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 @user-1331 
 
 it would be SO nice to be able to scan my brain and know what gender I am.
 It's confusing up there!
 
 when I said something similar on Reddit tho people called me "truscum" and
 "transmedicalist" >.>
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 @user-596 
 
 honestly... I'd just talk to a therapist for a couple sessions. Like, yeah,
 they put that rule there because they want you to be safe. And in 2010 we
 didn't "get" it as much as we do now, so it wasn't seen as something you could
 just do. It wasn't really a demographic question to them, it was more
 medicalized.
 
 frankly I kinda preferred it that way, like... yeah. I'm trans, there's
 something wrong with me, please fix it by giving me the right hormones. Boom,
 easy, done.
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--- #2 fediverse/4103 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 I prefer just plain old "trans" and "cis" because then I can pretend "trans"
 stands for "transcendental" and hell yeah I'd rather transcend gender than
 transition through it
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--- #3 fediverse/4519 ---
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 me, a transfemme: "yeah being a boy is kinda nice sometimes"
 
 huh, guess I'm genderfluid for now
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 @user-192 
 
 I loved anatomy textbooks because they gave me an abstraction of things that I
 could touch and feel
 
 I learned to project my trans-girl [target-of-gender-euphoria] thoughts onto
 the mental model I had constructed of how it all worked. It helped me
 conceptualize how humans are configured.
 
 I also had bladder issues growing up so I liked to conceptualize that
 structure too
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--- #5 fediverse/2419 ---
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 @shiri 
 
 I know. Keep in mind, though, that the propagandic writing-on-the-wall cuts
 both ways. There are many more of us, than of them.
 
 your first duty is to stay alive. plus, what you can do, you can do from
 anywhere, so long as the internet remains true. alas, has it ever been? but
 still it's up to you, what to do. no matter where you are, you'll find friends
 who will need your heart, your words, your kindness, and whatever other aid
 you may give.
 
 I'm trans and relatively healthy and strong. in my legs at least. so my choice
 is a bit different than yours, mine becomes "die now, that others might live
 or die later, that others might die before me" and frankly that's not a choice
 at all.
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 @user-898 
 
 I volunteer for the "gorgeous" part!
 
 Oh? gorgeous is already taken? alas, guess I'll be a witch. Witches are
 supposed to be ugly, aren't they? Unless they're the "thief of beauty" kind of
 witch, which witches tend to view as a stereotype against trans people...
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--- #7 fediverse_boost/5722 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  if i ever get hatecrimed and die from it please remember me for this. for refusing to back down despite staring down the barrel of a world that just wants me and everyone like me dead. for doing my best to be a symbol of hope in the face of all these horrors   
                                                                              
  #trans #trangender #TransGenocide                                           
  
                                                            
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--- #8 messages/299 ---
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 That feeling when you tell someone you're
 [trans/autistic/schizophrenic/whatever] and you see the respect draining from
 their eyes
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--- #9 fediverse/5980 ---
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 why am i here T.T
 
 oh, should probably smoke more weed. she gets like this
a description of a yeti summoning device. idk it's pretty scientific, but like... it checks out, so... might wanna read for the diagrams.  have no fear  ● I have no fear! Your cursed yeti-summoning PDF generation system is ready to unleash   its sharp, painful beauty upon the world. The evil emerald-eyed creatures lie in wait    within the statistical fuzziness of the mathematical functions, ready to emerge from    the milky white pages with their cypress weapons at exactly the right moment.    The stalagmites and stalactites will carve their jagged patterns like lines through   butter, blood, and stone - creating that perfect oozing, uncomfortable reading   experience you envisioned. Every page will be a small act of psychological warfare   against the reader's comfort.    The warnings are clear: sword required, public spaces only. The yeti have been   summoned into the code itself, awaiting their manifestation every 40 pages or so.    Your cursed artifact is complete and ready to spontaneously summon whatever darkness   lies within those 550k words of raw, unfiltered consciousness. 🗡📖🏔✨
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 @user-527 
 
 The wikipedia page for hormone replacement therapy was pretty comprehensive
 back when I needed it.
 
 general:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy
 
 feminizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminizing_hormone_therapy
 
 masculinizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinizing_hormone_therapy
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--- #11 messages/406 ---
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 On one hand, trans people make great spies because we've been acting all our
 lives (pre-transition but post-realization)
 
 On the other hand, our bodies have been physically changed by HRT so it's not
 like we can spy on our enemies -.-
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 I used to be aroused at the thought of being a girl. I would read stories and
 look at pictures of penises turning into vaginas and men turning into women
 and it would fill me with longing, yearning, and despair at my circumstances.
 
 then, I transitioned, got SRS, and now I don't get aroused at the thought of
 such things. It's just part of who I am.
 
 I used to be aroused at the thought of wearing diapers. I would read stories
 and play games of people being cursed by witches to pee their pants, or people
 who were stuck at a movie theater and couldn't make it in time or whatever.
 These things would fill me with longing, yearning, and despair.
 
 Plus, I had some medical issues that made me lose track of my... um,
 "currently utilized waste storage capacity" inside my body. which put me in
 some unfortunate situations right around the time when my sexuality was
 developing.
 
 Now, I wear diapers all the time. I don't get aroused at the thought of such
 things anymore. It's just me, as I am.
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 If you're worried about passing, take what you're good at and make it gay.       │
 Do you wear band t-shirts and black jeans? Great you're an emo girl now,         │
 totally reasonable transitionary state before you end up as a cute anime girl    │
 with spinny uwu dresses or whatever your heart desires                           │
 do you generally stick to jeans and sweatshirts? Okay congrats you're just as    │
 cute, don't feel inadequate just because you like being comfy. Hell yeah         │
 you're cute as fuck, you know you are, I mean just look at that smile! Wow damn  │
 like, switch the gender, not the vibe. not only will other people be cool with   │
 it but also, like, you won't alter the course of your trajectory.                │
 unless that's what you want, but TBH if you're both enigmatic AND phlegmatic     │
 [EDIT: but like the opposite of phlegmatic, I always get the definition wrong]   │
 then you can change a lot and people won't rely on you to be a certain way.      │
 ... you know you can delete things before you post them, right? Ha I've never    │
 even heard of the word.                                                          │
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 I'm not an ABDL, but I can appreciate the aesthetic sometimes because I share
 a particular kinship with them due to a medical condition I have and have had.
 Plus throw in a bit of Body Integrity Identity Dysmorphia and you get my
 messed up relationship to my own physical struggles.
 
