Bob Ham @rah@librem.one

@jhol@mstdn.io Robert Llewellyn is *not* of Scrapheap Challenge fame. Robert Llewellyn is of Red Dwarf fame. Get it right, please :-)

@twee

Government: Validate us or you'll get a fine!

Sounds like that government is pretty insecure. Although it was a nation state founded by criminals so I suppose they have reason to be worried.

@twee I'd been off the electoral register for years and the worst that happened was someone with a clipboard knocking at my door demanding my name. That's happened a few times. I never gave it to them, even when they got uppity and told me it was "the law!" I never heard anything more beyond the usual letters.

And to be clear, I'm not on the electoral register now because I want to vote but because it helps secure a mortgage.

@twee The chances of that happening are slim to none. The council would have to take you to court first and it's highly unlikely they would spend the money to do that, just because someone refuses to fill out the form for the electoral register.

@Shrigglepuss

No.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk

@seb_ly

Or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk

@MarcatoMarc @dzuk

"A one vote difference would have made the country completely different."

LOL

@chartier @Gargron

> Virtually the entire industry

Which industry?

@Gargron Who would feel that Twitter or Instagram were necessary for being professionally successful?

@dzuk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk

@art So what will you be doing about it? :-)

@restioson@anarchism.space Yes. To me, masculinity and feminitity are about neither gender nor sex.

@restioson@anarchism.space They seem that way to me. They have an ineffable quality but they exist and they're distinct.

@restioson@anarchism.space And note we're talking about masculinity and femininity, *not* men and women. Any characteristic can be embodied by any person. We are discriminating between categories that are not clearly understood. Which is odd if you think about it: human beings have been around for 300,000 years and we still don't understand masculinity and femininity. These qualities are transcendent.

@restioson@anarchism.space Yes. Either a characteristic is masculine, feminine, or neither. If we don't discriminate then everything is in the "neither" category. That's fine if that's how you want to see the world but here we're explicitly communicating about masculinity. If we refuse to discriminate then nothing is masculine and the conversation is done.

@epicmorphism @restioson@anarchism.space @popefucker@cybre.space I disagree

@epicmorphism @restioson@anarchism.space @popefucker@cybre.space I hate to be the one to break it to you but being a good person is not a gender-specific burden. Although I would say that actually the burden is not to "be good" but only to not harm others. So play with the devil and enjoy yourself, as long as your play isn't at the expense of someone else's wellbeing.

@restioson@anarchism.space Being honourable is masculine. Stepping aside and *not* winning the day when that is the right thing to do is masculine.

@restioson@anarchism.space I've been to men's retreats and topic of what it means to be a man and what "masculinity" is are both very tough and our culture provides very little helpful guidance. One thing is clear: the muscle bound ignoramus who crushes the enemy and gets the girl is not masculinity. Protecting one's loved ones is masculine. Speaking the truth and fighting for it is masculine.

@substack @FirstProgenitor @restioson@anarchism.space All people, men, women and whatever else have both masculinity and femininity. In some masculinity dominates, in some femininity dominates, in some there is more balance. And note that this not an issue of appearance or physicality, or even behaviour. It is about the nature of one's core self, that which is only (possibly inaccurately) reflected by behaviour.