Notices by Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social), page 2

@cthon1c @bmoreinis all I can say was I was hootin and hollerin "oh what an allegory" at everything in s2, just like hnnnnggggg it is quality cinema

got sent this image last night and have been thinking about it ever since

new header image?

@danmcquillan damn what if they applied these metrics to humans??

@heavyimage at least

@SeaFury Oiiii this is really good. well done!

In talking with a partner recently who is Of An Age where they I'd assumed they would have known, I got to have the joy of sharing with them that Chumbawamba were anarchists, so if you didn't know, then may this nugget brighten your day.

@hacks4pancakes Would that we all could have been as anarchistic as they were. Maybe the future would have unfolded differently.

@bmoreinis @cthon1c haha! Yes!

@lzg I would like to see these notes

@bmoreinis @cthon1c it does a better job showcasing the evil of empire (generally, not just the Star Wars Empire) and actual insurrection/rebellion (generally, not just the Star Wars Rebellion) than just about anything else out there.

Andor S2 is at least as good as S1. And I'll leave it at that.

@walkinglampshade @QasimRashid @leftsidestory @ArtHarg @Patrickoldhiker two things can be bad at once even if one is preferable to the other. Regardless, OP's statement was objectively false and also suggests that school and medicine are free and available to all which is also false

@QasimRashid Perhaps instead of acting like Europe is paradise, you could look at the data which, for most of Europe, does not have zero out-of-pocket expenses for people who need insulin.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/clinical-diabetes-and-healthcare/articles/10.3389/fcdhc.2024.1293882/full

Or with "medical debt" and "student debt," yes it's not like the US system, but I know people in multiple countries who couldn't go to school because they couldn't afford to not work. Or people, again in multiple countries, who can't get medical procedures that are deemed non-necessary by insurance because they can't afford them even if they're "only" a few thousand.

I'd wager these sorts of comparisons are more harmful than helpful because it let's Euros off the hood and it limits the idea of what we could achieve to only that of what the "average" European state offers.

@masukomi There are multiple people close to me who describe their gender as "trans" as if it's a noun, not an adjective modifying a noun. Words literally mean what people use them to mean.

Maybe don't presume to speak for others, and especially not if your profile says "trans" and not "trans X" whatever that "X" might be. It somewhat undermines your point, no?

If you want to point out how tick boxes are often woefully incomplete for expression gender, please do so, but maybe in another way.

@wdenton Counterpoint. That display looks fantastic.

GrapheneOS development and updates have continued and will keep going. We have substantial funds available to hire more people to work on GrapheneOS. We'll need to hire multiple experienced developers to fill their big shoes. They'll hopefully be safe and when they return we'll have a bigger team.

Ever a problem among Euros, but massively exacerbated by the current political doings of the US, is the idea that Europe (the vague social identity / continent) is more enlightened, more democratic, and more just than the US.

Fascism is on the rise here. Meloni is a fascist. The still-rising AfD is fascist. Frontex has done horrible things to migrants from the SWANA region (have we forgotten Moira? the thuggish aggression of the so-called Libyan Coast Guard?). Hungary is openly anti-democratic and queer-phobic. The UK is viciously anti-trans. Our social democratic institutions are being gutted by the offspring of old labour parties. Even the most "wealthy" and "progressive" nordic/scandiavian States are virulently racist. We have a dozen monarchies.

We are hardly better. Stop patting yourself on the back and feeling smug. Fix the problems here.

@neonsnake I feel like using that silhouette will inadvertently invoke nationalism. Maybe make the titular Tommy and Tilly both trans-coded?

@neonsnake no no now you must