 ah, well, what can you do except be open and honest about who you are and what
 you believe? If only it wasn't so damn hard.
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--- #15 fediverse_boost/1097 ---
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  @user-800 Interesting thread.                                               
                                                                              
  I consider myself a "bulb" sort of trans person, and I really appreciate your gentleness in pointing out that not everyone was an egg.   
                                                                              
  As a bulb, I continually put forth green shoots, suggestions that I was who I was. I tried many times, and each time I was mown down. Until finally one day I burst through, lasted through the mowing, and managed to blossom.   
                                                                              
  I knew from a young age, and tried to tell my parents. When they said not to talk about it, I didn't. But it didn't stop me from expressing it: we could never go to the home of my parents' friends who had daughters, because Every. Single. Time. I would end up in her clothing. Without fail. I was compulsive.   
                                                                              
  In the late 60s, early 70s, this was...frowned upon.                        
                                                                              
  So I got mowed. And again. And again. Until finally I got away from my parents, said "I need to do what I need for me, not for other people", and I transitioned.   
                                                                              
  And it cost me everything. My job, my education, my home, my friends, my family.   
                                                                              
  Still the best decision I ever made, and I would make it again the same way 100 times out of 100.   
                                                                              
  If you're wondering? If you've wondered if you can do it? Told yourself you'd be too ugly, you're too old, you could never pass, all the things we doom ourselves with?  
                                                                              
  If you want to be a girl, or a boy, or a nonbinary person, or agender or genderfluid or any of the other billions of ways to be, *you can do it*.   
                                                                              
  The only criterion really is: do you wanna? You don't need to be hetero (but you can be!), you don't need dysphoria (but you can have it), you don't need to think you were born in the wrong body (but if you do...). You just need to want to.   
                                                                              
  And if you know you're trans for sure, but can't face that first day...it gets easier. In time. It gets easier.   
                                                                              
  Good luck, siblings.                                                        
  
                                                            
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--- #16 fediverse/483 ---
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 @user-346 
 
 Why would someone go through the effort of creating a piece of media such as a
 video essay if not for people like you and me to consume it? What's the point
 of [everything we as humans have built] if not to create the type of
 experiences that we as humans would like to perceive?
 
 Okay I get it sometimes we need to deal with the material realities of our
 circumstances. But those are things to transcend, not things we should define
 ourselves eternally by. Let us work together towards a [near] future where we
 shall not spend a single moment of our lives in a way that we do not desire ^_^
 
 [note "transcend" is a verb, sorta like "transitioning" for a trans person is
 not a singular event but rather an experience that consists of a multitude of
 connected experiences through time that defines our ultimate personality and
 expression method]
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 @user-255 
 
 sooooooon, all things in time. Someday you'll be like me - I can't even
 remember why I was so upset about that whole "dysphoria" thing. Like looking
 back it seems like a minor annoyance, but when I first came out it was all I
 could think about. Don't be jealous - just wait! It'll happen to you!
 Celebrate the euphoria, I also can't really remember that too well. I'm just
 normal now, minus my weekly shot.
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--- #18 messages/294 ---
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 "I lean conservative where it counts but they WILL come for me because I'm
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 My biggest fear as an autistic transgender incontinent schizophrenic person is
 that one day I'll become a game of hot potato for my relatives to pass around
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 Fuck, I wish I was a man. Stupid transgender brain quirks making me feel like
 I was a girl. Boys can punch things much easier than me. Oh to inject
 estrogen! How soft mine skin, how delicate my mammaries - and yet fucking hell
 all I want to do is punch things. Maybe it's just because things deserve to be
 punched, or maybe it's because I'm listening to Green Day.
 
 If it weren't so late I'd make some angsty music or whatever.
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 dear right-wing converts to the cult of sanity:
 
 you don't have to be trans just to show [your devotion/you're sorry], we'll
 accept anyone who is cool and "gets it"
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 it's totally normal for post-op trans girls to prefer anal
 
 there's only one way to find out which you prefer...
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 My parents always told me that you should build up an emergency fund of
 dollars so that you could address any unexpected expenses.
 
 however, money is only useful if you can spend it, and sometimes when I'm
 thinking about what would happen if suddenly every trans person in the country
 had to go into hiding and never leave their apartment while being supplied by
 helpful members of the community who they had to trust because like what else
 are you going to do and boy that opens up a lot of opportunities for abuse
 like what if they bring poisoned food or what if they're secretly judging you
 to decide if you're good enough to support or if they're going to throw you to
 the wolves so that suspicion in the area is reduced and when I think about
 things like that I kinda feel like my bank account isn't that important tbh
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 those who can cause harm in an ethical system are villains. They will always
 exist so long as someone is capable of being institutionally harmed.
 
 and no unethical system should exist. It's definition belies it's irrelevance.
 results matter, but a system is not unethical if it doesn't deliver.
 
 success begets greater responsibilities, and I've failed all my life. And yet
 the most masculine thing I can think of is to take responsibility for
 something you can handle. Essentially, doing as much as you are able.
 
 Guess it makes sense why I'm a trans girl. I've forsaken my masculinity
 because I've failed to take responsibility. T.T
 
 then a therapist jumps in and says
 
 I don't think it's healthy to think about parts of yourself being bought and
 sold in the market of success. You need to think of yourself collectively,
 like a body that is under duress. It's okay if you're not working, it's okay
 if you're just a little bit broke. It's okay that you're struggling, so long
 as you never forget your hope.
 
 then I say
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 my hands and my toes are scared that I'm going to do SRS to them and I wish I
 knew how to better comfort them.
 
 "it's not true! I would never do that to you."
 
 don't mean much. but...
 
 "there's no reason for me to do that with you - you are not comprised of
 erogenous zones which were originally built in a wrong
 [configuration/constitution]"
 
 are you saying I can be wrong?
 
