Vivienne del Toboso

Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.

I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.

Could a worm love a burst of static? Could a knot love one facet of a jewel? Could gunpowder love the gunpowder recipe? Could a dog love pants? Matchmakers should be so much more ambitious

She shakes you awake at 4AM. "Hurry," whispering, pulling you against her chest, "it only happens once every two centuries," and groggy, you listen to her heartbeat, a single thump, for the first and last time

this is how schumer keeps the baileys in his mind prison

the thing is. you can't negotiate with a tumor. it is not productive to get pissed off at a tumor

but you *can* get pissed off at the doctor who refuses to acknowledge the blood you keep coughing up because the tumor has convinced him that his portfolio will go up by .5% if you die

hope that helps

I think that many do not realize that when people say they will die without the ACA, they are not exaggerating or being dramatic. I take medication daily because without it my body does not recognize when to stop bleeding. So I take medication to "trick" my uterus into thinking I am pregnant.

Mamdani is going to implement Sharknado Law.

Enough said.

100% here too.

And there was much rejoicing...

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/...

Grapes of Wrath 1939:

"Trans women only metaphorically oracles" factoid actualy just statistical error. Average trans woman can vainly foretell doom like Kassandra of old. Brianna Wu, who lives in tacky McMansion & ignores over 10,000 obvious consequences each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Thank you!

Just 260 left? Okay. Let's see if we can clear this today, one less stressor while I'm trying to get book updates and everything done before I leave town.

Down to just 400 left to go? Yay. This is pretty much just our food and gas budget for the trip. And any other expenses, so if it gets pushed past the goal number, I certainly won't be complaining, as it'll mean a bit more time to recover in. If you can still kick in anything, please do.

...to my embarrassment, after making a note *not* to do this, I gave the injection volume as the dose.

Cypionate 5mg/mL, at 1 mL/week, which is 5mg.

look, it's been a long week and it's only wednesday

Currently doing cypionate 1mg/week via IM injection, but I'm looking into switching to enanthate.

My levels have looked fine in the bloodwork for the past year or so.

I've also tried prog, oral or suppository, and noticed no particular effects either way. So add one more to the "in a lab" list, I suppose.

(The obvious explanation in my case for prog not affecting my sex drive is that I'm ace and I don't have one of those anyway, though.)

I was told that, Being Here
requires allowing the world
to soak into the cracks
and I took that to mean
that the more broken I am
the more real this world becomes

Six days left. 2,130 to go still. Please, if you can, anything helps.

I got the A Lot beat out of me pretty thoroughly and ended up with the "shutdowns-and-selective-mutism, alexithymia, social hypervigilance, kind of a shut-in" flavor of 'Tism -- never enough, rather than always too much -- but... yeah.

It sucks, I'm sorry and I hope you find enough safe people.

At the risk of stating the obvious, that fucking sucks, you deserved so much better as a kid, and you still deserve better now than having to live the mask, but finding people you can safely be your whole neuroqueer self with is brutally difficult.

7 days left to revision. 5 days left to get the funds together so I have a home to go back to afterwards. 2400 dollars to go. If you can help, even if it's just spreading the word, please do.

gofund.me/74494d4f

My first thought was "oh, a typo, that should read *silicone* perfection."

My second, close on its heels, was "...given what I've read of RCBG so far, I'm not so sure, actually."

Juno, you're awesome.

Here's my own current need: bsky.app/profile/deet...

(Yeah, I'm stuck speedrunning funding my own surgery revision. Great times.)

Day 4, and well, things seem to have mostly stalled out since yesterday. Partly because today got kinda burnt doing divorce paperwork. Fun times. Hopefully this gets extra eyes on it.

shout out to the intersex trans women y'all are in the fucking trenches in the internet discourse i'm so sorry

600 down! That just leaves... okay no, it leaves a LOT.

Can we get some more #signalboost on this #mutualaid post?

