Technically Queer

Welcome to Technically Queer, a show exploring tech beyond binaries.

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Show Links:

• A Cyborg Manifesto
• Glitch Feminism
• Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget - The Verge
• $30,000,000 AI Is Hiding a Scam - YouTube
• Free and open-source software - Wikipedia
• trans girl suicide museum · hannah baer
• I Saw The TV Glow | Official Trailer HD | A24 - YouTube
• I Saw the TV Glow Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – A24 Shop
• Copilot
• Clicks Keyboard for iPhone

Thank you for visiting with us. ♥️

• Mastodon
• The Bryan mic
• Blot Blog
• We've been gone for a while!
• Taylor Swift and fatphobia
• Wild Amazon Echo and iPhone Bluetooth issue (iOS 16 problems) - Bryan

Topics

• The mad man actually did it (Elon and Twitter)
  • Twitter alternatives
  • Should we even leave
• Dinosaur Therapy
• Lazy for Mac
• NO MORE HENRY CAVILL?
• SEX
  • Refusing Complusory Sexuality
  • Ace

• Alex
  • Lord me daddy (landlords are awesome /s)
• Bryan
  • Dinosaur Comics
• Cass
  • Steam Deck
• Quinn
  • She/Her/Hers by She/her/Hers
  • Princess, Pt. 2 by Mel Stone
  • QUARTZ BY Ekko Astral

• Girl with an asterisk
• I have seven google homes
• The year of TikTok on the desktop
• Marjorie Taylor Greenstein
• Taylor Greene Monogamous Stan
• I didn't choose the girl life, the girl life chose me

• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
• DIY HRT
  • diyhrt.wiki
  • safe injection sites

• Trauma and Relationships
• Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back
• What it's Like to be a Relationship Anarchist
• Quinn's funny tweet?
• Verso Books:: Abolish the Family
• The Covid-19 Guidance on CDC's Website is a Crime Against Humanity

• Alex: Dimension 20

https://twitter.com/OrionDBlack

• Bryan: Mindfulpoly.com
  • Insighttimer.com
• Cass:
  • Steam Deck
  • The Wheel of Time
  • Stormlight Archive
• Quinn:
  • Willa Murphy's Horsewoman in Space

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected] or [email protected]

• Bryan: @blackqueeriroh
• Quinn: holopollock.net
• Alex: alexcox.me
• Cass: @still_not_rick

TQ Word of the Day: Solidarity

Pre-Show

• Name Changes!
• Minor gender crisis

https://quinnpollock.net/ideas/my-pronouns/

• Patreon fired their security

Main Show

• Kiwi Farms, Keffals, and Cancellation

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyagd/keffals-kiwi-farms

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/03/cloudflare-drops-kiwifarms/

- History of  Cloudfare

- Lived Experience (wikipedia)

- Substack fallout

• https://www.vocaltype.co/history-of/marsha

Showly Chip

• Cass
  • Spitephone Mini
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Quinn
  • iPhone 14 pro in purple (obviously)
    • Canadian Paybright
  • Canadian Name Change
• Bryan
  • Reading Directions
  • Fire Wallet
• Alex
  • blot.im

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected] or [email protected]

• Bryan: @blackqueeriroh
• Quinn: holopollock.net
• Alex: alexcox.me
• Cass: @still_not_rick

Twitter Read

• Cass is Traveling
• Quinn is on Starlink (fs in the chat)
  • More browser company talk (ark)

• Coffee talk w/ Quinn
  • Blåhaj

Building Better Codes of Conduct

• Bryan was on a Twitter Space with Jay! How to Build a Better Code of Conduct

https://t.co/AtNsIvzLKM

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1lDxLLBNbOoxm

- [Missing Stair Problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair)

• Alex: Fossey
• Quinn: VQFF
  • Clean Code
• Bryan: Atlassian

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected] or [email protected]

• Bryan: @blackqueeriroh
• Quinn: holopollock.net
• Alex: alexcox.me
• Cass: @still_not_rick

