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Yep. I removed their comment locally after replying to it. The reply was because those removals won’t federate

Not so much.

Sex and gender are distinct elements. So whilst they’re not the same thing, they do interact with each other and influence each other to some extent or another. If they didn’t, then the world wouldn’t be full of people whose gender and sex are in alignment. For that matter, if they didn’t, we wouldn’t even understand the concept of sex and gender being in alignment.

Also, “transgenderism” is a term popular with transphobes, because it frames trans people as a belief/ideology, rather than acknowledging their identity.

no non-sapient creature can ever be trans, because you need consciousness to have a gender identity in the first place.

But for all of that, strictly speaking, this is true.

Were it a “curious, socratic style question” you wouldn’t have framed your question with loaded terminology designed to make trans people sound unreasonable and fake.

Friends was probably the wrong word. What I was really referring to is community and social events. My good friends are still there in my life, but the broader queer community is now harder to connect with, and lots of social events and meetups that are happening in my city happen without me even knowing.

Are you happy? Is your partner happy?

There’s your answer

I experienced this when I got rid of facebook (or more accurately, when I wouldn’t provide them with my ID to get my account unlocked).

But the other side of it is that a lot of the social groups that I was involved with, and a lot of my contact with my friends, was done through facebook, and my real world social life has been impacted by losing facebook.

I still wouldn’t go back, but it’s a first hand example of just how wide the facebook network effect can reach.

Feishin. It’s a navidrome/jellyfin player.

I love it, because it has smart playlists that are actually smart! It lets me create “random” playlists from my music collection, in a way that works for me.

I grew up as a closeted queer kid in rural Australia, before the internet was widely available. I had zero connection with other queer kids, and no way to develop the language or connections that I needed to help me understand what was going on.

Social media gives that to queer kids. It lets them find their peers and know that they’re not alone. It gives them people to talk to and support them when they’re bullied (which they will be, even without social media).

This “protects” some vulnerable kids by throwing other vulnerable kids under the bus. Whilst at the same time, setting the way for legislation like this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256, which is what it’s really about.

https://aussie.zone/post/27246692

Roller derby (another form of skating) is also one of the few sports out there to take a principled approach on trans inclusion. I mean, look at this https://resources.wftda.org/membership/diversity-and-inclusion/wftda-statement-about-gender/. There’s also a league suing a local governement in New York County, for denying them access to public parks whilst they includes trans women.

If more sports did this, and pushed back in some form or another, it would mean the world.

Transformers (the original G1 animated one).

Robocop

The Never Ending Story

The Dark Crystal

Bird-Pi

Another problem is that cosmic expansion affects the wire itself.

Not if its mithril :P

Says the two day old account…

No no, that’s the straw neck ibis! This guy is WAY bigger than a bin chicken!

There was a tiny amount of light, enough for me to use manual focus to find the right focus point. And once I did that, I just did a long exposure (1 second in this case)

1 second would be WAY too long for most birds, because they don’t sit still, but Frogmouths are ambush predators, that sit perfectly still for hours on end until prey comes close. Also, the lens and the camera body are image stabalised, so I was able to hand hold the camera (with great care) to make it all work.

Didgeridoo

Do you have your knife of Ogre Slaying?