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Circumcision, pain 

@derpayatz @jessmahler I'm sorry that happened to you. Infant circumcisions can be botched and have issues healing too. I was circumcised as an infant, and my skin was cut so tight that it would sometimes tear and bleed when puberty started. Erections were often very painful. A recent study found that 11.5% of the circumcisions they tracked over a 2 year period were botched in some way: spuonline.org/abstracts/2018/P
I was circumcised in part for religious reasons, and also because my parents thought that it was the healthy thing to do.
I have multiple Jewish friends who are opposed to circumcision of minors, one who is working on restoring his foreskin, and left his son intact.
I also have a trans friend who is working on restoring her foreskin, to reduce the need for skin grafts for her bottom surgery. Having an intact foreskin gives them a lot more erogenous tissue to work with.
I think that male, female, and intersex children should be protected from genital cutting without consent, however, education about the harms of genital cutting will be more effective than passing laws.

PSA Addendum 

Most doctors *aren’t* experts on really...anything. They’re called GP’s for a reason.

The value of doing your own research and becoming an expert on your own care, condition and body cannot be overstated. This is true regardless of the healthcare situation in your country. The need for self-advocacy never goes away.

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Sticker update in my shop!
hellovoid.online/
Christmas posting dates have already passed but i will be posting stuff until Friday 20th!

New Drugs & Wires page is up! Do you know how long we've waited to introduce her? YEARS. Webcomics are hell.
drugsandwires.fail
#webcomic #drugsandwires #mastoart

tbh can we stop doing the thing with clothes and shoes and stuff where we have gendered women's sizes and men's sizes and they are offset from each other by some arbitrary amount and extremely not standardized between manufacturers
and
just like
have universal sizing

UX Recommendation 

"Swipe to delete" without confirmation is such terrible touch UX design. It's very easy to accidentally swipe something, so if you implement this at all, please require confirmation. Don't assume the user will manage to find and hit a tiny "Undo" button in the corner before time runs out.

tech, kink 

getting spanked every time the server prints something to stderr

fun facts of the day:

🌿 one in two thousand people are born with genital variations outside of medical definitions of male or female (i.e. intersex)

🌻 but as many as two percent of all humans have a chromosomal, hormonal, internal or external variation that falls outside of medical expectations of male or female

🌟 intersex is a normal and COMMON variation of the human experience! binaries are not real, in the natural world or in society!

@squeakypancakes @zxv@sunbeam.city I think that's what WhereAreTheEyes uses. It's available on FDroid.

Interviewer: Whats the hardest thing you've done in your life?

Me: Exited #vim

Genital mutilation, autonomy 

Egyptian anti-circumcision group calls for an end to Male Genital Mutilation: al-monitor.com/pulse/originals
All children deserve to be protected from genital cutting without consent, whether they are male, female, or intersex. Everyone has the right to autonomy over their own body.

I finished the #Mending I started @mcmoots the other night. This is just freestyle #sashiko stitches, spiraling squarely into the center of the plaid fabric. Purple jeans are now back in action.

My graduate school is organizing a two-days retreat in the mountains and we climbed in the snow! It's my first winter mountain :blobaww:

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