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Tumblr just marked your page as mature. I'd recommend posting links to your other socials in case they decide to nuke you.

eh i’m not surprised. it was only a matter of time before they put me in their crosshairs

in case i get nuked i guess

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saintjosie

apparently this was a bug with mobile on android but leaving this pinned cause a lot of yall found me on bluesky through this

just randomly happened across your transition timeline (estrogen is magic btw love that for us) but i was messaging to say, i recognized your name and...if i'm not completely mistaken, are you the editor for nikhil clayton?

cuz i know i've seen "saintjosie" in his discord and editor notes from "josie" pop up in his reax series.

if so you do great work and i'm a big fan of your work (and your boss ig :p)

if not im sorry to bug you but hi all the same!

ayyy thank you! yes that is me!

i know that nikhil credits me for the edits but i find it incredibly flattering that people appreciate my work enough to seek me out and let me know that im doing a good job 💜

kdinjenzen

Local Trans Woman Laid Off AGAIN! Help?

Well another job has come and gone, the indie company I worked for shuttered their entire social and marketing department (which included me) yesterday and I'm back to job hunting.

They laid me off with no severance and only "paying out my last two weeks" as part of my final pay. So things are once again going to get tight financially around here and I hadn't even been able to financially recover from the previous layoff I suffered.

If you have leads to work (Social Media Manager, Community Manager, Marketing Manager, Voice Acting, or literally anything) please send it along my way!

But if you have the ability to donate or contribute to help keep us afloat while I'm once again on the job hunt, you can use any of these below:

P@yPal: Paypal.me/kdinj

Ca$hApp: $KdinJ

Kofi: ko-fi.com/kdinjenzen

kdinjenzen

A project I was contracted for ran out of funding last month so money is tighter again, the good news is I do have a job interview today, so hopefully things go well!

But while I figure out next steps and with Rent/Bills coming up on being due, we could use a little help!:

$0/$1000

pirateprincessjess

The Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics started out as a pretty standard “funny talking animal comic”. In issue 20 they became a comic that wanted to start telling more set stories.

The funny thing is that the transition happens in the middle of an issue, and there is a visible jump in quality between pages.

Just look at this. These are sequential pages in the same comics (Archie Sonic issue 20)

pirateprincessjess

The tone difference between the two stories in this issue will give you whiplash.

In the first story, Sonic accidentally becomes invisible and tricks Robotnik into thinking he’s a ghost.

The second story is about Sally planting bombs at Robotniks base when she encounters another solider form a different resistance cell, and she has to make a judgement call about whether or not he’s a spy

rylandsgrace

This is cinema actually

wizardarchetypes

THE ALI FORESHADOWING LIKE SHE’S A WIZARD THEY’RE PREPARING TO FACE AND THEYRE WARNING US ABOUT HER LIKE BARDS.

ALI IMMEDIATELY LIVING UP TO THE BALLDS SUNG ABOUT HER.

THE FACT THAT ALL OF THEIR MAGIC COMBINED DIDN’T COUNTER HER SPELL

bubobubosibericus

Are you americans okay???

punkahudsonia

Everclear is what we have instead of universal healthcare.

nyancrimew

oh yeah so ive been kinda busy the last few days and forgot to post about the latest shit ive been up to on here

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World Wa

bypass paywall

A data leak has exposed private data on billionaire Peter Thiel’s “Dialog,” an invitation-only network of high-profile figures.

bwah :3

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a

nyancrimew

Ranks of his group, Dialog, appear to include several prominent figures in media and entertainment who're put in the same room as C-suite ex

i just played a round of valorant where both the other team and my team said “happy pride!” in response to my trans flag banner.

which would have been really cute and wholesome except the guy on my team who said happy pride immediately followed that up with, “so which do you have a cock and balls or a coin hole?”

to which i casually responded “both”, expecting some sort of transphobic follow up from him.

yet to my pleasant surprise he responded with “well alright that sounds like a good time!”

and honestly i can’t really hold that against him

saintjosie

using sharpie to mark the day of the week is a terrible idea because sharpie is toxic

saintjosie

wtf? when did i say this? what does it mean?

