Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

#TIL In 2019, NASA realized all the high-performance ferrite cores, used in the best fluxgate magnetometers by both US and European space missions worldwide, came from a single source. And nobody knows how to make them anymore. The process was developed in the 1960s by now-nonexistent military projects and defense contractors. https://science.nasa.gov/technology/technology-highlights/rediscovering-the-lost-art-of-fluxgate-magnetometer-cores #electronics

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Instead of rainbow capitalism I would like the month of June used to force rich people to pay for transition surgeries

This one is particularly important for me.

I struggle with my orientation. I'm genuinely ashamed of it, and I constantly feel like a square peg trying to fit in to a round hole when my peers in my community are invariably sapphic.

So pride month hits me hard, because suddenly my community starts taking pride in not being like me. And even though I know every queer person complaining or joking about "the straights" doesn't mean me, I still see that messaging. I still internalise it. I'm still ashamed of something I didn't choose and can't change. The messaging from my own community implying that I'm not a member of that community is like a slap every time I see it.

I know we don't really have commonly accepted alternative language, but fuck I wish we did. I want to be able to carry the same pride the rest of the community does, instead of feeling ashamed and different

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Another #PrideMonth reminder. As I mentioned earlier, it's important that we don't use gay as a stand in for the whole queer community represented by pride.

There's another side to that coin though. It's important that we don't use straight to mean "not part of the queer community"

There are straight intersex folks, straight trans folks, queer people in straight passing relationships etc, all of whom see the messaging that others them from their community. Let's aim for inclusion

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Happy Pride Month to everyone except corporations

happy pride month.

pride is not a "celebration of identity." it's a demonstration of the iron will of queers to resist state-sanctioned genocide across multiple generations and cultures.

this has not changed, except that some businesses think they can purchase us like a brand.

Happy Fuck Rainbow Capitalism

More Fridays should happen on a Wednesday tbf

June 1st is Trans Day of Being Completely Fucking Done with Pride Month Less Than Ten Hours In.

No brands at pride! No cops at pride! No fake allies at pride! Fuck the lot of you.

It's the start of the pride month. This reminder is still needed because the transphobia within the queer community is blatant. The constant hate from the cisnormative world is already a huge burden - but let's face it: The queer community also has an issue they don't like to discuss about. (continued in comments)
#lgbtqia #trans