A ray of hope for trans rights
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A ray of hope for trans rights.
There are more trans people, including trans kids existing loudly and proudly out of the closet then there have been any time in human history.
There are openly trans teachers and lawyers and engineers and scientists and politicians and diplomats actors, directors, musicians, and gag billionaires.
Within just the last 25 years, trans people have gone from only existing as a joke or sex workers or by hiding themselves in stealth to having multiple states and countries who have literally encoded trans rights into law.
Sure, states didn't have bathroom bans. But they didn't need it. It was just common knowledge that if you got caught in the wrong bathroom as anyone who wasn't cis ...
Informed consent was an impossible pipe dream. There were only maybe a few handful of clinics in the whole world who would dream of helping trans kids with any sort of puberty blockers or HRT, and even then, almost entirely off the books and under the table.
But we're here. We're loud. We're growing. We're only losing ground that was never really ours. It was only ours if we played the cis game of being the proper sort of super binary trans, and putting ourselves in serious danger to do even that.
How far will the reactionaries go? Who the hell knows. But there's more trans allies than ever. Hell, there's major politicians in many many countries all over the world fighting for our rights. That ain't nothin. In the long enough run, we're going to win. Will it be my generation? Zoomers? Gen Alpha? Idk. But we'll win.
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A ray of hope for trans rights.
There are more trans people, including trans kids existing loudly and proudly out of the closet then there have been any time in human history.
There are openly trans teachers and lawyers and engineers and scientists and politicians and diplomats actors, directors, musicians, and gag billionaires.
Within just the last 25 years, trans people have gone from only existing as a joke or sex workers or by hiding themselves in stealth to having multiple states and countries who have literally encoded trans rights into law.
Sure, states didn't have bathroom bans. But they didn't need it. It was just common knowledge that if you got caught in the wrong bathroom as anyone who wasn't cis ...
Informed consent was an impossible pipe dream. There were only maybe a few handful of clinics in the whole world who would dream of helping trans kids with any sort of puberty blockers or HRT, and even then, almost entirely off the books and under the table.
But we're here. We're loud. We're growing. We're only losing ground that was never really ours. It was only ours if we played the cis game of being the proper sort of super binary trans, and putting ourselves in serious danger to do even that.
How far will the reactionaries go? Who the hell knows. But there's more trans allies than ever. Hell, there's major politicians in many many countries all over the world fighting for our rights. That ain't nothin. In the long enough run, we're going to win. Will it be my generation? Zoomers? Gen Alpha? Idk. But we'll win.
@JessTheUnstill this is great. Thank you for posting this.
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@anton @thezerobit this project has taken up the majority of my free time and spare thought this year. I have no regrets. It is magic. It has been very rewarding and I highly recommend making visual programming languages.
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@bryan but, I have a severely negative reaction to companies requiring me to talk to people (or worse, an AI) on the phone. And T-Mobile got to the point where literally everything required a phone call, even things the "T-Life" app or website is supposed to be able to do, that never actually worked.
Even once I was talking to a real person, getting a transfer PIN sucked. Just a miserable support experience.
Not because the people are bad, but because the systems are designed to be hostile.
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@anton @thezerobit my recommendation is to find a 2D drawing API that you like, and experiment with drawing the basic primitives of your language, and seeing if it scales up acceptably. Once you have that, you can work out how to make those experiments parametric, and how to connect them to the underlying runtime of your language. Pick interaction semantics that are easy to implement. Every button in mollytime triggers on mouse down instead of up for example.
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@Gina I think the worst part about that is not the (stupid) effect; but the fact some humans in fragile state of mind can start empathize with bots actually start believing they are having a real conversation. There is absolutely no reason to try and make a chatbot look like a human, yet they are still doing it.
And it (literally) kills people. I will never understand how they can keep up with that crap.
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@anton @thezerobit it also helps that the language runtime itself under the visual representation was something I already knew how to build, as this project follows many prototypes, and other language experiments before it
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@bryan it was the best deal at the time, and every time I looked into it for several years, for the things I needed. For a dozen years or so, I traveled full-time in a motorhome, so I needed good, fast, unlimited hotspot usage on my phone, which T-Mobile came the closest to most of the time. I usually kept a second plan in addition to the primary phone, either from Sprint or Verizon for times/places I couldn't get T-Mobile service. By the end, TMo had a better network than anybody.
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@anton @thezerobit and by far the biggest time sink by a long shot has been fighting with Linux's utterly slapdash support for multitouch screens.
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@anton @thezerobit in general, I've prioritized ease of development over long term correctness, and through the benefit of experience I've mostly avoided painting myself into a corner architecturally. This has allowed me to build out all of this in about 7 months. I hired a friend to help out for about four weeks, and in that time he set up a build system and replaced pygame with SDL3 for me.
