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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 20:01:03 JST Charlie Stross

   This would be the airports where you queue for hours to have your crotch groped by a bored TSA goon before you're allowed to board an airliner ... with unisex toilets.

   (If they pass this idiotic bill, write to your rep DENOUNCING the awful security hole these in-flight unsegregated toilets leave, and force the airlines to kick back because it'll cost them enormous amounts of money to retrofit the planes with gendered toilets, which would carry fewer passengers.)
   https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/113528505126637059

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 20:07:54 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Annalee Newitz 🍜

     @annaleen … But on reflection the time for gamesmanship is long past, and if Trump's followers run true to form I dread to think how far it's going to go.

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     Madagascar_Sky (madagascar_sky@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:19:36 JST Madagascar_Sky

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     @cstross

     It will cost them enormous amounts of money to retrofit? No, they'll just put on a sticker for male or female.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:19:36 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Madagascar_Sky

     @Madagascar_Sky Not viable on narrow-body jets where typically there are two toilets—one at the front, for first class passengers, and one at the back, for proles. You'd end up with lots of passengers marching up and down the length of the aisle, which is a big safety no-no.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:51:21 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Chapulín Enojado

     @chapulin_enojado Why are you telling me this, as if I didn't already know?

     The event horizon in politics is no more than five years, and that's how far the USA is from whatever the 21st century equivalent of gas chambers turns out to be.

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     Chapulín Enojado (chapulin_enojado@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:51:22 JST Chapulín Enojado

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     @cstross
     And so we begin the new Trump era, by pushing groups of people outside the bounds of civil society for the “crime” of [insert status here]. The goal, of course, was always to make it legal to turn the coercive power of state-sponsored violence against anyone “different”.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 21:54:33 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Chapulín Enojado

     @chapulin_enojado Seriously: I'm not trans and I'm over 60 and I don't live in the US, but if I was in the US I'd be packing my bags right now. I grew up attending a synagogue with camp survivors and I know how this story ends. And "but they won't come for me, I'm a GOOD German" worked precisely never.

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     Dwight Williams (💉 x9) + 😷 (dewline@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 23:49:00 JST Dwight Williams (💉 x9) + 😷

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     • Chapulín Enojado
     • Outpatientzero 🍉

     @Outpatientzero @cstross @chapulin_enojado I'm not sure that Likud and AIPAC's leaders give a damn or a blessing about that right now. Which frightens me a lot.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 23:49:00 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Outpatientzero 🍉

     @DEWLine @Outpatientzero @chapulin_enojado "Mass deportation of Jews to Israel" is a feature, not a bug, if your goal is to populate a Greater Israel occupying most of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and probably Sinai. (They'll worry about the evangelical nutbags in the Republic of Gilead nuking them to bring about Armageddon later: either the RoG won't be able to maintain their nukes, or Greater Israel will have more, or something.)

     Listen, we'd be better off under Nyarlathotep—

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     Outpatientzero 🍉 (outpatientzero@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 23:49:01 JST Outpatientzero 🍉

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     • Chapulín Enojado

     @cstross @chapulin_enojado what is astonishing to me is the Jewish/Israel Lobby groups and individuals (ie AIPAC, Adelson, etc.) who have campaigned for Trump and MAGA GOP candidates and are so fixated on their unquestioning support for every atrocity committed by Israel that they don't realize that this could very well end up with "the 21st century equivalent to the death camps" for Jews including mass deportation to Israel given the role of Evangelicals and Nazis in the Trump coalition.