Cupric

@cupric.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️They/Them • 🏳️‍🌈Bi/Pan+Queer • Software developer by trade. My hobby is, apparently, doing deep dive research into other hobbies and then burning out before I’ve even begun. Hobby du jour: photography!

Excerpt from an NPR interview between reporter Leila Fadle and Platner: FADEL: The one thing that I heard from regular people who were trying to figure out whether they believed you, specifically about this tattoo, because you said I didn't know what it was. Like, I put a skull and bones on my chest in 2007. But you've also described yourself as a-- as a military history buff. And their question is, how did he not know if-- if he is a military history buff? PLATNER: Because that motif I have seen on French Foreign Legion units. I have seen it on US Special Forces ODAs. I've seen it on other Marines. It's a-- that skulls and crossbones of a myriad of kind of versions are, for fairly obvious reasons, incredibly popular in combat units throughout history. So it's a-- I-- that's why. And, for the record, I re-enlisted in the United States Army. I got screened for gang and hate tattoos. I worked for the State Department. I had a top secret clearance. I was on the ambassador to Afghanistan's security team, where I was screened for gang and hate tattoos. I do get a chuckle out of the fact that suddenly everyone is an expert on this version of skull and crossbones, but for 17 years of my life, including getting screened for tattoos, never once came up.
A screenshot of the quoted post. From NYTimes Communications, 2 days ago as of posting: “The New York Times is expanding its health and scientific coverage with more journalists, new beats, and Bill Wasik as the new Science Editor.” With a link to the announcement on their blog. The embedded preview for the blog post says, “From the mysteries of the cosmos to the origins of life. From gender related care for…”
Garfield looking as a sign depicting Garfield: huh, I wonder who that’s for.
Screenshot from the Telegraph (I know, but the one that put her name in the headline). The article’s headline is “Baroness Cass joins Labour MPs to back under-16s social media ban”. The subhead is “No 10 prefers to wait on evidence from Australia on weather it’s prohibition works”. Written by Charles Hymas, Home Affairs Editor. The first sentence is a repeat of the headline.
Picture of a cute cat. Used under CC BY-NC 2.0 from Mike Lawson. Protests take organization, time, and energy. Not to mention academic, financial, and legal risks (especially when protesting the government’s position). Not all action is protest or demonstration, either. You can volunteer, send money, and many other things that will still help support your cause. People choose to protest when they think it might actually affect a change. The unis and other institutions showed that they're completely unwilling to bend on their fierce support for Israel. They'd rather invite a militarized police to brutalize their own students and faculty than alter investment plans. I witnessed dozens of trials in the aftermath of protests in my city. Several of whom are still on probation. In several cases the judges recommended they avoid all protests to avoid steeper penalties. People demonstrated against Biden's policies because, get this, they hoped he might side with them. It was an election year and he (later Harris) could not risk losing any votes. They thought the party that pays lip service to human rights might, you know, back that up; even if cynically just for votes. We all know Trump is not persuadable or accountable. So people who support Palestinians wisely spend their limited energy elsewhere. Then on top of all of it, people are also understandably more focused on the fact that the Federal government is using a secret police to kidnap and murder them and their neighbors. At this moment energy is better spent on direct action to help and protect our communities.
NYPD using a military tactical assault vehicle to enter a building on Colombia’s campus on 30 April 2024. A small fraction of the amount of cops that stormed campus. The police themselves trashed the building and later blamed the protestors to retroactively justify their presence.
A screenshot of the linked style guide. The selection says: “Gender identity” means how people feel or present themselves, distinct from their biological sex or sexual orientation. Use sex to refer to a person’s physical development and gender to describe how they identify themselves. We should be aware that the concept of a gender identity is contested by some. Sex is “recorded” or “observed” at birth. Use of “assigned at birth” should be attributed. Transgender, or trans, is an umbrella term for a person whose gender identity differs from their sex recorded at birth. A person born male who lives as a female, would typically be described as a “transgender woman” and would take the pronoun “she”. And vice versa. We generally use the term and pronoun preferred by the person in question, unless there are editorial reasons not to do so. If that’s unknown – apply that which fits with the way the person lives publicly. If reporting on someone who is making their transition public, it may be appropriate to refer to their previous identity to help audience understanding. It may also be appropriate to refer to a transition to make sense of some stories. We should not include “intersex” or people with differences of sexual development as part of this group.
