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[guerrillatech]

[segamascott]

like to charge reblog to cast obviously

[mousidy]

kinda bothered that people don't seem to imagine fertility could be a sensitive subject for trans women

[mousidy]

in my gender studies class a classmate came and sat down in front of me and another trans woman and told us how the university might not be paying for students' plan B anymore, but then they said "well, not that that's relevant to either of you" like...??? thanks I don't need to be reminded I can't bear children can we not just discuss this injustice together

[would-you-punt-them]

imagine telling someone in 2001 that the american government forgot about 9/11 so they could venerate a podcaster

[would-you-punt-them]

Okay I kinda assumed that they might try to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr but seriously what the fuck

Here's a list of real things that have happened in the past 2 days:

He's being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

JD Vance personally escorted his body back to Arizona in Air Force Two

All American flags both in the US and abroad are to be flown at half-mast for the rest of the week

Republican senators are calling for a statue of him to be built in the Capitol (quote: "we have one of MLK don't we?")

News anchors are sobbing live on television

The governor of Utah has pledged to give the shooter the death penalty

Vigils are being held nationwide

Evangelicals have been equating him with Jesus

In the House of Representatives a request for a prayer devolved into screaming that the Democrats killed him

The New York Yankees held a moment of silence before the game and proceeded to lose 12-2

People across the country are losing their jobs en masse for criticising him online

MSNBC's political analyst was asked what created the environment for the shooting, said it could be his divisive rhetoric, and was fired on the spot

A UK student wrote "he got shot lol" in a private group chat and it made the news

The State Department announced that they will revoke the visas of foreign nationals who "praise, rationalise, or make light" of his death on social media

Also it was 9/11

[ontologicallyeviltortureprincess]

There's this interesting phenomenon where when you're a child, or some other vulnerable minority dependent on a job for shelter, you are actually under duress almost constantly. You can't say "I don't want to work today," you cannot say "I don't want to do the dishes, actually," you cannot choose not to participate. In a lot of cases, the punishment is explicit. Your parents might yell at you. Your boss might fire you. But in other cases, it's implicit. The mood will sour. You lose leeway. People get mad at you. And that creates a really shitty environment where you're constantly being coerced to do things!

And here's the kicker; you're not allowed to acknowledge that. You cannot acknowledge that you are being coerced, you cannot acknowledge that your free will is not being respected, because that's punished too. Your boss insists that you act excited. Your parents punish you for acting surly. You are forced to fake enthusiastic consent, constantly. It's a fucking nightmare. Your hand is being forced, you do not have the option to say "no," and if you ever, for a second, try to acknowledge that, everyone acts like you're the aggressor.

[pokeballvictim]

This post might have been what got my blog deleted lmao

[epicsause-official]

youtubers should do reverse sponsorships. just interrupt the narrative of the video to shit-talk some random company for 1-2 minutes.

[phantomrose96]

God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers and I'm dodging the draft

[phantomrose96]

hang on I gotta look something up.

[i-suggest-vore]

DW I know that one from heart if you need an explanation

[phantomrose96]

Thanks tumblr user i-suggest-vore. I can always count on you for theological literacy wait is there a different reason you like this story

[progressivemillennial]

[hetrosjistin]

The sad thing is that this should be a satire thing but it really isn't.

The democratic party leadership isn't actually filled with 5th column conservatives. But what it is filled with is people who have been patholigically conditioned to find compromise at every step.

They've been convinced, since JFK got his dome popped, that the only way to do business is to court the right because the Left has no choice but them, and because young leftists just won't turn out to vote.

That's obviously not the case, or if it was, it was because they screwed the pooch every time.

So they can't really conceive that energizing your voting base by offering actual policy changes and pushing for things that aren't compromises with a group of extremeists who make up barely an 8th of the nation but have gerrymandered their way into power is the answer.

Edit: Wow a lot of people are reblogging this, but I think I do a better job of explaining all of this in a follow up post!

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💬 74  🔁 8785  ❤️ 12699 · no, all this bullshit because they got scared when jfk exploded and then they backed another leftist candidate (dep

[mysharona1987]

[brunhiddensmusings]

[runawaymarbles]

Also even if you want to be selfish about it: people not having student loans benefits everyone who would like to sell them something, as they will now have more money to spend on things. This is 5th grade fake storefront-level economics.

[unionizedwizard]

i mean typically this is like

>research shows testosterone HRT is not a contraceptive so you still need to use protection!

>ok. do you know if it has literally any effect on fertility whatsoever?

>lol no

>ok. so hypothetically how would a trans man on HRT know if he's pregnant?

>well silly girl :) you just check your period :) if you missed your period you might be pregnant! duh!

>ok. testosterone HRT stops your period after, like, 3 months though

>[windows error sounds] well then you can usually feel your breasts get heavier and more tender :)

>ok. what about people who don't have mammary glands anymore? how would that even work?

>listen i don't know. why don't you have a pregnancy test?

>those tests work by detecting a specific hormone. does HRT interfere with this hormone by either making it undetectable or stopping its production entirely or anything? how do i know the test itself is reliable?

>have you tried the morning after pill?

