Ruth O'Day

@oldladyplays@wargamers.social And don't be fooled by the friendly-sounding brand, water, that they have put on this dangerous chemical, more accurately known as dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO). Here is a link outlining this dangerous and relatively unregulated chemical. (Happy to see that their web site is modernized.) https://dhmo.org/faq.html

@sashag@anarres.family Morsche, Schätzelein!

@sashag@anarres.family That reminds me of this commercial. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2m2_-_fCqjY

@faithisleaping@anarres.family Your Tintmeister/in did well!

@faithisleaping@anarres.family I hope that they can find support if/when the retransition occurs.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family This guy doesn't seem to have much international experience. Not that that should prevent him from teaching French but it seems that he is out of his league outside of the pure laine / Québécois de souche experience.

@sashag@anarres.family Morsche, Schätzelein!

@reilyh@blahaj.zone You're welcome.

@reilyh@blahaj.zone Alt text. Open source. Feel free to make it better, I am not sure if I described the gender correctly. I would describe them as genderfluid or nonbinary but the label says "transgender". A black ink drawing of a broad-shouldered person with muscular arms and a decent sized set of breasts facing the viewer with some labels and arrows pointing towards various places on the person. Two sets of text appear, one above the person and one below the person. The person is wearing a black t-shirt with a slight scoop neck and an emblem on the front, pants whose colour is filled by sets of almost horizontal lines, suggesting, perhaps, blue jeans, and a white belt. The body is facing the viewer but the person has bent their outstretched right arm atth elbow att about a 90-degeee angle and looking at their right hand, which is clenched in a fist which is angled inward. The left hand holds a white shopping bag. The hair has not been coloured in, implying a light or blondish colour. The hair is shaved at the sides but has grown in some. The top is fashioned in a pixie cut. A label, "TRANSGENDER" and a dark, wide arrow point towards the person. Several smaller labels with smaller arrows point at various locations. Clockwise, starting at about the 7:00 position: "UNSHAVED ARMPITS" points to the right armpit from between the outstretched right arm and the torso. "FROM THE MEN'S SECTION" points at the right shoulder of the t-shirt. "30+ AND LOVING IT" points at the left side of the head. "SHORT HAIR" points at the right side of the head. A bubble caption has the person saying "Nice!" Three arrows point at the bubble. "VAIN", "LOUD AS FUCK", and , "DEEP VOICE TOO". "NO BRA" points to the chest. "TATOOS" points to the left arm, which has something like one of those barbed wire tattoos at the top of the forearm. The right arm has a similar tattoo. "HAIRY" points to the lower part of the left forearm. The text above says: BACK IN 2017 WHEN I STARTED TRANSITIONING, I CHASED PERFECT FEMININITY WITH FERVOR. I LOST SIGHT OF WHAT I HAD ALWAYS KNOWN: THAT WOMEN COULD DO ANYTHING. The text below says: 2026 TODAY I FLEXED A LITTLE JUST TO CHECK MYSELF OUT IN A STORE WINDOW, ALL THE THINGS A WOMAN AIN'T SUPPOSED TO BE... BUT A MUCH HAPPIER DYKE FOR IT. (ALSO HOTTER) The artist's signature appears at the bottom right. The signature is ascending, indicating the artist's ambition, optimism, creativity, and vitality.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family Wow. Does he not realize how many of your class are on a track for permanent residency and citizenship? To me the litmus test is whether you have a finite or an open-ended contract. As someone who has been an expat a guest worker on contract, I can comfortably say that this demographic rarely bothers to learn the local language. I would try, mainly because I wanted to be a "good guest". But that was rare, the guest workers who learned the language usually guys who had relationships where they were robbing the cradle with age-inappropriate local women.

@anon98@infosec.exchange Canada has its faults. But I don't have to look at a map to see which provinces that I can pee in without getting arrested. @randahl@mastodon.social

@NMBA@mstdn.ca Just a little detail that the alt text missed IYKYK This was not just "a library", this was the library of Dr Magnus Hirschfeld. The good doctor was a researcher into human sexuality and had a clinic for trans people. It was the first target of Nazi book burning. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world And don't forget about Mitch Webster. Breaks in with the Toronto Blue Jays. Traded to the Montreal Expos. Then traded to the Chicago Cubs. Asked about his thoughts on the trade, he said "At least I won't have to listen to two anthems every game."

@faithisleaping@anarres.family The last part is what I envisioned for a Franco-Canadian interaction. But, I suppose with teacher 2, YMMV.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family Is this guy a Franco-Canadian? Just wondering because I have read (30 years ago from IIRC Lysiane Gagnon in the Globe and Mail) that Franco-Canadians are more quick to "se tutoyer" (use the informal "tu" with each other) than the Franco-Europeans, who tend to "vouvoyer" (a term that I learned, oddly, on fetlife.com) longer with another person. Not sure what Franco-Africans or other francophone demographics do.