Ace 101 by sparklemaia, published November 12, 2023 on https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/ace-101-sparklemaia Page 1 Two figures sit in a lavender living room that's very comfy and has lots of cats around. They are drinking tea. Maia: -and that's why I can't go back like, ever again. Friend: Completely fair. Speaking of fair: how was the maker faire? Maia: Rad! That's where I got this sweet hat! IMAGE: Close-up on Maia's black baseball hat, which has the black, gray, white, and purple-striped Asexuality flag on it. IMAGE: Friend holding tea mug and talking. Friend: It's... a pride flag... it's on the tip of my brain- Oh! The asexual flag! Friend: You posted about being ace in April! Full disclosure: I googled it, but I'm still pretty vague on what asexuality is... I think it's the "A" in LGBTQIA? But I still have, like, so many questions. Maia: I'd love to be your ace wiki for the day, if you're down? Friend: Ohh, yes please! Maia: Great, this is my jam. Let's spill the tea on asexuali-TEA!

Maia: So, what would you say attraction feels like? Friend: Hmm... I guess it's like a strong pull towards someone? IMAGE: The friend leans forward to stroke a gray-striped cat that hopped on their table and is walking towards them. Maia: Totally! But it took some super personal chats with my all- (non-ace) -friends to realize we meant different things when we talked about being into someone. It turns out that attraction- that pull- is made up of different parts. IMAGE: Another table houses multiple bowls of looseleaf teas, with a sign proclaiming, "Build your own!". Each bowl is labeled differently: Sensual, Romantic, Sexual, Aesthetic Maia: I've got romantic attraction in spades. It's just that for me, that romantic attraction isn't linked to sexual attraction. Friend: So, when you feel drawn toward someone, you just don't... have the desire to bone them? Maia: Pretty much! And that's what asexual means: little to no sexual attraction.

Friend: Hold up... a 'little' bit of sexual attraction still counts as ace? Maia: Yeah, it's not always an all-or-nothing thing. Some people experience sexual attraction rarely, or only under certain circumstances, or just at very low levels. It's kind of a spectrum. Friend: I guess that tracks, very few things in life are totally black and white! Maia (gesturing at the black, gray, white, purple-striped Asexual flag): Exactly. That's what the grey is for. Anyone who feels like they don't totally vibe with a 'typical' allo experience is welcome, even if they're in that grey zone between allo and 'absolute zero' sexual attraction. Friend: Sounds like there's lots of SPACE- in ACE! IMAGE: Maia plants the Ace flag on the moon, waving at a rocket (also emblazoned with the ace flag) as it cruises by. Maia: Haha, yep! My ace experience might not be the same as someone else's, but the label gives us a starting place for finding common ground.

IMAGE: Back in the tea house, the friend observes two cats curled up on a shelf on the wall. Friend: Something I still don't get: you've talked about crushes and dates and stuff before. Are your dates just Netflix and actual chill? Maia: Haha, sometimes! But other times I do take it to the bone zone. For me, sex is often about emotional intimacy with my partner. Heck, sometimes I just need to scratch a biological itch, even if my body isn't pointing me towards a specific person to get it done. Plus, for me, it feels good! Friend: Whoa, you actually... like sex? Maia: Yeah, there's even a word for it in ace space: sex-favorable. And whether sex favorable, sex-indifferent, or sex-repulsed, all aces are still ace. IMAGE: Three cats illustrate the different states of asexual sexual interest. Sex-Favorable cat smiles and approaches a hand to be pet. Sex-Indifferent cat sits by itself, licking its paw. Sex-Repulsed cat is all puffed up and hissing.

What better way to celebrate Asexual Awareness Week than by spillin' the asexualiTEA with @sparklemaia.bsky.social! 1/2
www.ohjoysextoy.com/ace-101-spar...

300 and change so far. Not a bad start, but there's a long way to go and time is short.

So, how's the neovag working out?

Well, mostly good. Except for the internal scarring that has become my own worst nightmare.

Lemme talk all flowery about it here: gofund.me/74494d4f

Long story short? Procedure on 11/4 to fix the scarring.

4 frame comics. One person says to another : violent radical transgender leftists are trying to overthrow the government! The other replies : you mean these violent radical transgender leftists? We see three people in frog costumes, one is holding a sign that reads Frogs Together Strong. The two guys say : i'm feeling so threatened right now. The president needs to invoke the insurrection act!

Violent radical transgender leftists