France’s EU minister names her cat 'Brexit' because ‘he meows loudly to be let out but just stands there when I open the door’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brexit-france-theresa-may-deal-nathalie-loiseau-cat-a8828026.html

ace ace baby

watched all of the new season of Queer Eye and wanted more so rewatched Skyler's episode from season two and noticed he wears a black ring on his middle finger... so he's ace too?

if so I wish that would have been brought up in the episode as there's even less ace representation than trans representation (we need more of both)

but I guess some allo/cis heads might have exploded being exposed to too many new concepts at once

@zenhob but targeted ads on every other platform are always completely off base

probably because of all the privacy extensions I use, which aren't applicable on Instagram, I guess

@zenhob I hate that I kept seeing them in an Instagram ad and finally caved

Instagram is the only ad platform that gets me at all but it gets me so much

ordered my first pair of men's fancy shoes!

despite not yet having any other men's dress clothes

and wanting to wait until I've been on T for a while before getting a proper suit fitting

but PURPLE SHOES

https://www.soxy.com/collections/soxy-bold-shoes/products/dark-grey-purple-suede-brogues

any trans masc people out there on the hunt for men's jeans that fit well around hips- check out mugsy jeans!

they stretch SO MUCH without even looking like it, and are amazingly comfortable.

cat woke me up chasing around one of the hooks I had been using to hold up Xmas lights

charged out of bed, and he had chewed threw some of the wires

after pulling out a soldering iron and attempting to cut and repair the string (which worked up to a point, when LEDs began shorting out up the string), and spending over an hour trying to reorder the remaining lights to take up the slack, I'm giving these up for a loss

finally watched Captain Marvel and despite it being hyped to all hell it ended up being better than I thought it would be?!?!

how is that even possible

probably the second best Marvel movie, after Thor Ragnarok

the binary gender system is white supremacy and colonialism that is all

imho, white people need to prepare themselves for the reality that these folks are not gonna go away peacefully

and while you might not be ready to fight them now

that's not gonna stop them from killing *you* at any time to achieve what they want

moderates need to move out of the way
people are dying

My new favorite fan theory is Kindergarten Cop takes place in Silent Hill

came home, went to have a piss, lifted the toilet seat only to have the cat immediately throw himself ass over teakettle into the toilet

at a show and as part of the pre-show an actor came by with a tarot deck and had me draw a card

I drew the... title card? the card with like deck and copyright info?

I showed it to the actor and she cackled and offered me a new card

but I was all like, no, I think this is really the one for me

and she took it and put it back in the deck

I miss the days when science fiction was still a genre and not a reality.

And the award for the cover of the week goes to … Bloomberg!

Friendly reminder that youtube continues to demonetize LGBT, Pro-Black, Pro-Palestinian channels, but still joyfully partners with PewdiePie

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i forget who, but someone here made a toot pointing out that when the far right makes claims about a "violent, out-of-control, authoritarian left", they are building a false pretext for more violence

this is pretty clear in yesterday's threats from trump: "the left is violent, but imagine if my supporters in the police and military and biker gangs got violent." it's laughable in part because they already are, but it's also a pretext for even worse.

@kaniini Day ONE

A hacker comes into a restaurant and discovers that the salt shaker on the table can be unscrewed and one can pour anything into it. The hacker goes home and writes an angry letter to the manager of the restaurant: "I, meG@Duc, found a vulnerability in the salt shakers at your restaurant. An attacker can open them and pour poison inside! Take action immediately!"

Day TWO
The manager, among other business letters, requests for food deliveries and courier receipts finds the notification letter and shrugs: "Who could even come up with this nonsense?"

Day FIVE
The hacker comes into the restaurant and pours poison in all the salt shakers. Three hundred people die, the manager is dragged three months in courts to prove the absense of a crime. The Hacker writes a letter in the style of "Well, I told you!".

Day 96
The manager orders his staff to buy specially designed salt shakers with a combination lock. Visitors of the restaurant feel like they are missing something very important in the meaning of life.

