I have no idea what I'm doing

Hello! I go by Corrie | he/him/hy/hymn

[lunaticram]

Every time I see a chatbot app being advertised, even worse if it has an AI generated anime girl with extreme blushing and weird clothes, with text that says "NO FILTERS", THE URGE WITHIN ME TO MAUL SOMEONE LIKE A BEAR GROWS STRONGER.

[bisforbutch]

Reblog to punch a nazi

[spotted-tomcat]

I’m sorry that it’s come to this.

I absolutely hate asking for help, especially because I have so many friends on here who have gone through far worse, but my friend very kindly opened a Ko-Fi for me, so I couldn’t turn it down.

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My actual name is Samuel. I am 17 years old, turning 18 in just a handful of months. I am Venezuelan but was born in Spain, which as you may know, was recently rated as the safest country for LGBT+ folk to live based on legislation.

I would love to say that that can be the case forever. Unfortunately, our very socially progressive president has also turned out to be a massive scammer, and our presidential election is next year. All polls and predictions say that he will lose to his right-wing opponent, and that is a problem.

In 2022, Spain put out a set of laws that allow transgender people over the age of 18 to change their legal name and gender without having to undergo any surgeries or hormonal treatments. Some of the laws introduced had exploitable loopholes which have been used by criminals to get away with their crimes, and this has led the popular right-wing to announce they will “amend” the law.

However, they have made it abundantly clear that their idea of an “amendment” is an entire rewrite, removing legal protections for trans people and once again making it illegal to change your name and gender without surgery.

This is where my problem comes in.

My birthday is on October 1st. The elections are in April of next year. Name changes take a while to process in the system. The cost of changing my name is around 230€ Euros, money that I do not currently have and will not be given by my parents.

I need to raise the money by my birthday, so that very weekend I can immediately run to the courthouse and get my documents changed. If I don’t manage to change my name before the new party gets voted in and the law gets rewritten, I will spend another 4-8 years unable to escape my deadname that is associated with absolutely so much pain and such terrible times in my life. I do not want to go to university and still be trailing this horror behind me.

I know this is an incredibly selfish thing to ask, and there are thousands of trans men out there who are in much more precarious situations than I am, but if you have literally any money to spare, I am begging you, the tiniest amount would be so absolutely appreciated. The further I can get with donations, the less I will have to cover through more unsavoury means, and I really do not want to have to go into the industry so I can finance my new documents.

Please. Anything helps. Even just a reblog. Thank you.

[reagantheteenagewitch]

maybe if we keep speculating about mitch mcconnell more different repub senators will drop dead

[lunaticram]

[klapollo]

if youre in the US (especially the northeast + michigan) i would avoid bagged salads/greens and generally wash your produce very thoroughly unless you want the diarrhea parasite

[klapollo]

Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite grows to more than 1,000 cases

Michigan is experiencing its largest outbreak of a parasitic infection that causes severe diarrhea. Nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

there are UNVERIFIED rumors that the greens have been linked to a company that sources to taco bell. some locations have been actively pulling fresh ingredients like lettuce, avocado, and pico de gallo to mitigate the threat, so i would avoid any products from them just in case. considering how vast supply chains are, i'd be wary of any fast food greens in general for now.

[lightlyric]

further tips from an immunocompromised person obsessed with food safety:

- wash and then cook your vegetables. air fry, bake, sautee, deep fry, whatever to 165F

- if you really want a salad, get locally farmed veg from the farmers market and wash VERY thoroughly. if the farm has info about their labor practices, even better. workers' safety keeps us safe too

- you can blanch some greens too but this isn't as safe as cooking thoughly

- wash your hands thoroughly before & after prepping raw vegetables

- avoid cross contamination in your kitchen from raw vegetables. act like it's raw chicken

[vexatiousvic]

I actually hate learning new slurs. Like, yes, it's important to be able to recognize them, but man. I did not need to see/hear that. I did not need to know. I'm sad someone would something like that about a marginalized minority group :(

And if you use specifically 4chan slurs, you will be extremely sus. Nothing good ever came from there.

[laserbobcat]

OpenAI Can't Afford AI Anymore

Jarvis, dump my life savings into OpenAI's IPO RIGHT NOW.----Music Used in Order of Appearance: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG0S16vlm

There's so much about AI crashing down lately, nice nice 🙂

[noisejunkies]

we must have genuinely lost the fucking plot if saying "trans men are oppressed" has people out to wish torture and death upon you

[laserbobcat]

Don't post images with grids and square patterns on discord

I'm sure a lot of you saw it, but discord reaches new levels of bullshit.

Their AI strikes grid as child sexual abuse material and permabans accounts.

[daco-showman]

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

[ivy-michaels]

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

[fuckblast]

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

[ivy-michaels]

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

yall gotta be nicer about m/f  bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when bisexual people exist and straight trans people exist.

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

last add on alot of m/f ships of poc or white/poc ship are constantly downplayed for bland white m/m or f/f ships

[majorpepperidge]

#also sometimes u guys r just fuckig misogynist. abt the women in m/f ships. sorry

[catmask]

everybodys got a friend who lives with a rabbit like nervousness justified as a survival mechanic that has yet to be disproved by death physical or metaphorical and so remains untouched and self fulfilling

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s at least a little good news

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[bovid-beauty]

"Fascism"—New Federal Rule Would Require Federal Funding Recipients To Deny Trans People Exist

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

[junequeer]

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

[featherandstorm]

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

[genderkoolaid]

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

[mageofquandrix]

Like they said- get the noise up. The administration has tried lots of ways to ban being transgender, and they've always failed. Make sure to tell community members and ask them to pass the word as well.

Don't let fear or feeling doomed stop you. If you're overwhelmed that's okay, but take a break, take a breath, talk to someone about how you're feeling, and continue.

We've beaten them before and we'll beat them again.

[laserbobcat]

WAKE UP BABE NEW SCAM DROPPED