I think cis allies should start beating the shit out of anyone trotting out the trans = groomer line
No this is not a joke or hyperbole. They are trying to get people killed. Beat them up. Scare them. Make them fucking bleed. Teach them a lesson.
The facists have found this post and are upset lmao
Anyway hope you get your teeth smashed in 😘
I saw a video a while back where some nazi was clearly antagonizing outside of a drag show and one of the people responded “Do something then.” And the nazi (already cowering back mind you) asked, “oh so you can get me with a hate crime?” And the guy with full rage said, “No so I can fucking kill you.”
When we moved to Oregon in 2019, we always planned eventually to move back “home” to Pennsylvania, the state where, before that, I’d spent all but a year of my life since we moved there in ‘88.
Today, I’m going to have a conversation with my partners. I think we just have to assume I – we – can’t go home.
Maybe ever.
Pennsylvania itself is in a low-risk category within two years, but it could easily – well I know it – swing into red if the next election cycle breaks another way.
That’s not the kind of place where you buy the house that you intend them to “take you out of toes first,” as I joked with my wives when we last talked about our plans.
That’s what these laws mean to people like me. They mean “the state you consider home might become actively hostile to you within the next 5 years, so you can’t plan to buy a home there.” They mean “you shouldn’t even board a plane that has a likelihood of having a layover in Florida, and you’re definitely not going to repeat your 2019 drive across the country, one of the best and worst experiences of your life and the most time you’ve gotten to spend with your brother in one week since you graduated from high school.” They mean half the states in this country are actively hostile to you, legally speaking, in a way you thought was finally behind you.
Sometime soon, I’m going to call my mother and tell her that we’re not planning on moving back.
I don’t have a clever closing line for this. I’m just sad.
The absolute height of the unintentional comedy of life that I have seen was in the finnish glass museum. Interior design is one of those things that’s kind of a big deal here, one of those things that people who grew up somewhere are surprised to hear that their country is not all that known for. My friends share it in the group chat every time an american movie or show they’re watching has a vase, water glass or candleholder in the background that they immediately spotted was by a finnish designer. I took up a whole paragraph to make it clear that this is A Whole Thing here.
Anyway, in the glass museum, one of the displays was a feast table set with the absolute classics, hits and highlights of finnish glassware designs - the absolutely fanciest plates and serving dishes, wine glasses and water glasses, carafes and pitchers. I could pretty confidently say that the entire presentation, if sold item-for-item, cost more than my first car. Perhaps twice as much, easy. An unfathomably expensive, fancy, finest table set of finnish design that you and I are too poor to ever get our hands on.
And on one of the plates was a dead fly.
And I had never seen anything funnier in my life. All these fine dishes and plates all empty, and on just one plate at the end of the table was a dead fly chilling on its back like that was the whole feast. The main course. One single dead fly. A human could not have thought of anything more absurdly funny than the specific location that one random fly had died out of pure happenstance. I fought myself so hard to keep my volume to museum-acceptable levels that instead of laughing out loud I went straight into hysterical gasping with tears in my eyes. I could not perfectly recreate the image from memory, but I can’t let you go before I try to sketch it nonetheless:
ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill
i asked for that
No we 100% asked for that.
Definitely asked for that, and also here’s the other three dozen lines from your fic that I liked and the outline for the fic they inspired me to write plus some extra character meta that at this point is only tangentially related to your fic but was definitely inspired by those 1980s politics resources and -
Yep.
This is literally how I made most of my fandom besties.
Listen…
Fic Commenters: If you ever want to make a comment going on depth about a part of a fic that stood out to you, but think “does the author really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!!
Fic authors: If you ever see a comment that makes you want to explain your thought process behind your writing, and you think “does the commenter really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!
Hey, super sorry for bringing this type of thing to your tumblr but your current living situation (being in Florida and being trans) are reflective of what could potentially happen to me and you're the only person I know of who could possibly help. I'm currently in a long distance relationship with my gf who's in Orlando and we're getting to a point where we were considering moving in together until Florida started all of the bullshit it's currently doing. Her moving from Florida doesn't seem...possible at all if I'm being real while I work remotely and have much more flexibility. I literally haven't even started my transition medically yet but I'm weeks away from starting. Is there any way that I could move to Orlando despite all the bullshit happening and find care there or continue my care? Is it really as lost as it seems for now? I really really love my gf but as a previous Florida resident who swore I'd never touch the state again when I left BEFORE this bs the thought of moving back has me feeling like my only choices while being there would be to be closeted for my own safety.
Again, sorry for bringing this topic to you but I'm in a really bad spot right now and don't know what to do...
Absolutely not. Do not come here, if you are trans and you are in Florida, leave. SB 254 was signed into law yesterday with immediate effect. Trans adults throughout the state are already having their HRT prescriptions denied at pharmacies because the prescription was from an NP, which SB 254 newly prohibits for gender-affirming care only, requiring an MD or DO to prescribe. At least 80% of trans people on HRT in Florida get it through an NP and this has been the case for recorded history up until now.
