xmpp actually stands for:

xtra massive p p

the B in LGBTQIA+ does NOT stand for buses

Breaking news: Brazil makes homophobia punishable by prison 🗞️

In an almost unanimous vote, the Brazilian High Court has ruled today that homophobia can now be punishable with a prison sentence

This is a huge win for the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil that needs to be celebrated 🇧🇷

The 9-1 vote ruled that homophobic slurs and hate speech are a crime, similar to other forms of hate speech, such as racism.

Someone posted this on the chicago subreddit and i cant stop watching it

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The 360 modding scene literally has barely any homebrew that isn't mod menus and is filled with people going "is my soldering good" and posting this

The unexpected truth bomb.

Discussing the British Press, and I'm reminded of the time when I had a moderate amount of celebrity in the UK LGBT community, and the press tried to do a hit piece on me.

Now here's the thing. There's a cheat code, and I'm going to explain what it is:

They will contact you for comment.

If you say nothing, they will publish the piece and say you were offered the chance to comment.

If you tell them to fuck off, they will publish the price and say your response was foul and unprintable.

I did neither of these things. I told them that this piece wasn't journalism. It was ridiculous tittle tattle and represented everything that was wrong with a failing and dying industry more obsessed with clickbait than proper reporting. I asked them if they didn't have proper news to report, and said that they should be ashamed of themselves.

They're basically screwed at that point. "We contacted Ms Brown for comment and she said that this was ridiculous tittle tattle and that the reporter should be ashamed of herself."

They're not gonna say that.

I'm struck by something one of my history teachers once said about medieval castles. They weren't meant to be impregnable. They were meant to be annoying enough that an invading army would decide to investigate other priorities instead.

The piece never ran.

If you're a trans person in the crosshairs of the British press, make yourself an annoying target. They're on a deadline, and if you make them conclude that life is too short, they will leave you the fuck alone.

AMAL (assigned male at localization)

Dear admins of big open-reg instances with a tiny to non-existent mod teams who do the bare minimum required for the facade of housekeeping:

Those are real people you're responsible for. When you delete a hate speech post but don't suspend the user, you're keeping a bigot in your community, and everybody else suffers. You are deliberately deciding that their social media space is inhabited by bigots and deliberately deciding that you don't care what effect that will have on their online emotional and mental wellbeing.

If that's too much responsibility for you, if you don't like that, if it's too hard, if 'all the drama' of you forcing people to share space with bigots then calling you out on it when shit inevitably hits the fan is getting too much for you, hand your server over to someone who gives a fuck, who's willing to make the choices you're too cowardly to, and who's willing to 'endure the drama' because it makes their community, and the fediverse as a whole, a better place.

And then fuck off. Please. Relieve yourself of the burden you should never have wrought upon yourself in the first place because honestly nobody should be overseeing a community of tens of thousands of people if you're not prepared to go to bat for the most oppressed members of that community, and then fuck off and leave the rest of us to it.

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