I’m sorry. And I’m glad your life is feeling in motion, that’s so important. 😔

does the paper of record count as a meme right now

to be fair SCIFs also don’t provide the desired privacy properties if you invite Jeffrey Goldberg

> cointelHO

you think the southern border is a problem wait until you hear about the northern border and… the internet. (and AIRPLANES you silly geese, guarding a border like its the 1500s. 😑)

I’m now picturing my canadian hacker friends contributing to canadian cyber resistance.

do y’all have any idea how many genius fucking canadian hackers we rely on? probably leave behind `sorry.txt` after they pwn everything, but we’d still get wrecked.

awww that’s too bad, touch to encrypt/decrypt really would be awesome. 🥺

she really was _so_ disappointed to learn about anesthesia. 😬😅

🥺

I don’t have a conclusion. I still believe Dr. King, that the arc of the moral universe may be long, but it bends towards justice.

fucking hurts when you watch it move the wrong direction, and it means it’s time for the us to do the same kind of activism my parents did. love y’all. 🏳️‍⚧️

I’m very proud of my family. And I’m very proud of all of my trans friends, and their families.

I’m thinking of you, and your kids. I remember what it’s like when your country seems to tell you, “your family isn’t right, we don’t know if we’ll let you keep it.” It’s awful, and I’m sorry.

My other parents were awesome too. My bio mom taught hard of hearing and deaf kids. My other mom is an ordained minister who went to seminary at Yale, and was a minister for 40 years before retiring. She’s the most well read person I know.

(When I was a teenager punk rock was my favorite thing on the planet, but as a wrinkly old man myself now I play the folk music he taught me. I love playing his songs, even though I only know a couple.)

This leads to my favorite sentence, which is — “my dad was a lesbian folk singer.” I wonder if I’m the only person who can say that! I spent a lot of time at women’s music festivals as a kid. His music changed when he transitioned. It’s hard as a professional musician to navigate a brand new voice.

So fuck it. I’m gonna tell the internet about my family.

My dad was trans. He transitioned when I was young, and became a sweet, calm old man. I didn’t think much of it. He told me he felt more like a man. He took up gardening. He calmed down. We learned to shave together. He loved his grandkids.

And that was foolish of course. Progress doesn’t come linearly. But damn, it stings to realize I feel a little less safe talking about my family today than I did 10 years ago.

But yesterday… I found myself missing it? I miss it when of COURSE major corporations give their ERGs money for a float, it’d be corporate suicide not to support gay rights. I thought — trans rights are coming too, the arc of the universe is bending linearly towards justice.