I’m not a lawyer, but that smear seems legally actionable. I hope she sues Navratilova & the BBC individually & severally for defamation.

Queer Neighborhoods - btime

Provincetown is a great gaycation spot (40% of couples are gay men, 19% are lesbian).

Northampton is a cute town in Western Mass and kinda the lesbian capital of the world.

And Boston is a great place to live.

Oh, and if you're interested, I made a map of where queer couples live in the US

Precinct map of Massachusetts showing that nearly the entire state voted in favor of trans rights

And Massachusetts as a whole is great. Mass voted for trans rights by an overwhelming 2:1 margin and out of the 351 cities and towns in Mass, only 6 voted against trans rights.

Plus, a ton of rural Massachusetts is hugely supportive of trans rights.

This is one of the reasons I love living in Boston. Being trans here is just such a boring, normal part of life.

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Sure, there'd still be some people who have off-street parking, but even when someone has off-street parking, they often want a resident permit so that they can park easily when using their car.

This wouldn't cut down on all fraud, but in Boston you need a resident permit to street park - and in order to get a resident permit, your vehicle must be registered and insured at that address.

NYC doesn't require a permit to park so people don't need to register/insure their cars in NYC.

I thought I remember Bluesky had west-coast US datacenters and east-coast US datacenters (or at least used to). And if things are under heavy load, it might make sense to shed some replication load between the two coasts.

But it's more likely that I'm just awake when other east-coasters are.

I think I don't see west-coast skeets as much as I see east-coast skeets

I know it's probably that I'm awake/online when others on the east-coast are, but I have this suspicion that when Bluesky servers are under load, they'll drop replication of some skeets from the other coast to manage capacity

Daf Reactions Sanhedrin 75: Female Rage Riot Anthem! YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin

Shalom friends, Given the horrific recent investigation and expose of the online “r*pe academy,” visited 62 million times in one month. I feel it pertinent to reshare this video.
The message holds up 2,000 years later.
Daf Reactions Sanhedrin 75: Female Rage Riot Anthem!
youtu.be/EsXQbYk4abU

I wish it were legal to eat tacos today, but it isn't a Taco Tuesday 🌮

When I'm President, I'm going to make every day a Tuesday so people can eat tacos any time they want!

A two-family home. VisiCalc was written and developed in the home's attic.

This is 231 Broadway in Arlington. Back in 1978 a two-person startup called Software Arts worked out of the attic to create VisiCalc -- the first spreadsheet program for personal computers.

Advertisement for Valium from the 1960s. It reads: Women dominate his universe. Psychic tension can rule his life. He doesn't understand the source of his psychic tension. But you do. He relates well to women with domineering traits. But not to men. Not even his own son. Whenever psychic tension is a significant component in the clinical profile, consider the use of Valium (diazepam). On proper maintenance dosage Valium can help reduce the psychoneurotic patient's tension-anxiety, apprehension, agitation, alone or with depressive symptoms-to more comfortable and adaptable levels. The most commonly reported side effects are drowsiness, fatigue and ataxia. For your passive-dependent, tension-ridden patient dominated by women-and for countless other psychoneurotics- Valium may prove itself a helpful partner to your psychotherapeutic skills. Please see last page of this advertisement for prescribing information. for the relief of psychic tension in psychoneurotic states: Valium The central figure's interpersonal relationships, sociometrically diagrammed, reveal the patterns of dominance and closeness he has with the principal people in his life. in thin individual, domination by women has led to psychic teasion.

Trans healthcare has come a long way since the 1960s 😆

Do you relate well to women, but not to men? Is it causing you psychic tension?

Instead of Valium, try estradiol!

Mahler wrote “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire” but did not say what happened once there were only a few small smoldering bits left, and I think about that a lot.

Congo Bongo on the ColecoVision, with an isometric perspective

Congo Bongo on the SG-1000, looking almost like Donkey Kong (though you can actually move up and down in the yellow area)

It's interesting how many games got completely different releases on the ColecoVision and SG-1000; Congo Bongo, for example, Coleco's has the isometric perspective but Sega flattened it out... and then some Sega games like Turbo were only on the ColecoVision (probably just due to age in that case)

Once you realize that the type of person who falls for MLMs is the same type of person who falls for fascism you will begin to realize how stupid human psychology is.

Even for trans adults, care is hard to find: ‘I could not do it on my own’ State restrictions, Trump administration policies, and waning public support are further limiting adults' access to transgender care

A friend wrote this about an LGBTQ+ center in Savannah which is helping expand access to gender affirming care.

lol, this is so funny to me because my shul has dozens of queer people. People would be like "what do you mean 'one'?" 😆

We might be able to make a minyan out of trans people. We had a queer Sukkot meal and it was huge.

Can the government dictate admissions policies of private colleges who take government money?

Conservatives: Yes! Kill Affirmative Action!

Can the government dictate admissions policies of Catholic schools who take government money?

Conservatives: No! We love discrimination!

That's a long bike ride to make at midnight, even on an e-bike.

60 miles round trip, from Somerville to the Marathon start/finish line in Hopkinton on the MCRT, and returning along the full Marathon route before routing back on Mass Ave and Beacon/Hampshire to Porter Square.

It was fun to do once.

Wimbledon finally ended the practice of referring to women by their husband's name in 2022

Evonne Goolagong who won in 1980 was credited as "Mrs. R. Cawley" and in 1981 Chris Evert was credited as "Mrs. J.M. Lloyd" (among many other misnamings)

where is this rare injectable form of cannabis that people had access to in the old days

We had a coffee house at Brandeis named Cholmondeley's which was the inspiration for Central Perk on the show Friends (David Crane and Marta Kauffman who created Friends went to Brandeis)

Unstable (/unst’-a-bull/)

No lie, I read this and was like "it's funny that they put in a real town that out-of-state people can't pronounce."

I'm so Mass-coded that I couldn't read this as "unstable" 😆

I don't drink coffee either, but a lot of people like it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Resilient little iMac!

You have coffee milk and pizza strips. Oh, and Del's. Del's is genuinely good.

Ha, that's kinda how my day went! Sounds of rain outside, kitty cozied up on me while I'm under a blanket.

I think the fact that it was the Sunday of a long weekend (in Massachusetts) made it feel extra cozy.

Imagine how disappointing it would be to grow up on this kind of messaging and then smoke a joint

The meme where D.W. from Arthur says "that sign won't stop me because I can't read" and she's saying it to a no-parking fire-lane sign