I have agoraphobia and spent the entire COVID pandemic on my own. I am only just coming out of the worst of that with a myriad of issues with my health and energy levels since infection. The idiots who think lockdown was a bad idea didn't suffer the same way we "active immune response" folks did.

Discovering how hypermobile I am is *an experience*. You mean it isn't normal to be able to push your fingers back 90 degrees without pain? You mean it isn't normal for your legs to lock slightly beyond 180 degrees? And it isn't normal to be able to twist your shoulders and spine nearly 360 degrees?

Any time I see "LRP:" on Bsky now I just hear the @loadingreadyrun.com jingle

I hope that people with plans to leave have actually fucking thought through the implications of where they're moving to. It's gonna take me at least another couple of years to move, it's a hard slog to set yourself on - and I'm doing so for love, not fear! The motivation's a lot different.

Brainworm: Learning your partner's native language so the less romantic of the two tongues becomes a clear distinction as a "safelanguage" for play

Electrolysis for surgical site has started back up again - and I am once again frightening a new technician with how my pain thresholds work. Cluster Headaches suck but they also have a side-effect - they make most people's excruciating pain like a mild wasp sting because your brain recalibrates.

"Trans people always knew they were trans" Lots of good stories on the recursive quote post but I wanna say - I didn't truly understand many of my body's quirks until this year. And even then I am still processing it. Despite being on HRT for 5 years on Wednesday. We are denied introspection.

Sylvia, Mother of Violation@estrogenandspite.bsky.social · last mo.

"Trans people always knew they were trans" No. I had no inkling of it. I had no language for it. I liked playing women because it felt right in games. I liked writing from a woman's POV because it felt correct but that was it. I knew I wasn't "normal." I knew I didn't fit.

Luna (expression - /ˈluːnə/): Denial that you need the bathroom #UxbridgeEnglishDictionary

__ct__4LunaFv@moonbase.lgbt · last mo.

go on then, give me your best impression of my posts

@jennylist.bsky.social how simple is it to get the European equivalent of a Radar key as a non-EU resident? Can you just order one to your home address like in the case of the UK systems? Thinking about the implications of my IBS and what would make me feel most comfortable in the event of a flare.

The more I think of the frequency of remakes in video games the more I think we need an Ahoy "Brown games" vid analysing the statistics about whether we are seeing perceptions about too many remakes/reboots.

There's rumours we might be seeing a trailer for the sequel to "THAT" wizard game this week. To all of you who bought the last one, and said "I don't support her transphobia, but the story means so much to me", you've got a second chance to take a stand and not give her money this time.

Possibly hot take: C# should make `Type t = null!;` UB in Nullable annotation-enabled projects. It just feels wrong to read any time I see it.

Clicker training but the puppy is trained by the owner's rheumatoid arthritis.

In fairness I don't think I had the time to picture my adult years while surviving complex trauma. It's mostly the same besides the yearning to get to NL to be with the person who makes me feel safest of all.

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

Millenials - Is this how you pictured your adult years?

This is so important, today especially. We are constantly being pushed out of artistic spaces. Cowards justify working on the bigot's wizard show because "job security" while many of us are desperately trying to survive. Help us in a direct and material way. And you get cool art! It's a win-win!

Sylvia, Mother of Violation@estrogenandspite.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This. Do not donate to these large non-profits to help us. Donate to us. Our GoFundMes, our PayPals, our mutual aid requests. Buy our art. So many of us are freelancers. Hire us! Fucking subscribe to our OnlyFans or Patreons or whatever. Actually improve our material conditions.

So you know when you have one of those shifts that makes you realise something deeply personal about yourself - does that ever stop happening? On the level of stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/part-one-a... but like even in a different context? Because I am unsure that I ever want it to stop.

Part One: A Webcomic

Opening the Black Box

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The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

How To Ban Conversion Therapy

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For years we’ve been saying this has been the endgame of so-called “gender critical” policies and campaigners, and were called hysterical. This is the legacy of Julie Bindel, Maya Forstater and Helen Joyce.

Nita Cosby@5-2blue.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Trump Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans Under a new rule, the State Dept will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally. transitics.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

Today is the kind of day where I want to essentially write "Width-based `@media` queries Considered Harmful". I don't know if this is a talk/CFP, a blog post, or a YouTube video. If I can articulate this it might be my NDC Oslo submission.

Cis people have exclusive control over trans healthcare. Nothing about us without us.

Cal Horton (they/them)@fiercemum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Really importantly - THIS 1000 page 'evidence' review, does not dignify a detailed response. I will NOT be preparing a detailed analysis of every wrong step taken. We need to instead state openly & clearly that this fraud is abusive and beneath contempt. That we reject it.

So with all of this talk about "super clipping." in F1, are we gonna hear "Simple Degredation (Plucks 1-13)" done by an F1 engine this season?

I love how my immediate response to Discord's controversy is "I should write a new IRCv3 client and bouncer in async Rust"... says something about the state of the world that I want to NIH IRC updates...

Shower thought: If a show is considered to be graphic, why isn't it cel shaded?

So do DB use SCHNEE as a designation for their snow plow trains?

As a derivative of this - I now have the mental image of a trans cricket Test match where the evening break is just a bunch of trans people taking their meds on a regular schedule.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 7mo ago

T time

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

12 months on since I was signed off until the start of this year for a mental health crisis. I feel like a completely different person vs. back then. I still get flashbacks, but it's easier than it was. "I am proud of myself" understates things. You should be of yourself too if you're reading this.

*starts learning Dutch slowly but surely* *social media immediately transitions to half Dutch*

I wonder what proportion of gender diverse kids that played Jet Set Radio (Future) in their youth and then became hyperpop fans... Is one just a subset of the other at this point?

Uploaded a video of repairing one of my display connectors under my digital microscope! All shots are recorded from an HDMI to USB capture card connected to the microscope's display output. www.youtube.com/shorts/VJzYu...

Fixing Swapped LCD Connector Pins

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