Notices by nev (nev@bananachips.club), page 3

good morning everyone, to no one's surprise I feel like absolute shit, I might actually be sick

Officially "chicken soup sick". Will take a COVID test when less tired.

@left_adjoint as someone who was There At the Time, that's an insightful way to look at it.

However, I think the more material causes are a lot simpler: 1) the movement attracted lots of white guys and otherwise privileged people who did not have anything more important to worry about or any more important lenses to see the world through, like poverty or sexism or their ethnic community or whatever; and therefore it kept attracting them/driving out anyone else who called them on their shit; aaaand

2) the movement "texts"/philosophies, like warmed-over 19th-century anti-Catholic propaganda, slightly fresher post-2001 Islamophobia, and the deterministic, reductive biological philosophy of Dawkins and others, already dovetailed pretty nicely with a lot of more unsavory ideologies.

So it was a group already predisposed to this kind of thing. Like you put that many white guys together, they're gonna get racist.

Since no one posting about this news has INCLUDED A FUCKING LINK, here you go: https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-ai

When they introduced the feature back in October: https://www.dropbox.com/product-updates/dbx-october-2023

If you are a #Dropbox user, you can turn off third-party AI here: https://www.dropbox.com/account/ai

@mcc there's also an option for it to play a tune at the menu, and other sound cue options

fucking

WHAT

It's Trans Day of Remembrance.

Names and stats: https://transrespect.org/en/trans-murder-monitoring-2023/

Context: "These numbers are just a small glimpse into the reality on the ground. Most cases worldwide continue to go unreported. Those that are reported receive very little attention.

The Trans Murder Monitoring data does not include all reported cases worldwide, as not all trans and gender diverse murder victims are identified as trans or gender diverse in reports of their death. These figures must therefore be understood in the specific social, political, economic, and historical contexts in which they occur.

The high number of murder reports from Latin America and the Caribbean can be considerably attributed to the existence of established monitoring systems in these regions. The majority of the data came from countries with strong networks of trans and LGBTI organisations that conduct the monitoring."

This 2016 report explains why many murders are underreported or difficult to track: https://transrespect.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/TvT-PS-Vol14-2016.pdf

#tdor #tdor2023

@caesarologia @mcc i *knew* i should have said USAians

@mcc Wait. Hold the fuck up. USians don't have Camembert????

@blogdiva as I saw someone say a long time ago, voting isn't "choose your player", it's "choose your opponent"

yes, i'm proud of this. #computeing #linux :birdsite:

@adriano @futurebird imagine a programming language where what font you used made a difference. Like if you said something was a string by putting it in Times New Roman.

Of course, this means you would pretty much have to use tabs not spaces. This is a plus imho

@hannah one of my favourites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Light_Tree

look, i hate rich people as much as anyone else, but

i appreciate that this is the crime reporter's beat

story: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/they-made-their-lawn-a-butterfly-paradise-the-city-of-burlington-threatened-a-daily-10/article_e1222104-8cfd-5f6c-9aa3-9307f79b7b15.html
archive: https://archive.li/Ud64c

(seriously tho, love jpags' stuff)

#BanLawns

today I learned wttr.in has animation for thunderstorms. I guess I never checked it at the right time, lol.

Absolutely the funniest shit is the #wikipedia article 'List of cetaceans' putting [cetacean needed] for the ones they don't have a picture of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans

🏴☠️ stolen from someone who didn't add alt text

@goatsarah amazing, ok, here's what i'm thinking. by no means final, but this is the general idea

dalek icon source: https://thenounproject.com/icon/dalek-1356626/

@Kuchenschwarte @goatsarah Ah—from your server, you only see boosts/posts/replies from ones that are federated with yours. You have to go to the original page, on Sarah's server, to see the total stats.

✅ yes, David Tennant wore a "leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" T-shirt for the Good Omens 2 shoot
- https://metro.co.uk/2023/07/10/david-tennant-supports-trans-non-binary-youth-at-good-omens-launch-19100654/

❌ no, he did not subsequently joke that TERFs can't climb stairs; that was a parody Twitter account
- https://insidethemagic.net/2023/07/david-tennant-leave-trans-kids-alone-you-absolute-freaks-mw1/
- https://twitter.com/PoliticoForYou/status/1678695501313503232 / https://archive.is/XvdO3

just a reminder to fact-check everything you see