• People are weird, people are complex, black and white models fall over. Good people do bad things, bad people do good things, there is no reason to think that hackers who make cool systems aren’t also rapists, or jerks or anything else.
• You know, I got into a fight about this over at a health science blog, because I suggested their their might be ( Read more... )

I just submitted a math honors thesis, big fucking deal right ( Read more... )

( Rape triggers like whoa )

This is a cool project to map gender neutral and accessible toilets in Melbourne, know any toilets which don't assume you are able bodied, and pass as one cis gender consistently? Help by adding them to the map with this handy dandy form.

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absence of comment does not equal consent. EXPLICITLY consenting. There’s no room for assuming “she doesn’t mind” at all. Unless she’s made it very clear that she wants to have sex with a particular person, that person should not be engaging in any of that conduct with her at all.

From a strictly legal point of view (I.e. ( Read more... )

This hit me, this hit me hard.

Read it, Short version, for the lazy slackers down the back, women gets diagnosed with Asperger in her 40's, talks about why she didn't get diagnosed at age 5, so I am nodding my head and going along, reading it, I send it to a couple of friends of mine, one who I believe is NT discusses it with me. I talked about ( Read more... )

I have no interest in supporting the rights of those who seem to want to do that. I don't know what more to say that hasn't been said better by others, the police are not my friends, they are not the friends of those queers who are far more visible than me, and also of colour ( Read more... )

I would like to add ( Read more... )

Fuck you, no really fuck you. I have a double fucking joy paranoia and that as someone who looks female in a public space, I am there for public fucking consumption apparently ( Read more... )

Convicted rapist wants state to pay medical costs while incarcerated.


Well yes, we do in fact do that, or at least we should, the prison system not being an example of supportive community services. Anything else would be cruel punishment.

Quoting Ceder because zie is one of those people who makes me go, fuck yes a whole lot of the time.

I think the ( Read more... )