#Quakers reaffirm commitment to trans inclusion and refuse to make any changes to toilet provision in the wake of EHRC Code of Practice
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-reaffirm-commitment-to-trans-inclusion-in-the-wake-of-ehrc-code-of-practice?

"The policy also states that Quakers will not require trans, non-binary or intersex people to disclose or prove their status in circumstances where such evidence is not demanded of others.

Under the arrangements confirmed by trustees, toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience.

Similarly, facilities labelled with a 'male' sign remain available to cisgender men, trans men, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."

It's been a tough few years for MacStories.

An explanation of why we resumed posting on X, and what comes next:

https://ticci.craft.me/explanation

If you need some new music check this out. Panda Bear came out with this album last year and it’s a great one. He is a member of Animal Collective which is another popular indie band. Been listening again recently. Noah has a very cool set of melodies when he sings.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/sinister-grift/1761198973

@hipsterelectron
also if you did not have something like allInstances and pointsTo: sort of reflection inside the image then trying to track down space leaks would be harder. I think I saw a talk about bunging that information into Roassal on Pharo.

@river @rezmason

@arnapou
Ah oui, notifications capricieuses ? Jamais eu ce problème.
Tu as bien:
- exclu DeltaChat des "optimisations de batterie" ?
- ajouté DeltaChat aux applis qui ont le droit de faire des connexions en arrière-plan sans limite ?
- est-ce que tu as bien activés ces deux options ? :
@ploum @bartounet @delta

This was quite interesting. Since being diagnosed I've had real battles with how I feel about it. In the beginning there was a tidal wave of relief. A life of feeling broken inside or different. To finally understand I'm OK and just wired differently, not wrong. Perhaps a chance to have a real conversation with myself that doesn't involve constant internal self-flagellation. But then came some strong resistance from the people in my life who I love and trust the most. It's not a real condition. I'm leaning into it. It's the medicalisation of the human condition and I'm just looking for attention. That was very very hard. Fedi was brilliant. But I continue to live with imposter syndrome. And the constant narrative in the press that I may have been misdiagnosed, or there is an overdiagnosis - maybe I am stupid. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everyone is wrong and I am a broken boy. Even more so for wanting or daring to believe there's a reason for it all. And I'm back where I was 4 or 5 years ago. But looking at this article I'm reminded that there were soooo many assessments. So many different people. So many interviews and tests. With people stood in the corner of the room with clipboards whilst I undertook a series of physical tasks. At every stage there was a sense that so many people want to go through this process because they've seen something they identify with on social media. People seeking diagnosis. I pointed out at every stage I never asked about autism. I never even thought about it. I didn't even think I had autism and were they sure they wanted me to carry on with the process. And at the end of every stage, there was an emphatic yes. There is a range in the diagnostic assessment process (which is very very long and thorough, with people who have lots of fancy qualifications and who have spent their lives working to get to the stage of their career they're currently at). And if there's any sense it's inconclusive of they feel there's any question, then they do not diagnose. They say it's inconclusive. That they can't be 100% sure so don't confirm. They were very very clear with me (and in the subsequent reports) that there was absolutely no question. I was in the top range. The absolute best at autism. I don't know why. To be honest I still haven't really read it. I should probably do that, thinking about it. But I'm minded, reading articles like this..... how could so many people - so many people who are very highly paid doctors and scientists or whatever - how can so so many people over so many different assessments, get it wrong? I don't know what autism looks like. I'm just me. For the most part the me I've always been. And for a moment I had a chance to have a real identity. To accept myself and ask others to accept me. But all the time the narrative's that I'm a fool - misdiagnosed, deluded and just wanting attention - I won't know peace with it. The end. Sorry. Just wanted to get that out. X

A split in the spectrum? The ongoing battle to define autism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdew81wd2y8o

@sjvn @ZDNet Given where Humpty Trumpty is going on Iran and secondary sanctions that's probably wise for when the US tries to disable Windows in China and the Chinese disable everything electronic and cloud based in the USA 8)

@hipsterelectron
smalltalk images have a horrible bootstrap story until recently when mr vuletich ported the microsqueak code to produce SISTA images. i am yet to try to get that to work in another system to bootstrap it.

also images would be incredibly painful without a garbage collector.

@river @rezmason

@pinage404 Oui exactement !

@pete Even a broken clock is right twice a day?