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   Matt Hall (401matthall@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 07:55:03 JST Matt Hall

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   @Lana

   I'm just saying I'm CIS-99% straight (I will always make an exception for Henry Cavill and I _will not_ be judged for it) and this is like the least threatening thing to talk about with a child.

   It's not war, it's not famine, it's not injustice, it's just _love_. Love's easy. There's even a fairly decent description of it in their damned _book_.

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   Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐 (gcvsa@mstdn.plus)'s status on Friday, 28-Nov-2025 07:04:51 JST Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐

   10-12 years ago, I got seriously involved in the tiny house on wheels community, and spent a lot of time seriously thinking about house design and the ramifications of the THoW movement.

   My ultimate design settled on an 8' x 16 ' floorplan, with a 4' screenable front porch/greenhouse extension.

   This, I judged, was the bare minimum size that could support 2 adults and 1 small child.

   It would sleep 2 in the loft and fit a standard 52" crib mattress on the main level.

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   Cat (cat_lefey@pagan.plus)'s status on Friday, 08-Aug-2025 00:23:22 JST Cat

   I read a lot of books. Like, a lot. I've read 148 books so far this year. This means I read many indie authors, and I'm willing to give unknown authors or unrated books a chance.

   But LLMs are ruining everything. I've accidentally started reading 2 "AI" books in just the past month. It's the repetition that gives them away. Whole paragraphs that repeat word for word only a few pages apart. Also, the glaring continuity errors, like in one scene the character mentions a brother, but then a chapter later they're an only child.

   It's just so frustrating because I know that new authors rely on those first few reviews for their book to even show up on searches, but now I'm reluctant to try. I've been sticking to authors I know, and even some of those are showing hints of using AI for their covers. And if the cover is AI art, they're obviously fine with plaigerism, so they probably used AI to write some of it too.

   Godsdamned techbros have even managed to interfere with my love of cheesy gay romance novels! Is nothing sacred?!

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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 22:32:59 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67225093

   A woman has been found guilty of taking a three-year-old British child to Africa for female genital mutilation.

   Amina Noor, 39, is the first person to be convicted of assisting a non-UK person to perform FGM and the second to be successfully prosecuted under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003.

   Noor, from Harrow in north-west London, was born in Somalia but has British citizenship.

   In 2006 she took the child to a private house in Kenya for the procedure.

   Noor told the Old Bailey that the mutilation is done for cultural reasons and was a procedure she herself had undergone as a child.

   It was only in 2015 that the girl - who is now aged 21 and who cannot be identified - confided to a schoolteacher that she had suffered FGM and police were informed.

   Following an examination at University College Hospital in 2019 it was found that the girl’s clitoris had been completely removed.

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   Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 04:44:46 JST Nowhere Girl

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   But you know, I still bristle a bit when people are dismissive of "always knew" and "born in the wrong body" when that's literally how I felt as a child.

   It's not just a metaphor we created to explain ourselves simply to cis people. It's a bone deep feeling and something we created to explain ourselves to ourselves in this seemingly impossible situation.

   And I worry that some people trying to defend their experiences are undermining the conversation around these kids who need help.