Rebecca Gabriella B*

Cheer up!

2009-12-01T03:48:22Z

I know some people who need this right now:

Historical Artifacts: Neighbor

2009-11-04T03:17:00Z

I found this in a notepad buried among some old files.

Christians say, "Love thy neighbor." I'd like to believe that, but what's the point? What's the point of saying "love thy neighbor" if you don't? What's the point of believing in "love thy neighbor" if thy neighbor doth not love thee? What's the point of "love thy neighbor" if you don't love every neighbor? Black, white, Hispanic, male, female, intersex, gay, straight, bi, transgender, transsexual, Christian, Catholic, Jewish, atheist, agnostic, Buddhist, Hindi, liberal, conservative, moderate, other. How can you say "love thy neighbor" when, like a good neighbor, State Farm won't care? As Mr. Rogers says, welcome to my neighborhood. Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you?

Google Fight on Hard Drive Reliability

2009-07-27T06:48:56Z

Western Digital hard drive - 8,110,000
Western Digital hard drive failure - 276,000
ratio: 3.40%

Seagate hard drive - 4,310,000
Seagate hard drive failure - 114,000
ratio: 2.65%

Toshiba hard drive - 11,800,000
Toshiba hard drive failure - 111,000
ratio: 0.94%
(may be skewed by such things as "Toshiba laptop with blah blah hard drive")

Maxtor hard drive - 549,000
Maxtor hard drive failure - 69,000
ratio: 12.57%

Iomega hard drive - 361,000
Iomega hard drive failure - 22,500
ratio: 6.23%

LaCie hard drive - 498,000
LaCie hard drive failure - 21,400
ratio: 4.30%

Cavalry hard drive - 188,000
Cavalry hard drive failure - 12,900
ratio: 6.86%

Argosy hard drive - 62,300
Argosy hard drive failure - 3,290
ratio: 5.28%

Egg Freckles?

2009-01-26T07:08:42Z

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cosxoverx @ 2009-01-13T18:28:00

2009-01-14T02:28:53Z

Rules: IT'S HARDER THAN IT LOOKS! ERASE MY ANSWERS, ENTER YOURS; USE THE 1ST LETTER OF YOUR NAME TO ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

THEY HAVE TO BE REAL PLACES, NAMES, THINGS.NOTHING MADE UP! TRY TO USE DIFFERENT ANSWERS IF THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU HAD THE SAME 1ST INITIAL. YOU CAN'T USE YOUR NAME FOR THE BOY/GIRL NAME QUESTION.

1. What is your name: Rebecca

2. A 4 Letter Word: rule, real, rude, ride, rise, rain, ramp

3. A Boys Name: Ralph, Rudy, Randy, Robert, Ronald

4. A Girls Name: Rachel, Ruby, Ramona, Rennie, Rowena

5. An Occupation: roofer, realtor, rancher, riveter

6. A Color: red

7. Something you wear: rings, robes, raincoats

8. A Beverage: red wine, rum, RC Cola

9. A Food: radishes, raspberries, rice

10. Something found in the bathroom: razor, rinse, running water, robe

11. A place: Rio, Rhode Island, Russia, Richmond

12. A Reason for being late: rush hour traffic

13. Something someone shouts: rants, raves, rallying cries, really!

Parents protest student pledge forms on gays

2008-10-29T06:56:59Z

Parents protest student pledge forms on gays

I really shouldn't have read this, because now I'm pissed. The Yes On 8 people claim they don't want to hurt LGBT people or take away their rights, they just want to "protect traditional marriage," whatever that means. But like everything else they've said, it's a flat-out lie. That they would use kindergarteners SIGNING PLEDGES THAT THEY WOULDN'T USE GAY SLURS as an example of something that shouldn't be done in schools, and use it as "evidence" that Prop 8 needs to be passed---it really demonstrates that THEY DO WANT TO HURT US AND TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS. This incident isn't even remotely about marriage; it's about hate speech! They're basically saying that children should not be told that anti-gay speech is wrong! They're even more basically saying that anti-gay speech is OK! DO YOU SEE THE PURE, VILE HATRED HERE?

