Drífa Jónsdóttir @[email protected]

I'm having a GRS and FFS on Tuesday, 23 July 2019.

I won't be posting explicit photos, but I will talk about my experiences. That will, perforce, include graphic descriptions of anatomy. I will CW all of this appropriately.

If this isn't something you want to read, or if you are underage and it would be illegal for me to send these descriptions to you either in US/VA or your jurisdiction, please either unfollow me or refrain from opening these CW'd messages.

One thing I really hate about my culture is its fetishization of competition. We create needless competition in business, sports, politics, etc. Why? It is destructive, it creates more losers than winners, and it wastes resources that could be better used to solve our collective problems. Proponents claim it spurs innovation and achievement. Bullshit: it spurs cheating and gaming the system. Competition of *ideas* is better served by *cooperation* to study them.

I should probably pin Britt's ref sheet.

If you're trans, remember: the point of changing your appearance and presentation is to feel better living in your own skin. Anyone who gives you grief for not meeting some arbitrary standard is welcome to go shag a cactus.

Corporate IT just pushed an OS update to my laptop *while I am at a professional meeting*. No option to delay, no chance to save work, just a dialog on the screen for a few sentence, a reboot, and 30 minutes of crunching. &@%.

Gah. Distracted tooting. The headline reads, “Happiness gap between whites and nonwhites surged during Trump era, Gallup finds.”

Gee, you don’t say.

“https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/17/happiness-gap-grows-trump-era/ “: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/17/happiness-gap-grows-trump-era/

“Greenpeace included with neo-Nazis on UK counter-terror list“: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/17/greenpeace-included-with-neo-nazis-on-uk-counter-terror-list

Fash governments are gonna fash, and ‘liberal’ governments do this too. Enforcement by state power ways favors the interests of the powerful, and the powerful want to profit while the planet burns.

Yeet trolls

Telegram’s tools for dealing with trolls are so awful. Why the heck can’t I block or mute them in group chats?!?

Not for mere parties!

I’m slightly worried this could turn ugly: https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/gun-activists-challenge-gun-ban-in-capitol-square-ahead-of/article_7ce8eb14-e2ed-5e6c-a012-7ef3816aa791.html

I vaguely understand that there are hard right militia types behind this—the sort that are looking for a war.

Okay, now that I’ve eaten, I want a warm spot to curl up on for a post-lunch snooze. Is that really too much to ask?

Another interesting part is Nunes’a connection to all this. Which makes his grandstanding during the hearings all the more galling, which was a tall order.

NSA two-pager on that super-critical Windows patch released on Tuesday: https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jan/14/2002234275/-1/-1/0/CSA-WINDOWS-10-CRYPT-LIB-20190114.PDF

My my, what interesting times: it has never been more obvious that the US Government is hopelessly corrupt.

The question is what the masses will do about it.

Lev Parnas is spilling his guts:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/15/lev-parnas-trump-knew-everything-099508

What’s interesting here to me is that this pop’s Pence’s pretense of ignorance. If he knew, and took action to further the scheme (as he admits but claims he did in ignorance), then he is a co-conspirator and equally guilty.

Perversely, might make it even less likely for Rs to vote to remove: they know Pence could be impeached right after.

Oakland riot cops brought armored vehicles to kick houseless moms out of a house left vacant by its corporate owner: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/15/oakland-moms-evicted/

I've met loads of furries that weren't even alive before cameras could mostly set aperture and focus and shutter speed for you.

I'm gonna be running a basic photography concepts panel at ANE called "What the F-stop?!?". Hopefully this helps some people understand the DSLR manuals that are written in terms of concepts that everybody had to know to operate manual film SLRs in the Bad Old Days.

This is the camera I learned photography on. If you put a battery in, it has a built-in light meter. Everything else is manual.

The Worst Year Ever podcast crew (Robert Evans, Katy Stohl, and Cody Johnston) were at MFF this year, and the first full episode of their reporting on MFF is up: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hROjgBmgSG1pFRLv9O1P9?si=srFmBgP8RiOsB7Ilrw5wUA

It's pretty good: a bunch of normies with generally anarchist politics taking a look at the fandom's mostly successful efforts to take out the trash and build a welcoming space for self-discovery and self-expression.