Missouri House passes bill restricting trans people’s use of public restrooms The bill would allow lawsuits against government entities that fail to bar transgender people from sex-specific spaces that don’t align with their sex assigned at birth.

I've got to get the hell out of here.

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Since the incurably selfish monster Caitlyn Jenner is in the news again, it's time to remind the universe that misgendering and deadnaming are not to be used against trans people whom we dislike.

One's name and gender are not granted conditionally only for being a good person. They are a right.

Sometimes I like to give the people at "customer care" a slow pitch down the middle to let them swing away.

If I were on the moon mission right now I'd make sure everyone moves around in the capsule and takes turns being on the side farthest from the moon and earth so that everyone would have a chance to be the farthest from the earth.

The image is the cover of volume 1 number 15 of a Vietnam-era underground newspaper called The American Exile in Canada. The cover image is a pen sketch of a running figure in silhouette escaping a bent prison door in the form of United States flag, and the stripes of the flag are the bars on the door. There is a single caption: FREEDOM!

One of the few nice things about hanging around hospice all day every day is that I can fart all I want, and people will just think it's the patients. (As long as I keep quiet.)

Reverse siege warfare-- fire the shit cannons out at the besieging army!

Hoo VOR, good times. Guess why that stopwatch is embedded in the yoke, and if there's not one there's a patch of Velcro where you're supposed to stick your own. XD

Flying airplanes safely is hard and sim enthusiasts who think otherwise are deep in the Dunning-Kruger effect.

If at any point between now and (checks notes) the end of fucking -September-, you find yourself wondering "hey, is Nova going to this thing in Kansas?" the answer is "no, no she is not."

If you're in Kansas and you want to see me, come to me in some other state.

If this results in more people handing me pieces of cheese, I'm all for it. Sure. That fascinates me, whatever. Hand over the cheese.

I am fascinated. Honestly.

Cometception.

Smells fine, it was scrubbed with Comet powder. It's amazing at deleting pond funk.

One of my old discs turned up today-- it had been lost at the bottom of a pond for two years. I'll bet it's flippy AF now.

True story: I juggle.

I recently got a spot in the cast of a local ren faire, and I'm going to juggle fruit. It should be a good time!

Holy crap, at some point I won a third world championship without even knowing it!

Wikipedia dunking on jugglers.

But they're not wrong.

A close-up drawing of Batman grimly putting on his cowl as he prepares to deal with a new catastrophe. A noir-style narration box reads "I keep track of these things, Clark. One of us has to."

Watching the Douglas County, Kansas District Court website for updates:

Man just can't stop stepping on his own dick. . .

I'm not an experienced Skeeter, so this was my first try at a thread. I wish it had come out the other way around.

Kansas is not my state, but this is coming soon to my state. (I'm in Mo., but right on the Ks. border.)

Ha ha ha awesome. Yeah, he seemed to be stumbling over his dick a lot.

My opinion: I don't know. I've had 6 hours of university-level law: Business Law 101 and Aviation Law 101. Neither of which really prepared me for constitutional issues or circuit court procedure.

Still, I hope anyone who couldn't watch this for almost three hours got something from my notes.

Judge: will endeavor to have a written decision by Tuesday because quick action is important. If needed, will call counsel via Zoom to discuss more if that date is not looking likely. Is worried he's not giving himself enough time to get it done by then.

Adjourned. /27

And we're back.

Plaintiff: we would not hate it if the court agreed with the last two speakers.

Judge: not what we're here to do today. It's about the TRO and the constitutional challenge, not that it's hard for state agencies.

Soonest judge can rule after having a good think is Tuesday. /26

Five minute break /25

Now comes Jordan Brewer, Ks. Dept. of Administration, to talk about bathrooms in Ks. govt. buildings. Also notes only had 10 days to implement law. Says they would like a TRO for at least the bathroom part of the law, because they have not yet even done new signs or such. . .

/24

Kobach is done.

Ted Smith, KS DoR steps up to answer any operational questions the court may have. He says that his bureau had just 7 days to get things done, and a month would have been nicer. (It was hard.)

Judge is unsympathetic to the DoR's plight, and wonders what Smith's point is.

/23

Kobach: 99% of population is harmed and stressed by trans people using bathrooms.
Judge: cite the source of that figure?
Kobach: (paraphrased) okay that was made-up. But 99% of the people are not trans. . .

IOW: all cis people are apparently a monolith and agree with Kobach, in his mind.

/22

Yeah, that jumped out at me too. Just straight up lying.

Kobach attempts to rationalize SB244 as being single-subject in eye-glazing detail. The judge is skeptical.

In an unguarded moment when discussing laws with many subjects, Kobach refers to the BBB (Trump's stupid law from earlier) as "the 'so-called Big Beautiful Bill.'" /21