What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!
@RickiTarr Fly to Ireland and drive the Wild Atlantic Way. We'd stop often and take our time driving from North to South and just soak everything in thoroughly.
@dotterian хотя 1.25 говорит о том, что ты включил крупный шрифт в настройках Accessibility? Оно доступно из главных настроек Гнома.
Через tweak-tools можно задать значение, отличное от 1.25. Через extension можно скрыть значок Accessibility @drq@lina@mo@a1ba@Lemonid
“That’s Life” by Chubster (@mysturji) @Onj) on the finger drums] is a great little story following the life of the protagonist from childhood to their sunset years. Cool collab. Vote code MORZ
Meanwhile my train is heading south from Tallinn on the line to Viljandi. Max speed here is just 100km/h, and the track noticeably bumpier than the line to Narva. The train - like everywhere in Estonia - is well used by all sorts of people.
I bumped into a surveyor who spoke English and confirmed this is the route. The gravel, circled, is where Kaisma Rail Baltica station will be. The arrow is roughly the route the track will take
I’ve been to some odd places on #CrossBorderRail but this is perhaps the strangest place to locate a station I’ve seen. Why here? 🤔 Even what village there is in Kaisma isn’t close
Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works!
You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's loud!!
They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape!
Okay, I'm doing one of those anonymous AMA thingies! I'm using Google Forms instead of that one app, but it's still 100% anonymous, and I'll be checking and posting replies over the course of the day.
"How can being ace play into a trans identity / how can it confuse the process of questioning one's gender? I think it describes how I present, but not necessarily who really I am. Like I find myself repulsed by the idea of myself having sex (possibly just in my current form?), but not by the concept of it in general. Also thank you for your work on SGW, it's depressingly rare to find such high quality writing. "
--REALLY goddamned complicated. Let's take one example for illustration: a sex-repulsed asexual binary feminine trans gal trying to figure her stuff out.
One major feature of high femme clothing is that it does display and present our secondary sex characteristics for admiration--boobs and butt, mainly. Take a '50's swing or tea dress as an example here: lots of cleavage, and a skirt made to accentuate hips and attract attention. If you're a sex-repulsed ace, that exact attention is--
Toronto Council meets today! Mayor Olivia Chow has designated an item about the not-so-great condition of Toronto’s infrastructure assets as her first key matter, so that’ll be up first.
“It’s the Great Canadian Swindle,” says Perks, of feds and province downloading infra costs to municipalities.
He quotes Hazel McCallion: “The federal government has the money, the provinces have the authority, and municipal governments have to clean up the mess.”
And that will wrap things up for today. Council will reconvene at 9:30 a.m. to tackle an agenda that somehow still has 61 items on it. (28 regular items and 33 member motions.)
See you back here tomorrow morning. First up: e-scooters — threat or menace?
For me there are a few people who are usually equalizing, and I can just be around them, so I won't count that. But generally, I find about 3 times a week, I'm game for socializing. A day in between to rest is usually nice, but the larger the gathering or if we go somewhere particularly noisy or I'm meeting new people that involves more effort, and my social battery empties sooner. I'm very curious where everyone else falls on this!
If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:
You need to vote defensively.
Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.
Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.
The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.
@charliet I'm in the UK, specifically Scotland, where third parties are a viable option. (But still unwise in England unless you live in a LibDem constituency or marginal).
Any form of FPTP voting is essentially toxic at this point, but first we need a government that understands this and is willing to fix it.
Allow me to respond, as a trans woman who has WAY more to lose from another 4 years of Trump.
Once your candidate participates in a genocide, and the party rallies behind it, you have lost.
You have utterly failed as a democratic institution.
You're the baddies.
You have lost the right to browbeat others for refusing to surrender their consciences or their sense of revulsion at the unspeakable horrors being perpetrated by the man they (and I) entrusted their vote to 4 years ago.