Despite everything, I’m telling my kid the world is a good place, and maybe it will turn out that way

Anyways, a few things that I'm sure everyone here knows but that bear repeating anyways:

1. Vaginoplasty in women who lacked a vaginal cavity is older than knee replacement surgery by a lot. The first (admittedly primitive) bowel substitution vaginoplasty is roughly contemporary with open heart surgery.

1a. Vaginoplasty in _trans_ women predates knee replacement surgery, actually.

2. It has one of the lowest regret rates of any major surgical procedure in the world. It's regret rate is almost unheard of in medicine, actually.

3. The most common gender affirming surgeries performed on teenagers are performed on teenage boys with excess breast tissue. There also aren't that many of them even including that group.

4. The reason you don't "let them decide after they turn 18" (as opposed to letting them decide when they reach puberty) is a) that doesn't change the outcome b) puberty does permanent damage and c) causes pretty horrific trauma.

5. If you are a guy and think trans women have an advantage in elite sports I encourage you to try hormones for two years and then see how well you get along with jars.

ICE go fuck yourselves with cans of pepper spray you fucking nazis

I've seen a lot of photos showing the massive crowds gathered in Minneapolis today, but I want to remind folk that today was actually a day of economic blackout, and the protests and other events were there to help us bond, learn, teach, and share.

But the main show was actually the complete lack of activity and spectacle around the normal center of life: the economy.

We'll never get an honest accounting of how that went down, but I know in addition to the indie stores that shut down, a LOT of folk working corporate gigs didn't go to work today.

I think this photo, showing one of the main stretches of highway into the city, during what should be rush hour, instead showing a smattering of cars, is one of the better demonstrations of that part of today.

brb crying forever at the thought of having a mom who loved me like this

https://practiceresurrection.tumblr.com/post/106765525171/if-i-should-have-a-son-who-one-day-comes-to-me

Good luck to all those here who are going to be offline due to power/internet outages after this weekend. Hope to see you back here soon! Stay safe!

#winterstorm

@inthehands we were (I think) near the front of the march. From where we were it was impossible to tell how may people were behind us. We popped into the library and went up to the skyway over 3rd and upon looking back down 3rd to the east, all of us broke into tears. Thousands upon thousands. We stood there watching from the skyway for 45 minutes and we still could not see the end.

Amazing.

I’ve not yet seen any estimates on numbers.

Anyway check this shit out

Today at Minneapolis St. Paul airport, Minnesotans showed what all of us should be doing around the country — standing up to ICE fascists.

While it was painful to see interfaith leaders being arrested for peacefully protesting, I am grateful that I bore witness to this moment in history.

Watch my live coverage: https://youtu.be/UNONub09dR8

Today I stood in -20 degrees alongside interfaith leaders & community members demanding that ICE stop terrorizing Minnesota. I was struck by three things.
1. People are traumatized, not paralyzed.
2. These are American tax $$.
3. MN is showing what we all could be doing nationally.

Read more and subscribe to support my advocacy.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/live-from-minneapolis-protesting-ice-out-of-minnesota-and-delta-stop-deportation-flights/

TIL Inkscape has built-in zine templates! You can design the individual pages and then it lays out the print layout automatically. Neat!

#TIL #Inkscape #OpenSource #Zine

With #meta blocking stories about the protests and strike in #Minnessota, it is a reminder of why platforms like the fediverse are important. This is a video of the clergy protest at the MSP airport today, passed along by a colleague, at which 97 clergy were arrested.

#AbolishICE #IceOut #ClergyProtest

Jesus Christ, Minnesota. Y'all weren't just talking shit. You did it. Hundreds of thousands on strike in -20 degrees

I can't imagine either of those things, and you're doing them both at the same time

Permanent respect gained

Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/

This is what #generalstrike and people power look like in #minneapolis. #news #Politics

My sneezes have two modes: cutesy anime girl core (this is the norm) or violent nuclear bomb

#Minnesota - ICE out Minneapolis - statewide general strike against the ICE terror! Heartwarming at -10º Fahrenheit / -23º Celsius

Watch someone get in my mentions about how I’m threatening TERFs. Fuck off with that. When we say “Trans people are safe with me,” we don’t mean “I will try to not hate-crime trans people while they’re in the room.” And neither is the inverse true when we say “TERFs aren’t safe with me.”

Being safe for someone is about seeing them. It’s about acknowledging their truths, it’s about intentionally making space for their identities, it’s about asserting their identities on their behalf with the people around you. It’s about correcting misgenderings. It’s about letting people know you will not tolerate their transmisogyny, even when there are no trans people around. It’s about making sure they don’t get hassled in the bathroom. It’s about making other people uncomfortable when they express transphobia.

Being safe for trans people means being unsafe for TERFs. If you say you are safe for trans people and also safe for TERFs, you are safe for TERFs.

Don’t be safe for TERFs.

Fuck, I have to change my opinion on leaf blowers.
[Read this before you think about doing something like this yourself! https://infosec.exchange/@0x00string/115947908469913564 ]

A queer Instagram account posting about queer piercings:
"Septum - It's one of those piercings that just happens to queers. It works with literally any style, makes you feel confident, and makes every outfit look cooler. If you have one, people probably clocked you before you even said anything."

I … uhm 🥹👉👈