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1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use.
Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so.
The latest from S. Baum.
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#pocket 2024. This photo was from the Pocket Team Week last year. It was the first and only gathering of the Pocket Tiger Team, and the last time an entire Pocket team would gather.
#pocket 2022. I took this photo at the end of Mozilla All-Hands. I’d never been the Hawaii before, and the long walks on the beach with coworkers and friends felt practically surreal.
#pocket 2016. I took this photo at my first team week. As a daily user, joining Pocket was a dream for me. I’d always wanted to work on something I actually used, and the product sat at that intersection of web client and news utility that I was already extremely invested in.
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to use AI as friends.
When you invest your time with AI instead of creating genuine bonds with real people, you become completely isolated without even noticing it.
This all serves capitalism and authoritarian regimes.
When you are isolated, you can't find humans to help you financially (AI won't).
When you are isolated, you can't find humans to rise up with you against abuse (AI won't).
You become completely alone (with AI friends), and completely vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the system implemented by those who control your AI "friends".
It seems obvious, I know. But how is Mark Zuckerberg able to market this insane idea at all then?
We literally told everyone that if Trump got elected again, we’d be living in a police state. But a lot of people thought it wasn’t the biggest issue we faced, accused us of being hyperbolic, or fell for and spread pro-fascist propaganda.
Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan:
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest-judge-hannah-dugan-wisconsin-congress
We should make a thing that's like...
We start a wiki for projects that don't yet exist. Something that really lays out the essential elements of the thing in our mind.
Basically, what the fan wiki for our thing would look like if we had the time/funding to make it. Yes, that includes spoilers.
And then, once completed to a satisfactory degree, use them as planning docs to build the thing.
It's more open source and would provide transparency should such an effort ever go for crowdfunding.
As a transgender woman, I think I’ll spend the rest of my life contemplating the practical and philosophical gradient between “being a woman” and “being a man who lives as a woman”.
Where I sit on that gradient is only as important as what it entails, but we spend most of our time focused exclusively on where to stick the pin.
Public service announcement:
If you're on estrogen and you take a multivitamin or if you take biotin to make your hair and nails healthier, it's ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL that you stop all of that stuff for at least 3, and preferably 4, days before you get your blood levels checked.
Biotin is the chemical they use in the estrogen level test, and if you've got a higher-than-normal amount of biotin in your bloodstream, your labs will come back saying you've got much more estrogen in there than is there in reality.
If you want accurate results, take a break from the multivitamins!
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