president xi please liberate us, we desire your xiaomi flagship phones

Waifu skins? NO! Husbando Hats.

Get in the woodchipper, old man.

This is not a decision you should be making in the middle of a panic attack. Emigrating demands extensive planning and carefully selecting a destination, particularly as a transgender person. I often have to tell young trans people this, and it’s relevant here: There are no good places for trans people, only bad places and worse places.

It should be kept in mind that nobody has to do a lot of deep checking to find out you’re trans and decide they don’t like you because of that. A lot of times they can just look at your face and see it, and if not, your ID may not match what they see. And then you have to try to find a job there, because even if you’re moving somewhere that your dollars have relatively strong buying power, you aren’t going to live on that for more than a year at best. Hard enough to get a job as a trans person as a born citizen who speaks the language, I wouldn’t like my chances trying to get one as a foreigner speaking a second language.

Reality check: nothing you put there has any effect, and you shouldn’t lie to yourself about that. Any choice you make beyond refusing to vote for either of the candidates giving full-throated support for genocide is entirely for your own self-gratification and nothing more. It won’t change anyone’s mind, it won’t build a party, it won’t make one iota of material difference in the world.

Nujabes didn’t deserve to have his art diluted like this.

Four weeks. Four weeks until it all happens again. Four weeks. How are we coping?

Good news then, it’s worse in the imperial core every day.

May they all experience gynecomastia.

It’s a high dysphoria week and I gotta vent about it.

This is neither new information, nor something overlooked in the design of the software. Thats the point of end to end encryption and open source code: they can only give the data that they have access to, which is the sender, receiver, and timestamps, but we know they cannot decrypt messages in the middle, because it would show in the security implementation in the source code. This model prevents the carrier from knowing the contents of any messages they carry. Therefore, you have to attack one of the end point devices to get the contents, and all the warrants and secret letters in the world can’t compell then to give up the content of your messages, because they do not have the means to do so.

There are legitimate problems with the security model, like its use of phone numbers as account identifiers, that render it a poor choice for doing Certain Things, but that alone does not prove it was designed as a honeypot, or that it has been secretly compromised in some way that can’t be seen in the source code.

There have been rumors for years but as far as I know nobody has been able to substantiate the claim. The organization that eventually produced Signal, Open Whisper Networks, received some seed funding from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (today known as the US Agency for Global Media), from which has been spun some CIA fronts like Radio Free Asia. However, this is also true of Tor, and many other non-profit private communications projects during this time, and does not itself prove any technical subversion has taken place. The source code for both the server and client are open source, and have been subject to frequent scrutiny, including full independent audits and penetration testing. No backdoor has ever been shown to exist in the code itself. Beyond that, people mostly gesture towards Moxie Marlinspike’s radlib posturing and bad hair and invite people to Draw Their Own Conclusions.

It is the 90s again for Apple.

Ah, sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

There appears to be more evidence every day to support this hypothesis. And I’ve seen it before, so many times. A lot of repressed US transfems go into the military in the hopes it will “fix” then, make them proper men. It’s deeply traumatic for most I’ve spoken to.

Even as we honor Bushnell’s commitment, I want to remind anyone who reads this that a long life of organized anticapitalist action does far damage to the imperial state than a single act of self-annihilation. Stay with us. Play the long game.

I left one of those sumo mandarins in my fridge for two weeks and I just ate it and it was so sweet. I feel like it healed me.

You get used to them. My top tip, tap around the area you’re injecting for a spot with fewer nerve endings. You’ll feel it less, or if you’re lucky, not at all.

Protip: only wear black, everything will always match.