Again, in Florida, today, trans adults on long-term testosterone or estradiol prescriptions are now unable to get those prescriptions refilled and have practically no means now of accessing that medication due to the onerous regulations. This is the state of Florida forcibly detransitioning its residents of all ages. This is not just a trans youth care ban. Any trans person who needs healthcare in Florida is not safe. Do not come here.
Do not come to Florida.
Time to act, friends. Reblog the hell out of this. I’ve asked @zinnia and others to identify places to send cash and where we in San Francisco can have the most impact right now - we may not have a lot of cash or time, but we sure as heck know people who do.
Help in any way and every way you can. Florida is not safe right now for trans people and LGBTQIA+ people.
i dont understand at all how non-programmers use computers. every day i encounter new and strange workflows? “yeah i write my fic in scrivener but then when it’s ready to post to ao3 i copy/paste it into libreoffice and use find-and-replace to convert it to html” dude what the fuck
When I have the time one of these days, I have to write a post about everything that has been going on in the past couple of weeks with the web version of Tumblr’s keyboard shortcuts.
It’s a comedy of dumb decisions (most of them of my own doing) that may not only be a funny insight about how things work, but also a cautionary tale for any young developer that may be thinking of adding shortcuts to their own site.
Don’t do it, young friend. Actually, retire from programming while you still can. Leave for the forests. Build a cabin. Raise chickens. Be happy.
ok, let’s talk shop.
How the shortcut-armaggedom started:
[long post, let me add a gate here: Traveler, enter at your own peril, a logorrhea-fueled rant lies ahead]
I’m seeing some people in the notes who seem to be wondering why oh why would code give you the fixed US QWERTY key layout. US centrism seems to be the assumption, and that’s… kind of true, that’s why it gives you specifically the QWERTY key. But there’s a very important reason why code gives you that, and the fact that it behaves this way is not a bad thing. The bad thing is that there’s no alternative.
Consider the following situations:
Let’s say you’re Bob. Bob is adding a chat function to his videogame. It’s working and he pushes a release, but then Bob gets a bug report from Carol. Carol, unlike Bob, is a Mac user, and she has been using Bob’s new chat function to talk to her clanmates about her favorite hair metal band, Mötley Crüe. Carol knows that you can enter a character plus an umlaut on a mac by pressing option-u followed by the character. However, in Bob’s game, this doesn’t work at all. In fact, Bob’s been ignoring the option key during text entry, and Carol keeps accidentally talking about Muotley Cruue. She’s understandably annoyed by this, and she just wants Bob to make sure that the characters she intended to type show up in the chat window.
Let’s say you’re tumblr developer @/jv, and you’re implementing keyboard shortcuts on Tumblr dot com. You’ve been getting complaints from people because of ctrl-z isn’t working, and discover that this is because the shortcut is mapped to ctrl+the physical location of z on a US QWERTY keyboard. Nobody expects that. They expect that the shortcut fires if they press control and the key that, to them, in their keyboard layout, means z.
Let’s say you’re… me. Hi. You’re playing through Critically Acclaimed MMO Final Fantasy XIV with your friend, let’s call him… K, because that’s not his real name. K is tanking, and everything is fine until K reports that something has gone horribly, horribly wrong: He can only move left, and the rest of his movement keys don’t work. After a few minutes of panic, K does figure out the problem: He has accidentally switched his keyboard layout to dvorak. Now, this is obviously bad UX: what if a dvorak user logs into the game for the first time? They’ll have rebind every single key in the game to have a sane keyboard mapping. What would be better is if the game mapped inputs to the physical positions of keys.
All of these cases involve reading key events, but what people want is different in each case. If the user is typing text, the developer wants to know what they intended to appear when they pressed the key. If they’re entering a mnemonic keyboard shortcut or most application shortcuts really, the developer usually wants to know what character that key represents in an unmodified state. As jv has discussed, you don’t care whether the key is capitalized or if the combination of keys the user pressed emits a ¶. You just want to know the key the user pressed, from their perspective, and what modifiers were pressed at the time. But if you are a videogame developer, than odds are the physical location of the keys matters to you more than what those keys mean. When you (as a USAmerican, at least) say you’re binding q and e, you don’t mean the keys that emit q and e when you press them. You mean the keys to the left and right of the key that, on your keyboard, is marked w, because you expect the user’s fingers to be resting on the keys marked w, a, and d on your keyboard, which makes pressing q and e fast and convenient.
In short, a chatbox cares about characters, a keyboard shortcut cares about the logical key that the user pressed, and a game’s key bindings care about the physical key the user pressed.
