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happy pride month bears in trees enjoyers <3 i've never felt more at home in my queerness than at a BiT gig, surrounded by friends
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the other two flags i did!!!
do you know about the song fruit roll ups by waterparks
I have never heard it let me go listen to it right now actually.
Okay so this is lowkey ball. @puzzledtragedy thanks for the introduction to peak.
every time a young gay person quits smoking or makes the decision that they want to quit, the sun shines on us all with the promise of happiness and beauty.
i appreciate everybody that’s sharing the sentiment that it’s good for anyone to quit smoking (it is) but i very specifically wanted to highlight and encourage LGBTQ youth because lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are about 1.5 to 2.5 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than heterosexual people, and the statistics for transgender people are even higher than cisgender people. this is due to tobacco companies marketing heavily and aggressively to LGBTQ communities and exploiting the higher rates of mental health struggles prevalent in our communities.
i want and hope to see all my LGTBQ people live long, healthy, fulfilled lives despite how predatory and punishing this world can be. you should stay around as long as you can to make it a little better in your own way.
I wanna specifically shoutout trans men here because back in the day (I don’t know if it’s still prevalent) there was quite a common rumour going around that smoking could make your voice deeper, which meant a huge upstick in young trans men taking up smoking.
So, if any trans men are being told about this, it’s not true!! Smoking will not change your voice, at least not until you’re about forty years down the line and you’ve already irreparably destroyed your lungs and throat and mouth and pretty much every other organ in your body. When you hear heavy smokers with deeper, scratchier voices it is literally because their vocal cords have been ruined. This is not a passive effect of smoking, it is a very very damaging one!
It’s simply not worth it! There will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Voice training will do a lot more for you than cigarettes will, I promise that the people urging you to start smoking as a voice training method do not have your best interests at heart!
(And you know what, this also goes for not eating due to the idea that starving yourself will decrease your chest size. Like with smoking, there will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Your body is worth so much more than that and there will always be healthier alternatives!)
I wanna see trans people thrive, and one day when things get better and you’re able to start your transition, you’ll want a body that will last as long as possible so you can enjoy every little moment of your life. Please take care of yourself!!
As for trans women and other trans people taking estrogen HRT, smoking has been proven to reduce or even cancel out the effects of estrogen on the body. If you quit smoking, your transition will be faster, fuller, and smoother. I know that it's hard, but your boobs will thank you!
(Btw, afaik smoking only has this effect on estrogen from HRT. Estrogen that AFAB bodies produce naturally is not affected, so smoking is still bad for trans men)
In addition (and this applies to all trans people), smoking increases risks of complications during surgery, so doctors might refuse to let you get whatever surgeries you want if you smoke. They'll at least tell you to quit for a while beforehand, which will be easier to do if you'd already quit to begin with.
I was curious about that estrogen and smoking fact so here's a study on it
Products for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in the postmenopause are the second most frequently prescribed drugs in the USA. Among the wo
The effects of smoking are specifically for estrogen taken orally and says that transdermal (injected) estrogen is not affected by smoking, so that explains why estrogen made in the body is not affected (the effect of smoking on estrogen happens in the mouth).
guy who has been living off of eggs cinnamon toast crunch bagels and pepsi: how do i stop getting a headache every single day
guy who has been living off of eggs cinnamon toast crunch bagels and pepsi: how do i stop getting a headache scurvy every single day
scurvy got nothing on me i stay drinking that weekly singular glass of oj
I do wonder if The Girl from Prague knows she’s The Girl from Prague
we need to be weirder & so so earnest now more than ever
This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.
This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).
Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct
the misogyny baked into LLMs is really quite horrific, we ran headfirst into this when trying to test out AI features at my job in early 2024. I work for a dating service and long story short there was a brief window when we were testing the capacity of an LLM to use the information on people's profiles to find matches for them and generate a brief bio that could be sent to the other person.
the problem that cropped up over and over and over again was that essentially all of these bios presented the women as looking for a heterosexual marriage with children regardless of any information on the profile that actively contradicted any of those things. even as the model got better and more streamlined at everything else, this persisted.
the features/pipeline we were testing out there i believe have been scrapped and the original idea is operating under a new name, but my team handles different stuff now. so i have no idea how the backend is being handled and if there's any AI in the pipeline but i wouldn't be surprised if it was and this was still an issue.
Unoriginal sin. Derivative sin
what doesn’t kill me leaves a pit in my stomach that never goes away
the losing dogs and i are engaging in insider trading
firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.
hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t
Look whom I found at pride today
bro my youtuber former classmate posted a reel that's getting a lot of (ridiculous) negative comments n i kind of want to leave a comment like 'wow hustle culture is too real in these comments' but im trying to not leave comments on instagram anymore so im posting this instead
i love the phrase "which could mean nothing" i think its my favorite thing to come out of the internet ever i love saying it. it could mean nothing but we all know better. we know the truth.
excuse me, no I wasn't???
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