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Dec 6, 2024

@Tooden @SeaFury Ironically, given i have now hermitted since 2010 [transition 2004-2006, tried really hard to be brave & out 2007-2009, gave up end-2009], i am acutely aware that my combined depression & social phobia seem to have triggered a kind of agoraphobia, coz now those rare times when leaving the house is unavoidable [by which i do not mean going into town, catching pub transport or any other "normal" stuff, i mean innocuous stuff like checking letterbox, doing compost bin etc] before night's darkness, i react viscerally with much tension & nervousness, clammy skin, & general patheticality, which only recedes again once back inside. It is utterly ridiculous.

Anyway, sorry, i did not mean to steal yet another thread, so i'm shutting up now.

@lianna @ElegantEssence Well i appreciate that's apparently relevant for others, but as stated it is not for me. My belated self-recognition ~22 yrs ago as a transsexual woman, not merely the crossdressing male i had initially presumed for several decades since childhood, was 100% associated with my gender identity & 0% with whom i wished to grind bones. My subsequent decision to fully transition with all that entailed, & my existence post-transition as a woman, continues to have nothing to do with sexuality, only my gender identity. The issues remain separate, though related, with crystal clarity to me, but others seem desirous to blur. Even if that blurring is perceived to have political advantage [strength in numbers, as you infer], IMO it continues to fuel Vanillas' abject confusion, & sadly thence rhetorical, political & actual violence.

@jerry @captainb Hi Jerry & thank you.

I announced that I was removing the limit on threads.net with instructions on how to block at an account level

Yes, that's what i thought had happened, & iirc my entry of Threads in my blocklist is a direct result of my efforts to follow your advice months ago... which i then entirely forgot about til now.

infosec.space for those who want to be insulated from threads. It has a number of other protection too

I either did not know, otherwise had also entirely forgotten, that /space has those additional measures, which i regard as attractive given my antipathy to Meta & BS. It seems to me now, rather belatedly to my embarrassment, that i should prolly begin to make plans to do yet another fedi-hop... this time to infosec.space. Do i need to begin all over again as a complete new user there, or do you have some magic incantation capable of moving "me" over to it holus bolus? Ofc i know that's a stupid question with an answer of No, Silly, but thought i'd check before starting over again manually.

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Nov 26, 2024

Spring & summer brings extreme heat, violent thunderstorms, killer bushfires. It also brings tiny niceties unknown or unthought-of to some peeps, but much prized by others. In this heat, all the jumpers, sloppy-jos, sleeved collared shirts et al are put away, & light sleeveless sundresses or backless tops etc come back into play. That allows the ponytail direct skin access to swish across back & shoulders randomly which, as a very tactile peep, is a delightful sensation. One which i did not have even the slightest possibility of in my life, for the first ~46 years. So, minute insignificant moments like these alert me to the fact that even depressed glass-half-empty Puddleglums can acknowledge & appreciate, no matter its myriad shortcomings, the magic & good fortune of #Transition 20 years ago. Small things signify huge things.

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Nov 25, 2024

@marqle @lps @feb , @ProdigalFrog @harrys_balzac I still have a couple of #Friendica accounts, & historically had a few others. For me, all the functional advantages Friendica has over other software, including Mastodon, are largely negated by its comparatively hideous lethargy. It is commonplace that sending posts can take several minutes to complete, & even on the best days it can take 30 - 60 seconds, vs nearly instantaneous on my Masto instances. Similarly, incoming posts often lag badly behind what i see in my Masto instances [on bad days by hours]. Given the large majority of my friends & regular interlocutors are on Masto instances, having ~real-time chats with them is nearly impossible in F, but elementary in M. It's such a pity.

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Nov 24, 2024

Years ago Opera Presto, then later Vivaldi, switched me onto the substantial browser usability improvements from a dedicated second sidebar incorporating customisable #WebPanels. Sadly, eventually, it became too hard to keep faith with the Vivaldi project for numerous design reasons. #FirefoxNightly

with #Sidebery became my new home instead, despite lacking that extra sidebar. Much more recently, #Floorp

crossed my radar, replete with a Vivaldi-esque WP sidebar, & i was smitten. It does, however, have some issues i dislike, but i tolerated them for the overall good. Then #ZenBrowser

arrived, & i had a new love, albeit its unusual WP implementation is less convenient than it should be. Atm both

seem to be heading in design directions less attractive to me, so the age-old quandary continued. Then, a few days ago, i serendipitously stumbled onto this fab project https://github.com/aminought/firefox-second-sidebar, & now i'm as happy as a porcine creature in biological byproduct...

with a dedicated second sidebar incorporating customisable #WebPanels. 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️

GitHub - aminought/firefox-second-sidebar: A Firefox userChrome.js script that brings a second sidebar with web panels like in Vivaldi/Edge/Floorp but better.

