Skydancer

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[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 2 points 11 hours ago

Yep, Q is Queer (also sometimes Questioning). It's kind of a fuzzy category to define from the outside, but covers people who don't consider themselves to fall within any of the other categories.

Non binary and other gender nonconforming folks will often identify as queer. So may people who challenge cis- or hetero-normativity, monamory, and other social norms around gender and sexuality (look into "Queer Theory").

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 5 points 13 hours ago

Absolutely - it's a great place to be gay or lesbian, and presumably bi as well. Trans or gender nonconforming is another matter.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Since you say you're already familiar with the Cass report and issues like multi year wait times for initial appointments for transition care, I'll jump to other examples.

Media - From the BBC, to the Guardian, to Channel 4, transphobia is given a megaphone.

Rising levels of hate crimes

Guidance to schools includes outing transgender children to their parents

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 7 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

LGB is one thing, Q and T are another. There's a reason it's so often referred to as "TERF Island".

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 10 points 18 hours ago

Not the solution you think it is. It would be the rural Republican areas of California that would split off, meaning the magats would have an even stronger lock on the senate.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Be the reason why a fascist feels unsafe.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago

Scalloped edges are done with a file, twice for each scallop - leading and trailing edges separately.

Fortunately, bread knives are typically only sharpened on one side, and don't dull very quickly.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 25 points 2 days ago

I wish this was the right community to post this. Unfortunately, it more properly belongs in nottheonion

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Granted, Biden did almost nothing to slow it down, and kept Israel well supplied with the weapons of genocide. Do you really think it's a coincidence that Netanyahu waited until the day after the election to announce that Palestinians won't be allowed to return to northern Gaza though?

Granted, that was almost certainly the plan all along, but now even the fig leaf is gone. Without the need to devote any thought at all to political cover, Israel will stop even pretending to internal investigations of accusations against their own soldiers and redeploy those resources to the battlefield.

The number of Palestinian deaths may not be different, but they'll die even sooner.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 2 points 2 days ago

This is probably the most significant "Why did Harris lose?" article out there right now. Not because it comes to the right conclusions, but because the Brookings Institution is respected by party leaders. Politicians listen to them, and believe them, and consider them a credible, unbiased, outside perspective.

That makes it all the more troubling for the Trans community that on their shortlist of reasons Harris lost was Harris was that she was too supportive of trans people:

Second: The Trump campaign decided that Harris’ stance on transgender issues was the Willie Horton of 2024 and invested heavily in negative advertising that dominated the airwaves throughout the South.Anecdotal evidence suggests that this campaign helped weaken Harris’ effort to portray herself as a common-sense center-left candidate rather than an emissary from San Francisco.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago

I wouldn't trust Trump to uphold the U.S.'s traditional military commitments to Taiwan. Living through the Chinese invasion wouldn't be fun, and afterwards you're looking at Chinese rather than Taiwanese policies.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 10 points 4 days ago

To be even more explicit on the last point, that means regularly updating OpenWRT and all your containers, not just the server's base OS

 

From the "This is only news to neurotypicals" department

 

A summary of the current US elections in the language and reporting style US media routinely uses for reporting on elections in the global south.

 

The Israeli military rescued four hostages in a special operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, that Gazan authorities said killed 210 people and injured more than 400 others.

Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, were rescued by the Israeli military, intelligence and special forces from two separate locations in Nuseirat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday.

All four were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7.

“They are in good medical condition and have been transferred to the ‘Sheba’ Tel-HaShomer Medical Center for further medical examinations,” the IDF added.

An Israeli policeman from a special counter-terrorism unit was killed in Saturday’s rescue operation, according to Israeli police.

News of the rescue came soon after Israel’s military said it was operating in Nuseirat and other areas of central Gaza, where heavy shelling and artillery fire was reported.

At least 210 people have been killed as a result of the rescue operation, the Government Media Office in Gaza said Saturday.

The killed and wounded are arriving at two hospitals in Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, the media office added.

CNN is not able to independently verify the media office numbers.

Nidal Abdo, was shopping in Nuseirat on Saturday when he described a “crazy bombardment” hitting.

“There are children torn apart and scattered in the streets, they wiped out Nuseirat, it is hell on earth,” he said.

Another local, Abu Abdallah, said the strike hit while people were sleeping, adding: “Dogs were eating people’s remains. We pulled out six martyrs, all torn up children and women, we risked our lives to get them to the hospital.”

Hamas described the operation as a “heinous crime” in a press release Saturday, saying the Israeli military “committed a horrific massacre against innocent civilians.”

Hostage rescues are rare: this is only the third such successful operation. IDF Corporal Ori Megidish was rescued in October last year from the northern Gaza Strip. In another operation on February 12 this year, Fernando Marman and Louis Har were rescued from southern Rafah.

One of the group, 25-year-old Noa Argamani, became one of the symbols of the October 7 attacks, after video emerged of her seen shouting and pleading from the seat of a motorbike as a group of Hamas fighters drive away with her in tow.

In the video, Argamani’s boyfriend, fellow Israeli citizen Avinatan Or, is also led away and kidnapped by Hamas fighters.

Noa’s mother Liora Argamani is a Chinese citizen who has been grappling with late stage brain cancer. In a video released last November, she made a desperate plea to be able to see her daughter one more time.

“I don’t know how long I have left. I wish for the chance to see my Noa at home,” her mother said, calling on US President Joe Biden to push for her daughter’s release.

Argamani’s family had previously received signs that she was still alive. She appeared in a series of Hamas propaganda videos released in January this year.

Video showed Argamani embracing her father after her release. She also held a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who told her “we didn’t give up on you for a moment.”

Of the others freed:

Almog Meir Jan, 22, is from the small city of Or Yehuda, outside Tel Aviv. He was due to start a new job at a technology company on October 8.

Shlomi Ziv, 41, was working as a security guard at the Nova festival when he was kidnapped on October 7. Ziv had been living in the local moshav or agricultural settlement for 17 years with his wife Miren.

Andrey Kozlov, 27, is a Russian citizen who move to Israel a year ago. He was also working as a security guard at the Nova festival.

Rescuing hostages taken during the Hamas attacks of October 7 remains a major goal of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

Following Saturday’s announcement, the total number of hostages still held in the Gaza Strip from October 7 is now 116, of which at least 41 are dead.

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