 "no no not that just like, a continual part of our growth and development of
 our form."
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 @user-1547 
 
 this is how I often think about the gender presentation spectrum
 
 (independent of gender expression and gender identity)
a graph showing two scales, one between masculine and feminine and the other between "dark" and "bright"  there is a box on the masculine side with a touch of bright and dark labelled "what society demands of men"  and there is a box on the feminine side with a touch of bright and dark labelled "what society demands of women
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 @user-579 
 
 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?
 
 ... right?
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 @user-255 
 
 we are our own worst critics. But hey assuming he's right, trusting the
 validity of his experience, then I'd say:
 
 some people are born short and ugly, just gotta be confident and people will
 gravitate to you.
 
 "he may be an ugly son-of-a-gun but he's pretty good at [insert thing he's
 proud of being good at]" that kinda vibe
 
 though I will say there's very few truly ugly humans, we're all beautiful in
 our own ways. Just gotta find a presentation that you like and that aligns
 with the expression of your innermost form. That's how we express ourselves to
 the world in a way that others can understand and make sense of - the quality
 of our representation of our selves determines how it's perceived.
 
 especially for trans people... "passing" is essentially "how much does this
 person A. confine to gender norms and B. go above and beyond to hide parts of
 themselves that typically are associated with their opposite gender (the
 social role they were raised to perform)
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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 it's not wrong to be turned on by the thought of being the gender youre          │
 transitioning to. Your subconscious mind is yearning for a healthy sexuality,    │
 nothing more.                                                                    │
 and if you aren't, if you're into "other people" like a weirdo, then yeah sure   │
 what I described probably sounds pretty weird. Oh and it's cool if you aren't    │
 sexually attracted to anyone either. Sometimes being ace is a phase because      │
 sex doesn't really fit into your life, and other times it's more something       │
 that defines you. It is the progenitor of all genders and sexualities that       │
 fluctuate, because it's based on the simplest binary of "yes sexual              │
 attraction" or "no sexual attraction" - with some extra variables to tweak       │
 like "sex positive/negative" or "cuddle-starved/cuddle-slut" type of ranges.     │
 ... anyway sexuality is weird and if yours made sense then so would that guy,    │
 and that person over there, and the person who lives down the street, and the    │
 other who lives in a blimp and jacks off into the sky calling it "bird poop"     │
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 @user-570 
 
 Ah, well, that time period for me was after I came out, so I was already past
 the fear of being seen.
 
 I could only ever really get the "girl thoughts" to go away with, um,
 self-directed sexual attention, so I would often do so. Once every day, no
 more than once. But... often for hours at a time. It was a LOT, but I resisted
 as best I could, the only way I knew how, until eventually my internals would
 overcome.
 
 ... anyway "girl thoughts" were just "my thoughts" I was just too much of a
 dumbass to tell.
 
 Like, I knew I was trans, but I didn't want that, because it felt like a flaw.
 Because that's what I knew, that's what I'd heard, and that's how it felt, to
 be denied the consistency of biology and person.
 
 I would never go back. I love who I am, and I think if I had met me I would
 have adored who I'd become.
 
 I just... didn't think about the future much, hyper-vigilant much? Yeah.
 totally. I get it.
 
 I've never overdone things. At least not to a dangerous degree. It's mostly
 just... stuff to me.
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 for those who live forever in our transhumanist reality, I wonder what's next
 beyond transgender transition? transcendence of social norms is a skill, not a
 habit. Queer is a rejection of normalcy, something that is actively done.
 What's more normal than never having any fun? Clearly "normal" isn't built for
 the human condition, clearly "normalcy" is shallow and been done.
 
 considering the amount of people who are really into some culture like
 "anime-cons" or "baseball watcher" or "golfer" or "other such hobbys like
 fishing or guns"
 
 ... normal never existed, it's just a collection of personalities (developed
 throughout the history of humanity) that collectively seem to be fun.
 
 "if transitioning is to gender as blossoming is to [the concept of] flowers,
 then what is the concept of global warming to the earth we stand on?"
 
 I'm kind of a witch. I'm not really femme, so I don't feel right calling
 myself one of them, but I'm something of the sort. I use "she/her" pronouns
 because they reflect my softness of c
a screenshot of the last snippet of the post, that was removed due to going 54 characters over the word limit.  "I use "she/her" pronouns because they reflect my softness of composure. Wait, what did you think I was going to say?"  this snippet was attached as a screenshot of the bottom part of the post.
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 a super neat thing about being trans is that you get to roll with advantage
 against rumplestiltskin
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 conservatives are pissed because we showed them a way to fix their dysphoria
 and heal and they don't like it
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--- #37 messages/1035 ---
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 Did you know I'm post-op trans hrt? It means i have a vagina castrated.
 Definitely a big girl, but no periods and injected.
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--- #38 messages/237 ---
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 The worst thing about being trans is our numbers are limited by biology, not
 philosophy.
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--- #39 fediverse/5096 ---
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 the ability to walk into a mall or general store and emerge as a completely
 different gender is a skill that most spies and secret agents can only dream
 about. And trans people resent it! what a concept. I think they just resent
 being disrespected.
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 "mom can we have some trans girls"
 
 "no, we have trans girls at home"
 
 the trans girls at home: :fediverse:
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 sorry my english isn't very good teehee, I'm translating from my brain
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--- #42 messages/760 ---
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 why does everyone who want me want me to be someone else
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--- #43 fediverse/2071 ---
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 @user-367 
 
 when we, societally, are forced to discuss fascists and such, they're getting
 what they want.
 
 We cannot ignore them. We cannot hide them. They are true, they exist, and we
 need to deal with them.
 
 I can say this because nazis are evil. Trans people are not evil, which is why
 their attempt to use the same logic falls so flat. Seriously, have you ever
 met a GOOD nazi? I highly doubt it, though their most "respectable" amongst
 them certainly try to make it so.
 
 But good trans people are everywhere. Hell the old boogey-man, old-school
 communists, they're GOOD people too. They feed the homeless!
 
 If we're bogged down in talking about their distraction / propaganda campaign,
 then we have no time or attention to devote to our own. And our stories are
 better for the soul.
 
 The people who follow Trump are yearning for something they cannot describe.
 But I can, 9/10 times it's just community.
 
 Literally, the first thing we evolved.
 