Day 97
The Hacker discovers that the holes in the salt shakers pass salt in both directions. And not only salt, anything! He writes an angry letter to the manager after pissing in all the salt shakers. Three hundred people stop visiting the restaurant forever, thirty get admitted to the hospital with food poisoning. The hacker sends an SMS to the restaurant manager: "How are you doing?". The manager is dragged through courts for three months and is released on probation.

Day 188
The manager vows to no longer work in any kind of food establishment, and to peacefully cut timber in Siberia. Engineers are working on a new one-way valve for a salt shaker. Waitresses in the meantime withdraw all the old salt shakers and distribute the salt by hand.

Day 190
The Hacker steals a salt shaker from the restaurant and carefully studies the device at home. He writes an angry letter to the manager: "I, meG@Duc, stole the salt shaker and I find this fact outrageous! Anyone can steal your salt shakers!" The previously fully sober manager goes home and drinks a bottle of vodka.

Day 193
The Hacker discovers that all the salt shakers in the restaurant are chained and nailed to the table. He arrives at a hacker conference and reports on his progress, getting a well-deserved reward for the protection of the interests of society and consumers. Fortunately, the manager never hears anything about it and will not die of alcohol poisoning, for now.

Day 194
As part of a diabolical, genius elaborate operation, BLACKHAT hackers break into the restaurant and pour all the salt from the salt shakers in their pockets. The Hacker meG@Duc writes an indignant letter to the manager, alluding to the fact that there is no concern for the visitors in the restaurant as any criminal can deprive honest people from salt in an instant. A salt dispenser with a one-time authorization is just necessary!

Engineers work in sweat on a new salt shaker, while waitresses hand out salt manually, again. The manager goes on vacation to the
Seychelles and has dinner only in his room, avoiding any canteens, restaurants and bars.

Day 200
Visitors of the restaurant find in horror that in order to pour salt, they must go to the waitress, show their passport and get a special 8-digit one-time code to the shaker. For pepper they should repeat the procedure.

https://snouts.online/media/fReKCzqAeGyTCVWp9bo

@polymerwitch I can't find this thread. what's the slur?

the feeling on /r/sysadmin regarding facebook being down was different from what usually happens

TIL: Rather than inciting people to anger or violence, research has found that loud and chaotic music such as metal and punk is ‘a healthy way of processing anger’ http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/listening-heavy-metal-punk-extreme-music-makes-you-calmer-not-angrier-study

werewolves are just fursonas with a magical girl transformation sequence.

Lyft closed my two (!) leftover defcon Lyft accounts so at least there's that

lesson learned: move my real Lyft account to my travel phone number, then back again after defcon

I guess

if a crime is punishable by a fine, that means its legal for rich people

UBI without rent control / massive subsidized housing programs should be called Universal Landlord Income

The gender-industrial complex

feeling like a pile of useless slop at the gym as I fail to hit depth on a 165lb squat after a whole damn month off

nevermind the bronchitis, top surgery revision, and IUD replacement that happened during that month

doesn't matter how incorrect and silly feeling worthless right now is, I still feel it

Buying and drinking bottled water when you have access to safe tap water is rich white people bullshit that enables the fucking monstrous corporations that are privatizing previously public water supplies in poorer places.

Fucking get over yourself and just drink normal water if it doesn't have fucking heavy metals in it

anyway, I contacted Lyft to ask if they could at least make sure that I'm not paying for that new phone number's person's rides

but I expect I'll have a bad time

reminded of how shit the Lyft account structure is because I got an email asking if I changed my phone number...

for the "temp" Lyft account I created on my travel phone for last year's defcon

guess that phone number got reallocated, and that the new owner wants to use Lyft!

sucks to be both of us, I guess

@minego this can happen sometimes if your hair has been damaged from repeated bleaching

semi-permanent is basically paint that sits on top of hair. this is more tolerant vs hair damage

permanent actually involves a chemical process and depends on the structural integrity of the hair being in good shape

White folks are the ONLY ones that stand to benefit from the “Russians stole our election” take. Because it transforms 45’s win into an anomaly & not a predictable conclusion of generations of a political status quo that excluded Black/Brown/LGBT/Disabled/Poor communities. It also makes their own family members out to be impressionable pawns brainwashed by conniving foreigners and not the actual bigots they always were. On top of all that its not a historically original narrative👇🏽

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