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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • From The Pink News

    Sir Ian McKellen will open a brand new production of the Shakespeare classic Twelfth Night featuring all trans and non-binary performers.

    The Lord of the Rings star, 86, will join in on the one-night only rehearsed reading by the theatre group Trans What You Will in July.

    Staged at London’s The Space Theatre, the reading will be broadcast globally via a livestream. All profits are going to the UK-based trans charity, Not A Phase.

    The performance will take one of Shakespeare’s most well known and gender-fluid works and reimagine it through a trans lens.

    “With mistaken identities, cross-dressing, and declarations of love across shifting gender roles, Twelfth Night has long explored the complexity of identity,” a press release reads.

    “This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.”

    Phoebe Kemp, who is directing, has said: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance, it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”

    The performance, which will take place ahead of London Trans+ Pride, has also been billed as “a joyful act of protest and pleasure activism, celebrating gender diversity at a time when trans representation remains under threat.:

    Twelfth Night – A Rehearsed Reading by Trans What You Will is set to take place on 25 July 2025 at The Space Theatre. Tickets to attend in person are available here. Tickets for the livestream are available here. Pay-what-you-can tickets are available.




  • Arch Linux on Dell 7389 : just works. Also had OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on this machine, best installer ever.

    Debian on Thinkpad X390 Yoga : with included variable-pressure pen, the touchscreen is actually a wacom tablet, perfect. Also, one if the best installer there is.

    Ubuntu on Thinkpad T480s : just works. Installing Ubuntu today is literally just a couple of clicks. Wife hasn’t complained in 3 years, this distro must be doing it right.

    (Everything Gnome here, no additional setup whatsoever. The KDE gang will argue that Plasma has a lot of goodies for touchscreens, be sure to check it out)





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    Real story: I have to go to work in the next country, in a festival where friends go also but to enjoy it. i made very clear that no drugs, no anything was to be in my car since there’s a border crossing and I can’t get involved in that shit since I am expected to work the day after.

    It’s my car, my job,… My rules yeah. Also that festival was pretty famous for being the open-air supermarket for everything smokable, sniffable, suckable whatever.

    And of course one dude has “quite nothing really, only 2 grams hashish and a half acid”. Fuck you dude I said “nothing” not “quite nothing” ffs - so the guy said, “it’s okay, I’ll put it in my mouth and swallow if we get stopped”.

    Comes the border crossing, I triple-check him. It’s in his mouth all right. And I make him so nervous he swallows when we cross (without being stopped).

    He slept the entire remaining 700km, then was angry with me because it was late when we arrived and it was gonna be a chore for him to find stuff right away instead of having time tomorrow because I made him swallow.

    He went his way that day, and probably got back by bus. I guess.


  • We’re now 57. At age 25 my SO went to work for MSF in a really remote place - like, no road through the jungle, small airfield served by derelict Russian aircraft, and in the middle of that nowhere, a huge refugee camp serving 2 warring nations.

    It’s something she needed to do.

    The pay was shit, but the local expenses where null, with food and accommodation being provided; her entire salary went into calling once a week for about 20 to 30 minutes (if the phone lines worked). She wrote also, same rhythm like once a week, but I would usually get them as a bunch of 3 or 4.

    I couldn’t write. Dunno why retrospectively, I just couldn’t. Not getting the phone calls was nerve-wracking of course.

    She was good at what she did, so in order to have her stay beyond the scope of her original mission they offered a Logistics position to me so I could join her. As it happens, in these conditions that position was untenable & she didn’t want us as a couple to establish ourselves in such a hellish place.

    She came back changed of course. But mainly, when she did move across the earth again a few years later, we went together.