Weeknotes for 2025W38 post

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+title: "Notes on 2025W38"
+slug: weeknotes-2025w38
+date: 2025-09-21
+categories: weeknotes
+tags:
+  - Weeknotes
+  - Trans
+  - japan
+  - japan-tokyo
+  - Trains
+  - Yamanote
+  - uspol
+  - Travel
+  - Unions
+---
+
+I'm pretty behind on weeknotes again.
+
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+
+It has been a truly awful few weeks for trans people in the US. I am worried for
+myself and for every other trans person navigating the daily terror of the
+political climate here. You are loved and valid, no matter what they say.
+:heart:
+
+----
+
+Someone [compiled all the station ditties](https://yamanot.es) along the
+Yamanote line in Tōkyō. Via [Jonathan Wight][wight], though the link is now
+dead.
+
+---
+
+[Jimmy Kimmel was removed from the air][kimmel] by a combination of ABC, Disney,
+and Nexstar over comments he made about Charlie Kirk. His comments were mild at
+best, and his removal portends bad things for freedom of speech and a free press
+in the US.
+
+---
+
+The US seems poised to pass a country-wide [bathroom ban][bathrooms] for trans
+people. It would deny trans people the right to use the toilets matching their
+gender, and _also_ deny them access to toilets matching their birth sex,
+effectively preventing trans people from using the bathroom in any public space.
+If this passes, I don't think I will be able to travel to the UK for any reason
+for the forseeable future.
+
+Sol Elias draws a comparison to the current [moral panic][panic] around trans
+rights and the "crack baby" era of the 1980s and 1990s.
+
+---
+
+The team behind the Diablo franchise at Blizzard has [unionized][diablo].
+Congrats to them!
+
+[wight]: https://mastodon.social/@schwa/115125526450662142
+[kimmel]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858
+[bathrooms]: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bathroom-ban/
+[panic]: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2025/08/freak-generations-the-moral-panic-playbook-from-crack-babies-to-trans-kids/
+[diablo]: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115112175537370858