Let us begin with Johns Hopkins University is looking for persons to describe their experiences with COVID-19. Whether you've not had it at all or you've had it a few times, they are looking for your input.
Another very recent item that is getting a lot of play: Jurors in New York State returned a guilty verdict for 34 of the 34 counts charged of falsifying business records in service of covering up another crime. In this case, the crime alleged is election fraud, as the payments were made so as to catch and kill a story that (theoretically) would have been damaging to his reputation and his electability as a candidate. The convicted felon proclaimed the prosecution was politically motivated, that he had not done any crime, and also sent fundraising letters proclaiming such so as to try and fund his Presidential campaign. Sentencing is scheduled for July 11, after which the convicted felon may begin the appeals process. There are still several other state and federal crimes and trials that should be underway or will hopefully start getting underway shortly, but none of them are likely to conclude before the election in November.
The reality of living with ME/CFS, from Elana Hashman, whose name you ma recognize from other places, especially if you're in the Open Source Software world. There's not usually a lot of resources devoted to long-term conditions such as ME, and as more people join the post-exertional malaise club, we can hope they'll put more resources into it, but for the moment, there seems to be the belief that things aren't actually common enough (they are) to need devoted resources.
GLAAD has released their Social Media Safety Index for 2024, looking at major social media platforms, and unsurprisingly, all of them but Tiktok got a failing grade. Tiktok got a D+. The index takes into account how poorly anti-queer hate is moderated, how much queer positivity gets over-moderated, and other factors into creating a final grade, and those grades mostly look at whether or not a policy exists and a little about whether or not they're effectively implemented and enforced correctly.
An overview of the increasing amount of scapegoating of the queer population worldwide, including the United States, and the ways that this scapegoating is deliberately being used to advance authoritarian goals. It's certainly not a coincidence that so many of the people who claim to be for protecting children and letting parents make decisions are also the kinds of people who will welcome the return of government by strongman, because those strongmen and their stooges (and their plants in the judiciary) will suddenly snap to efficiency and "getting things done" once they don't have to worry about things like an opposition or a democracy or any meaningful way of having the political process stop them from doing the things they definitely want to do to everyone who isn't a straight, white, appropriately Christian man.
The University of South Dakota has threatened that any public university employee who lists their pronouns or their Native affiliations in their e-mail signature blocks (and presumably anywhere else) is to be suspended or fired. The University claims they need to ban such things because pronouns and tribal affiliations are incompatible with their branding requirements, making it sound like someone's identity and affiliations are inconveniences for marketing and thus can be controlled so as to present uniformity. Given the current Governor is someone who feels that it is a good anecdote to include in her writing that she shot a dog because she didn't want to train it, fabricated encounters that did not happen between herself and other world leaders, and very clearly wants to erase both the idea that there might be people who exist outside the gender binary and that there are multiple Native nations in her state, this gets filed in the "novel approaches to erasure" folder. We can only wait and see how many other entities decide their style guide is more important than someone's full self.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for both those responsible for the 7 October attack in Israel on civilians and those responsible for the disproportionate response from Israel that followed that attack. Who is brought to the jurisdiction of said court will depend, of course, on who "wins" the current war, as I somehow doubt that anyone will willingly appear before the ICC on the charges of crimes against humanity.
( There's still even more under the cut. )
Last for tonight, Queer Dying, a workbook for making sure that when Death catches up with you, you will be remembered and celebrated in the way that you want to be.
And the increasing proliferation of pages with short slugs after the original slash, so that you now can have not just /about, /info, and /contact but also /nope, /carry, and /til.
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Another very recent item that is getting a lot of play: Jurors in New York State returned a guilty verdict for 34 of the 34 counts charged of falsifying business records in service of covering up another crime. In this case, the crime alleged is election fraud, as the payments were made so as to catch and kill a story that (theoretically) would have been damaging to his reputation and his electability as a candidate. The convicted felon proclaimed the prosecution was politically motivated, that he had not done any crime, and also sent fundraising letters proclaiming such so as to try and fund his Presidential campaign. Sentencing is scheduled for July 11, after which the convicted felon may begin the appeals process. There are still several other state and federal crimes and trials that should be underway or will hopefully start getting underway shortly, but none of them are likely to conclude before the election in November.
The reality of living with ME/CFS, from Elana Hashman, whose name you ma recognize from other places, especially if you're in the Open Source Software world. There's not usually a lot of resources devoted to long-term conditions such as ME, and as more people join the post-exertional malaise club, we can hope they'll put more resources into it, but for the moment, there seems to be the belief that things aren't actually common enough (they are) to need devoted resources.
GLAAD has released their Social Media Safety Index for 2024, looking at major social media platforms, and unsurprisingly, all of them but Tiktok got a failing grade. Tiktok got a D+. The index takes into account how poorly anti-queer hate is moderated, how much queer positivity gets over-moderated, and other factors into creating a final grade, and those grades mostly look at whether or not a policy exists and a little about whether or not they're effectively implemented and enforced correctly.
An overview of the increasing amount of scapegoating of the queer population worldwide, including the United States, and the ways that this scapegoating is deliberately being used to advance authoritarian goals. It's certainly not a coincidence that so many of the people who claim to be for protecting children and letting parents make decisions are also the kinds of people who will welcome the return of government by strongman, because those strongmen and their stooges (and their plants in the judiciary) will suddenly snap to efficiency and "getting things done" once they don't have to worry about things like an opposition or a democracy or any meaningful way of having the political process stop them from doing the things they definitely want to do to everyone who isn't a straight, white, appropriately Christian man.
The University of South Dakota has threatened that any public university employee who lists their pronouns or their Native affiliations in their e-mail signature blocks (and presumably anywhere else) is to be suspended or fired. The University claims they need to ban such things because pronouns and tribal affiliations are incompatible with their branding requirements, making it sound like someone's identity and affiliations are inconveniences for marketing and thus can be controlled so as to present uniformity. Given the current Governor is someone who feels that it is a good anecdote to include in her writing that she shot a dog because she didn't want to train it, fabricated encounters that did not happen between herself and other world leaders, and very clearly wants to erase both the idea that there might be people who exist outside the gender binary and that there are multiple Native nations in her state, this gets filed in the "novel approaches to erasure" folder. We can only wait and see how many other entities decide their style guide is more important than someone's full self.
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for both those responsible for the 7 October attack in Israel on civilians and those responsible for the disproportionate response from Israel that followed that attack. Who is brought to the jurisdiction of said court will depend, of course, on who "wins" the current war, as I somehow doubt that anyone will willingly appear before the ICC on the charges of crimes against humanity.
( There's still even more under the cut. )
Last for tonight, Queer Dying, a workbook for making sure that when Death catches up with you, you will be remembered and celebrated in the way that you want to be.
And the increasing proliferation of pages with short slugs after the original slash, so that you now can have not just /about, /info, and /contact but also /nope, /carry, and /til.
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