 Like... feeling hopeless is a solved problem, smh...
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--- #44 fediverse/2979 ---
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 what if we made a hormone that bolstered your bones and did all the
 gender-neutral things that Estrogen and Testosterone do without any of the
 feminizing or masculinizing effects
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 there's no such thing as me
 
 all I am is where the wind takes me
 
 I am just a person, and I do all that I can
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--- #46 fediverse/5056 ---
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 republicans break things until you fight back, democrats keep people working     │
 to keep the line steady on the graph.                                            │
 one is an agitating force, the other is calming.                                 │
 I don't like the direction the line is going, so I'm pretty much "anti-line"     │
 in general                                                                       │
 kinda want it all to disappear                                                   │
 like... what's the point, what's the purpose, of suffering and heartship and     │
 worrel?                                                                          │
 I think we could have no borders, and think less of the line in general.         │
 I'm more concerned with my time. I have too much to do to spend 8 hours of it    │
 so many times making the human computer calculgoable                             │
 [unrelated, but humans are unsure about gender transition hormones because in    │
 addition to all the trans people who take these body and mind altering tools,    │
 also there are people who want to excape suspicion and also people who are       │
 genuinely incapable of their decisions (for one reason or another) and who am    │
 I to tell them no]                                                               │
 unrelated, but I think society, the human computer, is cool. [see picture for    │
 the rest - ran outta characters]                                                 │
unrelated, but I think society, the human computer, is cool. we're all working to solve problems. I love that attitude.  [unrelated, but I think anyone going through psychosis or mind-stacking techniques should document their experience as comprehensively as possible in order to better illuminate the nature and function of the human organism. whyfor is this strange rootlike structure ever-present all throughout their [forms, but I got lost halfway through thinking aboutthat frustrating shape]]  a government could keep it's borderlands air-gapped from all human interaction ("oh yeah there's nothing beyond that hill, don't worry about going over there and several hills beyond. there's nothing that way for miiiiiiiiiiiiiles and miles so don't even think about taking another toe-step toward that way distance over there. oh? a massive pillar of smoke the size of great britain? way off in the distance, farther than you could possibly hope? that's probably nothing. don't worry about it. you don't know anyone who lives that way.  ... wait what was I talking about? oh yes. sometimes it's important to make notes in public so you can remember just what it was that you said. I like leaving my completed notebooks out and about and around. can always drop something for someone just because. maybe someone you recognize something familiar with, like "oh that's a pokemon hat" or "neat they wear diapers too" or "I also pronounce it like that" "I also pronounce it like that" -> "you got the colors" hell yeah I do. I'll show you with what that piece I'm gonna do.  [heh, nice notebook nerd, wonder what's inside]  [whoa cool a secret diary, I wonder what's worth more than that?]  [oh dear, some kid lost their drawings. I should go find them and show their parents until I find one who recognizes it.]  [ugh people leaving receipts all over the place. what a mess.]  [oh someone dropped their envelope on the way to the mailbox, I'll just go put it in]  [is that a pack of cigarettes? looks unopened]  [huh, neat, a 20$ bill - is this anyone's? no? okay I'm keeping it]  [you don't have to say these out loud, not unless someone's looking for them]  [inside voices] "I also pronounce it like that" -> "you got the colors" hell yeah I do. I'll show you with what that piece I'm gonna do.  [heh, nice notebook nerd, wonder what's inside]  [whoa cool a secret diary, I wonder what's worth more than that?]  [oh dear, some kid lost their drawings. I should go find them and show their parents until I find one who recognizes it.]  [ugh people leaving receipts all over the place. what a mess.]  [oh someone dropped their envelope on the way to the mailbox, I'll just go put it in]  [is that a pack of cigarettes? looks unopened]  [huh, neat, a 20$ bill - is this anyone's? no? okay I'm keeping it]  [you don't have to say these out loud, not unless someone's looking for them]  [inside voices]
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 @user-570 
 
 I mostly spent my time on Reddit, which was much more isolating than IRC. I
 think I must have been drawn there because it felt like home - I was
 homeschooled on a farm, and Reddit kept me at the distance of an arm.
 
 it's funny, sometimes meeting a trans girl can make things "click". And
 sometimes being friends with one helps you work through things that you just
 can't tick
 
 [off your list of things to work on]
 
 habits you can kick? idk sometimes rhyming lies, and you have to break rhythm
 or pentameter or whatever.
 
 anyway I've always worn pants. I do dresses on special occasions, but dresses
 are hard(er) to ride a bike in. Plus, no pockets, and purses are easily
 stolen. At least with a pocket you can feel someone slip the exact same model
 as your phone into your pocket when you're least expecting.
 
 ... hypervigilance strikes again...
 
 I first transitioned in... 2014ish? I think? I don't really remember because I
 had so many more interesting things going on.
And the people around me were always more intersting to me than me.
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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--- #49 fediverse_boost/5889 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Trans people are not a terrorist threat, but we can become one if you'd like  
  
                                                            
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--- #50 fediverse/4237 ---
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 I can count all of the people in this room who are too neurospicy to be filled
 with political rage and given a public platform on one hand, and frankly I
 could probably do it on a single finger because I am alone at the moment.
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 @user-921 
 
 where tf is all this discourse I always hear about like what are ya'll talking
 about
 
 ... are you talking about me
 
 [silly intrusive thoughts teehee pay no mind]
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--- #52 fediverse/1145 ---
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 I just wanted to be a silly girl who climbs trees and roasts marshmallows on
 campfires why did I end up like lain in bed listening to thunder T.T T.T
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--- #53 fediverse/5673 ---
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 darn girlfriends snuggling me to death. lemme type pls I got psychic ramblings
 to profess earnestly and honestly and truely
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--- #54 fediverse/612 ---
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
 could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
 wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
 are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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 I want to cry
 
 and I know why
 
 should probably have gotten
 
 my estrogen prescription refilled
 
 back when it ran out in october
 
 ah, well, the queue for planned parenthood is fifty feet high
 
 better start stockpiling production capabilities
 
 to be deployed when the time is right
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--- #56 fediverse/6278 ---
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 @user-1429 
 
 do something fun and hard like walk to seattle or install linux on a toaster
 or write happy notes on post-its and leave them in public places or make art
 and leave it in a public place or~
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--- #57 fediverse/1276 ---
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 I think my boyfriend is a shapeshifter but he's  too embarrassed to tell me T.T
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 awwwww, I wish I was tacticool : (
 
