Marti Abernathey @marti@trans.fm

I am quoted today in Lifewire about how much data Android apps are sharing.

https://www.lifewire.com/that-popular-android-app-could-be-sharing-your-data-with-others-6543726

Recently, I keep catching a lot of complaints about how different States are recruiting to cover teacher shortages. The most widely discussed is Florida, which wants to cover it using military members and their spouses.

And... rather than considering all the ways in which that can potentially backfire (all the ways in which the harmful structure of the military can permeate into schools, the treatment of children, the increased refusal of mostly cis men to listen to colleagues who are predominantly women or feminine)?

People keep laser-focusing on the fact that "they aren't trained teachers." And I want to scream so much because:

1. An education program does not a teacher make. Many programs are inadequate (as many new teachers will point out, since there's high turnover in the first 5 years in many places). Many provide faux psychology as fact. Most utilise self-referential materials to support the existence of schools as the only learning space.

2. Many of these same people complaining about the lack of qualifications are also people who didn't fight back against the increased racism, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism within the system. They've done little to *keep* teachers who *wanted* to be there.

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“it's no coincidence that TERF rhetoric increased just as feminist circles were finally beginning to have productive conversations about intersectionality & how historical feminist successes had largely benefited white women, straight women, cis women, wealthy women, able-bodied women, neurotypical women. Suddenly, a whole bunch of white feminists were told, 'hey, perhaps your voices aren't the ones that need centering right now. perhaps you should pass the mic.'”

https://nitter.42l.fr/fozmeadows/status/1510022794796404737#m

I’ve been assuming this is well known, by the way, but just in case you didn’t know: SWERFs and anti-porn feminists ended up allied with the evangelical right in the 1980s, in pretty much the same way TERFs are aligning with fascists now

Dave Chappelle turning down the opportunity to have the theatre at the high school he graduated from named after him [because he didn’t get the reaction he wanted from his transphobic-laden special The Closer] is absolutely proof positive that some of you lot will go out of your way to do an unreal amount of harm to people who have done nothing to you, still win all the material prizes, and still not be satisfied unless everyone is applauding you for your indefensible commentary.

It’s the simplest proof anyone could ask for — genuinely or disingenuously — that a lot of you aren’t satisfied with simply harming people with impunity.

You lot clearly expect to be given a hero’s coronation when you’re clearly the villain of your own fucking delusion of grandeur.

But here’s what really kills me:

You man constantly preach about how sticks and stones break bones but words can never hurt you yet here the fuck your snowflake ass is crying and begging for laughs. Here your bitch made ass is *bawling* because a gaggle of school children rejected your “art.”

Never ever talk to me about Dave Chappelle ever again. That man is a whole snivelling little bitch and he’s not worthy of any lionisation ever again.