Hark! The Roses Are Crowing

If you're 20 or younger, and you want a binder, need a new one, get one now.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a series of actions yesterday that could essentially ban gender-affirming care for youth all over the country. The most significant move is a proposed rule that says hospitals providing this care cannot receive any Medicare or Medicaid funding. (x)

I am not kidding

IF YOU SEE ANY PAINTING BY "EMILE CORSI" ON HERE, DO NOT REBLOG IT THINKING IT'S REAL AND FROM THE 1800s. IT IS AI-GENERATED AND EMILE CORSI IS NOT A HISTORICAL FIGURE

And if you love the vibes and wish you could find something similar painted by a real person, let me introduce you to John William Waterhouse, on whose work the AI was definitely trained:

Corsi is not real

Please don't call yourself a tranny you know that word isn't meant for you

alsoooo a big, big, big digital security lesson that you absolutely have to understand while making recommendations is that if your protocol is too complicated or inaccessible, even if it's somehow perfectly invulnerable, then people will start taking shortcuts that are way fucking worse.

and this is kind of a tangent but. you especially need to be prioritizing a risk mitigation approach because flock & ring cameras exist lmao. regardless of whether you use any consumer technologies at all, if you live in the US, these things are tagging your license plate & other visual attributes of your car. using facial recognition on drivers & passengers & pedestrians. aggregating all that data to track your movement like on a map. what are you going to do? not live in a city? not drive a car? not leave your house?

me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid

[ID 1: a tweet by miauravilhas with an image of a cat laying on its back with all four legs up, on the ground right next to a wet floor sign. The tweet, translated from Portuguese, reads "Poor thing, he slipped because he can't read."