Caroline 💖 @caro@pipou.academy

Today I learned: there's a journal named Wireless Personal Communications

Finally, I found where all those "Personal communication" references are published ​

seen in some official document: LGBTQ+.*

Finally a sensible regular expression ​

J'ai reçu mon ​ en point de croix ! ​ ​ ​
Merci @Hiraelle !

There were some heavy storms last year and many trees fell down. In a local park, some of them came back to life though

Potichat ! ​ Lion gay ! ​🦁​ Pronom ! ​

Merci @Hiraelle !

Une analyse de la visibilité trans dans les media et ses effets négatifs :

Pauline Clochec, Entre punition et altérisation : médiatiser les femmes trans pour décourager les transitions

« Les représentations médiatiques des femmes trans ne relèvent pas d’une question d’esthétique ni de visibilité, mais ont une fonction sociale contribuant à la minorisation des femmes trans, à savoir dissuader de transitionner ou stigmatiser celles qui le font, et cette fonction passe par la représentation du changement de sexe comme impossible, comme étant nécessairement voué à l’échec. »

https://questions.tf/2020/01/12/entre-punition-et-alterisation-mediatiser-les-femmes-trans-pour-decourager-les-transitions/

Not All Spiders Are Bastards (but those who do are the most interesting)

Since this toot got kinda popular, here's something that should be pointed:

If this story got told at all, it was most likely due to Agnes being white, middle-class, able-bodied, etc.

So let's keep in mind there are plenty of other amazing queer people throughout history, whose stories did not get told because they were not all of that

I love the ridiculously unnecessary scientific precision of Harold Garfinkel.

Behold, the transition table of cis-normativity:

Thinking about the anonymous trans woman known as Agnes.
She secretly self-administered stolen hormones since the age of 12. That was in the US in 1951.

She successfully passed as a cis boy while undergoing fem puberty.
Then successfully passed as a cis woman since she was 17.
Then successfully passed as an intersex woman to the entire UCLA medical school, including psychiatrist Robert Stoller (who coined the term Gender Identity) and sociologist Harold Garfinkel (who wrote papers on gender passing), so she could get GRS at 19, fully healthcare covered.
Then successfully passed as a menopausal women to finally get a legit HRT prescription.

Then bragged about all of it to Stoller and Garfinkel, who admitted complete defeat.

Is there an easy way to display local profiles from the web UI (the ones in /web/accounts/ that allow following and interaction)?

I know I can copy-paste the username in the searchbox, and just now I found about the secret 'p' hotkey, but I don't find either qualify as easy, sorry

Love how academia sometimes accidentally comes up with gender-neutral terms

• Chairman/chairwomen of the conference program committee ​
• Chairperson of the program committee ​
• PC chair ​

Next in line: the Travelling Sales Problem

How to write a "last boost" reaction or boost-with-cw in Mastodon, a step-by-step tutorial
1. Start replying to the original toot
2. Make sure to remove all mentions from your reply so the original poster won't get annoying notifications
3. Wait, is the original message from a Mastodon instance?
If not, they'll get the annoying notifications either way: move to step 10
4. Write your message and/or cw
5. Select the visibility: followers-only or unlisted or…?
6. Wait, do I want my toot to show up on the public timeline? If yes, replying or boosting won't do even if it's a public toot: move to step 10
7. Double-check you did steps 2-5 correctly and send the toot
8. Your new toot is about as visible to Mastodon users as a DM without mentions. Boost it so it appears on their timelines. Your Pleroma followers will get it twice. Serves them well.
9. No reaction. You did forget step 8, didn't you?
10. Give up and just write a new toot with a web link to the original toot

About her advocating for affirmative action at AT&T in the early 1970's:
"Jobs undergoing technological change were held first by white males, then by minority males, white women, minority women, and then machines. So we found ourselves in the position of arguing that women and minorities be hired exactly where the company wanted them—in jobs next to be automated."