Frances_Larina

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

I find it...upsetting, to say the least, that conservatives decided to leak Aiden Hale's notebook photos just as organizations are announcing their Transgender Awareness Week (next week) and Trans Day of Remembrance (Mon Nov 20th) events. It feels like Steven Crowder & the right wingers who are promoting the leak are trying to stir up violence. Maybe riding the emotions surrounding Israel-Palestine.

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

Good news for people with ovaries who are on testosterone and want kids. Also, proof against transphobic arguments.

"Mouse model of gender-affirming testosterone treatment and fertility finds decrease in egg yield, but not quality"

"you may get less eggs with testosterone treatment, but those eggs are fine and still create normal embryos"

Link to the study in the article.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-mouse-gender-affirming-testosterone-treatment-fertility.html

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

Marin County is having an election today because of one ballot measure, put on the ballot by the ~25 multi-million dollar value property owners on a street in Mill Valley who want to force the county to administer taxing them and then giving them the money to fix part of their private road that never should have been built in the first place.

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

Imagine the society we could have if we put up solid walls between government and both religion and corporatism.

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

It's terrifying. The prior thermodynamic systems for moving heat energy around our planet, including storing and releasing it as needed to maintain a balance, are breaking down one by one. And as each one falls, the pressure increases on those around it, bringing them closer to failing. We're on another exponential curve, and like in 2020 with the COVID infection curve, we are doing little to even try to slow it down now, at the beginning when it's cheaper and easier.

It's greed. That's what will cook our planet in the end.

mina, 6 months ago to random

Global Sea Surface temperatures are still about 5σ (0.8°) above the 30-years average from 1982-2011 (which is surely already above the pre-industrial level).

Is everybody really so sure, these are only temporary effects or why is this not in the media?

To me, the graph looks rather scary.

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

transponderings, 6 months ago to random

Don’t forget your meds! ✨

gutenberg_org, 6 months ago to science

Austrian Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She was the first to pinpoint the atomic phenomenon now known as the Auger effect, but it was credited to Pierre Auger who independently discovered it months after her. Years later when she made a breakthrough in identifying and understanding nuclear fission, her findings were published only under the name of her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who later also received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. via @IAEA

#science #physics

autism101, 6 months ago to actuallyautistic

Autistic people may be dealing with many other issues, dubbed comorbidities by the medical community. I've listed some of them in the mind map below. Many can’t be seen by others.

#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

marcidy, 6 months ago to random

It's a testament to how shit offices are that they are so difficult to turn into living spaces.

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

"Sherman High School transgender student loses lead theater role over gender policy"

This is just petty. First the principal says there's a new policy that actors must match their AGAB. Then when called on it, says there's no policy, it's just for this specific show. Then said that it's the show itself, "Oklahoma" is just too adult for high school.

https://www.kxii.com/video/2023/11/07/sherman-high-school-transgender-student-loses-lead-theater-role-over-gender-policy/

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Every now and then, the Harkleroad House wind turbine in Novato gets mentioned in the media. It was made of half-oil-barrels mounted in a framework on the roof of a cinderblock workshop on a hill overlooking highway 101. Next to it was a homemade round house that rotated. The nostalgic news stories are always accompanied by one of two photos from post-2000 real estate listings for the property that show the barrels painted white. And that's what makes me a little sad.

None of the journalists apparently know that when it was in its prime and people would see it from the road on their way to Santa Rosa or Napa or Guerneville, it was painted in Pride rainbow colors, one hue per half barrel. Even as a little kid, I knew there was something special about that, even if I didn't know the social significance yet.

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

"Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a court of appeals decision that, earlier this year, determined voting is a fundamental right in Kansas."

I mean, it's consistent with Republican politics?

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article281399353.html

ai6yr, 6 months ago to Cruise

The Intercept: " Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children — and Kept Them on the Streets

According to internal materials reviewed by The Intercept, Cruise cars were also in danger of driving into holes in the road. " #cruise #robots #cars https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/

thevallejosun, 6 months ago to random

This story has been updated to include a statement from Vallejo police, sent a week after publication, which argues that certain force categories were not well tracked prior to this year, leading to a substantial increase in those categories.

