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You have no idea how the person will react. Yes, for the person in the twitter thread it turned out to be helpful. For me the mental impact of that would probably be along the lines of someone breaking into my apartment. And I know that it would be absolutely horrifying to a lot of other people too.
You just can't know that you won't just inflict much more damage. So please, don't. Ask for consent. Explicit, informed consent. Beforehand. You need to respect people with mh issues. Thanks. 2/2

Since this twitter thread about a person's friends showing up unsolicited at her apartment unpacking boxes for her when she was unable to do so due to mh got shared into my timeline here:
(https://twitter.com/sheilakathleen/status/1005116845240848385)

Please never ever do something like this without asking for explicit consent beforehand.
A group of people I thought I could trust showing up at my home without my knowledge, ignoring my protest, ripping open all my personal stuff? That's one of the worst nightmares I can imagine. 1/2

Did you know: until the early 80s, the religious position was that life began at birth, and specifically with the newborn's first (unaided) breath.

It wasn't until the Right realized that the sexual revolution wasn't just a phase and needed a new way to limit the sexual agency and freedom of people who weren't cis men that the current "life begins at conception" rhetoric settled in.

ThinkPats

"I saw you walk, why do you use a wheelchair?"
"You know math, why do you use Excel?"
"If I didn't, it would take all day. Oh. Okay. Sorry."
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories

So many communities are held together with the strength of basically one person making all the invitations and remembering everyone's hobbies and taking the time to talk to new people

& that one person n e v e r gets the credit they should bc people don't recognize emotional labor as work

@woozle
That's a great idea. Here's the link to mine: https://twitter.com/hollyamory/status/1004747853745582080

And some of the replies to that are other cis women agreeing or saying similar things you might find useful.

@hollyamory This seems entirely appropriate to me (transgirl here).

What would be especially useful is if I had a link to your tweet -- nay, a page with a *collection* of links to tweets or other public posts in which ciswomen state their positions on the matter -- so that we can show them to TERFs and other pseudo-feminists who claim to speak for all ciswomen.

(Will be happy to do the collecting.)

And, perhaps best of all, it took 24 hours for transphobes to turn up (that I can see anyway, I guess twitter is shadowbanning more of them now, which is awesome). Both of course predictable and boring and easily shooed away. Even the few tweets I made to them have likes and good replies now! Weird!

Now that tweet has a ton more likes and RTs than mine usually do (especially because I'm hardly on birdsite any more), and even better a ton of nice replies: other cis women vehemently agreeing, trans woman saying thank you, I even got a DM from a stranger thanking me, jokes (at transphobes' expense), kindness, minor misunderstandings being cleared up and apologized for. All so civil and supportive. It's been great.

The other day a friend shard her repsonse a tweet that was something about cis women being so different from trans women that sometimes "we" (cis women) "need a space just for us."

So I replied "I, a cis woman, can't think of ANY time I've EVER "needed a space just for us."

I want to share women's spaces with trans women, not transphobes. Transphobes make the world less safe; trans women don't."

via @apolitash@twitter.com

Betrunkene Polizisten attackieren Flüchtling - Haftstrafe

https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/augsburg/Betrunkene-Polizisten-attackieren-Fluechtling-Gericht-verhaengt-Haft-id51316276.html

afaik Gargron is not a "white cisgender man on top of the hierarchy", but also, that is his business.

could we just stop to assume these things about other people?

it's ok to criticize someones' actions.
it's ok to argue.

it's not ok to assume other people's gender, ethnicity, sexuality, any of their social position even if you think you know all about it.

A day to celebrate being transgender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, genderless and questioning, and anyone else who's not that cis! We're many, we're great, we deserve to be loved! And we're allowed to love ourselves and our lives, no matter what society tells us. Be proud & have a great day, fellow noncis siblings!

Wenn man die Autos aus der Stadt verdrängt, steigt die Lebensqualität. Wie das wohl zu erklären ist? 🤔
https://www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2018-05/gent-nahverkehr-mobilitaet-nachhaltigkeit

Dear ppl from Europe, if you'd like to see my designs on your body, on your walls or on your mug, you can now buy t-shirts, posters and... Well, mugs.

You can find my shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/flowerlessdesign - please don't hesitate to ask if you like one of my sketches or paintings and wish it to be with you. 😊

Here, have 10% off of all #mermay pieces with code BYEBYEMERMAY:
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Country closest to #Bitcoin in terms of electricity consumption: Czech Republic

Electricity consumed per transaction (KWh): 981

Number of U.S. households that could be powered by Bitcoin: 6,398,945

Bitcoin's electricity consumption as a percentage of the world's electricity consumption: 0.31%

Carbon footprint per transaction (kg of CO2): 480.57

Source: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Bitcoin will soon surpass Chile, Austria and the Philippines. Holy fucking shit. We have to stop this.

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oh! i thought this was interesting

my therapists office has a new policy where they have to go over app permissions with their patients. it's a matter of ethics- they want to make sure that apps aren't accessing the microphone during sessions.

we really do live in a cyberpunk dystopia huh

In case there's any confusion about advice, solicited or otherwise:

I ask a question? That means advice is welcome.

I make a statement! That means that no advice is required, nor asked for, and possibly not welcome. However if you have experience on the subject, you can ask if advice would be welcome and mention your experience, before giving unsolicited advice, because if I say yes, it becomes solicited advice, and we can have a much better conversation.

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