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When I was 13 and just starting to explore my sexuality I read a book called "Everything you wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask."
For the most part it was the usual 1960s-1970s era sex-ed book but the chapter on homosexuality was ... criminal.
It was *incredibly* homophobic. No hope, everything was terrible. It said things like queers will molest anyone they can, spend their lives masturbating in the back of porn theaters, etc etc etc.
Based on that description I *knew* that couldn't possibly be me so I must not have been gay, right?
It set me back *years* in acceptance of who I am. It wasn't like I had any counter-examples. This was the late 1970s and we had no good role models.
This is one of the reasons I'm out now, so kids can see someone who is successful and not living the way that book says. Being a counter example is very important to me.
When the book was reprinted in the early 2000s, they updated everything else but left that chapter pretty much intact.
*If* you share this book with a younger or questioning person, make damn sure you discuss the reality Vs what that book says. Better yet, don't share the book with anyone else.
Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear
Claude Rains was the invisible man
Then something went wrong for Faye Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace it came from outer space
And this is how the message ran...
🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI
Just found out about https://podupti.me/ @poduptime
Does what it sounds like, monitors the uptime for fedi nodes. Looks like a great companion to https://the-federation.info/ and https://fedidb.org/ when picking a home on fedi.
Across the month of September, challenge yourself to run, walk or wheel 72km and raise funds to support Aussie men and their families impacted by prostate cancer. Be in it for the Long Run.www.thelongrun.org.au
List Of Ethical Code Hostings by 3rd-Parties
sw=Gitea:
1) PrivacyToolsIO
https://git.privacytools.io
2) Disroot
https://git.disroot.org
3) Libregit
https://libregit.org
4) Codeberg
https://codeberg.org
5) Gitea.com
https://gitea.com
6) Teknik.io
https://git.teknik.io
7) OpenDev
https://opendev.org
Software=others:
8) Notabug (Gogs)
https://notabug.org
9) Framasoft (GitLab)
https://framagit.org
10) Sourcehut (Sourcehut)
https://sourcehut.org
#freesw #GitHub
The surveillance is coming from inside the prison...but it won't be staying there.
Prison phone companies are voice printing inmates, and they have a plan to collect biometric data from family and friends, too.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/catalog-carceral-surveillance-voice-recognition-and-surveillance
In a world... where a vast social network looms over the population. People spend hours peering into little black rectangles and also bigger black rectangles mounted on desks. They scroll for hours and hours hoping to get a hit of endorphins from a notification going off...
Is that a distant friend, or is it an app plugged into another app that's plugged into this one that you forgot to turn off? It wasn't Jerry from Middle School liking your latest meme about gay dolphins eating Doritos. It was just a reminder that Gem Hustlers II has a new quiz for you to take about what your brother's dog's star sign is.
Immerse yourself! In a network that's 5% actual stuff coming from people you care about, that you never actually talk to, and 95% advertisements and clickbait served up hand over fist to your pathetic insect-brain by an algorithm. But you keep telling yourself, "this is the absolute best way to stay in touch with people, and maybe advertise that book I'll never actually finish writing, all while raising awareness about global warming and the New Apartheid in Honduras."
Starring you, your whole family, your grandparents, random people you worked with, everyone that attended high school with you, and the absolute cesspools making up your local news comment sections...in a race against time to keep you on the site for as long as possible, it's a war between cute videos of animals from questionable pages and unwinnable bad-faith arguments that endlessly fizzle out and die... what will hold your attention today?
This is...
WALLED GARDEN SOCIAL NETWORK
They log on, but they don't log off!
Oh this is interesting. Tools to support following the C4 development protocol:
https://github.com/weex/C4-tools
They were made in the course of supporting a fork of Mastodon specifically made for the purpose of following the C4 protocol:
https://github.com/weex/mastodon
/by @David Sterry
/via https://fediverse.town/t/what-features-should-a-community-driven-mastodon-fork-have/60
#C4 #CollectiveCodeConstructionContract
My take:
This wasn't a fuckup on the part of the U.S.
It was a successful, 20-year money laundering scheme.
Trillions of dollars' worth of Gen X's adulthood and Millennials' childhood were funneled out of American society, through Afghanistan
And into the pockets of defense contractors -- who are largely Republicans.
All those cushy, well-paying DC jobs in the past two decades -- these reports and videos are the price.
The Taliban aren't mystical superheroes who defeated the best armed forces on earth. They were the premise and the excuse for this multi-decade scam.
This wasn't a failure of the US military, either. Common soldiers were fooled and used.
And it's not Biden's fault -- or even Trump's really (though Trump made it worse because that's his shtick).
It's Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Rove, and earlier Republicans who made this happen.
"Never forget."
Say hello to bookworm: FTPMasters have created the next testing distribution, codename bookworm, as a copy of bullseye. It will get its first updates from the unstable suite in a few days time when the release cycle begins all over again #ReleasingDebianBullseye
I like a quote from Lord Byron's speech on the matter:
> But the police, however useless, were by no means idle: several notorious delinquents had been detected; men liable to conviction, on the clearest evidence, of the capital crime of poverty; men, who had been nefariously guilty of lawfully begetting several children, whom, thanks to the times! —they were unable to maintain.
There's also this commentary and its relationship with unionism:
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/271-april-1976/killed-ned-ludd/
(With respect and apologies to the late, great Jimmie Rodgers)
I had a friend named Developer Jess
Who used to code for iOS
He thought he was the smartest guy in town
But I found out last Monday
His app got locked out Sunday
Compete with Apple and they'll take you down
He has to jailbreak now, he has to jailbreak now
I told him once or twice
That those app store rules aren't fair or nice
He has to jailbreak now
Yes this is a subtoot and an unsourced unmarked partial quote of what it's subtooting and that is just the kind of bullshit and vague context you can expect around here.
If you see this post a month or two from now there will be no way for you to find the post it is referring to. Permanence and ephemerality in one.
