In Memory of @porsupah — 2021 (Part 8)

porsupah — 2021-09-15T15:00:17.779Z
Content warning: ukpol, Cabinet shuffle

Patel stays put. =:Phttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reshuffle-government-boris-johnson-cabinet-b1920683.html [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...overnment-boris-johnson-cabinet-b1920683.html]

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millenomi@lily.network — 2021-09-15T15:02:02.000Z
Content warning: ukpol, Cabinet shuffle

@porsupah [https://lgbt.io/@porsupah] “levelling” the country, huh

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porsupah — 2021-09-15T21:22:57.674Z
Content warning: CApol, bikes/pedestrians, modest +

Some mildly surprising legislative wins:A.B. 122, the Safety Stop bill, permitting cyclists to treat Stop signs as Yield,A.B. 1238, the Pedestrian Access bill – also known as the Decriminalizing Jaywalking bill,and perhaps most significantly:A.B. 43, permitting local authorities to set lower speed limits in certain areas.https://cal.streetsblog.org/2021/09/10/legislative-update-big-wins-on-traffic-safety/ [https://cal.streetsblog.org/2021/09/10/legislative-update-big-wins-on-traffic-safety/]

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porsupah — 2021-09-16T04:04:29.380Z
Content warning: uspol, the racist origins of the current anti-abortion movement

Excellent background here:https://jill.substack.com/p/the-racist-roots-of-the-anti-abortion [https://jill.substack.com/p/the-racist-roots-of-the-anti-abortion]"But the religious right also needed a more respectable issue to hang their advocacy on. Yes, their most fervent adherents were angry about Black students mixing with white ones and getting to attend white schools, but as the 1970s and 80s chugged on, that was an increasingly unpopular position to take publicly.'So how did evangelicals become interested in abortion?' Balmer writes. “As nearly as I can tell from my conversation with Weyrich, during a conference call with Falwell and other evangelicals strategizing about how to retain their tax exemptions, someone suggested that they might have the makings of a political movement and wondered what other issues would work for them. Several suggestions followed, and then a voice on the line said, ‘How about abortion?’”Evangelicals were still angry they couldn’t racially segregate their institutions and still get tax breaks. But 'the right to segregate' no longer had the wide appeal it once did. 'The right to life,' though — that was a winner."

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porsupah — 2021-09-16T10:32:01.221Z
If you didn't know before that you needed vivacious all-woman Japanese ska in your life, well, now you do. ^_^Oreskaband "Free Now":
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porsupah — 2021-09-16T12:18:09.716Z
Content warning: DEpol, possible coalitions

Some musings on how the coming German elections might shape up:https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/why-germany-must-go-red-red-green [https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/why-germany-must-go-red-red-green]Essentially, the Greens and SPD might wind up with a choice of allying with either a conservative bloc, or a progressive alliance. On the one hand, yet more "austerity", on the other, some wealth redistribution that, for once, isn't from the poor to the rich.

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porsupah — 2021-09-16T17:59:59.943Z
Content warning: trans, UK, Bell v Tavistock ruling due

The appeal ruling will be delivered at 2pm BST (6am Pacific) on Friday Sep 17.It did appear the judges understood the implications of the original ruling and its severe impact on Gillick competency (not a coincidence this is the strategy they took, given Bell's lawyer is best known for anti-abortion cases), and were duly sceptical of the need for a higher standard in a trans issue than for potentially life-ending medical decisions. There's also since been the other case that effectively undid the original ruling.https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/royal-courts-of-justice-cause-list/royal-courts-of-justice-daily-cause-list [https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...list/royal-courts-of-justice-daily-cause-list]

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Excerpt of the webpage listing the judgment due, [SENSITIVE]
 
porsupah — 2021-09-16T18:24:49.057Z
Content warning: home computing pioneer death

Clive Sinclair's gone, at 81:https://archive.is/vnCyn [https://archive.is/vnCyn]"Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in bringing home computers to the masses, has died at the age of 81.His daughter, Belinda, said he died at home in London on Thursday morning after a long illness. Sinclair invented the pocket calculator but was best known for popularising the home computer, bringing it to British high-street stores at relatively affordable prices.Many modern-day titans of the games industry got their start on one of his ZX models."