There is no swear word offensive enough to tell these Prop 8 people what I think of them.

There is no bomb powerful enough to destroy these Prop 8 people the way I want to destroy them.

Lies of Prop 8 debunked WITH EVIDENCE!

2008-10-22T06:33:11Z

http://www.kreativekorp.com/edu/prop8text.html

The full text of Proposition 8, as well as excerpts from the court ruling, the California Constitution, and the California Education Code, all disproving the lies about Prop 8. GO VIRAL!

LIES THE YES ON 8 CAMPAIGN HAS TOLD YOU

2008-10-11T06:42:40Z

Lies the Yes on 8 Campaign Has Told You
Post This Everywhere!

Panel to Review Gender Identity Disorder for DSM-V FULL OF BIGOTS AND OTHER SCARY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!

2008-05-12T17:09:24Z

Petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/412001300

Editors' note: Frequent guest blogger Mercedes Allen looks at who's in charge of deciding the fate of Gender Identity Disorder in the DSM-IV. (and plans for the DSM-V)

A short time ago, I'd discussed the movement to have "Gender Identity Disorder" (GID, a.k.a. "Gender Dysphoria") removed from the DSM-IV or reclassified, and how we needed to work to ensure that any such change was an improvement on the existing model, rather than a scrapping or savaging of it.

Lynn Conway reports that on May 1st, 2008, the American Psychiatric Association named its work group members appointed to revise the Manual for Diagnosis of Mental Disorders in preparation for the DSM-V. Such a revision would include the entry for GID.

On the Task Force, named as Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Chair, we find Dr. Kenneth Zucker, from Toronto's infamous Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH, formerly the Clarke Institute). Dr. Zucker is infamous for utilizing reparative (i.e. "ex-gay") therapy to "cure" gender-variant children. Named to his work group, we find Zucker's mentor, Dr. Ray Blanchard, Head of Clinical Sexology Services at CAMH and creator of the theory of autogynephilia, categorized as a paraphilia and defined as "a man's paraphilic tendency to be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman."

Drs. Blanchard, Zucker, J. Michael Bailey (whose work has even gone so far as to touch on eugenics) and a small cadre of others are proponents of dividing the transsexual population by sexual orientation ("homosexual transsexuals" vs. "autogynephilic") and have repeatedly run afoul of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH, formerly HBIGDA), and openly defied the Standards of Care that WPATH maintains (modeled after the original SoC developed by Dr. Harry Benjamin) in favor of conversion techniques. Blanchard and Bailey supporters also include Dr. Alice Dreger, who re-stigmatized treatment of intersex, controversial sexologist Dr. Anne Lawrence, and Dr. Paul McHugh, who had set out in the begining of his career to close the Gender Clinic at Johns Hopkins University and has been one of our most vocal detractors.

An additional danger that gay and lesbian communities need to be cognizant of is that if Zucker and company entrench conversion therapy in the DSM-V, then it is a clear, dangerous step toward also legitimizing ex-gay therapy and re-stigmatizing homosexuality.

I am not familiar with others named to the Work Group. It would be worthwhile looking into any history with WPATH that they might have, to know if we have any positive advocates on board, or just more stigmatizing adversarial clinicians. They may be appointed primarily to address other listings categorized as "Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders," I don't know. They are:

* Dr. Irving M. Binik, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

* Dr. Peggy T. Cohen-Kettenis, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam

* Dr. Jack Drescher, New York Medical College, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY

* Dr. Cynthia Graham, Isis Education Centre, Warneford Hospital, Oxfordshire, UK

* Dr. Richard B. Krueger, NY State Psyciatric Institute and Columbia University, NY

* Dr. Niklas Langstrom, Karolinka Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

* Dr. Heino F.L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Columbia University, NY

* Dr. Robert Taylor Segraves, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland

The APA press release states that for further information regarding this, to contact Rhondalee Dean-Royce ( rroyce@psych.org ) and Sharon Reis ( sreis@gymr.com ), though it's possible that they may govern the press release only, rather than have any involvement in the decision to appoint Zucker. The APA itself is headquartered at 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington VA, 22209. Their Annual General Meeting is currently being held (May 3-8, 2008) in Washington, DC.

