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Not immediately, certainly, but I have at least found it kind of helpful to have something to hold on to that can help keep the brainworm from spiraling. Brains really do suck sometimes though…. I hope yours stops being mean soon

This is an artifact of social media and the “wilder” people being louder than the “boring” ones. Most of my very cool and wonderful trans friends fit this description to a t, and that doesn’t make them any less trans, or any less wonderful. I aspire to be wilder, but I’m a pretty boring nerd 🤷‍♀️

gn!!

Eugenicists and those adjacent to them tend to do that, unfortunately

ughhh, im actually glad im doing so poorly rn because of family bs, because otherwise i would be getting into atproto development out of spite

(and this isn’t some flex - it would be a waste - i would firmly be out of my lane as an engineer, and northsky is gonna do it better/faster undoubtedly)

yep, same behavior off and on over here too

a white 3d printed holder for 3 estrogen vials in a line. “I LOVE TAKING CROSS SEX HORMONES” is in bold text across the front of the holder. it is holding 3 empty estradiol vials, with a capped syringe sitting across the top of the vials

the text could use some work (the bolding came out weird) but v0 of my meme vial holder is kinda fun. lights underneath are probably next, but i have to dig around to see what i have (or maybe order some rgbws)

i think they’re pretty good tits, although i may be a little biased, as i did grow them myself

and i would appreciate the dopamine from posting them! but no, instead we get crashouts from people in power

you know what would solve the brigading problem and also help protect vulnerable people? private accounts!

(and it would also let me post tits, which, like, is an upside)

i will be so unhappy if the communities we have managed to form in this little bubble of the internet go away

i like it here, and i like all the cool people, and i am trying to build in person community, but i want this community too

did my shot! one of the more painful ones in recent memory, but like, still not bad - will happily minorly stab myself once every 5 days for forever if it means i get to keep running on estrogen

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watching these people is fucking embarrassing.

i think it may have embedded into mine as well

(although for once im not complaining about this brainworm)

this is levels of french toast I never knew existed

Yeah, like, log off and do your job. If you wanna experience the platform you have power over as a fun normal time, make an alt, and make it completely separate from your official account. Moderation can be hard, but this is not.

this would unquestionably work on me

:/ really glad to hear you’re doing better post that nonsense

u can rly tell when the biggest problem someone's ever had in their life is getting called names online

my potentially nonsense theory is that compartmentalization allows people to put up boundaries, and many of the individuals and market forces that have that much power are fundamentally against boundaries that prevent their access to everyone

yeah, im fumbling a bit on good wording and also was kind of conflating the two - was trying to talk about the acknowledgment that I am transing my sex, not just my gender, as my biology is changing and what they were doing is woke bioessentialism, and rooted in the same shit as non-woke transphobia

all of my attempts to say this framing is at best not helpful were talked right over, and not very long after we were seeing the same exact framing used by the incoming administration

popped into a group chat again a few days ago and saw it again….

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i used to think it was, as it at least moved the framing to a better place that could be harnessed by actual movements, but after seeing how many of my queer friends would fall back on ‘biological’ distinctions of trans vs cis people that were really just woke transphobia, i pretty completely agree

but i also don’t want people to be needlessly hurting if there are things that could help that they might not know/didn’t think of. it’s a hard balance, or at least my brain thinks it is

oh lol, no, it was a preemptive apology, you weren’t slow. i always feel weird talking about health/injury stuff cause so often it’s not handled well by the person chiming in with their advice, and i aggressively don’t want to do that,

i apologize if i’m being preachy, but bad sports medicine/it’s interpretation has been the source of so many issues for me, and so it effectively became a special interest of mine while i rebuilt my knees and back

heat and movement (gently, when it doesn’t hurt. it’s not worth if you overdo it) will get blood flow to the area, which will help healing. ice does the opposite, which is useful /right/ after an injury as it can help prevent swelling, but is otherwise generally bad

not disagreeing, but i think the reason it’s underreported is the fascist billionaire capture of the media - they’re not hiding that they’re building fascist wikipedia and every other information hub in their image, it’s just not being reported nearly as much as it should be

do you have a hot pad? cause mine is about the only reason i survived the last time i threw out my back

yeahhhh, if this is where things end up going, y’all should dm me for my signal before you go, cause mastodon isn’t gonna do it for me