Good luck finding the chemistry teacher, though.

And slightly drunk after drinking the Absolut. I’m a serious lightweight, but I’m not enough of a lightweight to think this plan is a good idea after 100 ml of vodka.

Nope, that’s not how this works. Being even more visibly gender non conforming, especially in women’s spaces, puts you in a lot more danger. And if you’ve already jumped through the hoops to change your documents, you’re going to draw more attention changing them back - and if the absolute worst we can imagine happens we might not even be targeted in the first round, in Texas when Abbott started compiling a list of trans people he looked at document changes in the past five years. I’ve been on testosterone nearly as long as you have, and the changes don’t just reverse like that.

Oh shit it’s me, lol.

And my parents wonder why I haven’t visited in five years. D:

I grew up in Florida. I remember Jeb Bush as governor. When the GOP rolled out their clown car of candidates that year, I hoped they picked Jeb.

I love the fact that the song you quoted is a kind of retraction of another, less scientifically accurate song of theirs.

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas…

I used to have a smartphone with a built in universal remote, it was awesome and I miss being able to turn off obnoxious TVs in public spaces.

EDIT: The term is IR blaster and there’s a few phones that still have them, but they’ve become uncommon.

That is amazing

Your links don’t want to work for me, fyi.

For the monument to your hubris, maybe make it a space elevator too? Also satellites can totally get around your enormous shining dong, it won’t successfully clear LEO like you hope.

You forgot cis gay men.

It’s good to know that ml users aren’t disproportionately causing problems. That was the impression that I got - they have their overzealous trolls with their own ideological spin but they don’t have disproportionately more trolls than other instances - but I’m not a mod anywhere so I don’t pay attention as closely.

I think ml does have moderation issues, that post on the technology community is not the first time I’ve seen overly aggressive mod actions from them. I’ve left several news and politics communities on ml due to certain users and moderators creating an environment I prefer not to be in. Being a moderator is a hard job, but I genuinely appreciate the transparency and even-handedness from the mods in other large non-ml communities and they show that we can and should expect better from our community moderators.

I think the post over on Technology has the right idea - move the non-political communities off of ml to other instances, the politics communities already have active alternatives due to the mod issues. The Star Trek communities show this is totally possible, but the non-political communities are the least likely to have issues with overzealous moderators (unless you’re foolish enough to engage in politics elsewhere over there and get a blanket ban from all of ml for bullshit reasons…). But a community call to action is harder than a blanket defederation.

I think the moderation issues are more than a minor annoyance, but I agree that defederation, at this point, would be excessive. And I think we’re all happier not addressing the elephant in the room because, well, we wouldn’t be here without them.

Petition to ban turtle stew for transphobia?