In a good system, each of these three needs are met, and not conflated. As an example, SDL2, which is a library designed for cross-platform game development. In SDL, KeyboardEvent, which fires on keydown or keyup, provides two pieces of information about the key: the scancode, which provides information about the physical key, and the keycode, which provides information about the logical key. Neither is suitable for text input: text may not always linearly correspond to keypresses (remember alt codes?). So SDL provides an entire alternate mode for text input that gives you a different set of events suitable for exactly that purpose.
By contrast, the browser gives us code, which corresponds to physical key, and key, which represents the text value associated with the keypress (although it’s recommended to use InputEvent for text input instead, so… why?), and… no way to get the logical key.
And you know what the irony is? The painful, painful irony?
W3C deprecated a field with exactly this purpose.
Yes, that’s right. Before code and key, there was keyCode. And keyCode mostly did the right thing in this case! It did have some issues with some OS or browser dependent behaviors in certain cases and also with keys outside of ASCII and Windows-1252, so it was imperfect and needed improvement, but it was something. It was deprecated because…
In practice, keyCode and charCode are inconsistent across platforms and even the same implementation on different operating systems or using different localizations.
Well, that doesn’t sound good. And it does refer to some of those problems I just referenced. But it’s also talking about being inconsistent across “different localizations”.
That’s the desired behavior. The actual, desired behavior here is a cited reason for deprecation.
Some days I just can’t.
To be clear: I don’t say having a property for the positional code of a key is a moronic idea. I say using the keys in US QWERTY is extremely moronic. For several reasons:
- it’s extremely confusing: when you see the value of the property is ‘KeyQ’, it’s very easy to assume that’s.. the key Q, in every case. The reality (that the position may not correspond to the actual letter Q being pressed) is not even clear if you read the entire spec. I’m pretty sure 95% of developers out there don’t really understand what the codes mean, and if they do, it’s because they have ran into this problem before.
- even if you understand how it works, it doesn’t even really work in every case. It’s easy to find keyboards with extra keys on the left of the character keys that mess up with all the key code distribution.
- on top of that, they choose to use QWERTY US, that happens to be… The common layout with FEWER keys (102 vs Spanish 105, for example). Which creates another layer of non sense.
I don’t know, everything around it feels strongly ill-conceived for any case that’s not the standard anglo experience.
Literally heard a convo at the library where a guy was telling a girl that he’s an omega and the girl telling him that she’s a beta, and my mind just did not automatically connect the context to fraternity pledge classes at all and I just whispered to myself “what the fuck?? What the fuck??”
When people ask, “How can I tell if someone is disabled or just lazy?” I think about my parents.
My parents have known me my whole life. When they’re not actively contemptuous of me, they do seem to be somewhat aware of my general personality and character. In one of his nicer moments, my dad has called me “sweet-natured.” They can tell that when I make them a surprise breakfast or lunch that I enjoy being helpful and doing nice things for people.
They know from watching me grow up that I have always had trouble keeping my room clean, getting homework done, and keeping my desk tidy at school.
The longest I can push myself past my limits is about nine months. Then I collapse and end up less functional than I was before I pushed myself. This has been a pattern throughout my middle and high school years. I would go to public school for about a year, and then collapse and have to do the rest of my education at home. My work history follows this pattern, too.
I once sat in a therapy session with my dad to talk about the constant struggle we were having at home because he wanted me to help out more and do better in school. When he asked me why I didn’t do things, I broke down in tears, because I couldn’t explain it. “I just CAN’T. I want to, and I CAN’T.” Nobody listened.
My mom asked me why I don’t do things, and I said, “I just can’t. I sit there for hours trying to convince myself to do things, and I can’t. Move.”
And she said, “Don’t think about it, just do it,” completely missing the point.
When I got older I found words for the things I was dealing with. I got professionally diagnosed, and I’d look up information about my diagnosis and e-mail articles to my parents explaining what my disability is and why I can’t do things.
My parents have firsthand information about my character (helpful, likes doing things for others) and my history with disability (can’t consistently keep things clean, can’t manage a daily schedule). I’ve talked to them extensively about my diagnosis and given them information about it. They have known me my whole life, and I’ve always been this way. And they still, STILL choose to believe I’m just a bad person who doesn’t try and doesn’t care.
My disability isn’t invisible, people refuse to look at it.
People like problems they can yell at. They like having a target for their frustration. They don’t want to admit disability is real, because they want problems that they can either solve, or blame someone else for. And the disabled person themself is their scapegoat, someone who can’t ever opt out of their role because the disability is never going to go away.
My disability isn’t invisible, people refuse to look at it.
My disability isn’t invisible, people refuse to look at it.
My disability isn’t invisible, people refuse to look at it.
“The longest I can push myself past my limits is about nine months. Then I
collapse and end up less functional than I was before I pushed myself.“
Oh.
“They don’t want to admit disability is real, because they want problems that they can either solve, or blame someone else for. And the disabled person themself is their scapegoat, someone who can’t ever opt out of their role because the disability is never going to go away.”
Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,
and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself
These things can coexist
Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate
