Pretty Sure I’m a Jedi

Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great!

How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You say: I wear the badge because trans rights matter.

You follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this.

Blame the business for allowing the behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify trans-inclusive policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

Non-affiliated badge link:

https://rainbowandco.uk/collections/trans-pride/products/transgender-pride-flag-badge

Dave Lebow (brn 1955) 

Josef Breitenbach (1896–1984)

They're finally making robot vacuums/sweepers that don't connect to the Internet and why did it take this long?

I paid extra to get a fridge without Internet. Wtf.

My printer tried to lock out the generic ink. I don't remember how I fixed that but Jesus Christ, stop that. My goddamn CPAP has a cell modem. I suspect if I disabled it in the first year the insurance company would have repossessed it.

I've lived in my house for 19 years. I think we're on our fourth fridge because There Are No Good Appliances Left. The ice maker quit working two years ago. We didn't get it fixed. The countertop version we got lasted less than a year. I replaced it with a bunch cheaper model because if the "name brand" failed that fast I might as well go cheaper, fuck.

Every time Windows updates I have to lobotomize whatever new ai has been stuffed into it and fix the taskbar. I terminate customized advertising tracking with prejudice. I dumped chrome and am thisclose to switching to Linux, and I have been in the Microsoft ecosystem since DOS days. I haven't voluntarily used Word in 20+years. The version we have at home is older than that, on my husband's old work pc, because he looked at the subscription model and said fuck no, I already own one. I used Adobe CS2 for a ridiculously long time because upgrading from a program that perfectly cromulantly produced scads of magazines and books for me seemed ridiculous.

My phone tries to install bloat every time it updates. Sometimes it succeeds, but it's at least more usable than the one Samsung I bought... That was garbage.

And now they're trying to make building computers at home unobtainable, thinking everyone will outsource their brains to ai agents on their phones. Revolting. How has my computer appreciated in price of components in 3 years? Nonsense.

The amount of work I have to do to just get basic functionality. I should not have to argue with my air purifier about it connecting to the Internet. It shouldn't be worried about the Internet at all. No, you don't get network access. You're an air purifier.

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