Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)

It's very different from the books, but it's still a lot of fun.

I’m glad someone said this to his face and more of these CEOs need to hear it: If the conversation around tech seems negative now it’s because you, your products, and what they’re doing to our society fucking sucks. You stopped making optimistic technology and unleashed MechaHitler the job killer.

Dirk Gently Hollistic Detective Agency Elijah Wood GIF Alt: Elijah Wood in Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency, driving a car while wearing a furry coat saying, "It seems like a bunch of unconnected, spontaneous, and unlikely conicidences, but it's not!"

Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency deserved more seasons.

ArQuives Job Alert Development Officer The Development Officer will drive fundraising initiatives and activities for The ArQuives, including implementing the annual giving campaign, cultivating and maintaining relationships with new and existing donors and supporters, and collaborating on future plans for a Capital Campaign aligned with our Strategic Plan. Full-time 37.5 hours per week $60,000/year + health benefits Apply by 29 March 2026.

Job posting for a Development Officer at @arquives.ca, one of the largest 2SLGBTQIA+ archives in the world.

Hours: 37.5h/week
Salary: $60 000/year + health benefits

Deadline: 29 March
Start date: 27 April

More info: arquives.ca/job-posting-...

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Nominations have been extended to 15 March, and if you'd like help with a nomination or self-nomination, DM me for more info.

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

The manosphere is preparing these men for lives of loud desperation.
They'll never be happy, it'll be entirely their own faults, and they will never, ever stop complaining about the shitty hand they dealt themselves while blaming women for not wanting to be with their gross selves.

It's hilarious that "working class" now applies exclusively to the racist failsons of regional car dealership owners but every unemployed trans person is an "elite".

I added this description after some good faith discussions: "News outlets in this starter pack explicitly avoid the use of AI-generated text, images, videos, and audio. To be included, clear documentation must be provided via publicly available editorial policies or statements by leadership."

Thanks so much for coming!

If you also want to learn bystander intervention to build safer communities, join me for the next webinar to mark International Anti-Street Harassment Week. It's free!

April 16 @ 7pm EST

zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Thanks for doing it!

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

BTW 2: While these webinars focus on queer and trans issues in Canada, the lessons they teach are broadly applicable in the UK, US, and elsewhere.

There's a lot to be learned about what works, what doesn't, and how we can work collectively to ensure a safer and more equitable future is possible.

Join the Movement for Freedom and Rainbow Equality

BTW: I've attended a couple of these webinars, and they've all been fantastic.

@faejohnstone.bsky.social, @djdynamic.ca, @karlamarx1917.bsky.social -- all offer incredible insight and encouragement to get involved.

I also recommend signing up for the mailing list and following them on socials.

Alan Cumming, Bowen Yang Help Launch Necessary Foundation to Support LGBTQ Filmmakers "There is, in this moment, enormous political pressure to delete queer people from American media, and that includes young filmmakers who are being shut out of the industry,” said executive director A...

always happy to be supporting money going to queer artists!
lots of kick ass cool people associated with this org!

webinars - Momentum

@queermomentum.ca has three upcoming webinars -- free:

Speaking Truth to Power: Building Solidarity between Trans and Feminist Communities

Lessons from Queer History for Emerging Advocates

Hope in an Era of Hate: Building Trans Power and Safeguarding Trans Rights

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Hate, harassment, and violence continue to affect 2SLGBTQIA+ people across Canada in ways that are unseen, underreported, or misunderstood.

@egalecanada.bsky.social seeks 2SLGBTIQA+ participants to share their experiences.

Survey: survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50415812/...

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Yes, I know. It's why I haven't been able to visit my elderly in-laws in years.

We can give stats on the number of trans women who have posed any actual threat at all (a statistically insignificant number) or the number of cis men who attack women in public restrooms (also rare), or we can talk about who is actually harmed: pretty much everyone.

Of course, far more cis people are transvestigated in public restrooms than trans.

Ask any cis lesbian or even cishet woman with shorter haircuts how often someone has tried to chase them out.

Antitrans policies make *everyone* less safe.

Isn't that more important than harassing 0.05% of the pop?

There's no use in combatting a bigot's specious argument. By even engaging, you're giving it weight.

Instead, reframe it in a way that actually gets to the heart of the issue: who is harmed and why that matters.

Bigots ranting about who has the right to public restrooms isn't about “protecting (cis) women.”

It’s about denying access to safe facilities for vulnerable people who just want to live, work, and move through the world with the same right to dignity.

Safety and freedom belong to all of us.

Their disregard of trans masculine people and utter dismissal of nonbinary people is also violent and renders us less safe.

We need solidarity to combat these narratives and to reframe them on terms.

While I hate being instrumentalized in bad faith arguments, I must begrudgingly admit that his sputtering confusion is amusing.

Our relative invisibility in public discourse isn't a shield -- it offers no protection -- especially when it's weaponized to legitimize the harassment of trans women.

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

So will the fact that my email address is my domain.

At least they provide alt text. That's promising.

I should look into a refund as well.

And I *just* migrated from Gmail. ☹️☹️☹️

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.