I’ve only watched his Netflix specials

So, you’ve heard him openly identify as a TERF?

But if the jokes in his comedy specials are the cause of the internet hate against him then I’m gonna have to continue to disagree with that sentiment.

“Jokes”

Anyway, it’s clear that your mind is set. To you, he’s not transphobic, because the times when he is transphobic don’t count, and no matter what transphobia of his you encounter in the future, you will find a reason for it not to count as well.

He is a transphobe. You are defending him. End of story

He is explicitly, openly and blatantly transphobic. There is no maybe about it. There is no ambiguity.

To be clear, I’ve always been progressive. I was never overtly racist in the way so many of my peers were growing up. But their overt racism impacted me and filled me with assumptions and unchallenged beliefs that it took years to identify and challenge.

I was born in Moree (the destination of the Freedom Ride (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Ride_(Australia)), and racism still shapes the town today. I don’t think it would be possible to grow up in that town without being shaped by racism in some way.

I grew up in a racist town, and was indoctrinated on racism in my youth. It never sat right with me, but even so, I still struggled with racist thoughts that would jump in to my head when I encountered indigenous folk.

Someone said to me though that it’s not the first thought that jumps in to your head that matters, because that’s what you’ve been trained to think. What matters is what you do after that thought has appeared.

And that’s stuck with me. It helped me be aware of the impact of indoctrinated hate, whilst also not getting tied up with guilt over my inability to completely purge myself of the indoctrinated bullshit.

It allowed me to retrain myself, and to make sure the shit I was raised with doesn’t get passed on to my own kid.

Yep. I use them because my password manager handles cross device passkeys. If I had to set passkeys up on every single device I use, per device per web service, I don’t think I’d bother with them…

Yep!

Archaeologists Uncovered the First Evidence of Math—Before Numbers Were Even Invented

Who knew we had archeologists before we had numbers?

Exactly our setup.

I’ve never lived alone, but I was living independently of my parents at 17. They were amazing years :)

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Yep. I removed their comment locally after replying to it. The reply was because those removals won’t federate

Not so much.

Sex and gender are distinct elements. So whilst they’re not the same thing, they do interact with each other and influence each other to some extent or another. If they didn’t, then the world wouldn’t be full of people whose gender and sex are in alignment. For that matter, if they didn’t, we wouldn’t even understand the concept of sex and gender being in alignment.

Also, “transgenderism” is a term popular with transphobes, because it frames trans people as a belief/ideology, rather than acknowledging their identity.

no non-sapient creature can ever be trans, because you need consciousness to have a gender identity in the first place.

But for all of that, strictly speaking, this is true.

Were it a “curious, socratic style question” you wouldn’t have framed your question with loaded terminology designed to make trans people sound unreasonable and fake.

Someone eating a sauce I’ve never heard of, at a restaurant I barely go to, and posting about it on a social media platform I don’t use! They absolutely should do this

It’s chromium based now, and as bad as firefox’s direction is, I don’t really want to hand google based engines an even bigger portion of the internet.

Friends was probably the wrong word. What I was really referring to is community and social events. My good friends are still there in my life, but the broader queer community is now harder to connect with, and lots of social events and meetups that are happening in my city happen without me even knowing.

Are you happy? Is your partner happy?

There’s your answer

I experienced this when I got rid of facebook (or more accurately, when I wouldn’t provide them with my ID to get my account unlocked).

But the other side of it is that a lot of the social groups that I was involved with, and a lot of my contact with my friends, was done through facebook, and my real world social life has been impacted by losing facebook.

I still wouldn’t go back, but it’s a first hand example of just how wide the facebook network effect can reach.

Feishin. It’s a navidrome/jellyfin player.

I love it, because it has smart playlists that are actually smart! It lets me create “random” playlists from my music collection, in a way that works for me.