I recently did a talk on being nonbinary in Japan and sparking useful discussion around gender split/bias in Japan. I thought I'd share this longpost here from Bluesky, too.

There's a lot of folks in Japan and the US that don't understand what nonbinary means, and I break it down here. I don't think it's hard to understand because it's a difficult concept—it's because if we accept gender fluidity we accept that we can't pretend we have gender equity in society.

https://bsky.app/profile/illuminesce.net/post/3lbbxlhwqik2i

@oxyhyxo we just get bullied so much. But we are half of the earth as well! Just our (western) societies are built around extroverts.

#introverts

@volpeon btw that post was almost 300 already

@volpeon imagine having a character-limit less than twitter...Funny aside. Do you know what happens with too long posts from fedi when they go over there via bridgy?

It adds ... at the end of the charlimit and a link to the original post. 300 characters sure aint much.

@mikoto we all kinda have an addiction problem lol

@jsstaedtler Well thats a problem anywhere really...

@jsstaedtler you canadians have it rough for game-pricing, don't you?

@mikoto Hello welcome back 👋 Stuff can be tough sometimes. But I dunno if I could even quit fedi lol. That one time I wanted to use it less I still checked way too often

Take

@quad I mean it does not have to be shit. I mean they took away our proper PCs quite a while back and replaced them with Thin Client. I never liked the Fat-clients since they were noisy.

But the heavy lifting of doing number crunching (called calculating taxes) was always done offsite in our own facilities.

So now we virtualised desktop (I do wonder why we still license windows for these things so stripped down as it is)

But we at work controll all the points ourselves. Giving control to MS seems like a poor choice.

Also i hate the word cloud PC

@ari_alur @rick Now thats quite a horrorshow...

@fristi @Erpel Thats anything but clean and you know that!

@paulthenerd Oh my now that is something. Not sure if I would be to happy about Sony tightening their grip on anime, manga and light novels though.

Kadokawa is a freaking behemoth in that industry already... Like wow. They would also get J-Novel club and a big part of Yen Press as well I suppose? (as both are subsidiaries of Kado...) wow.

Shōnen Jump will increase their manuscript prices for new mangakas.

They will now pay a minimum of 20,900 yen (~$135) per black & white page and 31,350 yen (~$203) per color page.

https://automaton-media.com/en/nongaming-news/one-of-japans-biggest-manga-publishers-is-stepping-up-to-pay-authors-significantly-higher-wages/

@Knoebel now thats some good news atleast in these hard times!

@volpeon Its happening again huh?

@puniko @Jain @domodak Its about the spirit puni! Anything can be a LN if it tries enough. Just throw in some harem or something.

@rick Sometimes not too far off...

Hello everyone, the Sharkey project has been quiet due to our ongoing efforts to patch major security vulnerabilities in coordination with Firefish, Iceshrimp.js, and upstream Misskey. On Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, our efforts will be finalized with a security release for all affected projects. It is of upmost importance to update your instance(s) to the latest version if you utilize any of the aforementioned software once the patches are released.

@JenMsft That bad boy can fit so many optical drives though *slaps PC Case*

I honestly kinda love this