Whoooooa you’re in durham? I live pretty close, i’m in chapel hill!! Idk much about SC’s politics regarding transness, but I do know the policies here in NC suck ass. Do you think it’s better/easier (from a legal standpoint anyway) to be trans here?

it absolutely is!

north carolina is a blue state with red on the fringes that’s been gerrymandered to hell whereas south carolina is much closer to 50/50 than republicans would like to admit but still red anywhere other than the designated blue zones. the legal name change and birth certificate gender change processes are much simpler here in nc. sc is pursuing gender affirming care bans and restrictions of reproductive rights much more aggressively. there are bills in nc proposing similar measures but they are much much less likely to pass than in sc.

but more than the politics making things easier here, it’s the people that makes living here so much better than sc. durham and the triangle area is general is 1000x more diverse than columbia sc. there is a large black population in columbia but seeing another asian person was like seeing another wild unicorn. we would lock eyes for a split second and both be a little surprised. most of the asian restaurants in columbia are absolutely garbage and the few that were good weren’t good but barely satiated a craving (with the exception of arirang which is absolutely banger mom and pop korean restaurant). here, i feel downright spoiled with good options. i can name a banger thai, szechuan, chinese, japanese, korean, vietnamese, indian, nepalese, mexican, peruvian, ethiopian, caribbean, cajun, mediterranean, halal, and many more types of restaurant off the top of my head, all within 30m driving distance.

also queerness and transness is much more accepted and normalized here. i don’t feel like everyone is staring at me as i’m walking around as an openly trans person. i can hold hands with my girlfriend while walking down the street and see another wlw couple on the other side of the road doing the same. if i want to go out, i can go to a queer club run by a afro-latinx drag queen, a lesbian bar, a classic gay club with nightly drag shows, and more.

is it perfect? no absolutely not. are there still racist and homophobic asshats? yes absolutely. but there’s a reason i moved back here after leaving for four years and i plan on being here for awhile because i love it!

saintjosie

Girlypop, how do you deal with this SC political bs. These people on my screens drive me mad and make my ears bleed. They do not deserve my attention, or time- yet I get BIG MAD everytime any political ad pops up. Anyway, I will take whatever advice you've got- have a Happy Pride Month with your cutiepiepuppygirl!

✨️💖❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖✨️

by leaving the state. /hj jess and i actually moved to durham nc about a year ago! we left sc for a number of reasons, the political landscape of sc being among them, and so im not keeping up with the politics in sc as much anymore. but that doesnt change the fact that trans people across the US and especially in the south are facing similar emotions. and even though i am no longer in sc, i believe that the way we get through this is the same way that queer people survived for generations. show up for your community and lean on them for support when you need it. protest if you are able. find joy wherever you can and cling to it. they want nothing more than for us to feel hopeless, to feel like there is absolutely nothing we can do to fight back. but never forget that your very existence is resistance, never forget that you are never alone, and never forget that queer joy is why we fight in the first place.

saintjosie

i know when people say things like this it can be easy to dismiss it as an empty platitude but we say these things because these are the things that facism and capitalism are desperately trying to destroy. we say lean on your community because organized action is what keeps oppressed communities alive. we say protest because that is what won us our rights in the first place. we say that queer joy is what we fight for because we are fighting for our right to exist and to live authentic and happy lives as we choose to. these are not just things we say, these are the weapons that people of color and queer people have used to fight back for generations because we are far from the first to take up this fight. and i don't know about you but id rather die than give up on trying to live life on my own terms.

Girlypop, how do you deal with this SC political bs. These people on my screens drive me mad and make my ears bleed. They do not deserve my attention, or time- yet I get BIG MAD everytime any political ad pops up. Anyway, I will take whatever advice you've got- have a Happy Pride Month with your cutiepiepuppygirl!

✨️💖❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💖✨️

by leaving the state. /hj jess and i actually moved to durham nc about a year ago! we left sc for a number of reasons, the political landscape of sc being among them, and so im not keeping up with the politics in sc as much anymore. but that doesnt change the fact that trans people across the US and especially in the south are facing similar emotions. and even though i am no longer in sc, i believe that the way we get through this is the same way that queer people survived for generations. show up for your community and lean on them for support when you need it. protest if you are able. find joy wherever you can and cling to it. they want nothing more than for us to feel hopeless, to feel like there is absolutely nothing we can do to fight back. but never forget that your very existence is resistance, never forget that you are never alone, and never forget that queer joy is why we fight in the first place.

africanaquarian

I thought I needed a new laptop but nope, youtube is slowing down your PC if you have adblock on on any open tab...