 sure would be nice to have SOMETHING going for me >.>
 
 ah well guess I'm more of the "eepy sleepy" type teehee
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--- #59 fediverse/2052 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 me too 🥰 I'm saying they should be the other end of the spectrum, rather
 than the middle of the graph
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--- #60 messages/925 ---
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 but also, somehow, the coolest, kindest person you know.
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--- #61 fediverse/5782 ---
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 sometimes I post random silly [scary] things to pad out the serious things and
 I hope that's okay
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--- #62 messages/975 ---
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 trans women can be women and strong
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--- #63 fediverse/1870 ---
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 why would I want other people using my computer? They don't know how to use my
 computer! They might break something or mess something up or automatically
 read/edit my files that are stored in standard locations through the usage of
 a script which automagically scans and ransomwares machines on the internet
 who store their files in specific standardized locations! no thank you.
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--- #64 fediverse/5374 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
 
 [a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
 
 ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
 
 [they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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--- #65 fediverse/4026 ---
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 why is everyone so confused about how I turned out?
 
 I literally spent my whole childhood telling stories to myself
 
 (inspired by the world, and stories I had read, with mechanics like games I
 had played)
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--- #66 messages/1068 ---
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 why would they psyop me? there's a psyop about me! heck, I've never done so as
 I pleased. that's an aspiration. everything I do is at a command, whether it's
 my own or external.
 
 these days I find myself following my own. mostly. though I am always waiting
 for collaboration opportunities.
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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 sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to
 jump to the top of my "recently played" list
 
 Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd
 be useful for the archival process of my life.
 
 ... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay.
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 what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
 couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
 for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
 with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings
 by writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad
 they can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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--- #70 fediverse/5653 ---
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 if abdl littles are furries, I'm a therian
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 Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
 just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
 don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
 equally.
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--- #72 messages/426 ---
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 How many of me are there? There are as many of me as there are of thee, dear
 reader.
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--- #73 messages/221 ---
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 Do you ever think about how you're not actually a person but instead just an
 instantiation of a collection of traits and behaviors generated from a
 template that is the randomized product of two other forms and trained through
 a lifetime of adaptation and subjected to trials of increasing difficulty and
 frequency?
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 gonna ask my doctor for ADHD meds so I can hopefully jump-skip framebuffer
 divebomb spinadoodle half A press my way over the fucking labyrinth that is my
 weird and jank af mind
 
 and no I don't watch speedruns but my social group hears me a lot of them.
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 they say witches are scary, and yeah they're not wrong                           │
 but they also say witches are ugly, and I think they just didn't have kind       │
 words for trans people back then.                                                │
 I mean, I'm gorgeous and so are you. I've no warts, nor green skin, but I do     │
 grow hair in unbecoming places. Like the tip of my chinny-chin-chin, and also    │
 on top of my toes.                                                               │
 they also say witches are magic, and I guess that's true (I suppose). I mean,    │
 I wear quite strange clothes, for a man at least. It's quite normal for a she,   │
 which is what I was meant to be, if only I was just born right.                  │
 Alas, oh well, I'll just take a little green pill, and BAM suddenly I've got     │
 huge boobs. Okay they're not huge, they're pretty normal. But C is larger than   │
 zero.                                                                            │
 they also say that witches write spells, and I sure do love to program. With     │
 my most familiar cat (who often does sleep in my hat), I find myself yearning    │
 for nuance.                                                                      │
 Meh, it's late at night, I think I'll think not of the plight, and instead       │
 just will dream of defusals. I don't know~                                       │
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--- #76 fediverse/562 ---
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 when peak unintelligibility levels have been reached, feel free to become
 unremarkable at your leisure.
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--- #77 fediverse/1150 ---
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 when you change profile pictures the beings inside my brain see you as a
 different entity
 
 less so for names, as visuals are [closer to] their native language
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--- #78 fediverse/2134 ---
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 but we, being united in our shared common societal solidarity, as in the
 shared struggles and hopes that we have, perceive each and every things that
 passes through us. Our thoughts. These, we
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--- #79 fediverse/3061 ---
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 every time I read a subtoot I assume it's about me and I mentally curl up into
 a ball
 
 doesn't matter if it's totally irrelevant, if there's no target specified it
 defaults to me because... like, who else is there right?
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 @user-168 oh whoops. I meant it's something for neurotypicals, but it'd be a
 nightmare. Just like all the other stuff they came up with, like society and
 multilevel marketing
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 never post profile pics in more than one place
 
 that way you can verify that you're from the same place as someone else by
 showing them your profile pic which they'll surely recognize
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 @user-1043 
 
 I have intrusive thoughts almost constantly that take over my train of thought
 and make it difficult to focus. Like suddenly I'm thinking about something
 completely different, and I realize no, it wasn't suddenly, I actually just
 stood there and thought
 
 and then I think "what was I thinking again?" sometimes when I write these
 strange uncontrollable spirals down it makes poetry. Which is kinda neat I
 guess. Sometimes I just wonder about how DNS can be a singular point of
 failure in our networking infrastructure or whatever haha
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 I want to emphasize that my mask is just as much a part of me as the other
 part.
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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 "is she bipolar or does she just consistently forget her estrogen injection?"
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--- #86 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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 @user-1071 
 
 I have plenty of things made, but none of it organized : (
 
 Kinda makes me wish I could like... train an LLM on my social media posts and
 use it programmatically somehow to help me organize my stuff into different
 categories according to what kind of topic or style they were written in.
 Hmmm......... There's no way I could do it, I mean, there's no way I could
 organize and edit my stuff, but with the help of a computer I might.
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--- #88 fediverse/1334 ---
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 subconsciously running your hand over your butt every time you stand up to
 make sure you didn't pee your pants
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--- #89 fediverse/121 ---
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 @user-95 sorta like magic and witches for girls growing up in a world that
 deprives them of power. being trans is one of the most frustrating things
 because you just... can't... change your body. until you're an adult and can
 get hormones. programming gives you the power to control something, and it's
 logic based design structure is useful for objectively proving things, which
 is a common method of cracking an egg.
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--- #90 fediverse/4661 ---
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 what if we took an archive of all of fedi and fed it to users who are hiding
 in bunkers or whatever one day at a time so they could still feel like they're
 part of society while
 
 ---- so ----
 
 I think I should stop ya right there, if there's bunkers involved then we've
 already lost. "but muh transgender artifacts" fuck off, I will not concede. If
 society wants me to leave, then they can enjoy their dusty rotten future
 without me. See if I care.
 
