lapis [fae/faer, comrade/them]

“pay us to not harass you” is honestly the epitome of Americanism. thank you though, that’s good advice, and might be worthwhile to avoid the stress and embarrassment.

this is so real, I didn’t mind being gendered male until I transitioned far enough to be more often gendered female (more common, bc people tend to assume binary gender) or ??? (which is its own flavor of funny, like I’m giving off a non-binary aura or something).

1. sorry you had to experience that, it sounds awful
2. this makes me strongly consider just never flying again now that I’m trans, holy shit

this looks like as awful a textural experience as creamed corn plus the gross shit is covering a portion of the chips/fries, so that’s a hard pass from me.

that’s right, it goes in the square hole!

damn, that would’ve been a rare Sonic movie W.

wait hold up did Knuckles just not assume Shadow’s gender in the movie? or are the captions here for the meme and not the actual lines?

I know nothing about this book but the little intro on goodreads and what you all have said here but it’s not in my library hold list

weird corollary, we also only have 6 x 3 = 18 trans men on the site, so a total of maybe 40ish AFAB binary-gender people on the site. there are likely more if we count nonbinary people and those who choose not to disclose their pronouns, but oof, even with an extremely optimistic guess that doubles the number above, we’re still looking at under 5% of active users being AFAB.

damn, I sorta want to start a struggle session thread for the prevalence of AMAB people on this site. it’s really bizarre to me, as a transfeminine enby, how being in, or not in, online spaces like lemmy, reddit, discord, and such tends to stick through transition.

now this gets me wondering, did white people back then try to control the reproductive rights of black people (or even kill black children or force black couples into aborting their children) to achieve this goal?

while modern Planned Parenthood has more-or-less moved beyond its racist roots, the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist and aligned herself with racist arguments to further the cause of birth control.

so, yes, white people did try to control, or at least influence, the reproductive decisions of black women.

this makes sense, in a disgusting sort of way. cis-passing culture tends towards racism (among other problems), so I could definitely see that playing into some really weird takes.

I’m now very interested in seeing these wild takes, though, from a place of morbid curiosity…

I’m waiting for the Zionism Crystal Plus fan rom hack that combines both, personally

well my days of not taking James Cameron seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

I swear to god, these gamer bros are just transvestigators in a very poor disguise.

I’ve tried some KN95s with earhooks and a nose piece (the least uncomfortable), a couple different varieties of 3M N95/Aura masks, some other brand’s N95 masks, and they’re all varying degrees of awful sensory. unless there’s a mask that magically doesn’t feel like I have something on my face, I don’t think a comfortable mask exists for me.

today is my 2nd tranniversary!

…and the date of my first intramuscular injection, which I think is a neat little crossover episode (I was doing subcutaneous injections before but started getting an allergic reaction several weeks back, and before that I was taking pills sublingually but even the max oral dose didn’t get my levels where the dr. wanted ‘em).

how do you know he’s autistic?

while you were arguing that marxism means clicking through to articles, I was studying the blade (nah jk that’s a link to the paper the article was based on). the paper’s author states that they’re autistic and they both use and personally prefer identity-first language in their positionality statement:

If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation.

I think we may just not agree on this part, comrade – it’s my belief that understanding the likely reasons behind the choice of headline is part of understanding the world around us, and reacting to the headline is a reaction to media bias and, to an extent, the general public’s thought patterns. while reading the article itself is well and good, an evaluation of the headline alone is also valuable.

okay but genuinely what is DEI chin?

It’s not that they don’t care or even think COVID is over, they just don’t have the effort to keep it up.

gonna be honest, I fall into this cyclically at this point. when nobody else cares, it really sucks to be the one person in 100 who’s bothering to mask, especially bc the primary benefits of masking are seen when the infector is wearing one, not the infectee.

like, it’s disheartening, uncomfortable, and potentially not even protecting me that much; I’m still masking when I go to places where I’ll be breathing a lot of others’ air, but it sucks to feel like it’s not actually helping me much.