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I agree with your reply about how effective a ban will actually be. I just think the order of events is a little different. 🙂

It's not in the UK either yet. But if you wanted to ban it without everyone who isn't already a frothing transphobic bigot seeing it as authoritarian overreach, you couldn't just ban it. You need a justification that seems reasonable. Enter "protecting children from powerful hormones."

In thinking the ban is the logical next step.

I believe they wanted the ban first and reverse engineered a justification.

I think you have it the wrong way round. They set their sights on grey market oestrogen ages ago. "But the children!" is their solution to justifying banning them for all of us in a way they think most people can't or won't argue against.

Same as children being the excuse for online surveillance.

I think you have it the wrong way round. They set their sights on grey market oestrogen ages ago. "But the children!" is their solution to justifying banning them for all of us in a way they think most people can't or won't argue against.

Same as children being the excuse for online surveillance.

Yep. And I believe they do too.

It's the only thing that explains the current moderation here.

Like, she deceived us too, dipshits.

Punishing all of us out of anger and shame about how you let her run your app moderation until being outed as an abuser is fucked up.

At some point the bsky team are going to need to talk about their feelings of betrayal and anger about Kairi with therapists, instead of taking it out on every other trans woman still on this platform, and the sooner they do the better it'll be for everyone here.

Congrats on another successful solar orbit. 😊

If my controller battery hadn't died I'd just go back to Deus Ex, and, you know, open a bottle of something.

Probably going to do the bottle anyway. Yep.

Yeah I don't even know how to respond to that in a way that summarises all my feelings about it rn.

Oh, I understand the problem here.

That's... suboptimal.

...do I want to know what's behind all the George Foreman references suddenly?

I was playing Deus Ex.

Very irritating to me when people are like "they make $100,000 but after expenses they basically make minimum wage." How much do you think people who make minimum wage have left over after expenses?

Go bed. 😂

Well there's information I'm immediately tempted to abuse.

Go read Persepolis.

Or maybe watch the movie.

Oh yeah, I'm talking about the half dozen people who've forced me to use Skythread this evening, not you! Should have been clearer perhaps 😅

Trans people quoting him to spread news about Trump's latest rantings about the trans community though is like if I got all my information about what the UK government is doing to us from the BBC, though.

I don't trust him to report facts objectively, man's a twat.

I don't know why everyone is suddenly quote posting Aaron Rupar today, but I'm not unblocking him even if it would save me loading Skythread every 30 seconds.

None of us do 😅

I was the opposite. Huge collection of stupid hats.

Along of the beard it was a way of distracting from my face underneath.

They won't dance even if they want to.

Ripp, those are both pros?

They're also coming after grey market hormones next, having clearly worked out that kids are smart enough to do what a lot of adults have resorted to in the face of 8 year waiting lists for the NHS...

I would love to live in a world where this didn’t matter.

Yeah. 🫂

I’ll do it. Let me get this place into shape.