junø @juno@pixie.town

“HRT let me be present in my body and present at school. I started to make friends. I learned to play D&D!” (cheers and laughter from the crowd)

“People in power want us to feel helpless but we are so much stronger than they are and so much braver than they ever could be”

“This is what the TERFs and the Tories are afraid of. Testosterone gel. Smells like hand sanitiser and it dries clear”

UPDATE: It seems she had luck and may have a flat in a few days after all.
If does not work out after all I'll ask the people who have offered help again.

Does someone have a temporary sleeping spot
for a trans woman in #Mannheim or #Karlsruhe for 2-3 weeks?
Shorter is otherwise okay too, anything would really, really help!

A friend of mine will probably get kicked out of her flat today, she hasn't been able to find a new flat in time and isn't doing too well due to all the stress.

Der ganze Prozess "Therapieplatzsuche" ist einfach würdelos. Wieviele Hürden da vermeidbar wären, würde das Systemversagen nicht verleugnet und ignoriert werden, ist eine Frechheit. Ich will gar nicht wissen wie viele Menschen daran schon zu Grunde gegangen sind.

And if you think "but if I'm using CWs, less people are going to read my post!" – yes, that's the point. Giving people the choice.

If you take away that choice and expose them to spoilers, they're gonna mute or block you and won't read any of your posts ever again ;)

Also, you can totally use CWs to signal that your post is probably safe to read, e.g. "spoiler-free thoughts about Star Trek Prodigy 2x08", or "vague ideas about where Star Trek Prodigy season 2 could be headed after 2x08".

"To create something as a trans woman is to extend oneself beyond the carnal. As our ideas of gender shift, the creativity of trans women is making this change known and felt. As cis people at large begin to feel this shift, they are already reacting to us. We are being kept out of bathrooms, shelters, and history. A trans woman defending herself through creativity is a way to ensure the cisgender gaze no longer controls us."

https://www.nylon.com/articles/trans-muses

Ableist trauma is having learned to reflexively make up excuses why you didn't do something, because nobody ever believed you when you told them the truth.

So apparently Google is blocking uBlock from Chrome.

I hereby rebrand Google Chrome as "Google Firefox Downloader".

@schmidt https://mozilla.social/@schmidt/111425629715478127

Asking the psychologists out there:

So from my experience with how otherwise healthy people deal with stress, and triggers I know there is a behavioral pattern in which people who have experienced severe stress over longer periods of time and are presented with the possibility of avoidance will avoid any triggers connected to that stressor. Basically as a mechanism to avoid stress induced trauma.

Somehow it is my working theory why societies tend to become crisis-blind if they feel they aren't directly affected.
Like, we ignore the climate crisis and engage in cliomate-destroying behaviour like meat consumption, recreational fossil fuel burning, consumerism etc. quite similar to us ignoring the ongoing Covid Endemic. We are moved by those things when they first occur but if we hold up that mental load for too long, we simply become blind to it.

So I wonder if there's a term for that or if I am completely off here.

"Why do you care?"

Why *dont* you care?!

"We don't need to visit Egypt, we've got Suez at home."

Suez at home:

don't use medical language as an insult

that's names of personality disorders, developmental disorders, widely-documented neurodivergences, classes of injury, none of it

go ahead and get rid of references to drugs, too, while you're at it

talk about what people do and are doing and keep doing, not about what medicalized group you assume is sufficiently inferior to 'normal' people to do what they do

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This comic has been living rent-free in my brain for years now

"Research shows 150 Indigenous communities acknowledge multiple genders; colonialism introduced idea of binary"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/indigenous-lgbtq-words-1.6953445

I know most people don't understand what the big deal is with masks. The "big" deal with masks is they are so small and insignificant a "sacrifice" to help vulnerable people that it makes it abundantly clear that every other fight we are up against will be unattainable if the inconvenience is modestly above that. Yes, that is why all these other fights have suddenly risen altogether. They see how little comfort you will give up to help another. So-called leftists caved, they saw opportunity.

Seems it might not be common knowledge that if you have covid, you *mustn't* push yourself to build your activity levels back to normal. There's a high likelihood that Long Covid is a type of ME/CFS, a disabling chronic illness which often follows a viral infection. Everyone with ME will tell you: do not push yourself! At that delicate phase of recovery you could seriously risk becoming permanently disabled. Rest as much as possible, and err on the safe side!