Oh yeah I fully agree, it throws multiple peoples under the bus. The thing is, trying to argue about biology with them is almost pointless because the proponents of this anti-trans rhetoric don’t actually care about what they call “biological facts”. The fact that they have based a legal ruling on a premise that is widely understood to be mistaken shows this.

They just want to punch down and punish the people whose mere existence challenges their preconceptions.

So much about this judement is so distressingly wrong.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men.

Thou fucking killed it.

Yes.

1. F-Droid signs all builds with its own keys, so you can’t readily verify if an app supplied by F-Droid is the same as on other app stores.

2. F-Droid allows a lower target SDK: this is good for users running very old versions of Android, but bad for people who download an app that hasn’t been updated in years and has multiple security vulnerabilities.

3. Slow/irregular updates: often it can takes days, weeks or sometimes months for an app update to be available via F-Droid (at least from their official repo). This can have real consequences if you’re waiting for an update for a critical security issue.

Here’s an example of someone leveraging a supply chain attack against an F-Droid build of an app.

F-Droid is a great project for providing an alternative source of apps to app stores run by companies, and I admire their goals, but from a security standpoint I wouldn’t recommend using it unless you have no other source for an app you need.

Yeah I feel exactly the same about Cool World. I’m not familiar with some of the bands on your list so I’m going to check them out.

Also, I’m seeing Thou on Tuesday and I am so fucking excited.

I’ve got some crossover with yours:

Perishing - Lutum I’m surprised this is first, but it’s a solid death metal EP. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/lutum-ep/1725319668 Bandcamp: https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/lutum Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7KBCO9Z2H3AAdkZtWKk5NX

Pallbearer - Mind Burns Alive Probably my favourite album this year. Doom metal. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/mind-burns-alive/1733291253 Bandcamp: https://pallbearer.bandcamp.com/album/mind-burns-alive Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5ppoXtj1diskTKxHyuChWI

Glassing - From the Other Side of the Mirror Love this album, it’s so varied. Post metal/doomgaze. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/from-the-other-side-of-the-mirror/1726433759 Bandcamp: https://glassing.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-other-side-of-the-mirror-2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0yPlGyhFbGXaj6uDwGfqli

Thou - Umbilical Crushing sludge metal. It’s filthy. Apple Music: https://open.spotify.com/album/0yPlGyhFbGXaj6uDwGfqli Bandcamp: https://thou.bandcamp.com/album/umbilical Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1WILkP95BuckkTIm4OIQRm

Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition I was in two minds about this album, but ultimately it’s a fun death metal release. Produced by my boy Kurt Ballou from Converge. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/dark-superstition/1730545041 Bandcamp: https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/album/dark-superstition Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7BhpoTy951vKzT7xeQJg9e

Iress - Sleep Now, In Reverse Beautiful, melodic doomgaze. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sleep-now-in-reverse/1737997346 Bandcamp: https://weareiress.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-now-in-reverse Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7dgD2RpoUq9WkmAQMzFyQQ

Dry Socket - Sorry For Your Loss PNW hardcore punk. Unapologetic. Apple Music: https://open.spotify.com/album/7dgD2RpoUq9WkmAQMzFyQQ Bandcamp: https://drysocketpdx.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-for-your-loss Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0eoqR7hpgBcltVCdJmg8iy

Lowen - Do Not Go to War With the Demons of Mazandaran Doom metal inspired by Persian music and mythology. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/do-not-go-to-war-with-the-demons-of-mazandaran/1743831255 Bandcamp: https://lowen.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-go-to-war-with-the-demons-of-mazandaran-2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/79tvicAFSw9tUc3qbxLf5P

Outlander - Acts of Harm Fantastic alt/shoegaze album. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/acts-of-harm/1739437993 Bandcamp: https://outlandertheband.bandcamp.com/album/acts-of-harm Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/70RPahrgTxFidKOuMI4QBC

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World They snuck this album out and it’s fucking great. Classic morose Cure. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/songs-of-a-lost-world/1768728131 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4wjxmqXnSQvBZWL3IbYngX

Didn’t quite make it but I love it too:

Chat Pile - Cool World This is a great album, I just ended up listening to the others more. Noise rock/sludge metal, similar to early Swans. Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cool-world/1750294553 Bandcamp: https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/cool-world Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3k7GhMNdQ0KXGkC84qVRf2

I use Google Play Store, Graphene’s app store and Accrescent. I feel that the known privacy issues from Google Play are more acceptable to me than the unknown consequences to my privacy due to the looser security from F-Droid.

With friends? some Belgian beers I swiped from my parents and shared with my friends. I think it was Westmalle Dubbel.

And yes, I already knew not to drink the sediment 😂

Aah okay! yeah that’d be a lot of vodka

That jackdaw looks like it’s seconds away from mischief.

Great photo, as usual!

5l of vodka?!

Clearly up to no good…

That was an interesting and fun video! There’s a lot going on behind music promotion beyond just being active on socials, but it’s an interesting experiment.

FWIW, I think this phrasing is understood differently depending on region. In the UK, and especially the northern counties in England, this is mostly understood to be a humorous exclamation of disbelief rather than anything aggressive.

I’ve found a tattooist near me that does amazing dotwork style plant/fungus designs, so that’s what I want to get next.

Yeah it’s super fucked that a cis man felt emboldened enough to enter a woman’s restroom to verbally abuse a woman under the rhetoric about keeping men out of women’s restrooms. It’s so patently absurd. If this isn’t enough to show that anti-trans rhetoric was never about keeping some women safe, I don’t know what else it can take.

If you never talk to them, role your eyes when they talk to you, and don’t understand them wanting you to do well I imagine they may find you somewhat defensive.

There are two sides to this situation. OP may be feeling defensive because of past negative interactions and criticism. As much as it’s OP’s responsibility to work at unpacking their feelings and reactions, it’s also the parents’ responsibility to do the same with respect to how they interact with their child.

My mother also called me crazy or weird for wanting to get cassette tapes. Did she say it rudely or are you preemptively taking everything as rude?

Does it matter how it’s said? Being called crazy or weird for being passionate about something feels dismissive and demeaning, especially if you’re already struggling with your mental health.

Omg yes! also parenthetically “my facial expressions don’t necessarily reflect how I’m feeling”

Yeah, I just moved our linting/format checking pipeline to ruff and it’s been painless and fast.

Yeah I can see it!