon

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

submitted 26 days ago • 49 comments

Reuters [Feb 1] -- Where E/Os stand: Federal Grant Freeze: Paused by judge Birthright Citizenship: Blocked by judge Immigration Sweeps: Numerous lawsuits pending Purging Federal Workforce: Numerous lawsuits pending Transgender Prisoners: Blocked by judge [by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

submitted 30 days ago • 44 comments

THIS AMERICAN DOES NOT WANT YOU TO WORK TOGETHER WITH A FUCKING FASCIST TO FIND COMMON GROUND ON WHICH PARTS OF DEMOCRACY WE NO LONGER NEED

submitted 30 days ago • 268 comments

A trans woman goes to get a new passport and is told at first she can get one with a male marker and then that she can't get one at all. Restricting the travel of marginalized groups. Sound familiar?

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/

submitted 33 days ago • 52 comments

“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”

submitted 34 days ago • 80 comments

current status: arguing with myself over whether changing my DL/passport back to M markers is unnecessary compliance in advance or a necessary step to reduce the size of the target on my back

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

reminder: this is the point of the barrage of batshit appointments if you are a tiny bit freaked out by each of them it will add up to “too freaked out to do anything about anything” pick ONE thing at a time to be upset about, decide what action to take on it, then follow through, repeat

submitted 104 days ago • 23 comments

things that are completely explainable but still utterly infuriating: smoke alarms always starting their low-battery chirp in the middle of the night because that’s when the battery gets cold

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Leaving this link here for those that are considering a move to Canada and have skills (college) or experience: www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

Most notable: → erasing trans people from the law → attacking trans people's IDs & federal identification (I expect a trans passport ban to come into effect tomorrow afternoon) → detransitioning trans women prisoners and sending them to men's prisons archive.is/Jjdn4

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

new zealand update: have (bungy) jumped off of a perfectly good bridge

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

“[Thursday] at Meta’s offices in Silicon Valley, Texas and New York, facilities managers were instructed to remove tampons from men’s bathrooms, which the company had provided for nonbinary and transgender employees who use the men’s room and who may have required sanitary pads, two employees said.”

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social - no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses - no goals for hiring women and minorities

submitted 52 days ago • 953 comments

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

submitted 52 days ago • 301 comments

Been getting a lot of people asking about LA geography concerned that the images they see means the entire county is on fire. That's understandable. But LA is a big place. So, to give an idea of scale it's time to cart this out again. It's a map of LA with other cities superimposed on it.

submitted 53 days ago • 129 comments

This week, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was going "back to our roots around free expression" after changes that led to "too much censorship." And now, this is what happens if you search "Trans" or "Transgender" on threads.

submitted 53 days ago • 31 comments

vacation update: wellington is a fucking delight; glad i scheduled two full days to explore it

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

I gasped out loud

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

hello we just announced that we're accepting talk submissions for our 2025 conference all the relevant details are at https://pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2025/cfp submissions close feb 7th can't wait to see what talks we might see at the conference!

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

“We are huge fans of the nazi hellhole Twitter has become”

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment