I need someone to make me a bunch of little plastic ⚧️-shaped beads so I can make an abacus to count misgenderings with when I’m on phone with support. And they *always* insist on calling.

Playground structure with slides so distorted that it looks like a monster perched atop a sphere of grass maybe 50m in diameter.

Have random #blackandwhite #photography I did with a cylindrical cookie tin and the cheapest 5x7 film I could find.

I wonder whether I should be happy to be shown racist political ads. I mean, it clearly tells me what *not* to support; sometimes unmasks rich racists; and drains racists’ bank accounts. It doesn’t do the emotional harm to me that it might if I was the one targeted. Good to waste their money, maybe?

Have a roll of Ilford SFX #infrared film from the Ridonculous Beast: my Reality So Subtle 6x17 #pinhole camera. #blackandwhite #photography

I can’t wait for tomorrow’s election so I can stop being bombarded with fact-free, often racist, sometimes even overtly racist political advertising.

Colour negatives hanging up to dry

Dunked some color film from #FurTheMore and #Bewhiskered this morning

Weird, distorted, contrasty image of a playground fort

Very contrasty print of the first
Image with it. The vertical distortion is unreal. But because the negative is against the inside of the cylinder, it’s equidistant from the #pinhole horizontally. Very weird #photography

I made a camera from a $5 cookie tin, a $5 laser-cut pinhole, and some gaff tape and I am taking pictures with it.

Use of AI in any software development task should trigger strict product liability

Headline: “‘TotalRecall Reloaded’ tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database”

Almost like the whole thing was a Really Bad Idea (TM).

Trees blazing in infrared against a dark grey sky.

More #blackandwhite #infrared #pinhole #photography. Ilford SFX in a Calumet 401/C2 with a 400um #pinhole and a 690nm filter. This cleaned up nicely.

Gah. Ilford SFX with a 690nm filter, not Rollei RPX 25.

Pine tree, seen from near its roots looking straight up. The needles are glowing white as foliage in black and white infrared photos does.

Have another #infrared #blackandwhite #pinhole #photograph. Ilford RPX 25 in a Calumet 401/C2 with a 400um pinhole, developed in ID-11. #photography

Me, staring at half a walnut: brainssssss

We have many decades of verified, repeatable, consistent research showing that is exactly how mass media works. Several enormous industries are built on the idea of media affecting attitudes and beliefs. Reporters who deny this in a fit of pique at facing down their own behavior just look unserious.

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If catholic people want careers in healthcare, fine: that career should be open to folks regardless of whether they are religious or which religion they choose. But no religious institution should exercise control over a necessary service.

Public services need to be run by and for the whole public.

It’s long past time to defend the rights of all people to be free of religious indoctrination and strictures that they did not, of their own free will and with full information, choose for themselves.

We’ve got religious displays in classrooms, prayers on football fields, therapists allowed to torture queer kids in accordance with religion, and hospitals—sometimes the only choices in a region or an a health plan—forcing religious diktats onto patients.

But the USA has loads of religious folks—including in our illegitimate courts, illegitimate gerrymandered legislature, and unconstitutional executive—who use the label ‘freedom of religion’ to mean the ability to force social rules on people who did not choose to be subject to them.

Like most people, I think a person’s choice of religion shouldn’t make them subject to scapegoating and associated persecution. As a vegetarian, I’m aware of the importance of accommodating personal choices, especially in circumstances that limit choice, such as on-aircraft meals.

The bans on reproductive healthcare and the new total ban on trans healthcare show the game: use control over health care to force social policy on people who did not choose to adhere to the religion or its diktats.

That’s not too much of a restriction on anyone; you could always order a pizza delivered. But why forbid non-SDAs on the cafeteria staff from making SDA-forbidden food and drink for other non-SDA staff?!?

When I was in middle school, my dad worked for the only hospital in town—which was run by the 7th day adventists. They refused to serve coffee or meat to employees in the cafeteria for religious reasons, regardless of those employees’ religion.

This is good coverage of an overlooked pogrom against trans folks. If you prefer audio, here’s an interview with an author.

This reminds me of a longstanding objection I’ve had to religious organizations using healthcare as a means to force social policy on people who did not choose that religion.

I developed and scanned a metric butt-tonne of black-and-white film today. Both the color film and the processing will have to wait. But first, some teasers: a 4x5 infrared, a pinhole infrared, and a long exposure at a fur con.

I keep my developer in a 5-liter wine bag inside a cardboard takeaway coffee urn.

Don’t drink the darkroom coffee.

Hand extending a middle finger toward a grave marker for ‘the confederacy, 1861–5.’

Also the US Confederacy should deffo not rest in peace.

Big pot with a skull and crossbones drawn on it on a hot plate. This is how I prepare photographic developer.

Don’t mind me, just out in the garage cooking up a potion.

What’s behind the term ‘gender-questioning’? The term ‘gender-questioning’ is the latest way to describe trans children, but it is not correct and should be discontinued

My article in NW Bylines about the Starmer government’s deployment of the misleading term “gender questioning” for trans kids.

Trans kids need help resisting this loaded term. IMO it is being used to open the door to what I characterize as a government policy of “wraparound conversion therapy”