• Alex is AWOI
• Television!
  • She-Hulk
  • The Boys
  • Battlestar Galactica
  • One Piece
• Daffodil (Quinn’s Doppleganger)
• Podcast Speed
• Podcast Protest
  • Alex's Patreon
• Bryan's on 2.5 podcasts this weekend:
  • The Labeled Podcast
  • Absolotuely Crushed

Listener feedback

• Coffee talk w/ Quinn
  • Arc Browser
• Daylight Savings (sucks)
• Problematic(?) Directors
  • Dennis Villeneuve
  • David Cronenberg
• Book Talk
  • Brandon Sanderson
  • Problematic Fave: Orson Scott Card
  • Paper Girls
  • How to Lose The Time War
  • The Merro Tree
  • Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

- Artist consent and compensation

• Music and queerness (Spotify called Quinn out )
  • Quinn sad in a bathtub: https://twitter.com/holopollock/status/1477459501708034050?s=20&t=IiCO-ArF1aI3dqVnbz9Nkw

https://beestungmag.com/issue12/viewing-gretchen-felker-martins-manhunt-through-the-lens-of-hil-malatinos-side-affects-on-being-trans-and-feeling-bad-by-cassandra-whitaker/

• Potato the Musicals

https://www.tiktok.com/@michellerocqet/video/7133748092205010219?_r=1&_t=8UzxjdHfp74&is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7133748092205010219

• Paying attention to bigots on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vaspider/status/1552487343235293186?s=21&t=SZQ8pQg_cf5Fz8zpIrH_ag
• Stacked screens kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/747287659/geminos-stacked-screens-for-enhanced-productivity/description
• Cortex Brand (episode about their first journal?)
• Explain like I’m straight: AI Image Generators and the problem with training AI
  • John Oliver on AI Images
  • Midjourney
  • doly.ai

• Cass: Planta
  • Nicole Byer
• Quinn: Vancouver Queer Film Festival
• Bryan: Internet

https://firewalla.com/products/firewalla-gold?variant=42638546993396

- [Sonos](https://www.sonos.com/en-us/home)

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected] or [email protected]

Bryan: @blackqueeriroh

Cass: @still_not_rick

Quinn: holopollock.net

• Audio Hijack Shenanigans?
• Internet problems deux
  • Snarky puppy
• Feedback
  • Rust
  • @quinn the show notes need a rust meme
  • VR Chat

• The Subversion of Queer (blackness is inherently queer - as in not conforming to white norms)
  • Renaissance (Benyonce)
  • Gaylor
  • More black women being banned from the Olympics
  • George M Johnson (they/them) "All Boys Aren't Blue"
• Double peripheral lifestyle
  • MX master
• Car Talk
  • Chaya Milchtein
  • Inflation reduction act
    • Hank's video
  • Lucid Air
  • Ontario Driver's License
• Excuse vs Explanation (Asking vs Guessing Culture)

• Bryan: The Cradle Series by Will Wight
  • Java
• Cass: Ancillary Justice
• Quinn: Paper Girls Graphic Novels
  • Vancouver queer film festival
  • The First Glass Beach Album

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected] or [email protected]

• Bryan: @blackqueeriroh
• Cass: @still_not_rick
• Quinn: holopollock.net
• Alex: alexcox.me

Welcome back to Technically Queer, a podcast where Cass inserts intros into the most inappropriate spaces. This week on TQ, the four enbies dive into the mysteries of the internet.

• Copper Union
• Eero
• TP-Link AC500 Wireless Controller
• Amazon's iRobot Deal Would Give It Maps Inside Millions of Homes | WIRED
  • Carrot's take
• Why does trans twitter keep rehashing the same drama
  • Theyfab drama
  • My son is gay video
• Follow up: iOS 16 beta
  • request: iMessage adhd sidebar
  • Battery indicator
• Riverdale
• Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion
• Humans need not apply
• Showly Chip
  • Bryan: learning Java from Angie Jones,  Java Script, and Python
  • Quinn got their computer back!
    • Guilty Gear
    • Guilty Gear's Bridget Has Changed, So Have Fighting Games
    • Chelsea D. LaLicata on Twitter
  • Cass
    • Shortcuts and angry noises
    • javascript
  • Alex: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
    • Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected] (or [email protected])

• Alex: alexcox.me
• Bryan: @blackqueeriroh
• Cass: @still_not_rick
• Quinn: holopollock.net