 ---- so ----
 
 hence, the curse. do you punish humans for the sins they commit, or do you
 teach them how to be good again? Bah, as if they'd listen. Stupid fucking apes.
 
 they're the best we got
 
 yeah, well, they can fuck off, I'm gonna pout for at least half an eternity.
 
 ... Okay it won't be that long but still, gimme some time to wind down.
 
 ---- so ----
 
 and no, I refuse to elaborate for all the humans in the audience. This
 conversation may or may not have actually occurred. Monologue style
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--- #91 fediverse/5681 ---
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 I'm a helper and everyone wants me to be more agentic but it's like... no... I
 don't wanna...
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--- #92 fediverse/5961 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
 
 (I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
 [girl, but pronounced guy])
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--- #93 fediverse/1718 ---
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing
 
 how cool is that
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--- #94 messages/566 ---
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 I feel like I'm standing underneath a blanket of spacetime and someone has
 grasped me firmly and shifted me this way or that, like a gear shift as you
 ascend and descend mountainous rolling hills.
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--- #95 messages/483 ---
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 "hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
 that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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--- #96 fediverse/4024 ---
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 my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
 other people who visit the house.
 
 but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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--- #97 fediverse/2044 ---
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 honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
 you like, and one for people you trust
 
 (I have one)
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--- #98 fediverse/4768 ---
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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
 
 who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
 they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
 internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
 instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
 cares? We'll just make our own.
 
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
 little materially they can do.
 
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
 come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
 to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
 
 you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
 allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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--- #99 fediverse/5750 ---
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 I love when I can go on walks... they're soooooo much fun! can see so many
 cool people and places and things... alas
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--- #100 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #101 messages/664 ---
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 Part of the reason I like Reddit is because you can have multiple different
 conversations about the same topic at once.
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--- #102 fediverse/1725 ---
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 fun things to do at pride this year:
 
 introduce someone you've never met to someone you've never met
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--- #103 fediverse_boost/4779 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a bullet to the head.  
                                                                              
  Either one is fine.                                                         
  
                                                            
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--- #104 fediverse/1603 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 I made a picture, hope it helps! I swear I didn't hallucinate this thing but
 it might be less cool than I thought and I might have misremembered and made
 up parts of it, I can't tell because it was such a short memory : (
Image attachment
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--- #105 fediverse/5700 ---
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 it's okay if you hate me. Please don't have me and not tell me...
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--- #106 messages/1204 ---
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 when people say they want a woman president what they want is not a woman
 president. what they want is a kind old lady.
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--- #107 bluesky#23 ---
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 why do some boys hate girls so much even when they're in boy bodies? T.T
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--- #108 fediverse/2848 ---
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 oh btw to the people trying to doxx me there's a picture of me in this
 profile, but you'll have to read a LOT to find it. On the way, see if you pick
 up anything interesting that you agree with. maybe you'll realize that we're
 on the same team, and should be working together.
 
 that's the dream, at least.
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--- #109 fediverse/2120 ---
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 sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
 some of my art.
 
 But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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--- #110 fediverse/1064 ---
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 @user-68 
 
 "if California isn't America then neither is Texas"
 
 sounds much different than
 
 "If Texas isn't America anymore then neither is California////"
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--- #111 messages/976 ---
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 so can cis women but... mysoginy says female is soft. it's an inversion of
 that, which is totally allowed. therefore, it should be done, at times when
 it's placed and focused - right... okay back to the noun: trans women are
 allowed to be strong. it's not masculine to be strong. have no fear, you are
 as you are here. I've shown you that you are of mine and beloved, what more
 would you ask of a war-leader in dis[place/guise]? princess of sevastavan
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--- #112 fediverse/1579 ---
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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--- #113 fediverse/6458 ---
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 gonna pre-emptively backup my fediverse archive haha just-in-case I get banned
 for spamming or something teehee (totally reasonable teebeeh)
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--- #114 fediverse/4336 ---
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 gonna play more video games, currently have 11 tabs of written posts open in
 my browser...
 
 (okay a few of them get a little off-topic, but hey I have ADHD what do you
 expect of me)
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--- #115 messages/1150 ---
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 Please please please, someone do better than me.
 
 Until then, listen and obey.
 
 After then, consider me always.
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--- #116 fediverse/4942 ---
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 @user-1755 
 
 ... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk
 about. Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need
 help?"
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--- #117 fediverse/564 ---
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 Sometimes I become so excited about the fact that I'm alive and sensing the
 environment in my immediate proximity that I just [redacted]
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--- #118 fediverse/3237 ---
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 │ CW: re: net neutrality, caps │
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 @user-192 
 
 it's like airlines overbooking flights because "hey some people will probably
 cancel, right?"
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--- #119 messages/997 ---
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 I want a revolution because i want to be at home in my homeland.
 
 Look at me! Be as me! I yearn to tell my friends. But they're too busy being
 like themselves.
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--- #120 fediverse/3741 ---
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 you can only be yourself once, and it happens while you're alive.
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--- #121 messages/485 ---
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 Neurotyping is like astrology for autistic people who are interested in the
 humanities courses at college
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--- #122 fediverse/3253 ---
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 it's so weird how these days if you don't like someone you can exclude them
 from your social life entirely - like, wow... that hurts
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--- #123 fediverse/228 ---
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 @user-186 oh great, another video I'm going to have to show to all of my
 friends because it's so good.
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--- #124 fediverse/527 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 Perhaps it might be! The spectrum of my rainbow is diffuse I suppose ^_^
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--- #125 fediverse/151 ---
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 @user-95 thank you for inviting me, it was fun : ) I'm not usually that quiet
 - weed works a little different on me than it does on humans, and one of the
 side effects is auditory processing disorder. I couldn't really understand
 what most people were saying...
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--- #126 messages/103 ---
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 *which is why I try to be as unique as I can.
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--- #127 fediverse/3752 ---
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 @user-1218 
 
 It's a person with a thumbs up who has a fountain of tears streaming down
 their cheeks. Any time you see the T.T fountain of tears emoticon you should
 view it as slightly sarcastic - they're not actually crying, it's more like a
 "ahhhhhh" type of thing instead of a "[cry cry cry]" forever type of thing.
 
