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[qifreynothing]

worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

[qifreynothing]

sorry i said something dickish. a few mildly frustrating things happened to me in succession and it turned me evil

[sofie-gold]

Hi internet- I'm a trans woman in Florida and I need help. I'm posting this across all my socials because I can't suffer in silence anymore.

I'm not a prisoner or a child, but i was still forcibly detransitioned by the State of Florida between 2022 and 2024. Planned Parenthood forced me off hormones in an act of anticipatory obediance to the trans healthcare ban that was eventually signed into law. I had been on HRT for ~5 years. I had fully socially transition and was passing- living my best life as a woman.

There was no place to go after Planned Parenthood dropped me. I spent over 2.5 years being forcibly detransitioned and I had no way to help myself. I lost my job. I lost my looks. I lost my VOICE. I'm looking for the words to describe the psychological and physical torture of having your body, identity and soul chemically excised from you but I don't think anyone but the trans community will ever really understand.

I'll try though: Imagine having to walk through liquid curtains of hydrochloric acid every day. And every day the acid gets more and more concentrated- but not only does the acid burn your skin and melt your face, it also seeps into your chakras and severs the links between your mind, body, and soul. Eventually leaving you an empty, disfigured husk- A revolting parody of the person you used to be.

In February 2024 I finally got in contact with a local lgbt charity hoping to get back on HRT but they weren't helpful. Mostly they just wanted to shame me for being unemployed. I want to say this plainly: Liberal institutions will not protect you from the law when they ban HRT. They wouldn't even give me the name of a clinic until a judge issued a stay of the healthcare ban. The ban was lifted for about 6 weeks and I was lucky enough to make the window, get a PCP, and get back on HRT.

To their credit, they did eventually get me in therapy and very quickly hit me with a suprise (well, not much of a surprise) autism diagnosis. I won't be naming them right now because I'm still a client, and that therapist is my only connection to the outside world right now.

There's so much more to this that I don't know how to narrativize yet. I was so poor in 2023 that I survived on less than 35¢ of food a day. I ate almost exclusively rolled oats and bagged sugar, averaging about 350 calories a day. I think I was well on my way to starving to death. By December I'd lost basically all my body fat, much of my of muscle mass and my bones were sticking out weird.

So, even though my situation is more stable, I'm still in a very precarious position. HRT is TIGHTLY controlled here. The max estrogen level you're allowed in Florida is a quarter of what I was on in Colorado, and that's just not enough to survive on.

I've managed to cheat my labs a little, so for now I've got my full dose. But once my current RX is up I'll be at risk of getting my HRT yanked because my estrogen levels are "too high". And I can't survive on a quarter dose. And I can't survive a 2nd round of detransition

Forced detransition has broken me at a fundamental level, and I don't know if I'll ever get the person I was before back. I just know I can't move forward until I get this story out.

If there's anyone out there who actually cares, please fucking help me. I live in Broward County and my partner and I have tentative plans to move to either Portland OR or Denver CO. I'm too damaged to work, and my partner's income is just enough to keep us treading water. We have basically no means to save for a move, so if you can help, or have any contacts in those areas of the country- please, I'm begging you, (yes, YOU, in particular) Get in touch. I'm sofiegold on bsky and sofie_gold on Discord or email me c4hsofie[at]gmail.com

I'm a software engineer (LAMP stack, c, c++) and Linux sysadmin for 10+ years so if there's anyone out there that can gently ease me back into gainful employment that would be amazing too.

For my old moots, gart.gg isn't dead. I just had to pause development while I tested the limits of human suffering. Also, I love you and miss you.

Finishing this with a message to my transgender peers: Let me be your cautionary tale. Do not let them take your HRT away. Do not let them abandon you and write you off as a casualty. Save yourself and stay on hormones by any means necessary.

This is our last chance, and we don't have a lot of time left. Organize your community right now. If you don't have a community find them. Right now. Go.

And i've got a gfm but i need PEOPLE more than i need money rn. but i also need money.

https://gofund.me/59ab04f0

[duskdragonxiii]

I love to misread replies as reptiles. There are reptiles on my posts sometimes

[duskdragonxiii]

YES!!! THE FUCKIGN LIZARS!!!!!!!!!

