we’re not all network engineers! there’s also uh… rust and haskell programmers, reverse engineers, hardware engineers, category theorists and topologists, uh… biochemists and physicists probably?

also there’s not like, loads of trans people. that’s why we’re so easy to attack.

we’re a good deal, if anyone wants to take us. a lot of us are reeeaaallyy good at science, math and programming. like the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany were pretty great for the countries who took them in as refugees.

watch the Court decide that the history-and-tradition framework justifies restricting guns from seditious groups, citing slave rebellion laws as precedent, while ruling that discriminating against trans people satisfies strict scrutiny. 6-3, with Alito writing for the Majority.

we’re so fucking cooked.

hugs from a fellow trans woman. <3

this sucks. living with transphobia and dysphoria sucks. I can’t promise it’ll get better. hold your community tight, help them and let them help you. we’re all we’ve got.

welp, that tears it. time to buy my first gun, while I still can. I’m not a big fan of guns but fuck if I’m going to let myself and my community be disarmed by the fascists. I’m not going quietly if they send us to the camps.

I would have applauded!

right you are, I confused my Times columnists!

I ran across the Good Work skit about it first and thought it was taken out of context. nope… dude was dead serious.

remember when he struggled to say that he supported the survival of the human race? it was during that Ezra Klein interview.

specifically this is how QUANTUMINSERT worked (from the Snowden leaks.) also China used the same technique, injecting malicious JS through the GFW to get bystanders to DDoS github, in a much more obvious and indiscriminate way.

nobody here is remotely likely to be targeted by NSA, of course, but you can actually do such attacks on a budget if you compromise any router in the chain. combined with a BGP hijack it’s not far out of reach for even a ransomware gang to pull something like that these days.

i did not!! thanks for link!

I loved that show so fucking much.

and yes. yes it was.

Zalgo captchas would go so hard.

if Progressives are supposed to vote blue no matter who, then Centrists can too. If someone like Mamdani beats Newsom in the 2028 primary they can suck it up and vote for him.

I’ve swallowed loads the past three elections, it’s their turn to take one for the team.

oh hey that’s the jerk that called me a Trump supporter for refusing to back Newsom after all the anti-trans shit he agreed with Charlie Kirk about on his podcast.

computer engineer refers to someone who engineers computer hardware. more like being a (digital) electrical engineer.

that can’t be right. maybe they meant lambda calculus? programmers are definitely good at applied logic, graph theory, certain kinds of discrete math etc. but you’re not whipping out integrals to write a backend.

that would be entirely too edgy for the DNC to allow. powerful men from both parties are on that list.

Safer to meme than dispense leadbread.

I think we should ban guns altogether. Failing that, I’d like to guns away from violently unstable people. But this Administration is constantly portraying leftists and trans people in particular as violently unstable, while turning a blind eye to white supremacists, J6 truthers and “patriots.”

I have zero confidence they won’t include gender dysphoria and “Trump derangement syndrome” on the list of mental illnesses (states have actually tried this.)

As long as fascists are armed, trans people must not be disarmed.