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The right to not be sterilized against your knowledge

The right to not be sterilized against your will

The right to not be coerced into sterilizing yourself in order to gain citizenship, relief from imprisonment, change a gender marker, etc.

The right to determine how you will give birth

Placeholder for rights regarding adoption which I don’t have the ability or energy to articulate right now

My avatar, which was a screenshot of a sfw image that had been tagged as porn, was deleted

The Washington Post has an article up about al-Zaidi for the tenth anniversary of the shoe throwing incident, that also goes into more detail on the political context at hand & how al-Zaidi was imprisoned and tortured afterwards.

“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.”

It means that these groups, these organizations, are so Hellbent on getting trans people outlawed, hurt, and killed, that they will openly lie and admit to lying to stir up emotions. They have no qualms with actively lying and distorting reality. 

They have no qualms about misleading people. Actively lying to people. 

They don’t care how immoral their actions may be, how much their rhetoric flies in the face of reality, as long as it reaches their end goal of the destruction of “transgender ideology.” 

MassResistance and all their ilk want us dead, and should never be trusted, not even for the most trivial of matters. They should be rejected, reviled, despised, because nothing they do is in service of anything but hatred and evil. 

And in case anyone actually doubts this, and wants to cry “fake news,” here’s MR’s actual article. Should it get deleted, here’s an archived version. Some choice bits under the cut, if you want to see how vile these people really are. 

What these safety concerns were fabricated as a proxy for—not genuine (but harder to argue) concerns but utter rejection of the “ideology” of “mentally dysfunctional men wearing dresses”.

Their enemy is not (just) trans people but “the LGBT lobby”; i.e. any and all LGBT/queer people.

Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

Two people have been arrested for allegedly attacking a 16-year-old Jewish boy last week in Forest Hills, and members of the Jewish community are asking the NYPD to classify the incident as a hate crime.

According to the NYPD, two males, ages 17 and 18, were arrested on Thursday. The two are in custody at the 112th Precinct in Queens and were awaiting charges.

“It’s not a hate crime, and the victim is in stable condition,” said Detective Annette Shelton, a spokesperson for the NYPD.

The boy, David Paltielov, remains at Elmhurst Hospital one week after the attack, which took place on November 29. He suffered lacerations, swelling and contusions on his head and body.

The conclusion by the police that it wasn’t a hate crime is at odds with that of the Bukharian Jewish immigrant community, especially in the wake of multiple recent attacks and hate crimes against Jewish New Yorkers. According to the Alliance for Bukharian Americans, some witnesses heard the attackers scream anti-Semitic phrases such as “Kill the Jew.”

Yaniv Meirov, the CEO of the Chazaq organization, which also represents the Bukharian Jewish immigrant community, said it was “100 percent in my opinion a hate crime.”

According to Meirov and witnesses of the attack, at around 5 p.m., Paltielov was exiting Munch Place, a kosher eatery in Forest Hills, when he was attacked by a group of teenagers.

“This is a big group of guys, we understand twenty to thirty guys,” said Meirov. “And they start stepping on him, stamping on him. Punching him.”

Paltielov, who attends a yeshiva in Forest Hills, was wearing orthodox clothing, including a kippeh [sic], or skullcap, and tzitzit, which Meirov said “are fringes on the corners of his shirt.”

One witness, Waleska Mendez, emerged from Masbia, a Jewish-run soup kitchen located on 64th Road in Forest Hills, where she volunteers. She was working inside when she heard the commotion.

“When I went out I saw the kid next to the tree, already on the floor. All the gang was kicking and punching him. So I started screaming ‘Leave him alone!’”

She rushed back in, grabbed a broom and ran back out, wielding it as a weapon.

…She immediately turned her attention to the crowd of young onlookers, many of whom were recording the attack on their phones.

“That was really pissing me off,” she said, adding that she exchanged profanities with them.

“One of them was trying to get on top of me. I just throw the broom, and said ‘You want to fight? Let’s do it.’”

…Jewish community members have been observing safety precautions after a spate of incidents, including an assault against a Hasidic man in Brooklyn. In Forest Hills, Meirov said they’ve been warned to always walk in pairs.

The fact that the victim in Forest Hills was visibly Jewish, said Meirov, has led many in the community to question the NYPD’s initial response. The community and local elected officials met with police officials on Monday. Another community forum is scheduled for Thursday evening.

Update: (…) At Thursday’s community forum, the NYPD stressed that the investigation is ongoing. They are trying to obtain as much street camera video as they can. They also noted that there were conflicting accounts as to whether the victim was in fact dressed in Orthodox clothing and raised the possibility that this was a case of mistaken identity.

Mastodon “allows” pedophiles in the same way that email “allows” identity theft scams. No, “email” doesn’t put a stop to identity theft, but “email” is just a set of protocols for sending messages - it’d be absurd to expect it to

Most Mastodon instances (including mastodon.social, the largest and oldest) do more to keep pedophiles off their platform than tumblr ever has, by having strict rules against it, banning any instances that don’t have strict rules against it, and actively moderating to enforce those rules. At that point it’s as if the pedophiles are on a different website entirely - because they literally are on a different domain

As someone who actually uses it, I can confirm that I’ve never had or even heard of a run-in with pedophiles. Admins know the instances that allow it and quickly block and spread the word about any new ones that pop up. Again, it’s been more of an issue for me on tumblr than it’s ever been on masto

and comparing it to email wasnt saying “WHY ARNT YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS INSTEAD??”, its saying mastodon, like email, is fundamentally different from a typical social network, and much like we can expect a toaster to function as a microwave, we cant expect either email or mastodon to function like a typical social network. another comparison would be: