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The pair’s podcast collaboration was a depressing inevitability.

Archived version: https://archive.is/PVmTp

 

Libxml2’s solo maintainer drops embargoed security fixes, highlighting the burden on unpaid volunteers who keep critical open source software secure.

 

Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methods

Archived version: https://archive.is/vbuC5

 

GameStop is moving further away from being a video game business and more into trading cards. But the card boom is causing retail issues.

 

Hungarian police said on Thursday in a statement that they were banning the Budapest Pride march of the LGBTQ+ community planned for June 28.

 

"We won’t compromise on what’s made Nexus Mods special."

 

An Uncloseted Media investigation has found that at least six Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ hate groups hold what's known as Economic and Social Council consultative status.

 

A new scientific paper about the UK's ban of puberty blockers.

Abstract:

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this ban on trans and non-binary children and young people are analysed revealing very serious adverse effects, less than a year after its imposition, including sharply declining mental health, increased depression, social isolation, anxiety, stress, self-harm, school avoidance and suicide ideation. The ban appears to be a particular worry for children who are currently known only by their identified genders who fear being coercively outed. Parents themselves also report corresponding increases in levels of stress and worry about their children’s well-being and the possibility that they might attempt suicide. Increasing levels of transphobia and social exclusion since the ban’s imposition were also reported. The data presented here questions the entire rationale and ethical basis for the puberty blocker ban, providing hard evidence that it is both dangerous and unjustified given the significant level of harm it is causing.

 

Playing games while protests rage

Archived version: https://archive.is/31MzM

 

[The "Sims killer"] inZOI has a lot of issues, lets talk about them.

 

A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago

A part of the answer is that a lot of gaming companies started out as a bunch of dudes in a basement who put a game together. Fast forward a few years and the same dudes are suddenly heads of big multi-million companies with dozens of employees, while they never had to learn anything about management. It's pretty disillusioning how many upper managers in the gaming industry are just "vibing" their way through it all.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know where I heard this, but it's a lesson I have taken in: Nature does not strive for perfection, all it requires is a "good enough".

And that may very well be one of the reasons why so many people (the worst kind of atheists and christian supremacists among them) are challenged by the existence of queer people: They consider humans to be the pinnacle of creation/evolution and the messy reality of queer people's existence undermines the core of their beliefs. Yet humans are flawed, inherently messy creatures and in that messiness grow strange, often beautiful flowers.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago

It's not just pride marches in the US. US companies are backing out of pride events all over the globe. And then there are all the non-US companies who laid down and rolled over the moment Trump threatened to block them from making deals with the US government. So even pride events outside of the US are struggling because of Trump and his goons.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately with some basic chemical knowledge it can be obtained rather easily from household items or hardware stores: Batteries, cleaning products, bleach,...

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, I agree with you. The biggest amount of work in regards to fighting climate crisis, fascism and creating resilient social structures is done on the fringes of society and hence rarely mentioned outside equally fringe publications. While people can learn a lot by joining solidarity networks, their work is often (in my experience) scrappy and inconsistent, because even they are lacking knowledge. Besides the need to balance their own interests with the demands of the capitalist society around them.

I see a big potential for art in that space: Spreading knowledge and positives visions of a livable future without being overly dry and preachy. The Solarpunk genre serves this purpose to a certain degree, but - I think - it isn't hard to introduce similar concepts into other genres, if done with respect, conviction and a basic curiosity to learn from others.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I see your point. Well put.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, unfortunately I am sure we are going to hear what she has to say about this.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I assume for a charity event it's better to be safe and thus attract a bigger crowd which may not be there otherwise.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What I find interesting in this picture: Women freaking out to music in public was still such a rare occurrence at the time that the women in the back really don't know how to handle it. By now it has been normalized so much, nobody considers it particularly noteworthy. And the world is better for it.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Archived version, without paywall of the NYT article mentioned: https://archive.is/Bx3c3

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago

While "tribadism" (old term for various lesbian sexual positions, including scissoring) has been known since antiquity, scissoring itself has only been distinguished from other lesbian sexual positions in several sexologist studies in the 70s. Its prevalence was heavily debated even back then, but there was little doubt about its existence before the emergence of modern porn.

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