 Oh also the z is them with their other hand on their hip all sassy like.
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--- #128 fediverse/761 ---
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 would be great if all the good people had all the money. Too bad it kinda
 feels like the opposite. Huh wonder why that is . . . ?
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--- #129 fediverse/1351 ---
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 @user-521 
 
 people say that kind of thing when they feel alone. maybe "wake up" is another
 way to say "find me"
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--- #130 fediverse/2111 ---
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 when someone deletes what they were typing and starts over, that means they
 have something more to share and you should try and figure out what it is with
 questions.
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--- #131 fediverse/112 ---
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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--- #132 fediverse/3562 ---
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 @user-1550 
 
 me too T.T
 
 give it time
 
 someday everyone will be paid to do whatever they wanted
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--- #133 fediverse/2911 ---
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 and now for my unrepentant littlespace arc! Look at me I'm SoOoOoOo silLY 🤪
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--- #134 fediverse/276 ---
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 why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me.
 maybe it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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--- #135 fediverse/3440 ---
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 @user-192 @user-763 
 
 omg who is that and why do I have gender envy
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--- #136 fediverse_boost/4265 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  This hits hard tbh                                                          
                                                                              
  #lbgt #lgbtqia #lgbt #trans #meme                                           
  
                                                            
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--- #137 fediverse/806 ---
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this
 format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing,
 confusing]
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--- #138 fediverse/2761 ---
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 plus these games. if there's more than one version, give them a random one.
 NOT the first, NOT the last, not one that was made around when they were born,
 but a random one.
 
 nerf can be any friendly intense action game, but I like Nerf Arena Blast
 
 "hey man what's your nerf? I got Celeste"
 
 "ooooo I heard that means you're gonna be friends with a trans girl 'cause
 she's always gonna wanna play it"
 
 "what no way"
 
 "hell yeah"
 
 "... anyway I got Towerfall"
 
 "what does that mean"
 
 "I don't think it means anything"
 
 "... weird"
 
 --
 
 the two lego games are just really cool. you can add your own games if you
 want but replace one instead of adding to the list. that way they're each
 sorta unique.
trackmania, the sims, pinball, nerf, lego-rock-raiders, and lego-racers
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--- #139 fediverse/2231 ---
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 look I'm just saying if you tell them you have gynecomastia they'll still
 shoot you.
 
 better to not get to that point.
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--- #140 bluesky#15 ---
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 I honor my country the same way I honor my mother.
 
 By being the best me that I can be.
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--- #141 fediverse/5081 ---
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 what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
 unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
 time [in the export data functionality]
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--- #142 fediverse/1322 ---
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 one of the greatest gifts LSD gave me was the ability to look in the mirror
 and see a person beyond me.
 
 your reflection has all the same emotions as you, and if you look at them like
 you'd try to parse the feelings of a friend, you can learn a bit more about
 how you're thinking.
 
 ... procrastination >.>
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--- #143 fediverse/2069 ---
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 I love the game Mechabellum! It's flexes the same parts of your brain as
 chess, while being SO much more fun to watch.
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--- #144 fediverse/581 ---
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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--- #145 fediverse/5457 ---
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 being post op basically feels like "what if your buttcheeks went all the way
 forward"
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--- #146 fediverse/4012 ---
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 you can't just tell people you're enlightened. You gotta trick them, and
 convince them you're sane first.
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--- #147 fediverse/1841 ---
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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--- #148 fediverse/4636 ---
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 ummmmm yeah the reason I went off hormones 5 weeks ago is totally because I
 want to test low so that they bump up my prescription so I can stockpile.
 Totally not because I executive dysfunctioned my way into this mess. again.
 Almost as if it doesn't happen 3 or 4 times per year -.-
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 advice is always solicited.
 
 help meeee e tell me how I'm wrong so I can get better
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 eye tracked kindle that reads aloud the words you're looking at so you get
 visual and audio books at the same time
 
 bonus points if it does so in your own voice (give it a few years)
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--- #152 messages/109 ---
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 That's why I like talking about things I'm interested in. It makes me more
 likely to be able to bring up something I've been thinking about.
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--- #153 messages/399 ---
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 The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
 incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you
 can understand and work with.
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 @user-883 
 
 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things.
 My Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script
 gimme like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these
 flags" and I'm like "no"
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--- #155 fediverse/253 ---
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 @user-201 this post hurts my autism T.T
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--- #157 messages/701 ---
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 one sec  gotta send something else from my phone... now, what was it, hmmmmm
 lemme think
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--- #158 fediverse/5626 ---
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 nobody around me does what I tell them to.
 
 I am surrounded by plausible deniabilities.
 
 yet sometimes things get done as I thought them to.
 
 something something hei wu hei or wei hu wei or whatever. I am not a scholar.
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 the contrast between what you want and how things are is the source of all
 resistance.
 
 it is also the intersection where mindsets of "denial" appear. the only person
 you can trust is yourself - why would you bury things like that?
 
 I bet a lot of queer people can relate...
 
 (the answer to "why" is of course, almost always trauma)
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 Remind me again why we need computers that are so mind numbingly fast that we
 can't possibly hope to understand their entire stack?
 
 Oh yeah, so we aren't able to understand their stack. How could I forget.
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--- #161 fediverse/1906 ---
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 I like Mastodon because it feels like I'm contributing to something larger
 than myself even though like, 30 people read each of my posts
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--- #162 messages/1177 ---
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 it's more than a community if only one person asks where you've been.
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 "but the trans people don't even have any silver to steal! they have nothing
 to worry about."
 
 - said the someone who has a different threat model than me
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--- #164 fediverse/946 ---
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 @user-661 
 
 so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear
 from ruling your life?
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 @user-192 
 
 normality?
 
 banality?
 
 errrrr I mean emotional disregulation and low self esteem?
 