Menu picture of a peppermint mocha crème Frappuccino
The compose view for the post above this one in the thread. There is an error dialog that the post failed to upload. It advises me to check my internet and try again.
Gavin Newsom touting his *signature* policy: criminalizing the existence of poor people in his state, while personally physically destroying someone’s life. This was taken in 2024, but sums up his entire tenure as governor. Build 4,000 homes for 180,000 people without one and then destroy everyone who was unlucky enough to be missed by his administration.
Screenshot of the article page linked above with an iOS permissions dialog asking whether to share precise location with The Onion.
Screenshot of page 5, 6, and 7 of the labour rules document, section titled Gender Quotas. It reads as following: GENDER QUOTAS At least three of the top six positions as well as at least 50 per cent of officers overall must be held by women. Officers and co-ordinators should be elected in the order specified in the Rule Book to ensure this gender quota can be properly applied. Please see the below diagram of how this should look. Chair Vice Chair Vice Chair/Membership Secretary Treasurer Policy Officer (Line Break) Women's Officer BAME Officer Disability Office LGBT+ Officer Youth Officer Trade Union Liaison Officer Political Education Officer Communications & Social Media Officer Elections should be carried out in the order listed in the Rule Book. At the point at which the gender quota can no longer be met, subsequent elections would not take place until new nominations for women candidates can be received. Diagram of an example sequence. It shows that 3 men and 2 women are elected before the 6th position. There are no women candidates for this position and men have already reached their quota, so this election is suspended. The maximum number of men permitted in the top six positions is three. Following the election of Treasurer, three men have been elected. Only men have been nominated for the position of Policy Officer the election does not go ahead as it would not be in order to elect four men. The position would remain vacant until nominations from women have been received.
A screenshot of ashcat724’s profile. Their bio reads “disabled and trans (ask for pronouns I don't give them out freely) Minors DNI | I don't engage trolls like Merritt just coming to troll. I just block, report their accounts and wish them painful death”
Ben Ryan and I mutually block each other.
An orange-tinged brown tabby cat staring straight at the camera. Her head is tilted slightly downwards. So she’s staring out the top of her eyes. This gives her the slight appearance of the “Kubrick stare”. She is wearing a cream colored cat hoodie. The cow details on it are not clearly visible in the image.
Screenshot of a paragraph that says: Giving the example of a counselling session for female victims of sexual assault, the Court determines that, as sex means ‘biological sex’, trans women would automatically be excluded from attendance. It explains the group might also choose to exclude trans men, if proportionate, for example, if “reasonable objection is taken to their presence, for example, because the gender reassignment process has given them a male appearance”.
Bunches of white and pink blossoms on a crabapple tree. Some of the fruit is visible.
Scott Worley follows Jesse Singal, who is the prime example of someone who thinks they know about trans people but in fact knows less than nothing about what they’re talking about
Josh Peck saying “Regan” in place of the actual quote “Megan”
Mark Cuban follows Jesse Singal, known for medical misinformation
A screenshot showing Ryan Grim’s Bluesky account showing the “Jesse Singal Follower” label applied.
A video clip of the NPR segment I mention. Transcript - Reporter: Blinken was interrupted twice by protests - Clip: “…Criminal! Why aren’t you in The Hague?…” - Reporter: One man, Sam Husseini, was carried out of the briefing room; accusing Blinken of supporting a genocide. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, the State Department.
A dreamies package. The logo is within a cloud-like outline. There is a cartoon cat on its back licking its lips looking at a picture of the treat.
A screenshot of carsized.com comparison of the Rivian R1S and Hyundai Ioniq 5. The R1S is larger in every way and is not very obscured by the Ioniq in front of it.
The Granby, CO “Killdozer”. In 2004 Marvin Heemeyer modified a bulldozer adding layers of steel and concrete armor. He used the modified bulldozer to demolish the town hall and several other buildings in protest of proposed zoning changes.