You know, having seen enough of Claude’s output, I am starting to sympathise with Linus.

Imagine spending your days sifting through an endless stream of questionable patches. We are all Linus now.

I doubt even Judge Dredd would have shot this child for just sitting there.

“No, I am not menstruating.” “No, I have never been pregnant.” I tell them I’m a trans woman. “No, they did not implant a uterus in me.” “Yes, I’m sure. 😅”

I’ve also made a mental note to not pee before doctor’s visits, in case they want me to pee for them.

Going to the doctor hits different now.

Interesting, seeing as they have serial numbers, and I assume Valve keeps track of who was actually supposed to get it.

Look, there is currently a campaign of hatred towards trans and intersex people from politicians in many places, especially in the US and the UK. They are making it so you can’t update your gender marker. They require it to match your birth certificate, and make it impossible to update your birth certificate too. So it will say whatever was recorded back then. Which does not at all help when you’re talking about a missing person. Nobody who sees me would think I was a man, yet that is what my papers used to say.

So since it does not get updated, it’s just as useless as legally recording your eye color, your hair color, your weight, or your height. It all changes over your life. Imagine we issued missing persons reports based on your weight recorded at birth. That is what is happening with the gender marker.

The gender marker is primarily used for legal discrimination, historically and today. Did you know that there is an airline in the Middle East that only lets men have laptop bags for their carry-on? If you’re a woman you may have a handbag, and they will not let you on if you have a laptop bag instead.

Discrimination is at least what it was introduced for initially in my country. It was to do with women not having the same rights around inheritance, so they needed to record it in order to treat women worse.

Me whenever I have to build something in the real world.

Tim Curry as Poet Man. Fun show.

Reminds me of my dad’s approach to parenting… better bury your emotions or he would overwhelm you with some bullshit like this.

Hypocrite.