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Drífa the Snynx

@drifa.bsky.social

Just another cat on the internet. I chew wires, fix things, and spend way too much time thinking about computers, airplanes, old cars, and safety. No, I’m not from Iceland, I just love the name.

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Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · 2h ago

I think this is correct and a big part of what’s going on here, but there’s something else worth mentioning. A lot of prior tech hypes were about getting into the big new thing before others. This smells of far more … desperation. More like “this better work big time or we’re utterly %^£€ed.”

Betty - play 🌌AstraX🌌 please@neutronio.games · 22h ago

The thing with AI is much like when Radium☢️ was discovered in 1898. It was used in paint, glass, advertised as healthy, without care or knowledge of the actual costs it came with. Historically, capitalists jumped into trends to sell a fancy new technology thing that just happen to kill you

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4h ago

The Pentagon is purging all trans people in the military. They're going after those who didn't even transition by searching through medical records to find any evidence someone had gender dysphoria. They're purging those who detransitioned to save their jobs. federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main...

Pentagon searching medical records to identify transgender troops | Federal News Network

Military officials are using medical and personnel data to uncover troops with current or past gender dysphoria as the Pentagon moves ahead with separations.

federalnewsnetwork.com

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 19h ago

“It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender” Today is exactly 5 years since @theguardian.com censored the words of non-binary academic, Judith Butler. These are the censored words. Still valid now.

It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender, but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves. The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement. The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people. The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life. Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.
Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · last wk.

For reasons I do not understand, I have started rewatching the first anime I saw all the way through: Gundam Wing. I’ve been posting reactions to Mastodon, but if someone *really* wants to see em here…

Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · last wk.

Something something night of the long knives. History might not repeat but it sure does rhyme sometimes.

vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · last wk.

Milo is a great object lesson in there being literally nothing you can do to appease fascists if you belong to any kind of outgroup. guy literally kicked off the fascist gamer movement that put a lot of this stuff into motion and now he's detained by the fascist goon squad for being a gay foreigner

Abigail Thorn@theabigailthorn.bsky.social · last wk.

NHS cancelling surgeries for adults even after they’ve already paid for travel + accommodation and waited years to get there. Some were about to be wheeled into theatre! Every manager responsible for this decision must be sacked and every patient paid compensation.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last wk.

🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...

Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some aging grifter wannabe fascist thinks the thing that’ll really convince another country to send even more plunder to the country he despoils with his presence is to order government agencies to use a different name for a lake. What a pathetic sack of shit.

Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · 2w ago

As someone who avoids McDonald’s, I see the interior of one once or twice per decade, which makes the changes over time jump out. They used to look like they were designed and run by maniacal clowns. The one near me had a wooden biplane in it. Now they all look like they were designed by vogons.

Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · 2w ago

The theatre in my head has the Invisible Pink Unicorn calling Death to carpet, holding out a bunch of newspaper photographs of famous people in each hand and saying “take these, not these.” You can guess which pictures are in which hand.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

Police request public's help to find suspect who picked up $30 off ground in Walmart

A police department took to social media and asked the public to help them identify a suspect who found $30 on the ground in Walmart.

local12.com

Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump wants to build an ill-considered, unapproved ballroom. On the one hand, he’s a disaster as a property developer. On the other, he’s even worse at fighting illegal, immoral, unwise wars and making deals with foreign nations.

Drífa the Snynx@drifa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please-don’t-sue-us-or-regulate-us TV language is crazy-making. What does it mean for food to “support runny poop”? Can you cook it into the shape of a bowl or litter tray or something?!? Do you actually want runny poop??? Enquiring minds *don’t* want to know, just go away, please.