Cass: “Welcome back to Technically Queer, a podcast where we, the local gays, bounce around queerness and tech and how terrible and great and weird stuff is all the time.” This week on TQ: Who is the most medicated

• email us at [email protected] or [email protected]
• Yubikey again
• Do By Friday episode July 22
• Episode 1 of “The Rehearsal”
• (We’re not sponsored by nord vpn)
• Fentanyl + cops (but they’re probably panic attacks)

• Minecraft says No to NFTs
• But Gamestop says yes (TW: 911 imagery)
• Quoffe (coffee) talk w/Quinn
• Coming out in Alex’s DMs
• GLEE (is cursed)
• iPhone (and other Apple) Betas
  • Bryan’s Lock Screen
  • Cass’s Now Playing screen
• Bearable med tracking
  • unprovoked DSM-5 diagnosis
• transfemscience.org
• Progesterone!!!
• Glitch feminism
• Titane (titanium in French)
• Alex’s NGL - anonymous Q&A
• Recycling is a lie in America

Queer identities online ”queer” identities online and at work

• Back to DE&I!
  • (please don’t actually call us slurs)
• Hypothetical: do we get rid of gender at work?
  • “No politics at work” - Basecamp
  • Gender Sovereign Citizen
  • Queer communes

• Bryan
  • Custom standing desks (but not for standing)
  • Bryan to link all of their things
• Cass - uhhhhhhhhh, Into the Breach Advanced Edition
  • Also Hinge I guess?
  • Steam deck?
• Alex - Playdate
  • Alex’s pokemon headphoness
• Quinn
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion Rebuilds
  • Undertale
  • Request: Book Tracker Recommendations that aren’t Goodreads
    • Letterboxd for books
  • Story graph

• WOMEN’S (man’s?) MARCH
  • Show art!

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected] (or [email protected] if you’re not queer)
Alex: alexcox.me
Bryan: @blackqueeriroh
Cass: @still_not_rick
Quinn: holopollock.net

This week in queer, the local non-binary neurodivergents tackle Roe v. Wade, DE&I in the workplace, and how far they can stretch the definition of technology

• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• Overturning of Roe v. Wade leaked draft
• “Vote Blue No Matter Who”
• Roe v. Wade Decision on (1973)
• Secret service deleting evidence

• “NSA Swears on the Body of Ed Snowden”
• Rene Ritche: Encryption vs. Data Recovery
• Dunbar’s number
• Crypto-fascism
  • The irony of self-declaring as a crypto-fascist
• Abortion as a wedge issue
• NPR: The Growing Threat Of Disinformation And How To 'Deprogram' People Who Believe It
• Elon pulls out of Twitter (heh)
• His dad marrying his step daughter
• Delaware court of chancery

• Quinn posing
• TomboyX
• Woxer
• Rockwell rose gold razors
• Kaftco (sponsor us?)
• GNINO - gender neutral in name only
• Lucy & Yak
• Gender Neutral Clothing Designer
• Gender Neutral Name
• Taco Bell allegedly tweeting “Come try our new Tacussy”
• NASCAR tweeting YASCAR 🌈

• ERGs and Employer Weaponization
• Decruiter
• Lean on Me: “Stay Black and die”
• Dean Spade on mutual aid and burnout

Podcast frequency

• Time crime: https://one-sec.app/

Weekly Chip

• Quinn - Dylan does Dating on TikTok
  • Follow Quinn on TikTok: Holopollock
• Cass - Hadestown: Road to Hell
• Alex - Messing with TikTok’s algorithm
  • Follow Alex on TikTok: @porygay
  • Gender Reveal episode 126: Jules Gill-Peterson
• Bryan - Listen and Love by Dan Purcelle
  • https://twitter.com/thedanpurcell/status/1548002507703480321?s=21&t=XMlTDlwZwuGf-jciqAZERA
  • https://danpurcell.ffm.to/listen-n-love.OTW

Twitter Thread

Find us at @TQPodFM or send us feedback at [email protected]
Alex: alexcox.me
Bryan: @blackqueeriroh
Cass: @still_not_rick
Quinn: holopollock.net