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:

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.

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.

https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/the-courts/supreme-courts/about-the-court-of-session/court-of-session-livestream-hearings

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I SCREAM WITH YOU AAAAAAA

#SNP #politicians accuse #Tories of ‘#rankhypocrisy’ for #supporting #devolution ‘where it suits them’.

“The #rights of #LGBTQ+ #communities in #Scotland have been directly #threatened by #Westminster who have stood in the way of #GRR #laws the #Scottish #parliament overwhelmingly #passed. said #SNP #MP #HannahBardell

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #NorthernIreland #Scotland #SNP #Tories #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/06/30/snp-hannah-bardell-gender-recognition-reform/

** 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

#Tory #MSP #CraigHoy #heckled at #PinkNews #event for #position on #genderreform.

He declared himself a “#TransAlly,” yet did not vote for the #GRR #Bill, “I put my hands up to that”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Scotland #Tories #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23593401.craig-hoy-heckled-pinknews-event-position-gender-reform/

Nicola 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

#LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #GRR #ScottishGRAReform #TransRightsUK

I’ve boosted @lindafab post. She is absolutely bang on.
Talk about policies being forced on the #SNP by the Greens is total nonsense. #GRR was already in progress before 2021. I should know as I was there.

#DepositReturn was already in progress before 2021. I should know. Not only was I there I bloody well announced it in 2019 and began the implementation process.

People should at least establish which policies were actually SNP policies in the first place!

https://glasgow.social/@lindafab/110128336708226129

I’m reading reports in the press today that the Greens are leading the SNP Government agenda. Nonsense! Well before I retired from Parliament, way before the SNP/Green partnership, both Deposit Return Scheme and GRR were SNP policies and progressing. I remember chairing the debates!

"I am and will always be a feminist and I will stand up and fight against threats to women’s rights everyday that I have breath in my body… I’ll also stand up for *any* stigmatised discriminated against, marginalised and vulnerable group in society."
#NicolaSturgeon #snp #scottishpolitics #ukpolitics #transrights #grr #scotland #uk

"Furious Scottish protesters take to streets over Tory gender bill block: ‘It’s divide and conquer’" https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/20/edinburgh-protest-scottish-gender-reform/
#GRR #ScottishIndependence