I'm poorly situated (Western Canada, with no travel budget) to lead the drive for this, which I see as a very serious danger to the transgender community. So I am calling on the various Transgender and GLBT organizations to band together to take action on this, and will assist in whatever way that I and AlbertaTrans can.

I am also calling upon our allies and advocates in the medical community and affiliated with WPATH to band together with us and combat this move which could potentially see WPATH stripped of its authority on matters regarding treatment of transsexuals.

Cross-posted just about everywhere.

flordehibiscus

2008-05-01T21:55:25Z

What flower maiden are you?? (BREATHTAKING anime pics) NEW AND IMPROVED PICS!!!!!!!!!! many results

You are the maiden of the hibiscus. (the tropical princess). Your colors are pink, orange and red.Your phrase is: The only key to beauty is eyes that behold it.Your name is Marisol and it means sunny sea. You are probably a very fun to be around kind of person with a great amount of friends and love to travel to beautiful unique places!
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Totally ORTHOG!

2008-02-03T05:35:00Z

Cross-posted to transgeek

The world has ended.

2007-09-12T04:21:17Z

For Immediate Release: Facebook Denies Yay Genderform

2007-09-12T02:18:54Z

For Immediate Release: Facebook Denies Yay Genderform

Bad journalism is therapeutic. :)

Classic

2007-08-29T23:27:50Z

Yes, I make terrible puns.

It's a travesty!

2007-08-29T21:17:47Z

Trix are now round. They're supposed to be shaped like fruit! Now there's nothing to differentiate them from Fruity Pebbles! What is the world coming to!?!?

Woooohooooo

2007-03-11T21:21:58Z

I just created a profile at www.ourchart.com and I love this!!!!

Fork Split

2007-02-12T07:02:40Z

Is anybody else here as much of a Mac OS Classic whore as I am? Because I just got Java to read a Mac OS resource file and display cursors and icons from it!!!

Here's icl8 #3 from the System file!

Bruce Horn would be proud of me. :D

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

2006-10-27T02:38:42Z

Here's the icon to use whenever someone asks you to prove it. ;)

Cross-posted to transgeek.

Edward Gorey

2006-10-24T06:06:23Z

What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?

You will be smothered under a rug. You're a little anti-social, and may want to start gaining new social skills by making prank phone calls.
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Dear Goddess It's Happened

2006-09-26T01:02:19Z

I've started my own webcomic, Katie Lynne Sapphe the Webcomic! It's at nxsinxmcosxoxsq. Why I did this I'll probably never understand.

Mummy, have you seen my jumper?

2006-09-04T07:35:14Z

Yes, dear, it was on the cat.

Best to do it at a bit of a run if you can.

Good luck.

I could look like her...

Who's Next?

2006-08-04T04:31:06Z

When we fought World War II, we started freeing religion.
When blacks fought for their rights, we started freeing race.
When women fought for their rights, we started freeing sex.
Now that homosexuals are fighting for their rights, we're starting to free orientation.
What's left to start freeing but gender?

Who was behind the civil rights movement, right next to Martin Luther King, invisible and now forgotten? Bayard Rustin, a homosexual.
Who started the Stonewall riots, launching the gay rights movement, invisible and now forgotten? Sylvia Rivera, a crossdresser.
Guess what?

It's our turn next.

Made something in AutoCAD today

2006-06-30T07:14:11Z

The name comes from my prospective spirit name, Katie Lynne Sapphe, Daughter of Cyber and Cybele.

Cross-posted to transgeek.

Something I just came up with

2006-06-26T19:01:21Z

MTFs and FTMs are on opposite sides of the fence, but they both agree there's a fence.

Furthermore, the fence was put here long before we were.

"Tear down this fence!"

What a weird word, fence...

Some Geeky Queer Icons

2006-06-02T06:46:51Z

Enjoy! I can make wallpapers of these if there's interest.

Cross-posted to transgeek.