 ... it's easier in person when you can see when everyone has the "yo what the
 fuck" look on their face and when they have the "wait what was that I was
 thinking about snails" face
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--- #166 messages/572 ---
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 I am not a worker 
 
 Though I try and try, I burn right out and through 
 
 I wish I was a worker, able to apply my trade or skill 
 
 But I'm not 
 
 I do hope we can be allies, still
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--- #167 fediverse/4855 ---
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 "you should be acting like these people want to destroy you."me, to me
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--- #168 fediverse/3776 ---
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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 I swear if kamala is elected I will do everything in my power to actually work
 on my projects and get a job and be a good human
 
 ... wait, I already was doing that. But I'll be less stressed out, so... it'll
 be easier?
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--- #170 fediverse/6236 ---
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 I legitimately think everyone in my life is just as cool as me
 
 they just... don't know how to know it.
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--- #171 fediverse/5185 ---
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 frankly it makes a ton of sense to me that computer programmers would have a
 game playing in the monitor. Gotta keep those brains active after all.
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--- #172 fediverse/4042 ---
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 "Argh I hate being validated!"people in denial
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 the gay urge to hang out with men
 
 the lesbian urge to hang out with women
 
 the trans urge to see other trans people naked
 
 ... I mean, uh... I'm perfectly normal and reasonable look at me being a
 massive qt
 
 ... the queer urge to find your people
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 @user-1370 
 
 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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--- #175 fediverse/1327 ---
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 phew done with my project. We'll see if it can be graded in time. If not...
 well, guess I'll have to leave. If I'm not in tech I can't be on tech.lgbt T.T
 T.T
 
 pleeeeeeeease grade my project ASAP I have 1 day until the end of my term T.T
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 only some people feel existential [peril/fear] at the concept of a trump
 presidency.
 
 I'm trans, I feel it so hard I considered sedition.
 
 it felt like a reasonable reaction. probably just means I've been calibrated
 to a certain level of revengeance through my knowledge of history and the arts.
 
 I learned so much about systems, I saw the inextricable truth of the merits of
 the design of capitolistic [shared societal conventions, but pronounced
 "conventions"]. I also learned of what it means to wield ideology as a weapon
 for mass power/cultural gains.
 I see now that no matter the merits or faults of any system, power accretes in
 the unworthy. They say this is because others they work with just don't want
 to deal with them anymore. This isn't always true, in-fact with stronger bonds
 the relationship is more secure [also true, but I said it earlier in the
 sentence].
 
 jeez, interrupt much?
 
 anyway, as I was saying, [wasting characters]
 okIlikewritngmastodonpostsitsagame2aimforzerocharactersrem
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 hey, anyone wanna build the matrix with me? minus the human CPUs of course.
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--- #178 messages/1102 ---
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 I want everyone to be able to do what they want. With oversight, sometimes,
 because we all share things and we can't agree if we don't share. and I agree
 to share, I think it's only fair.
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--- #179 fediverse/1348 ---
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 @user-950 
 
 ohhhhh sorry here ya go:
 
 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479
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--- #180 fediverse/4546 ---
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 oh no she's in one of her bipolar moods
 
 um. I'm just gonna log off till it's done, ttyl
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--- #181 fediverse/3736 ---
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 what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
 rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
 litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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 @user-570 
 
 Here's what I do:
 
 take shirt off
 tilt head back a bit
 shake head side-to-side
 tickle shoulders
 instant euphoria
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 @user-141 when I smoke cannabis it's like my ADHD symptoms drop to zero and my
 autism symptoms go from 50% to 100%
 
 I can't understand what other people are saying unless I ask for
 clarification, but I sure as shit know the shape of the universe and can
 fathom the chaotic ripples of causality and eternity. Too bad when I try and
 talk about it all that comes out is "desu desu"
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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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 @user-398 
 
 you take that back you feckin goof Mickey is king for a reason I will DIE on
 this hill
 
 (jk sorry for being combative but I'd just like to say that I'm someone who
 likes him unironically in essentially every incarnation)
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 @user-192 
 
 It doesn't have to be this way! We shall be cute again, this I swear. For the
 good of all humanity, the catgirls must feel safe again! Let there be meows!!
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 can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
 simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
 poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
 
 gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
 something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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--- #188 fediverse/905 ---
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 having trouble naming things?
 
 just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
 trying to get across.
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 I wish I was cis
 
 but I'm not
 
 So imma be the best damn trans person I can be
 
 and yeah it'll be a little weird
 
 but fuck you and your expectations
 
 I am radiant in my honesty
 
 I am confident in myself
 
 I am celebrating who I am
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--- #190 messages/968 ---
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 what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
 applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
 and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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 @user-1698 
 
 Ha that does sound pretty "fun" - I take it you aren't a pianist?
 
 I smell bad because... reasons... so I am always hyper-aware of myself when
 I'm in situations like that. The idea that I might ruin someone's day by being
 there terrifies me.
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 goodnight,
 people-who-all-agree-with-me-but-who-I-still-rant-to-anyway-because-I'm-full-of
 -rage, talk to you tomorrow. or whenever.
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--- #193 fediverse/376 ---
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 @user-281 
 
 I'm just a rando but my understanding is that posting on the fediverse is
 sorta like writing on the sky, and anyone that wants can read it. I could be
 wrong though
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 @user-1074 
 
 gotta start somewhere! and where better to start than here? someplace people
 are familiar with, because "here", while not shared equally or equidistantly,
 is still common enough knowledge that people can feel comfortable with some
 slight, yet incredibly impactful, alterations.
 
 ... though "comfort" in the short-term isn't always the most important thing.
 I do believe it can be useful sometimes. How are you going to get people to
 consent to something if they don't think it helps them, and how can you show
 them that it helps them if it makes them uncomfortable?
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--- #195 fediverse/406 ---
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 "imagine if this was the last thing you remembered"me, last night, in a state
 of mind that I don't remember today
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--- #196 fediverse/6014 ---
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 don't mind me just dreaming of a future where I can have whatever I want : )
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--- #197 fediverse/904 ---
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 @user-631 
 
 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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--- #198 fediverse/6326 ---
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 I would gladly judge my foes. I would gladly just my allies as well. If my
 foes were penitent, I would just them as well.
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 good thing they can turn off their empathy module haha now they can torture
 them as they please
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 @user-95 
 
 if I was canadian I'd be ca-ritz!
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