astraltrickster

To be very clear about this: CPUs aren't magical devices that can operate forever. They generate heat. They wear out over time. This happens faster when they're operating near capacity. This is not just an attempt to inconvenience you; this is an attempt to damage your property.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

Fuck Google, and I hope they get sued into oblivion over this.

fernwah-funzone

i see everyone in the notes talking about newpipe but nobody's talking about youtube alternatives for desktop

IF YOU USE A DESKTOP PC OR LAPTOP, TRY INVIDIOUS

https://invidious.io/

it is a free, open-source alternative YouTube front-end. in addition to not having ads, it has other great QoL features like a download button. try one of the several instances on that link up there ^^^^

saintjosie

so i was super pissed and concerned about this but i have just discovered that while this is true, it is apparently only true for google chrome users. i just tested this by having ten tabs open in firefox playing ten different youtube videos at the same time and my cpu usage spiked to 25% as the videos were loading and then dropped back down to 10% as they played.

if you ever needed another reason to switch to a different browser, this is it.

africanaquarian

I thought I needed a new laptop but nope, youtube is slowing down your PC if you have adblock on on any open tab...

astraltrickster

To be very clear about this: CPUs aren't magical devices that can operate forever. They generate heat. They wear out over time. This happens faster when they're operating near capacity. This is not just an attempt to inconvenience you; this is an attempt to damage your property.

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

Fuck Google, and I hope they get sued into oblivion over this.

fernwah-funzone

i see everyone in the notes talking about newpipe but nobody's talking about youtube alternatives for desktop

IF YOU USE A DESKTOP PC OR LAPTOP, TRY INVIDIOUS

https://invidious.io/

it is a free, open-source alternative YouTube front-end. in addition to not having ads, it has other great QoL features like a download button. try one of the several instances on that link up there ^^^^

#oh.

catboybiologist

hi, I saw you recommend females by Andrea Chu, and I was wondering if you’re able to clear out what this quote is about “Getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is” , TERFs and anti-trans activists use it often but I know this is more likely out of context, but what is Andrea Chu even trying to say?

I really don't want to be like this but please read the rest of the book and learn a little bit of analysis

catboybiologist

To elaborate: the entire book is about what the societal concept of female means, even when the word female is not directly tied to it

That quote is not an assertation from Chu, it's an observation that a particular action makes you more "female" in the eyes of society. Eg, for an on the nose elaboration, look no further than the conflation of bottoming, femininity, and submission.

It is not a statement about the way that things should be, it's a statement about the way things are and the way that they are perceived right now. Which is, as stated, what the entire book is about. It's very on the nose about it.

It's worth noting that Andrea Long Chu is transfeminine.

greens-your-color

ALC is known for her pithy and polemical way of writing. This framing of the feminine rhymes with another interesting (and much more elaborated upon—so perhaps better for beginner readers of theory) in the anthology Feminism Against Cisness.

I wish I had the text with me so I could quote directly from it. My approximate summary of the claim in that text is that “penetrability”—in both a sexual and (metaphoric) cultural sense—underlies multiple forms of oppression. It’s an interesting framework to envision how “classic” feminism and transfeminism can be thought together, especially alongside racism and other intersecting structures of oppression.

That isn’t to say I agree with it completely. There are elements of its treatment of how antiblackness functions that I think are completely off the mark (what else is new). But it’s still a worthwhile read, and a solid bit of accessible, current trans theory to think with and critique—especially if you are new to reading theory.

And it’s on transreads if you can’t access a copy through a library.

catboybiologist

hi, I saw you recommend females by Andrea Chu, and I was wondering if you’re able to clear out what this quote is about “Getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is” , TERFs and anti-trans activists use it often but I know this is more likely out of context, but what is Andrea Chu even trying to say?

I really don't want to be like this but please read the rest of the book and learn a little bit of analysis

catboybiologist

To elaborate: the entire book is about what the societal concept of female means, even when the word female is not directly tied to it

That quote is not an assertation from Chu, it's an observation that a particular action makes you more "female" in the eyes of society. Eg, for an on the nose elaboration, look no further than the conflation of bottoming, femininity, and submission.

It is not a statement about the way that things should be, it's a statement about the way things are and the way that they are perceived right now. Which is, as stated, what the entire book is about. It's very on the nose about it.

It's worth noting that Andrea Long Chu is transfeminine.

#that sounds like an interesting read i should check that out #josiesaves