[aranarumei]

that moment in the long way down job where parker says, "i want to do the right thing!"

it is so good. like. it is of course a very poignant moment between parker and eliot, and it feels so natural as something that would happen between them, but its not like... overly hammered in until that moment. and it works so splendidly because parker and eliot are characterized so well that it's just a very natural moment to have, at this point, without needing the episode plot to really contrive very hard to bring it up

[ttrraasshh]

Garlic 2 (Stone sculpture), Mary Eiland

[william-snekspeare]

My bearded dragon is fascinated by the falling snow outside. He keeps going to the window to stare at it. He woke up from brumating to look at the snow.

He’s a desert species smh what does he want to do with snow...

[william-snekspeare]

artist rendition of my lizard absolutely entranced by the falling snow 

[kortzite]

[elementaldeityoffood]

[elfwreck]

[saywhat-politics]

Keep your messaging simple:

“Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later planes started crashing into each other.”

That’s it. That’s the messaging. Don’t get bogged down disputing Trump’s false claims. Just blame him, in short and repeatable sentences.

[queerculus]

Trump removed bird safety regulations in his first term and now bird flu is killing so many laying hens that eggs are $5 a carton

Trump removed food safety standards his first term and now we have recalls every few weeks

Trump cut the subsidies for the solar farms under construction so now electricity costs more

Trump disbanded the pandemic response team and we now we have bird flu and tuberculosis outbreaks

[maswartz]

If you have to explain your message it fails as a message. Dems need to stop assuming everyone is a college grad. Middle school graduate. Bare minimum.

[hollowboobtheory]

shut up this is the only video I care about

[pomrania]

"Dachshund car-wash rave" sounds like it's a nonsensical combination of words; but it actually describes this pretty well.

The audio is the start of 'Sandstorm' (Darude), plus some incidental sound (mostly barking), with the tiktok voice narrating two sentences at the beginning.

[jorongbak]

THEY LIFTED IT????????????

[jorongbak]

Do you think they took full advantage of Vegeta's lack of knowledge about Earth and told him that Kiwi fruits and Kiwi birds are the same things

[botanyshitposts]

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[flipocrite]

[clickityweasel]

[catboybiologist]

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

[kittyhalk]

Warding off the oncoming depressive episode by reading about very old tortoises

[kittyhalk]

Pleased to report that the 190 year old tortoise is a gay icon

[kittyhalk]

Jonathan is the oldest known land animal btw. I need everyone to know that the oldest animal alive is a gay tortoise

[bonyassfish]

Fun fact! Jonathan’s partner Frederick is actually trans (kind of)

Congrats to our bisexual polyamorous king 👑 🐢

[anthonysperkins]

Alan Parker, Joe Leitel and Bruce Reed Ben-Hurry (1959) dir. Richard Fontaine

[that-is-just-so-typically-me]

You’re telling me this was made during the Hays Code

[stjohnstarling]

This is what’s known as a physique film, and it is vintage gay porn. Actual gay pornography was illegal in the 50s, so people created short films like these that existed in a legal gray area - the (paper thin) excuse is that they are about bodybuilding and fitness. No sex happens in physique films, nor any full-frontal nudity, just a lot of the kind of thing you can see in these gifs. The film reels would be ordered by people through the mail (via physique magazines - which were magazines of homoerotic photography along the same lines as these films) and would not have been screened in theatres, so they would not be subject to the Hays Code. These were extremely legally dubious nonetheless. Physique films and magazines were dangerous to make, distribute, and consume because of obscenity laws, and most of the important figures in the industry were arrested at least once.

[warcrimesimulator]

thinking about creatures.

[warcrimesimulator]

look at this thing

[warcrimesimulator]

Tumblr users will see some kind of animal or beast and just slam the reblog button

[otiksimr]

That is a banded linsang.

They sit very politely.

[teathattast]

[jungkookiexxx]

250206 - J-hope on TikTok

iamurhope: wall wall wall wall wall wall dirt dirt dirt dirt dirt..🤣 D-22