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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

yeah. to them it's an abstraction. it's not real. it's just another "blue team red team" game. so then you show them. you make them watch the documentaries. and then you watch as the cognitive dissonance kicks in, and they find a way to justify it to themselves. every cis person i know does this.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

what kills me is the realisation that cis people straight up don't care. even the progresslives. most of them don't even known what v-coding is. they just don't care because our lives don't matter

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

i just... look. i've been raped. several times actually. and it is exactly as brutal as you think it is. this isn't an abstract policy from my perspective. it's the government admitting it tacitly approves of what was done to me. and i'm not okay.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

it's weird that the government can announce a "haha trannies are rapemeat now" policy and you're expected to treat it like it's just another wednesday

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 1h

"At the end of the day, if you're born a bloke, you're going to men's prison and we'll deal with you there."

So that's where we are in Australia. Everybody knows what she means here. She means that trans women get raped with government approval. That's how they "deal with us" in men's prisons.

Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 3h

More on the horrifying new policy of the NT Government, to send trans women to men's prisons, exposing them to significant risk of violence and sexual assault. #ntpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Advocates condemn NT leader's comments on trans women in female prisons

The Northern Territory government has doubled down on its stance against detaining transgender women in female prisons, as a local LGBTQIA+ group says it is "horrified" by the comments.

www.abc.net.au

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2h

yeah. if it's the same PDS and those two domains exist only for the purpose of supplying polite handles for non-Black users, then it might be okay for my account to stay as-is, using my own domain to provide the handle. idk. all i want to get off bluesky but also not break blacksky rules, you know?

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2h

not to put too fine a point on it, but under no circumstances would i ever want to break the social compact here. bluesky is hostile to trans users. and i want out, and i am grateful to the blacksky team for providing an alternative. i would and will move the account as needed. of course!

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2h

that's my understanding also. from what i can tell, the intention is that the primary reason for having three PDSes is to ensure that the "blacksky.app" handle is reserved for Black users (which is of course extremely reasonable). i've fixed the handle, but i do want to move to the correct PDS also

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 3h

yeah i'm looking into it - I initially moved to the main blacksky PDS and only after the fact realised that this nuance exists: I've now reverted my handle to something other than blacksky.app to adhere to the spirit of the rules, but I think I also need to move the account onto one of the open PDS

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 4h

i have to admit that finally being able to host my account on blacksky infrastructure (while keeping my original handle so as to not misrepresent who i am) has made me feel a little safer on this ghastly network. i don't think i realised until now how deeply angry i am toward bluesky as a company.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 4h

The context is here. Until now Australia has avoided this practice. It's not surprising that it's the NT govt doing it, given their history of staggering racism in policing. But the expansion to target trans women is new, and it makes me nervous

Catniss 🪑🐎 @catnissplz.bsky.social · 21h

Archive link below, though there really isn't much to gain by reading this gross pile of shit.. It's just more of exactly what you think it is

archive.md/Ko8Mi

archive.md

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 5h

This. The functional purpose of these rules is to ensure that any time a trans woman is incarcerated, for any reason, her de facto punishment is state sanctioned rape. What happens to trans women in men's prisons doesn't matter to anyone, least of all the government.

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 21h

NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro (CLP) is doing this either out of reckless negligence toward, or with the intention of, procuring trans women inmates for the purpose of having them raped.

This is what sending trans women to men's prisons does. This is all it ever does. This is what it is for.

Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · 1d

The NT Government is importing culture wars, and putting the safety and welfare of trans women prisoners at serious risk, by announcing they will send trans women to men's prisons. #auslaw #trans #transphobia
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

fuck it. done. and thank you. 💕

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

i am pretty angry at bluesky at the moment. would not be at all upset at the prospect of migrating the account to blacksky, at least to the extent that adding a generic white tgirl would not be too awkward

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

chelsea i wasted so many of my academic years thinking about how scientific measurement maps inexactly onto statistical measure theory, and what that means on the ground. and like, what, we're just gonna admit it's all just counting and the reals are a lie??? i... actually i am on board with this

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

glaring at you in sigma algebra

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

❤️

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

On reflection, the sad thing about this episode is that over the last few years tech companies have forced LLM integrations on users so recklessly that the assumption of good faith died a long time ago. It genuinely didn't even occur to me that it was just a bug

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

The reason I freaked out is spelled out here. I work in pharma and cannot risk having LLM integration enabled by default when I'm working with client data. I've spent most of this year trying to disable the extremely risky AI integrations that many companies are pushing on users, and I panicked

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

it's also extremely dangerous for users who work in regulated industries. the potential for accidentally passing commercial-in-confidence data to an unauthorised third party is unacceptably high when you start inserting LLM links into console messages. this "feature" needs to be opt-in, not opt-out

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

Sincere thanks to Julia for opening the bug report and explaining that it isn't intended behaviour 🙃

Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 2d

Ah gosh, thank you for pointing this out! This is just plain a bug and not the intended behavior. I have opened this here for us to get this fixed:
github.com/posit-dev/po...

Assistant Console actions should respect `positron.assistant.enable` · Issue #9919 · posit-dev/positron

We turned on positron.assistant.consoleActions.enable by default in the latest release, but the way this plays out is that folks see those Fix/Explain prompts in their console even if they do not h...

github.com

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

I posted this yesterday and was distressed at what looked like LLM prompts being pushed into the positron console by default. Evidently it's just a bug (details below). I am relieved. Reposting in order to correct the misconception implied by my original post, and also because now it's just funny 🫠

an R error message at the positron console with silly AI prompts popping up in places they shouldn't be. it is apparently a bug, so now it's funny not infuriating

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

turns out it's a bug - they do have the assistant but it's not supposed to be enabled by default. i'm relieved

Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

Thanks Julia. I genuinely panicked when I saw this. In a moment I'll delete the original thread to avoid spreading my panic further. Sorry, LLM intrusions into without opt-in user consent have gotten so pervasive now that I thought it was deliberate. Didn't even occur to me that it was a bug

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

Evidently it's a bug and shouldn't be enabled by default. Thank god. I seriously thought posit had just collectively lost their minds. LLM intrusiveness has gotten so bad over the last 12 months that the assumption of good faith re LLMs is long dead. Anyway, I'm relieved.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 2d

Oh thank god. I freaked out when I saw it. Tech companies have been forcing LLMs into everything lately, creating so many risks of accidental data breaches. I just assumed it was deliberate. I'll probably delete the original thread in a moment and repost something less panicky