With the yen and dollar both projected to devalue, I really wonder why SoftBank keep tossing money at ai things. They keep inflating the bubble further. The pop is gonna be nasty.

The two classes were an undergrad class on anthropology and a post grad course on dance as it related to queer history in new york. I was fortunate to take cool classes in uni.

I got to watch it for two classes.
I think I remember there being follow up articles on the people interviewed, but as was the case for much of the period, lots of depressing things of people not making it. So it was even more important since it recorded people no longer around.

the credits scene "i'm a quiet person...... and if you believe that, i also own that island over there" made me laugh so damn hard. a real pleasure watching this one. can't wait to get back to nolan's grey fascist slop tomorrow.

love it when cis people defy gender stereotypes by making me giggle

as with all slurs i think art can use them if they want
but the consequences are on the artist if they want to take that gamble

high risk, possibly high reward

Both? Both is good.

I just made my "There are 14 trans women and we all know each other," joke
and my best friend, @hongmiyo.bsky.social throws out this at me.
I just
I'm dead.
I'm dead now.

I saw someone having a "debate me bro" style debate around "we must vote Gavin Newsom because he stands up to Trump" after Newsom pulled more anti-trans bullshit.
this guy would immediately respond with holier then thou stuff to almost everyone telling him to shut up. This was my reply.
Silence.

i think my favourite part about being a trans woman is how much of an impact we have on culture. a friend reminded me today about a popular meme format she created. another friend today casually told me about how she was the most notorious roblox hacker when she was a child.

just a day in the life!

on the FLIP side the worst part about being a trans woman is that i can't ever look at porn without going "oh that's my mutual" "oh i have her blocked" "oh she's really annoying" every five minutes. you bitches ruined my favourite fetish category

please do not use the "infl**ncer" slur towards me thank you only people above 50k followers can reclaim it

Even when not in that situation, if someone lives on the edge of a district you can get cases where two incumbents end up against each other because the district moved around them.
I can see why national senators only need to be in-state because of small states like Hawaii or Rhode island.

I think it's more of a federalism thing. Single-member districts weren't strictly required by federal law until much later, but the original Constitution did require members to be residents of their respective states. And from there you get other countries either more influenced by the US or the UK.

Even in the United States, you still don't have to live in the district to be elected to Congress, only in the same state.

In the 13th century it was literally freeman suffrage.
In the 15th Henry VI's regents went "um, all these poor people keep voting, we should do something about this"
(Not /quite/ a direct quote, but close)

It was originally pretty democratic for the 13th century!

Because voting rights were on burgage tenancy, not actual residency. So there were designated lots that had voting rights attached to them, and the owner handed those out to a few cronies. Also it wasn't a secret ballot.

You could vote in multiple constituencies that way, and some people did.

When they stopped letting Old Sarum send two men to parliament is one of the conventional markers for when Britain became a real democracy

(It wasn't just that, of course, it was part of a bigger electoral reform happening at that time)

It was the most notorious of the rotten boroughs.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_...

Despite having been uninhabited for centuries, Old Sarum continued to elect two members of Parliament until 1832.

Having a fun work situation because a blind user who needs the right control key for screen reader software can no longer get one on new laptops because of the copilot key, and unlike almost every other kb key, that key can’t be remapped because it sends Windows+Shift+F23 so it’s not one button.

Isn't it interesting, the evolution of the tech vendor. They used to want all your money. Now the money doesn't matter, the only thing they want you to do is strap this little box to yourself, no charge, just please take the box and if the purple light is ever unlit, press the button until it goes

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