Officers also used Tasers more frequently as well as batons, beanbag rounds and flashbangs. There was also a dramatic increase in incidents when the force caused severe injury, which happened five times in 2023 but not at all in 2022, according to Vallejo police data.
https://www.vallejosun.com/use-of-force-by-vallejo-police-officers-increased-fivefold-in-2023/

ScottAkenhead, 6 months ago to Bitcoin

Bitcoin is dirty, dirty, dirty.

“The worldwide BTC mining network consumed 173.42 TWh of electricity during the 2020–2021 period, bigger than the electricity consumption of most nations. The mining process emitted over 85.89 Mt of CO2eq in the same timeframe, equivalent to the emission caused by burning [42 million tons] of coal or running 190 natural gas‐fired power plants.”

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003871

#bitcoin #climatechange #climatecrisis

juglugs, 6 months ago to random

My doctor says it’s not depression, it’s a “remarkably accurate world-view”

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

If autistics don't have empathy*, why does this cat toy bother me so much?

*a false trope pushed by psych for decades

(warning: the toys on the linked page have as their special feature motors and speakers that animate them so they simulate a terrified, injured prey animal. You are apparently expected to enjoy watching your cat attack them and feel nothing for the prey.)

https://potaroma.com/collections/realistic-bird-toys

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

To all my trans siblings, FYI:

I don't know if this is valid or not, so take it with a grain of salt, but images of Nashville school shooter Aiden Hale's manifesto may have been posted online today. Also, it appears the right wing site that received the leaked images is not just posting them in their entirety for people to read but instead posting chosen snippets only with commentary.

cw - link is far right wing
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/11/video-trans-school-shooter-manifesto-leaked-report/

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

It's like the media forgot that under Trump & the GOP, the United States of America actually did ban Muslim immigrants.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/trump-administration-ice-immigration-noncitizens-ideological-screenings-memo

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

In case you thought the Constitutional Sheriff's movement had somehow faded or dwindled away. They're now holding training seminars for law enforcement officers where they're taught that nobody has authority over them except the Constitution itself.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/06/trump-republicans-law-enforcement-jeff-sessions

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

This is how Netanyahu justifies erasing Palestine:

From the Torah: "I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys."

"The lesson, when read literally, is clear: Saul’s failure to kill every Amalekite posed an existential threat to the Jewish people.

47% of Israeli Jews said in a poll conducted last month that Israel should “not at all” consider the “suffering of the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza” in the next phase of fighting. Casting the enemy as Amalek reinforces that attitude."

One problem:

"Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the head of T’ruah, a rabbinical human rights organziation, said that rabbis generally agree that Amalek no longer exists, and that references to it do not provide a morally acceptable justification for attacking anyone."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/

eniko, 6 months ago to random

It is no longer enough to do self care
I need bad things to happen to fascists

Frances_Larina, 6 months ago to random

"Let’s say you’re a company that has invested significantly in one of these cloud platforms to run your business.
[...]
But having all of these benefits comes with a great variable: what will be your future annual cost? That’s not up to you."

Seriously, is this not Biz-Ed 101, and hasn't it been ever since the first company that decided to lock itself into a single supplier? Wasn't one of the lessons supposedly learned during the COVID supply chain collapses that Japan's version of Just-In-Time ordering included multiple layers of alternate suppliers, all kept viable by distributing purchase orders? Aka, growing a supply infrastructure or ecosystem?

Here in the USA, we just go for whatever is quickest-and-cheapest, right now & who cares about tomorrow because I'll be movin' on up (or out) by then.

Maybe that's uh...not the best way to run businesses after all?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/05/cloud-service-provider-consumer-prices-netflix-microsoft

StillIRise1963, 6 months ago to random

Voting is as much about protecting from the worst, as it is aspiring to the best.