gnomicutterance

My vibe is that the Guardian UK still thinks it's a left wing feminist stance to be transphobic ^1^, and unrelatedly, the Collins articles keep getting printed because everyone involved

the Collinses, their PR people, the Guardian -- know perfectly well what ragebait is. A click is a click.

1: Somehow. What the hell is in the water in the UK? ^2^

2: Cryptosporidium

I'm not sure they have theory of mind, TBH.

Honestly any day the Guardian isn't publishing transphobia wearing a feminism mask is a good day for them.

My Windows machines have all been skinned to work like XP for 20 years, and sometimes I have to use other people's computers and I don't even understand how they get anything done. My start menu is predictable and the items in it are in the same place and with the same keystrokes every day. There's no ads in it. It doesn't tell me the weather or the sports scores when I don't ask for them. My taskbar shows me the names of all the windows I have open. This should all be normal.

The whole debacle astounds me. Is there a more universally privileged application users frequently use than the shell? As a general rule it can elevate privs to full control far more aggressively than any other commonly used application, with minimal sandboxing at most.

I got no Spotify, and I buy a lot off bandcamp.

• Nate Borofsky, formerly of Girlyman, made a soundtrack for a community theater production of Romeo & Juliet
• Mint Green
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Kimya Dawson
• John Prine
• Rhiannon Giddens
• Maria Ka, a Polish, non Jewish singer who performs mostly in Yiddish.
• “Fuck the Tories”. Happy fourth of July.
• “FTP in der gasn”, a Yiddish and English arrangement of a nineteenth century song that got there before N.W.A.
• Amber Rubarth and Paper Raincoat (YT link)

I asked a RH friend about this and they told me that they just had a breathless all hands about it.

As someone who did come to love a lot of microsoft products despite the way I felt about them in the 90’s, their slow slide into whatever they are now makes me hate them more, not less. Microsoft genuinely spent a lot of the oughts making genuinely good general purpose stuff, and they absolutely dominated at accessibility for 20 years. So when people simp for them as they destroy everything I found great about their products, instead of holding them to account, it’s awful.

Guess who bought the dictation software I rely on for everything I do and then basically abandoned the useful consumer product and is now sticking gippity-4 into it? Stick it in GitHub, stick it in Windows, add it to your complete breakfast, wear it on your head.

I love how the journalist just reprints their reskinned Great Replacement theory at face value.

And importing people from Africa to support a mostly non-working white population – because you didn’t put in labour to support non-working white people – has really horrible optics.

Ah, so the reason you’re concerned about falling white birth rates and don’t want immigration is because it’s racist to allow “people from Africa” to immigrate to your country. Got it.

I appreciate that the journalist was shocked by the bad parenting but I’d have appreciated a little more fact checking on the naked racist conspiracies.

This is part of a whole thing where the journalist keeps presenting their framing without question. Is it “allow their neighbours to live in the second house rent free, in exchange for childcare” or is it “they have unpaid live-in nannies in a staff apartment”? Do they “give everything they can spare to charity” or are they landlords who own property they don’t live in? Is she wearing a corset and chemise from etsy because it’s practical, or because these weirdos have put on staged cosplay performances for every journalist who’s ever interviewed them, and you’re no exception?