Ari Myr @arisunz@octodon.social

We have to do something NOW.

"The Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish... an explicit and uniform definition of gender ...as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with... any dispute... would have to be clarified using genetic testing."

Source: Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html

albin.social is a new mastodon derived instance

it has many negative traits that mean you as an instance admin should defederate

-harvests user data, presumably from all federation as well as local users
-plans to run off ads fed that data
-for profit, corporate adjacent based monetary goals, instead of user centric
-no features to sell you other than "ads = stability" in their twisted logics

boost and defederate, folx

Shaming trans people for not being able to vote is victim blaming.

Calling out able-minded, eligible voters on their laziness is fair, but not helpful.

Changing the dialogue from call-out culture to supportive encouragement towards those able to vote is ​

Y'all say Silent Hill and all that crap on the PS1 was fucking scary

Have you ever played a pirated copy of Spyro 3?? That shit scarred me for life

transphobes literally will call any woman (trans or cis) a man if they disagree with them. whilst this must be extremely shit for women who are trans it absolutely shows how absolutely daft these weird transphobic bastards are, gendering people based on if they disagree or agree with them, whilst supposedly having a hardline stance on what they think gender is.

I'd advise suspending federation with albin.social

They clearly say that they'll be doing data mining on accounts on their instance, wouldn't be out of the way for them to data mine anything they come across from the fediverse as well

Also, y'know, they're pricks anyway

voting is harm reduction. it only changes things on the margins, but some people live and die by those margins.

for people who aren't on twitter or facebook, here's info on two rallies I found on birbsite:

tonight (sunday), NYC, washington square park, 6pm: Community Rally in Support of Trans and GNC Rights

tomorrow(Monday), Washington DC, White house: We Won't be Erased - Rally for Trans Rights 12:30pm

and their facebook event links (forgive me, hope they work w/o an account there)

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155661736401990&id=40078161989

and

https://www.facebook.com/events/359031591512694/

cis allies: please read this today https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html?fbclid=IwAR2ABPmfvzeEfed-wSWYVWZJ0WxrFGL_NQa0Bux_OrDoko9Frzcfl3qC6Tg

american allies, please put your money where your fucking mouth is and help us. help us find out what we need to do to stop this.

The Mastodon Experience

distance is homophobic and my inability to teleport instantly is transphobic

hey good lookin'

Red Vox released a new song on their YT two weeks ago and it's 9 minutes of absolute wonder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Ksw4HV9Gs

New banner for my social media stuff! She is one of my OCs from a story that has been outlined but may not be legal because right now it's based on a somewhat well known IP #mastoart #watercolor #watercolour

Teo Zirinis a illustré des #monstres célèbres associés avec les problèmes existentiels qu’ils rencontrent, toute la série est sur son site (http://www.handsoffmydinosaur.com)

#chtuhlu #comic #illustration

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