SpookyBogMonster @ SpookyBogMonster @lemmy.ml

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Thank you to the workers who actually programmed, tested, and implemented the thing*

-Literally doctors in trans medicine until very upsettingly recently

You used to only cleared for HRT or surgery if your doctor thought you'd look hot afterwards

He threw trans people under the bus, and there's no way in hell I'm voting for that.

I'm most stoked about RSS integration. I miss Firefox's old RSS features

Does anyone have tips for a trans girl, who is also colorblind? 🙃

This stuff feels impossible

Worth pointing out, these photos you see of women in pre-revolutionary Iran are a very tiny percentage of urban, professional, women of the ruling class at the time. These photos are not universally representative of women's lives in Iran in that period

I'm not Christian, and don't go to church. I agree that churches shouldn't get tax breaks.

I still think memes like this are deeply, achingly, cringe

Does this mean Spiderman counts as an illuminated manuscript?

It's because they're racist ¯(ツ)_/¯

You say that as though the type of person who makes posts like this respects religious people enough to investigate and find that out.

Oh god, are we doing Reddit Atheism on Lemmy now? This sucks shit

Digital Avatars in teams arent actively destructive to the internet, the environment, and people's grasp on reality.

I think you're universalising a personal grievance, without fully accounting for the impacts of Metaverse bullshit, which was never practical or feasible to begin with, and the AI Apocalypse sweeping the internet

Correct, but your average yank still thinks of that as "left"

I mean I guess it’s close to the r word,

It's specifically a portmanteau of "liberal" and the r-word

Liberal in the rest of the world is more aligned to socialism

I agree that US political vocabulary is weird. But this characterization just isn't true at all.

For example, in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party is ideologically conservative. Same story with the Australian Liberal Party.

Whereas Liberalism in the US is associated with the left of the Overton Window.

Audacious is your friend. It accepts old Winamp skins!

I've been rocking the Windows XP skin on Linux Mint

It only really works as a racist statement, when you believe in Western Exceptionalism.

This Is some laughable mental gymnastics! I assure you that I don't believe in Western exceptionalism.

The reason looking at Trump's ugly, ego-stroking, interior design choices and saying they "look like a middle eastern dictator designed it" is racist, is because it Orientalizes the middle east, not as a place with diverse peoples, politics, and yes, interior design senses.

But instead papers over that diversity and paints Trump's gaudy displays as unbecoming of a western leader, more akin to that of an imagined barbaric Oriental Despotism

Saying Trump's design sense is "Like a middle eastern dictator" is very different from saying it's "like a European king". The former sits within a of a long history of Oriental racism perpetuated by Europeans, against people's the Global South.

Please read Orientalism by Edward Said, I'm begging you people!

I'll only watch a VHS, if it's a weird Japanese anime OVA from the 80s.

Wanna explain that one, Sherlock?

Looks like it was designed by a dictator from the middle east

Yes.