boosts appreciated

I urgently need to find somewhere new to live (i'm in Berlin). I am female, 19, trans, and I work as a software engineer and have a stable income.

I am looking for a room in a wg, if you or anyone you know is looking for somebody please reach out to me.

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In response to someone whining about "kids today" on another site, I dug out this quote again:

"Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”

It's from an Assyrian clay tablet. circa 2800 B.C.E.

Humans don't change, only technology does.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-notable-apocalypses-that-obviously-didnt-happen-9126331/

This week, thanks to everyone's support, we've distributed around $3,000 worth of heaters, warm clothing, food, and other support to our unhoused neighbors. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

We keep us warm

I'm a cis guy, and I want to write a #transmasc appreciation post, because I've learned a lot from listening to trans masc people.

Navigating masculinity is hard, in ways I never would have thought to articulate, if it weren't for the trans men and nonbinary people exploring and defining their own masculinities.

You guys have shown how to love - others and yourselves - how to be tender, how to show courage, how strength and vulnerability aren't opposites but are instead connected. You've made visible ideas that our society tries really, really hard to keep invisible.

And a lot of you are snappy dressers, too. And why are you all so handsome?

Anyway, just wanted to say I love and appreciate you #transmasculine folks out there. We need you in the world. My world is made better having you in it.

Listen, please don't do this.

It's great that many folks have already transitioned off Twitter fully, but acting like using Twitter right now is an endorsement of Elon's (very real) fascism and war on journalism isn't it.

This has been FAST.

Many marginalized folks have community support infrastructure there that can't simply be ported.

Please understand, community migration is SO much more fraught than individual migration.

If there's a railroad strike, it'll go a long way towards showing who means what they say about supporting workers, or any significant societal change for that matter

A major strike will have a direct impact on your life. We can't make progress for worker's rights if we're not willing to give up the comforts and privileges we gain from their oppression. The same goes for almost any major disruption to the status quo. Ending our dependence on imperialist, capitalist, and environmental exploitation will be hard. It will be uncomfortable. It will even be painful. That's not a reason not to do it

Your neighbors will need support, and you probably will too. Start planning and building community infrastructure and support systems now

I've been on social media since the 1990s and can say with 100% clarity that harassment on social media is because of people, not platform.

The important thing is not where you are, but who you interact with. Platforms that allow you to ignore/block/delete/limit are generally less horrible than those without, but it's really about the people.