This is how a chaos agent like Marjorie Taylor Greene, overseen by a weak committee chair, throws a congressional committee into chaos. She’s not there to do work in any conventional sense.
I can’t believe Amazon are paying me £0.01 for pages of my self-published stuff that someone read with Kindle Unlimited in March. I’ve had some paltry payments in the last 11 years but 1 penny from Kindle UK is a record low 😂 My bank is going to just love processing that.
“He noted that the May 15th committee hearing featured extensive and intentional distortions of this evidence base in an attempt to mislead the American public and further advance the medically unsound and discriminatory bans on this care that are currently on the books in more than 20 states.”
“Dr. Kellan Baker, Executive Director of Whitman-Walker Institute, and an expert in transgender health, says transgender people — like all people — deserve access to necessary medical care that’s backed by decades of scientific and medical evidence. “
This Friday, 24th May, will be the 17th anniversary of when I first set up a social media account. I wouldn’t venture onto Twitter till late 2008. In those days Facebook had a chronological timeline and asked me to complete the sentence ‘Christine is…’. And when I first joined 160 character Twitter, people took the piss and I really couldn’t say what the point of it was. We’ve certainly all been on a journey.
This is nothing short of genius. I hope you will find time to watch. Abigail has is always entertaining and thought provoking but, as a public educator, I think she has surpassed herself on this occasion and come up with the most coherent explanation I’ve seen so far of the anti-gender movement, what powers it and (sadly) what makes it impervious to learning, reason and change.
How to Use Apple’s New All-In-One Password Manager | WIRED
A useful article about using Apple’s built-in but rather hidden password manager on your devices. You may be using this without realising what it was. If you want to use verification codes with apps or sites, however, you need your know how to find it in Settings and use the features it provides.
I can’t believe it. I went to use the PatientAccess app and suddenly, without much explanation, it wants me to CHOOSE and set up an authenticator app — making the service even harder to log in to than it already was. The NHS and its surrogates are so obsessed with security (far more than banks) to the extent they’re making their useless app, with almost zero functionality, practically unusable. Suppose I was in a panic to book an appointment? This is a huge senseless barrier to usability.
I wouldn’t mind if there was much you can do when you sign in to PatientAccess but, apart from reordering repeat meds and booking an appointment, there’s precious little. So why the Fort Knox obsession? It’s bad enough that the app doesn’t stay logged in between repeat meds orders. It has notifications that won’t go away. It’s clunky. The only thing it offers is a pathological level of security which is going to become more of a barrier the more I age.
OK… An update. I swiftly determined that authenticator apps like Microsoft Authenticator want to take over and manage all your login credentials, which apple’s Passwords/Keychain feature does far more securely and across devices, so I wasn’t having any of that nonsense. So then I went looking to see whether Apple had implemented an authenticator in Apple Passwords. Turns out it does. So then to set it up PatientAccess displayed a QR code which it wanted me to point the camera of my iPhone at, ..
Apparently Dr Cass thinks that drugs to reduce anxiety will do just as well in place of hormone blockers for trans kids. It just gets worse. All this is because of the plain obvious anxiety meltdown of an entire group of adults. Try giving them meds instead.
Well, that’ll sort it eh? Darlings I knew tacitly about having an inside model at variance with the world’s expectations by the year before I started school. I didn’t have a word for it but that doesn’t stop being impelled. I discovered I wasn’t alone eight years later in the News of the World — not the best way. We all find a way to self knowledge.
Opinion: No, Dr Cass, Porn Will Not Make You trans.
The more Cass get interviewed, the more she reveals of herself. Ask any trans woman and we’ll tell you how a scary number of cisgender people harbour erotic fantasies about us. We are constantly sexualised. There’s a whole market in porn about trans women made by cis men for cis men’s consumption. Casting US as the porn junkies is just another example of cis projection.
If I sound indignant it’s because I effing well am. I can only speak for myself but there really is no porn in this tired old woman’s life and there never has been because (and this will break many hearts) erotica just don’t float my boat, let alone propel it. I transitioned because I’m trans and womanhood fitted me like a glove. The sooner the creepy wing of cisgender humanity get help for whatever drives their projections, the better for the whole world’s sake. Give me strength!