Notices by Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe), page 2

Not that it cost the original owner anything

Anyway, I wanted the original hardback because that’s the one I owned as a teen, before disposing of it in (I assume) the same orgy of internalised homophobia that caused me to get rid of all my other queer-themed books when I became an evangelical Christian in 1994

The one that breaks my heart is the text of Derek Jarman’s Blue, which was a limited edition of about 3,000 copies and is now totally unobtainable (unless you pay several hundred pounds)

IT WAS REPUBLISHED LAST YEAR. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIRTY YEARS. I'LL BE ABLE TO BUY A COPY TOMORROW. I'm *reeling*.
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Blue-by-Derek-Jarman/9781644230886

Is Strange New Worlds S2E3 the first time anyone in Star Trek has said the quiet part out loud and explicitly (and only half-ironically) called the world of the Federation a “socialist utopia”?

@bri_seven Whereas reading that just brought home to me how I find masculinity, as a concept, incomprehensible. In both its “toxic” and “nontoxic” forms

@ryanc From your lips to God’s (or at least Keir’s) ears 🙏🏻. Seriously, I’ll be applying on Day One. And “thank you for your service” in the meantime…

@ryanc At first I read this last post as your estimate of when the UK will finally recognise nonbinary genders. 🫤

@ryanc Interesting. I guess in the end they just care about you actually paying your taxes. <shocked face>

@ryanc Ugh. Only just caught up with this. I did wonder when I saw your post yesterday. “Administrative convenience”. Fucking hell.

@ryanc And now I get your point about the tax form. Like, what do you do when your gender *as recorded on your birth certificate* isn’t available on the form? I imagine HMRC would just say it’s your AGAB, and that you’ll be breaking the law if you don’t disclose it. So shitty.

@ryanc Well I suppose the genuine (depressing) answer is that the UK doesn’t recognise your GRC, so they’ll say it’s your birth certificate gender. But if it’s any comfort, they’re violating your (and my) human rights out of vengeful transphobia rather than administrative convenience

@ryanc I fear you'll find (and expect you already know!) that Terf Island's government is way ahead of you on this one :-\

It just struck me that this classic tweet has become an example of what it describes. It’s only a matter of time before Musk or some other techbro calls their latest product “Torment Nexus”

Oh, this is *masterful*

@ryanc @HauntedOwlbear Unleash hell! :blob_cat_knife:

@HauntedOwlbear @ryanc It’s a total mess, and I can’t begin to imagine how someone who has gone through a gender recognition process in another country is supposed to unpick that and start again, given their documents will all now reflect their assumed gender. Absolute farce, and one that “protects” *no one*

“They’re all out of step except us!” cries the UK government, as it blacklists more than 50 countries’ gender recognition processes for being “too lax”, the latest being California, basically because it recognises nonbinary identities

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Via @ryanc: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/111523604839175094

@ryanc Totally. My default search engine is DDG, but I’m not going to pretend it’s actually *good*, it just means Google only get to see the 25% of my searches (and 90% of image searches) that get repeated with a !g or !gi

@tymwol @ryanc It’s got bett*er*, but image search is still pretty cronky. The point was I was trying not to be The Guy Who Responds To Posts About Google By Recommending DDG :-)