@NMBA@mstdn.ca Bonus points for the First Nations version of the flag and carrying them all in a Saturn!

@myrialux@chaosfem.tw Am I to understand that our collective noun, like a "murder" of crows, is "a co-op of trans people"? @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

@Siiin@pagan.plus Not about transness? Source below for LGQTQ safety in the UK: "The UK, formerly top of the chart between the years 2011 and 2015, has dropped to rank 22 out of 49 countries - the lowest rank it’s ever held." Shoe me similar decreases for abortion or any other issue. @xorlou@lgbtqia.space @oldladyplays@wargamers.socialhttps://www.lbc.co.uk/article/uk-plummets-down-rankings-for-lgbtq-safety-rpTrF_2/

@sashag@anarres.family No German borrow-word beats das Handy for a cell phone/mobile phone. : )

@sashag@anarres.family Translator's note: The German word for "talk show" is "die Talkshow".

@faithisleaping@anarres.family When I got on to hormones I figured that I would give it time and see how large they would get. ::5 years later:: I was hoping that mine would be a bit bigger than they are now. Maybe I will start thinking of BA. ::10 years later:: I was hoping that mine would be a bit bigger than they are now. Maybe I will start thinking of BA. ::15 years later:: I was hoping that mine would be a bit bigger than they are now. Maybe I will start thinking of BA. ::20 years later:: I was hoping that mine would be a bit bigger than they are now. Maybe I will start thinking of BA. ::25 years later:: I was hoping that mine would be a bit bigger than they are now. Maybe I will start thinking of BA. ::30 years later:: I was hoping that mine would be a bit bigger than they are now. Maybe I will start thinking of BA.

@CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw Sorry for your loss.

@faithisleaping@anarres.family Not Costco?

@alice@lgbtqia.space Fair. But similar arguments can be applied to elevators and elevator operators. I am old enough to remember when every commercial building with elevators that was older than about (SWAG estimate) 15 years old had them. @acb@mastodon.social @webhat@infosec.exchange

@sashag@anarres.family Morsche, Schätzelein!

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw A horseman?

@randahl@mastodon.social Fucking A! @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw In Allied, Brad Pitt's franco-Ontarian accent when he was speaking in French could have used a bit more twang, IMO

@NunavutBirder@mas.to With Bernie Parent in the nets!

@sashag@anarres.family Morsche, Schätzelein!

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Good writing, but does not quite fit me: my name and form changed before the millennium (bucket list item achieved). My version: Do not ask me for my name, this will be the only interaction that we ever have, unless I come back to this Starbucks again. I have transitioned last century and have been working on my weight ever since. Tolerated by some and ignored by many, I have seen the fall of the Maple Leafs every spring and am too young to remember their last win of the Stanley Cup, but it happened at an age when I remember my first feelings of what turned out to be trans. That my version, take it with a grain of salt: I boycott Starbucks over labour practices.

@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world Lilian Schlosz 🕯️

@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world Hersz Kolko 🕯️

@faithisleaping@anarres.family I wonder if his insistence on teaching the Canadian variety of French is just a function of his being a Quebecer: maybe he doesn't know the Parisian variety of French well-enough to teach it.

@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw Out of curiosity, did you see the movie "Allied"? Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are spies during WW2. If so, I wonder what your take on their portrayal of Casablanca.

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social @munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me The story is funny but, as you say, also enough for someone to call TSA after the fact. Depending on the skin tone of Beanie Guy, ICE could be called in. There was a Russian NHL, Alexander Mogilny, of some fame. At one airport security checkpoint his teammate set off the metal detector. Mogilny said, "Ooohhh... bomb!". His teammates managed to talk the security people out of detaining him. The pallor of him and his teammates may have been a factor in their success. /s

@anon98@infosec.exchange What place scores zero on the scale of transphobia? As far as countries go, the only one that I would consider moving to is Denmark and maybe Germany.

@CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw Interesting that he says "transsexual" throughout the video except near the end (5:54) when he discusses MTF "transgender" people getting surgery.

Has anyone in Canada/North Turtle Island/Hoseria noticed more-than-usual out-of province licence plates?

@inthehands@hachyderm.io Brilliant!

@NMBA@mstdn.ca Is it local police or RCMP? I am rurally-challenged but my understanding is that the Canadian ministry of Fisheries and Oceans had jurisdiction on inland waters. If that is correct, enforcement could be a bit harsher than what a local cop would mete out.

@NMBA@mstdn.ca I had never connected the dots that it could be payback for the opium wars. Something to think about.

@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world I wonder if Polymarket will take bets on a fire that destroys Polymarket infrastructure?

@CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw The lecture seems to be from a Stanford University course. The link to the entire lecture says that it was on May 5, 2010. Summer school? : ) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LOY3QH_jOtE