That feeling you get when you've LITERALLY (as in literally literally) spent YEARS (as in, ever since they first shipped) telling people not to install Amazon #Echo (or any similar device) in their homes because they are enormous #privacy risks…
… only to be ignored by nearly everyone…
… and now those same people who ignored you are going around telling everyone else to throw away their privacy hole devices.
That feeling? Annoyed doesn't BEGIN to describe it. 
When you buy a box of R-clips, this is basically mandatory:
@synapsenkitzler@digitalcourage.social@janboehm
MECK FURZ 
Update 8.2.: Über eine Million Menschen in 15 Tagen auf Demos gegen Rechts in Deutschland. 
https://digitalcourage.social/@synapsenkitzler/113936085401817110
Während alle anderen Parteien nach rechts rücken, schließen sich immer mehr Menschen einer sozialen und antifaschistischen Linken an. 
ZEW hat berechnet, wie sich Parteiprogramme zur #Bundestagswahl finanziell auf Privathaushalte (Bruttoeinkommen 40 tsd. € jährlich) auswirken:
+6.150 (Linke), +1.010 (BSW), +870 (Grüne), +860 (SPD), +300 Euro (Union). -440 (AfD), -1.520 (FDP). https://www.zew.de/presse/pressearchiv/wen-die-parteien-entlasten-wuerden
Update 13.2.: Die Linke mittlerweile in 6 Wahlumfragen bei 6% https://digitalcourage.social/@synapsenkitzler/113945069184184905 
11.2.: 23.473 Neumitglieder seit Januar 2025! 
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/linke-parteimitglieder-100.html
Wahlprogramm: https://www.die-linke.de/bundestagswahl-2025/wahlprogramm/
Koalitionsrechner https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bundestagswahl-2025-wahlumfragen-100.html
Gesamtzahl: 630 Sitze
Absolute Mehrheit ab 316
Umfrage: Forsa vom 04.02.2025:
SPD + Grüne + Linke = 270
316 - 270 = 46 Sitze fehlen nur noch (ca. 8 %punkte)
#grr (Kanzler Habeck)
As a "normal" user, when navigating to outlook.office.com, what I wanted was a view of my mailbox and calendar.
What I got wasn't quite right. Instead, I had a message saying "You've signed out of your account" and recommending I close all browser windows.
The implication of this wording is that I did this. I did not. This is yet another #antipattern where systems/services gaslight users into thinking they did something wrong.
10% - time I spend in Photoshop creating cool stuff
90% - time I spend in Photoshop trying to get out of whatever bastard mode I’ve somehow activated that is stopping me drawing and giving me no clue what or why
@JackTheCat@mastodon.scotBe warned! Reply Guy 'explainers' will be rewarded with choice, salty Scottish insults this day! #Grr #WrongSideOfBed
UK KC - M'Lady should just write her judgement and if the FWS thing changes anything, we'll discuss it then and make more submissions, both parties discussed and agreed.
Haldane agrees, it's a "unique, interesting and challenging" case. She's gonna make her decision, we might wait a while for that. Could be in a week, could be up to two months if we go by other big cases.
Haldane mentions the For Women Scotland appeal, an opinion on that could possibly affect this if issued before the ruling on GRR. Needs further submissions in that case. FWS is an appeal about the definition of a woman (anti-trans definition, of course, what did you expect), October 4th. They've failed on it before, hence the appeal.
About how to deal with different "regimes", eg. paperwork. Canada, USA, Spain, Mexico, Aus - all have different rules but in essentially comparative states. Madrigal-Borloz said 100 million around the world living in self-ID "states". So Bain says it's demonstrated even by the UK KC's own papers that it'll work.
Sec of State needs to take into account that UK has more GRC's approved than Scotland, bigger numbers are their problem, not Scotland's so depending on those numbers in light of Scotland's lower GRC application numbers is irrational.
One of the UK KC's defences yesterday was it would affect *many* single sex schools but he was then informed there are only 6 in Scotland. Bain says she investigated and 2 of the schools have mixed-sex 6th forms.
Bain is back. She mentions Hansard. If you weren't watching yesterday, I'll paraphrase.
UK KC: We shouldn't use Hansard records to determine Section 35's original purpose.
Haldane: Maybe we should look at them.
UK KC: errrrr
Haldane: Yes, we'll look at them. Ok?
UK KC: Erm, ok then.
*ruffles papers, pulls one out*
Starts using Hansard in UK's defence.
It's going to be too difficult to monitor, all this paperwork. The UK KC almost had a wee tear rolling from his eye thinking about it. Oh the humanity! Haldane said that can be rectified though.
UK KC quoting discredited UN rapporteur as evidence, the one who's been hanging about with UK anti-trans folk since she came over all terfy. Alister Jack relies on her biased report, rather than the evidential UN report by rapporteur Victor Madrigal-Borloz, which said no evidence found that anyone has been changing their gender for criminal purposes. Dorothy Bain called Alsalem's report "hostile communications" yesterday AM.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I SCREAM WITH YOU AAAAAAA
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt** UK Constitutional Law Association re: the Scottish Gender Recognition Reform appeal (S35) **
The basics of it imo are:
it is complex, hard to call will be decided by the UK Supreme Court based on Constitutional Law principles first and foremost the UK Supreme Court will want to establish clear Constitutional precedents going forward I suggest to ignore upcoming legal "hot takes" in the right-wing press from any 'legal talking head' or KC who say this is a no-brainer win for Westminister
This article covers it well -
https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2023/04/25/chris-mccorkindale-and-aileen-mcharg-rescuing-the-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill-the-scottish-governments-challenge-to-the-section-35-order/
"... the unprecedented use of s.35 means that there is considerable uncertainty about how the legal issues will be decided"
"As this case makes its way through the courts, we hope that judges will be equally alive to the dangers to Scottish democracy ... of allowing policy choices allocated to the devolved level to be too easily overturned by the UK Government"
#ScoPol #UKPol #GRR #ScottishGRAReform
#Trans #TransRights #TransRightsUK #Scotland
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbtNicola Sturgeon: calling for equality for the LGBT+ community at last night’s 
Rainbow Honours awards ...
“Firstly, the progress towards equality is not linear, it is not one-directional, it can go backwards as well as forwards and this is a moment when we must be strong in making sure it continues to go forwards.
“My rights as a woman are not diminished in any way shape or form by the enhancement of the rights of trans men and women.
“Never let anyone tell you otherwise. This is a moment for unity, a moment for solidarity, a moment for strength and for courage.
"... for as long as there is a breath in my body, and I hope that is for some time yet to come, I will always be an ally.
“A strong, unflinching, unequivocal ally.”
The National: https://archive.is/F4EKp
