Zauberin Stardreamer [4" tall] @Zauberin@awoo.space

Hey! Trans rights.

US District judge in Texas rules that #LGBTQ persons are not protected from discrimination in #healthcare, based on a reading of section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act ("on the basis of sex" is the text). Biden admin interpreted this as including sexual orientation and gender identity; judge struck that down https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-rejects-biden-administrations-lgbt-health-protections-2022-11-12/

If I were to run a Mastodon (or equivalent) instance just for hosting comic artists and their series, would you join it? And if so, what could you pay to support it? Multiple tiers, of course.

Expect special features just for comic artists, such as a specialized posting UX.

Boosts appreciated!

Welcome to Mastodon: the decentralised federated transing machine that transes your gender

DeviantArt concedes and switches to having works opted out of their AI training pool by default. #deviantart

https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/UPDATE-All-Deviations-Are-Opted-Out-of-AI-Datasets-934500371

Valve's very clear patch notes for Steam Deck / SteamOS updates put other vendors to shame who put things like "improves system performance" or "system stability improvements" with no actual details on what changed.

it's my #birthday can i get some #boosts

#vantabirthday

hey, post Renamons at me

kobold can do little a violence ✨

#punk

i've seen it going around, mostly from one user who came here in the last ten days, that #fediblock is "not to be used for individual users" and that it is "only for admins"

don't listen to that person, they are *wrong.* #fediblock was started by @CaribenxMarciaX as a way of letting communities protect themselves from bad actors and instances.

i repeat: #fediblock is EXPLICITLY open to everyone to report red flag users AND instances, and it has been for YEARS

It is especially important to work with states where wolves have been successfully reintroduced and now are considering or have delisted wolves, like Montana. They do, admittedly validly, criticize that those most passionate about it tend not to live there, but let us look at another state: Wisconsin. They tried delisting wolves and opening a season for hunting and trapping wolves. In one weekend, they managed to kill a third of all wolves living in their state. At the very least, the Wisconsin wildlife management teams realized their fuckup and promptly relisted wolves, but this could and should have been avoided.

In Montana, at least once a year we have to read stories of someone's dog being shot because an overzealous and unstewardly hunter mistook it for a wolf. Given those are incidents that make national news, it likely happens much more.