moved to @ebel@moytura.org @ebel@witches.town

"An open letter to the organisers of the “We Need to Talk Tour” from a group of #feminists in #Ireland"
Irish feminists are organising against a #TERF group that wants to come to Ireland.
https://feministire.com/2018/01/22/an-open-letter-to-the-organisers-of-the-we-need-to-talk-tour-from-a-group-of-feminists-in-ireland/

Some photos of the recent #trans healthcare protest in '#Dublin, #Ireland
#TransHealthCareNow
https://gcn.ie/dublins-trans-healthcare-march-pictures/

Someone on Twitter wrote a big long thread about how #Churchhill was a villain.
https://twitter.com/ireland/status/954792642327523329

@kitation FeministIre is an Irish blog from some activists in Ireland which is nicely pro-trans etc
https://feministire.com/

@kitation Yes, many groups aren't doing enough. 😞

Thankfully Irish feminist groups are often much more anti-TERF.

e.g. Abortion Rights Campaign uses term "pregnant person" a lot, and supports trans issues https://twitter.com/freesafelegal

@kitation that's not my feminism. And that's just TERFs. Since they aren't feminists they shouldn't be involved in feminist groups

A5 is probably my favorite paper size

@gracie there are several algorithms for drawing ("rasterizing") polygons. Many of them can work with invalid polygons like I've described! It can be frustrating for some data to work some places but not others.

OTOH being able to see an "invalid" polygon helps you see where the problem is

@gracie there are some approaches to fix some issues, like merging overlapping polygons to make one polygon which covers the union of the area. Etc. It's just annoying and hard

@gracie self intersections, like a figure of 8. An interior part which goes outside the exterior. Interior parts which overlap each other. 2 exteriors overlapping (for multipolygons), even the points needs to be specified in the right order (clockwise vs ccw).

This is all in the context of Geographic Information Systems, where software will read the data I'm creating and (some) will barf if I give it bad shapes. This is also called "simple polygons"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_polygon

imma gonna cast a spell to fix my polygons

I am trying to fix my polygons. I'm trying to write a "make valid" function. But it's haaaaaaard.
And I know it's going to be slow. I'm gonna have to optimise the hell out of this when I have it working.

Oh polygons. Why do you sometimes have to be invalid? You're the bane of my life now.

@gracie @alcinnz but if we make software that cannot be owned, then that can make things better.

Kinda like how copyleft means someone can't take away your own code.

TBH I like that this is a technical approach 🙂

@alcinnz @gracie yes, we need to make software which cannot be centralised!

@johnribbon I don't think tolerance is a zero sum game. Just that you have to look at the whole picture.

@johnribbon Ireland is much less intolerant. I don't think you can claim there's a "rising intolerance". That makes no sense.

Yes, Ireland is getting less tolerant of some beliefs, (e.g. some pro-life beliefs, anti-LGBTQ), but that's combined by the massive increase in tolerance for those groups. And you can't have both.

@johnribbon huh? I really don't think it's comparable at all. People opposed to SSM do not face anywhere *near* the opposition that (say) LGBTQ people used to face.

You're gonna need some serious evidence.