>the morning after pill is also hormone-based. how do i know it's reliable? does taking testosterone HRT have any impact on its efficiency? could it potentially cause an adverse reaction? could a trans man with updated ID documents even access it in the first place since the pharmacy only delivers it to people they think, at a glance, could be pregnant?

etc etc

[unionizedwizard]

like i dont know . i keep thinking of that doctor i saw three times at the goddamn hospital and to whom i explained the concept of taking hrt (prescribed) (controlled) (medical setting) three times and i still don't think he actually understood. "but you look different!" bingo doc that's what it does! "but ... can it actually change your body? :o" bingo doc ! that's what an """hormone"""" does . that's like its whole thing actually. that's what , it does ,

it's like the people at work (transcription) (remote office work) (linguistics) (spelling) (grammar) (writing) (language) (grammar) being confused at the concept of "pronouns". "what do you mean by "pronouns"?" cindy my belovedest ! i think the problem might not actually be that you don't know about The Transsexuals? i think you might actually just be worryingly bad at your job. you know? the job which is "know about grammar"? that job? the grammar job? the job that is about knowing grammar rules? that job? the one that you have? cindy? cindy. cindy look at me. CINDY,

[sleepybutches]

Testosterone likely affects your fertility but we do not know to what extent. There aren't enough studies on it and they're not going to get government funding anytime soon for research in this area. The current recommendation is to preserve your fertility via freezing your eggs before going on testosterone, if you might or definitely want biological kids in the future.

Pregnancy tests still work if you are on testosterone. They measure beta hCG hormone which is produced by the placenta when pregnant. Testosterone and beta hCG do not interact.

The morning after pill still works if you are on testosterone. It is progesterone-based, not estrogen-based, so it will not interact with the testosterone. Other progesterone-only birth control methods, like IUDs and progesterone-only pills, can also prevent pregnancy in someone on testosterone, along with other methods like condoms, vasectomy, and tubal ligation (getting your tubes tied).

Your doctors suck. They should be able to either reason through this in front of you in the patient room by thinking about their education on hormones, or at least consult with colleagues before your next visit if they're not sure.

[transcyberism]

the last bullet point is a particular sticking point because a lot of general practitioners or non-endocrinologists straight up do not fully understand hormones on the level that is required to intuitively understand why HRT changes your whole body. Many people, sadly including doctors, think that perisex-AFAB and perisex-AMAB are simply Two Different Types Of Human Body and not actually essentially the same type of body running on different firmware (which is the developmental biological reality).

When they deal with hormones, they're mostly only dealing with those used to treat a deficiency or imbalance, like insulin for diabetes, or HRT for cis people who have low/absent hormones for other reasons. As a result, they only understand the effects of those hormones in the context they're used to seeing them - T allows a cis man with low testosterone as a result of previous treatment for testicular cancer to have "normal" levels and for their bodies to do the things that Men's Bodies™ are "supposed" to do. They see it as replacing a missing piece.

But when you give T to someone who was AFAB whose body is not Supposed To™ produce it, that model doesn't work. They don't see trans/intersex-affirming hormones as "missing" the way they see hormones for dyadic-cis patients (due to this model being inherently dyadic/cis-normative). So when those hormones activate DNA that the vast majority of people have regardless of AGAB, and it causes vocal cord changes and hair growth and fat distribution changes and muscle hypertrophy, and that occurs in someone who is not "supposed" to have those features because they don't have That Type Of Body, that freaks the doctors out, because that's not how they're taught that medicine works.

They are not taught to operate in the model of maximizing patient autonomy or even to simply prioritize understanding basic biology, they are taught To Cure Disease. If they don't see your condition as a cureable disease - or they don't see it as one that's their job to cure, because they think you ought to be seeing a psychiatrist instead - they will not understand how your medicine works. This is the fundamental problem with how the modern healthcare system operates. To them, hormone replacement therapy exists to replace something missing, not to add this "new" functionality that they don't normally associate with a given sex assignment (even though it's not new, because it was in our DNA the whole time). Only doctors who are actually familiar with the entire developmental and pubertal process (so endocrinologists plus particularly knowledgeable pediatricians) usually understand that sex hormones function on that level.

This is a takeaway you should hang onto when you think of doctors in general, btw. A lot of them are not trying first and foremost to improve the patient's well-being or improve their autonomy, they are trying To Cure Disease.

[cpericardium]

at the euthanasia party everyone gets a sip of the forbidden lean

[teaboot]

Maaaaaan grandpa wouldn’t even get to know if the kid made it or not 😭

[elierlick]

It's funny how every evidence-based study finds this exact same result. Where is the flood of detransitioners we were promised years ago? Where are the whistleblowers of doctors "forcing" teens to transition? That's right, they don't exist.

[shamebats]

Only 4% of people who went back to living in their sex assigned at birth for a while cited that their reason was because they realized that gender transition was not for them. When considering all respondents who had transitioned, this number equates to only 0.36%.”

Nearly all respondents who were receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy (98%) or who had received gender-affirming surgery (97%) reported increased life satisfaction.

I doubt there's a single other type of medical treatment with numbers like this.

I'm dealing with migraine meds right now and even the fancy new preventatives have a 50% chance of working for you at all.

We really don't talk enough how miraculous HRT is. Nobody does it like her.

[iwait4youalexg]

Oh!

[writing-prompt-s]

It’s been 6 years since the zombie apocalypse started, thousands die weekly, but society hasn’t changed much. Your local news tracks zombie migration. An armored school bus picks kids up every morning. Your local walmart just installed a fancy new bio-scanner. And you still need to go to work.

[official-drpeaches]

[redstonedust]

anyone else wish they would get roped into a freaky friday body swap situation just for the hope that the other person will go "oh jesus fuck how do you live like this" and instantly validate your feelings of being Strange and Built Wrong.

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[jollysunflora]

#there is so much abandonware just...out there being used and carefully maintained#because nothing quite replicates the functionality

[aletheyass]

do you ever hang out with someone else’s family and you’re like ooooh. so this is what it’s supposed to be like