A Firefox userChrome.js script that brings a second sidebar with web panels like in Vivaldi/Edge/Floorp but better. - aminought/firefox-second-sidebar

GitHub

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Nov 21, 2024

I learned in fedi-posts/toots that yesterday/today [timezone crap] is apparently the annual Trans Day of Remembrance. I didn't know that, i didn't know there was such a thing [maybe it's a Merkan thing?]. Other times i read that it's annual Pride Day again, but similarly [though in this case yes i have heard of it] i never know it's coming, til i begin reading of it again. I live under my rock, keeping myself alone at home, participating in no LGBTQI community of any kind, not being activist in any way, just trying to be motivated enough to bother getting outta bed each morning. I wonder if more trans peeps are public & active, or solitary & inactive like me. I admire those with the courage, determination, fortitude, & self-confidence. I know how to spell those words, but that's all. Onya, fellow trans peeps. 🤗 💜

#LGBTQIA+ #Transphobia #Homophobia #Racism #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #GayRights #WomensRights #Misogyny #FsckThePatriarchy #fsckALLreligion #RWNJs #FsckRWNJs #FsckChristoFacists #ChangeTheSystem #FuckAroundAndFindOut #Misanthropy #GayRepresentation #LesbianRepresentation #TransRepresentation #TDoR

#Depression #SelfLoathing #SocialPhobia #FailedTransition #PostOp #Transwoman #Unworthy #Nihilism #ExistentialFutility #SuicideIdeation #spoons #PrimalScream

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Nov 20, 2024

I had the germ of an idea to possibly contemplate the merest hint of a vague suggestion of a nascent thought to potentially cogitate the implausible eventuality of looking at #Misskey. From https://fedidb.org/software/misskey i found a non-Japan non-USA server/instance purporting to be in UK, https://fedidb.org/network/instance/quietplace.xyz. To my huge shock, almost disbelief, & certainly disgust, i next found their own instance info https://about.quietplace.xyz/rules.html, in which:

the top half appears to be in Russian! 😲 🤯
the bottom half is English, but contains:

Administration is obliged to Comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
User is obliged to Comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation.
It is forbidden Propaganda of LGBT culture.

Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh! 😱
What a despicable instance! Abandoned, with alacrity. Ugh 🤮

#Fsckquietplacexyz #FsckOffPutin 😡🖕

FediDB, Fediverse Network Statistics

FediDB is a cutting-edge service providing detailed statistics and insights into the Fediverse network.

@RealJournalism I'm Strayan, not Merkan. I don't know that author, nor that publication. I followed your link & read the deplorable article. Ugh, that bloke is a real bastard. 🤮

the demands of the trans movement, even though that movement has never offered a coherent account of transgenderism. The Republicans exploited that incoherence effectively. For a decade, I have articulated a feminist challenge to transgender ideology

I'm fed up to the back teeth with rabid rancid pig-ignorant transphobes lying & distorting & misrepresenting in this way. From what i have seen over the past decade in the States, & shockingly is being exported to other countries including mine by disgusting RWNJ christo-fascist fsckheads, these haters are utterly fixated on creating this myth, this fiction, this bloody lie, of "transgender ideology". There is no such thing, at least, not any more than there is "right-handed ideology", or "green eyed ideology", etc.

As for the cretinous postulate of "trans movement demands", well oooh ooooh, how scary that must be to haters to hear! Our "demand" is the outrageous request that transphobes & RWNJs stop murdering us, assaulting us, politically marginalising & othering us, et al. OMZ, such horror; how dare we?

The contemporary demonisation, vilification & rejection of trans peeps seems to my eyes driven by analogous ignorance & bigotry as in prior generations for gay & lesbian peeps in so-called first-world countries, albeit sadly still happening in numerous second- & third-world ones. To all these stupid ignorant haters & bigots i merely say the obvious truths; stop your moral panic, LGBTQIA peeps are born how we are, we didn't "catch" something, & you're not going to "catch it" either. You fscken morons.

Thank you, @RealJournalism , for your fine work.

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Nov 18, 2024

On would i pay to re-subscribe [having opted out from another renewal recently]:

I honestly don't know, it's a matter of frequent self-debate & contemplation. I want Oz to have strong vibrant viable non-RWNJ non-sociopathic media, but perversely i do not like the direct user-pays model [& i abhor advertising], fervently believing instead that media should be generically funded by general tax revenue allocated for such purpose, as a national good. However i also know that's something way beyond my, or your, personal capability to achieve.

On any final remarks:

I realise my responses will be discouraging for you, & i'm sorry about that. Pls know this though. I think Crikey is great, & i know that financial survival is an essential concern for you. Most of my negativity you might correctly discern from my survey responses are, tbh, nothing to do with Crikey, & everything to do with my abject depression & sense of irrevocable doom given the climate crisis & biodiversity extinction calamity, as well as rising racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny... yet voters here & OS keep electing fucking RWNJs instead. My overwhelming sense of our existential peril is such that i now feel that almost everything else is a trivial distraction of little consequence. Cheery, eh?

#Crikey #journalism #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #existentialism

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