Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

basic human empathy gotta make a comeback ngl

https://aus.social/@morachbeag/114726297610549746

This is fun :)

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Wat een briljante tip

@kingdomcome i was lucky and privileged enough to manage getting on diy T without getting caught (glory to no customs within EU, so no one really caught on with the contents of the packages)
t's not entirely impossible if you are in similar circumstances, but it does fucking suck, doubly or even triply so for trans men especially in the Global South who barely can access hrt the "legal" way in the first place.

but it sucks we are always omitted in discussions of transness in general, so people don't know shit about us. hell, some people in 2025 still have no idea that it's possible to be a trans man (while being full well aware that trans women exist, and they aren't completely sheltered and isolated from accessing the internet and talking to people...)

ETA: not to mention that even if you, by a miracle, can access diy T, it's only injections that are somewhat affordable. gel is insanely expensive which leaves out majority of transmasc people interested in hrt.

Hi hi. This pride month, can there be actual convos about how fucked it is that people interested in testosterone replacement therapy, & other androgens, can’t obtain it without a prescription unless they wanna go to jail for a minimum of 4 years?

I know it’s bleak & grim. But it’s very important to discuss, imo, if we want actual trans rights. T should be descheduled. We should be saying this loudly, even if you personally don’t want it or have nothing to do with it. & this should be kept in mind when saying “just do diy hrt.” To be able to do such without majorly risking your entire livelihood is a privilege. A major one. Please try to think abt those who can’t risk it.

& in the meantime, TALK ABOUT IT!!! Inform people that T is a controlled substance, bc a shocking amount of folks don’t know this. Make a slogan, openly voice that ur in favor of people having bodily autonomy including when it comes to using anabolic steroids, tell someone you know who’s on a 5 year long waitlist with an endocrinologist just to avoid a prison sentence that u love them & wish the world was better to them.

( anyone arguing abt how risky other forms of hrt are to diy please fuck off. I’m well aware of this, & you’re not the center of this conversation. transmasc & intersex people get talked over & ignored entirely in far too many conversations for me to let my replies be another one of those instances. )

( fuck it, tags for visibility, this is an issue I care deeply abt. #diyhrt #hrt #trans #transmasc )

transition is so worth it

yup, also in such a crapsack world as ours

I’m just saying, giving it a shot might work for you too

The libxml2 maintainer is no longer accepting embargoed security reports. They just get treated like regular issues.

This bit in a comment on the announcement really resonates with me:

> these companies make billions of profits and refuse to pay back their technical debt, either by switching to better solutions, developing their own or by trying to improve libxml2.

Too often a company will depend on some library, and then when there are issues with it, shame the maintainer into fixing them. "There's a problem with your project, it is your responsibility to fix it".

No.

You chose to build on top of this library, and with that took on all responsibility that comes with that choice. Any tech debt or bugs are now YOUR tech debt and bugs. What are you going to do about them?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913

Fun Tip™: Whenever you see something weird while you're out and about, just imagine it's part of the Deltarune cinematic universe

Edit: I posted this back in 2023 originally, but I thought we could all use a shot of niceness in this, our universe of fear and anger.

Feeling Boo-tee-full. Endearing and wonderful art from Nick Maskell. (Edit to add link to Nick's site: https://www.nickmaskell.com/ )

I imagine this is what my mom's career as a nephrologist is like.

Evil employers should have to put it in the first paragraph. "Actually what we make is weapons" or "our tech stack is Java" or "we boil the oceans with LLMs".
I should not have to read Dostoyevsky to learn you're bastards I don't wanna work for.

yes, that means testosterone for gym bros

and estrogen for cis femboys

and bottom surgery for butch dykes

and whatever else confuses the cisheteronormative expectations and comfort

you don’t need to understand it to support it and everyone deserves that support

true trans liberation comes when everyone - cis and trans and otherwise - can look how they want, act how they want, and achieve the care that they want, while being supported by the people and systems around them

this includes informed consent hormones for anyone who wants them

using whatever name and pronouns and identity terms for anyone who asks

informed consent surgeries of all varieties

and none of this being restricted by gender identity, presentation, characteristics, or other gatekeeping bullshit