Editor of Trans Britain. #Author of Pressing Matters. Lifetime Achievement Award PrideOfManchester 2021. Drove an 8 year old #EV called Peggy and now drives Olga who is one year old.
Posts about #climate mitigation, #trans moral panic, #books. Was #retired. Checked out but unable to leave. She/Her.
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.
@pluralistic@ChrisMayLA6 I’m wearing a very basic plain colour T-shirt from M&S. some bright spark decided to print branding direct on the fabric where a neck label would usually go. It’s obviously the save money. The trouble is that after one wash at 40 degrees the white printed lettering printed itself as a whitish smear on the outside of the fabric at bust level, meaning that after one wash it couldn’t be used as smart wear. That’s a new low in enshitification.
... The complete disregard for how an institution's actions & inactions impact on those at the bottom of the 'pyramid' & the subsequent attempt to evade responsibility for the harm caused when publicised.
(you'll have other you'd like to add to the list, I'm sure)
A damning picture of misused power & disregard for others.
I sometimes thought my father thought he could't die while he still had books on his pending pile (a stab at immortality I seem to be replicating)... so, it was strangely touching to see Tom Gauld has had similar thoughts.
@jrbee@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon Just remember that some books you lay down for the future may ultimately turn out to be the literary equivalent of corked!
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.
@katiefenn@goatsarah Yeah. When you’ve stashed more money than you and your loved ones could possibly spend and you’re still compelled to go on screwing others to keep on stashing then it’s an indication of a hole inside that just can’t be filled. These people have a sickness and, far from wealth buying them freedom, it becomes a monster that takes them over and ensures they can’t be happy with ‘enough’.
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, ..
..except that I was using Passwords on the same iPhone. So, I had to screengrab the QR code, let iCloud sync it to my iPad and then I could do the camera thing. Did nobody ever think that through. Anyway, that worked and I’m back in. However, I was using the lifetime skills from two degrees in Computer Science and work as an IT consultant and I really wasn’t sure what I was doing. Had I been ill it would’ve been a non starter. These developers need taking out to be shot. Or poke their eyes out..
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.
@GeraldKutney As the first mass deaths would be likely to occur in the hottest and most humid equatorial band I suspect that there are some sociopath billionaires who’ll think that the right kind of people are dying so it still doesn’t matter. Allowing mass death through deliberate climate neglect is the kind of racist wet dream that is bound to appeal to some.
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!
At $11,000 the BYD Seagull has the US motor industry and government in such a tizzy that they’ve slapped a 100% import tax on it. It’s like the arrival of the Japanese manufacturers fifty years ago but a far more refined product from a vertically integrated company with a gigantic home market that builds cars that people can afford rather than the ones western manufacturers decided they’d make.
J K Rowling calls trans soccer official a crossdressing straight man for no reason.
Look, even Elon Musk has advised her to get some other interests. It’s quite the journey she’s been on but she’s not alone and one day I’m sure psychiatrists will write books about this and other phenomena of our time.