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fluffy@plush.city — 2021-09-16T18:44:21.000Z
Content warning: home computing pioneer death

@porsupah [https://lgbt.io/@porsupah] Oh dang, for some reason I thought he'd died ages ago.Even in the US, the Timex Sinclair computers were vaguely popular because they were so inexpensive and accessible. My grandpa had like three of them and every time I visited him I liked to dig it out of the basement and play with it again. I probably should have held onto it; no idea what happened to all his old computer stuff when he died. (He also had quite the collection of Commodore stuff!)

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fluffy@plush.city — 2021-09-16T18:47:13.000Z
Content warning: home computing pioneer death

@porsupah [https://lgbt.io/@porsupah] of course in the US, Commodore completely overtook Sinclair really quickly for whatever reason. I don't think we ever got an equivalent of the Spectrum here, and the VIC-20 filled its niche instead (before being in turn replaced tenfold by the C64).I remember when my family was doing the Our First Computer thing we first tried out a Sinclair (probably because it's what grandpa had? or maybe he'd brought it on a visit?) but then ended up getting a C64.

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fluffy@plush.city — 2021-09-16T18:50:20.000Z
Content warning: home computing pioneer death

@porsupah [https://lgbt.io/@porsupah] according to wikipedia we did get an upgraded version of the Spectrum here (the Timex Sinclair 2068) but I've definitely never seen one in person. Supposedly it was in production from 1983 to 1989! I wonder how many sold, and to whom.

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fluffy@plush.city — 2021-09-17T00:47:45.000Z
Content warning: home computing pioneer death

@porsupah [https://lgbt.io/@porsupah] yeah Timex-Sinclair was how Sinclair machines were all sold here, and the 2068 was based on (but not compatible with) the spectrum, and was a complete flop here anyway. The 1000 didn't have a lot of staying power and that's the only one I ever saw.in the US I feel like the pre-IBM ecosystem was Commodore (mostly 64), Apple (mostly IIGS with some IIC fans), and Atari (mostly ST).

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porsupah — 2021-09-16T23:46:44.112Z
Content warning: trans, UK, GMC Webberley hearing, Friday update

It appears Friday will be a relatively brief affair, convening at 3pm. Main feature will be big, though: a decision by the tribunal as to which charges will be dropped, and which continued, given the evidence presented by the GMC (and, in many cases, selectively /not/ presented).And then there's the big Bell v Tavistock appeal ruling coming at 2pm too.

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porsupah — 2021-09-17T03:54:10.119Z
Content warning: uspol, infrastructure bill, +

Well, now. There's a spark of cunning in the Dem camp after all:"Advocates are celebrating new legislation released by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee over the weekend that offers new details about how lawmakers would actually spend some of the transportation dollars included in the Democrats’ $3.5-trillion budget measure — including billions aimed at expanding the mobility of low-income communities without access to cars.That was a pleasant surprise to transit proponents, who were disappointed by Biden’s promise to the GOP last month that no element of the budget measure, which is expected to pass without Republican support, would restore funding that was cut during Senate negotiations over the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill — funds which included billions for transit, equity, and more.And indeed, the T&I committee’s bill technically honors that commitment — by establishing new, highly targeted programs for green mobility, rather than simply increasing allocations to the Federal Transit Administration and other agencies."https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/09...g-good-for-sustainable-transportation-so-far/ [https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/09...g-good-for-sustainable-transportation-so-far/]

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porsupah — 2021-09-17T04:24:23.457Z
Lil Nas X "That's What I Want" just popped into the world:
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porsupah — 2021-09-17T04:34:38.136Z
Content warning: HRT, genitalia, unserious

There *is* a certain pleasure to be had in spreading progesterone cream on one's scrotum. (Though TBH, there's no activity there anyway - triptorelin does a fantastic job of terminating T production)"How'd you like *that*, huh? Just wait 'til next year, too. You won't *believe* what I've got in store for you then.."

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