Into the Heat Wave - Early June 02026
Jun. 16th, 2026 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptWe must begin with the regrettable news of The death of Anthony Head, best known to children of the 90s in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Giles, and to the children of this era for his role in Ted Lasso as Rupert Mannion, at 72 years of age. (And also many other roles, but for the US audience, those two are the ones that come to mind immediately.) And also, the death of Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, at 56 years of age. Persepolis was one of those books endlessly recommended for a look of what it was like to be a women in Iran before and during the revolution that put the current hard-line government in charge. And also, Jane Yolen, a children's author with more than 450 books to her name, and therefore likely, you've read one of her books, passing onward at 87 years of age.
Neither the French horn nor the English horn are properly named, but instead are the result of misconceptions and translations of those misconceptions.
When someone wants to talk about trans people in UK media, they're four times more likely to mention a cisgender woman with a massive fortune and an equally large hatred of trans people than they are actual trans people. And even more so likely to mention politicians and negative attitudes than actual trans people and their issues. Although, sometimes, you have good stories from the people who aren't the actual trans people, like when the trade unions showed up to help make sure that Durham Pride was able to continue after the anti-queer government pulled their funding. Or Disability Rights UK showing up for trans people and criticizing the EHRC guidance.
Why do they have to reference TERFs? Because most people don't find the idea of trans women in women's spaces threatening, so they can't find anyone but TERFs who want to talk about it to the media.
If you want people to have better sex (and quite likely more of it), the best thing you can do for them is give them a universal basic income. Because people who aren't stressed about money issues often have time to do things they enjoy doing, which is often sex. And so is art. And so many other things that make our lives better.
Governments stop using the vague threat of children being online to force everyone to submit to the surveillance state. Difficulty: impossible. Because they keep doing it. The UK, for example, intends to ban anyone under 16 from having access to any social media at all, on the belief that it will somehow make their childhoods less fraught and less dangerous. (They're not, however, banning messaging apps or online gaming spaces, because they don't understand where things like radicalization and bullying happen, and therefore have no idea what they would have to ban to properly keep kids away from potential harm, as they claim to want.)
( The usual that you have come to expect, and possibly appreciate, inside )
Last out, DistroSea, which offers VNC connections so that someone can test drive a Linux distribution before making a decision to install it. I like this idea. It's certainly more accessible than downloading and imaging a thumb drive repeatedly to decide whether something is worth sticking with. And with this available to people, it might be a really good way for someone to try a Linux system and see if they like it, without having to dedicate space and time to it other than a web browser. (You can at least get a feel for what it's like, and to see how similar and different it is than a Windows or a macOS desktop.
And also, Some very good designs for Michigan's "I Voted" sticker contest. ("I voted, now let me sleep" is the one I like the most.)
(Materials viaadrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
Neither the French horn nor the English horn are properly named, but instead are the result of misconceptions and translations of those misconceptions.
When someone wants to talk about trans people in UK media, they're four times more likely to mention a cisgender woman with a massive fortune and an equally large hatred of trans people than they are actual trans people. And even more so likely to mention politicians and negative attitudes than actual trans people and their issues. Although, sometimes, you have good stories from the people who aren't the actual trans people, like when the trade unions showed up to help make sure that Durham Pride was able to continue after the anti-queer government pulled their funding. Or Disability Rights UK showing up for trans people and criticizing the EHRC guidance.
Why do they have to reference TERFs? Because most people don't find the idea of trans women in women's spaces threatening, so they can't find anyone but TERFs who want to talk about it to the media.
If you want people to have better sex (and quite likely more of it), the best thing you can do for them is give them a universal basic income. Because people who aren't stressed about money issues often have time to do things they enjoy doing, which is often sex. And so is art. And so many other things that make our lives better.
Governments stop using the vague threat of children being online to force everyone to submit to the surveillance state. Difficulty: impossible. Because they keep doing it. The UK, for example, intends to ban anyone under 16 from having access to any social media at all, on the belief that it will somehow make their childhoods less fraught and less dangerous. (They're not, however, banning messaging apps or online gaming spaces, because they don't understand where things like radicalization and bullying happen, and therefore have no idea what they would have to ban to properly keep kids away from potential harm, as they claim to want.)
( The usual that you have come to expect, and possibly appreciate, inside )
Last out, DistroSea, which offers VNC connections so that someone can test drive a Linux distribution before making a decision to install it. I like this idea. It's certainly more accessible than downloading and imaging a thumb drive repeatedly to decide whether something is worth sticking with. And with this available to people, it might be a really good way for someone to try a Linux system and see if they like it, without having to dedicate space and time to it other than a web browser. (You can at least get a feel for what it's like, and to see how similar and different it is than a Windows or a macOS desktop.
And also, Some very good designs for Michigan's "I Voted" sticker contest. ("I voted, now let me sleep" is the one I like the most.)
(Materials via
adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
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