evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I don't talk a lot about Palestine because I don't feel like I have anything useful to say, honestly. Israel is continuing to commit genocide, we all know it, and no one is doing anything about it. I guess I could keep saying that, but I'm not sure what purpose it serves.

I feel powerless about a lot of things, but Palestine in particular.

Vitruvian Chicken & Friend

Sometimes I have an idea and I know, deep down, that I should wait and do it properly but instead I let it burst out in a slap dash splat.

This is one of those ideas.

#MyfanwyAndFriend #sillyScribbles

It is the end of summer (in my part of the world at least*).

I started the summer with the Silly Summer Hatting project, the summary of which is shown below (& you can still see the full size images on the hashtag).

Planning an hour or two later of not doing much at all, so if you missed out, and would like to sneak your pet in at the last moment drop a reply to this thread.

*and working with meteorological rather than astronomical autumn, obvs.

#sillySummerHatting

I feel like mastodon would appreciate this unopened 1998 three tape documentary about the pre bubble internet i found at my parent’s house

I don't care what anyone says, the world went to shit when monkeys stopped advertising T-bags

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.

In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.

In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.

But I did it "by the book"

As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.

In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.

In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.

Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.

The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".

In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.

In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".

In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.

And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.

The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.

At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.

And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.

Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.

Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?

The artwork of Rae Ripple, contemporary US welder and metal artist.

She applies a distinctive "lacework" style to the metal bodies of cars, often using plasma cutters to create elaborate patterns #WomensArt

https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-amazing-metal-art-of-rae-ripple/

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Note to self: buy crumpets.