🔄 please boost this, genuinely important

I need to find a very specific demographic of people:

Transgender Germans who STARTED their HRT using a service called "GenderGP", or at the very least have experience using it IN GERMANY.

I am on the verge of joining their plan to start my HRT, but I am scared of committing so much money out of pocket to them without reassurance that they work, that their services are good, and that all of it works in GERMANY specifically, and how well their services and paper prescriptions work with local healthcare / pharmacies.

PLEASE comment if you have this experience and are open to talk to me about this. 💜

RE: https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/117609791008111873

This is what happens when you betray people with gaming rigs. RAM Altman is next!

*sobbing* "it's all SQL?"
*astronaut about to shoot me* "always has been"

If you're annoyed at Microsoft, this might help you feel a little better.

@cthos @xgranade "it's not a cult, we just... you can't EVER question the central tenets.  okay???"

Of course after firing a bunch of crucial staff, they are following up with union busting…

For any WA folks reading this, please know that you can’t contact WAISN and trust that anyone will answer or will connect you anymore. For ICE resistance and mutual aid efforts, please find out who your local rapid response people are and work with them directly.

https://www.thestranger.com/news/as-funds-dried-up-nonprofit-immigration-group-hired-anti-labor-law-firm-to-crush-union/

#WashingtonState #WAISN #FuckICE

@sebsauvage

folks let’s cool it with the phonetic “Huang” jokes. that shit is racist. there is an endless list of absolute cringe about this man. make lots of jokes. he deserves endless mockery. just pick something else.

My anti-C stance has little to do with language design and everything to do with the insufferable lack of documentation, poor naming practices, and hidden contracts embedded in every C code base I ever used.

As for how they'll reintroduce full production traffic, that's obvious…
#Microsoft #outage

I'm excited to share a bit of news. Over the past year I've been working with Bill Nye on a visual tour of the universe (sounds ridiculously bold, I know). We picked our 100 favorite space photos & wrote 100 essays to go with them.

Now it's a real book, coming out next May 18! Here's a first peek.

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324098973?fbclid=IwY2xjawVjHH9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMXNDcVdEZ05GVkVWNnVjVkdzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfErbrs0PxiF86QBLPrn7gPa89R4unPlWjGx95nvfegah4c6cv_7r6cU5uXEg_aem_NrT_JbhTVf31EgHqxUBIXA/about-the-book/product-details

"We still don't know what the fuck is wrong or how to fix it."
#MicrosoftStatusUpdateTranslator #Microsoft #outage

glutaraldehyde would fix me

Called it.

#QT https://hachyderm.io/@cczona/117600466237941823

and i've added refraction, so the underwater geometry warps and distorts because of the waves :D

wood fence artfully placed in the foreground to show this *doesn't* do that awful thing where the warping picks up on pixels that aren't even underwater

#EniBlockGame #GameDev #IndieDev

I can attest with the utmost confidence that every developer or manager or whoever that claims "all code written by AI is reviewed by a human" is a boldfaced lie.

AT BEST they have quickly skimmed it, but more likely they've not looked at it at all.

Actually reading code THAT YOU DID NOT WRITE YOURSELF takes quite a bit of time, and the one thing that people who use AI tooling care most about is just how fast it makes things.

They will not spend the time needed to actually read it.

sorry for just posting the hugest "patting myself on the back" type posts but i just can't get enough of this water. i have the game open on my second monitor so i can look at it whenever i want. anyway here's a longer 1 minute version for y'all

(more info on the game at https://enikofox.com/blockgame)

Man hell yeah
I'm increasingly gloomy about the democrats doing their dipshit bullshit but this really is something

To be truly rich you gotta be born/married/lucked into it and also have a catastrophic lack of imagination about what money can accomplish. People focus too much on the greed. All these powerful people who only use money to accumulate more money.

You get the rare person (e.g.-MacKenzie Scott) who has some understanding of the broader utility of accumulated wealth and the philanthropic world goes mad over her accomplishments.

Proper taxation is a mercy.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GraceTechNerd/117595666992634389

For a while around 2016 there was some noise about 3d printing raised music on flat sheets, seems like blind people were involved in developing it and like it could bring some parity to this situation. I can't find anything about it but with modern algorithms it should be printable from a photographer regular piece of sheet music (as a worst case scenario). Anybody know if the technology is still alive?