penartur @[email protected]

Many thanks to @[email protected] for allowing me to use their drawing https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/994615716518158336 as my new userpic!

Ugh I have no idea how to write #introductions / #intros. Why is everything so difficult? It feels the same way when I have to write a cover letter... 😕 😒 😅

OK, I am a software engineer? Interested in interpersonal relationships and future and AI and speculative fiction? Unable to create art or to have a physical exercise but able to chat on the internets from the comfort of my couch (which is especially comfortable when my spouse is there)?

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*screeches in gay*

3 of 5 stars to To Summon Nightmares by J.K. Pendragon https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2856881905

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3 of 5 stars to Iron Cast by Destiny Soria https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2546459548

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This 2019 Pride, in the UK:
⚠️Conversion therapy is legal
⚠️No GRA reform still
⚠️Lesbians beaten up on buses
⚠️NSPCC listens to TERFs over trans women
⚠️LGBT school ed protested
⚠️Hospitals do non-consensual procedures on intersex children
⚠️Equal marriage illegal in N Ireland

A potentially interesting #ExtraditionLaw topic for @[email protected] and @[email protected] :
Turns out UK has a specific provision in its Offences Against the Person Act (1861) that allows it to try its citizens for murders committed abroad: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/section/9 ...

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「逃犯條例三部曲」《漸暗漸行》全港首播 - A sensitive, understated 10min mini-drama set 657 days after the extradition-to-China law has taken effect; follows a secondary school girl whose father’s been extradited. This is #HK’s future if we don’t stop it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAnWB3rXN2Q

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Key parts on fair trials
- political influence is pervasive in the PRC’s criminal justice
system
- defence counsels often persecuted
- months-long interrogations without lawyers

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Key part on torture

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FOX has done to our parents what our parents thought video games would do to us.

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We stand with all freedom-loving people of #HongKong. In their faces, we see the longing for freedom, & are reminded that #Taiwan’s hard-earned democracy must be guarded & renewed by every generation.

As long as I’m President, “one country, two systems” will never be an option. https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/1137622337883447296

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THIS IS MORE THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE MARCHING!
Say no to extradition to China! Proud to be HongKonger!
#HongKong

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Ok so I would have liked to take the same photo now, some 5 hours after the first, but I can’t physically get there - every road, overpass, tunnel is jammed. So here is the crowd a few blocks further down the road at Admiralty. This is unprecedented, WAY bigger than 2003. https://twitter.com/antd/status/1137661567040757761

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Clear version #反送中 #protest #Breaking #News #ExtraditionLaw #HongKong

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Hong Kong demonstrators are stuck unable to move at around a dozen MTR stations, but the actual march itself is a narrow strip of people as the police have refused to open further lanes.

People have been denied freedom of assembly today. https://twitter.com/galileocheng/status/1137618791607676928

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Organisers confirm all #notochinaextradition protesters have now left the starting point: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/09/just-no-china-extradition-tens-thousands-hong-kong-protest-controversial-new-law/

Police say that 153,000 left Victoria Park to join the march, whilst organisers are predicting the final turnout may be over half a million. Photo: AFP.

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"if we continue at this rate, the planet will warm to around 1.5°C in just 12 years, triggering a sequence of increasingly catastrophic impacts." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43e8yp/the-uns-devastating-climate-change-report-was-too-optimistic

5 of 5 stars to When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2741951065

This morning, my SO sent me a link to a "faithful description of feelings of trans people's partners", written by some Sheila Jeffreys. The text opened with the photo and the story of a "53-year old man thinks he is a 6-year old girl and assaulted his spouse and children".

This evening, thanks to @zkat, I came across a speech by said Sheila Jeffreys (TW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoaCr2qtC-w). So that's who Sheila Jeffreys is.
I'm crying a little now. I don't know what to do. I cannot deal with this hate.

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fellas, is it gay to hold your friend's hand while you both lay down in your own half of your custom 69-shaped bed