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jupiter 
mccI've come to be able to intuitively sense different very specific failures in Bluesky's microservice/hosting architecture like I'm an old timey rancher or something. There's a slight purplish hue to the sky over the west range and clouds like ridged dunes. "Reckon the Bluesky PDSes are down again," I muse to myself, chewing on like… a piece of straw or something. Is that something people do? My grandfather was a farmer and his place had a lot of straw around but he didn't eat it. It's for horses
this stupid revelation came to me in a dream: bread is just popdough
Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)"When the people who built and operated your cloud would rather knead dough than touch a terminal again, that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response."
https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-the-human-who-made-the-difference/
The enshittification escalates...
I walked away from tech almost four years ago with a case of burnout you could see from space.
The intervening three years have only made me more grateful that I left when I did.
(I wish all my friends and colleagues still chained to the oars had my opportunity.)
Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️⚧️🐱Important reminder that the following thoughts are not typical in cisgender cisspecies human men:
- I wish I woke up as a catgirl.
- Human feet are so weird and ugly. Why can't humans have digitigrade paws?
- In my horny thoughts I like to imagine myself as the girl.
- Shaving is fucking annoying but I hate having a beard even more, I'd rather pour acid in my face than have to shave ever again.
- Human ears are so weird and ugly. Why can't humans have cat ears?
- If I found a genie offering me three wishes, my first one would be to get transformed into a catgirl. And then I would be out of ideas.
- Male-typical human genitals are so weird and ugly. Why can't I have female-typical genitals?
- I'm jealous of the female orgasm. Very jealous. Much more fun and much less mess.
- Puberty ruined my voice.
- Why can't humans have soft smooth feline fur? Or at least hairless skin?
- I hate my assigned name. What's the point of legal name changes being so fucking hard in my country?
- I imagine my soul as a catgirl.
- I spend a lot of time imagining scenarios of being transformed into a catgirl.
These might be symptoms of gender dysphoria and/or species dysphoria. You might be entitled to estrogen and surgeries. DM for further advice.
- I wish I woke up as a catgirl.
- Human feet are so weird and ugly. Why can't humans have digitigrade paws?
- In my horny thoughts I like to imagine myself as the girl.
- Shaving is fucking annoying but I hate having a beard even more, I'd rather pour acid in my face than have to shave ever again.
- Human ears are so weird and ugly. Why can't humans have cat ears?
- If I found a genie offering me three wishes, my first one would be to get transformed into a catgirl. And then I would be out of ideas.
- Male-typical human genitals are so weird and ugly. Why can't I have female-typical genitals?
- I'm jealous of the female orgasm. Very jealous. Much more fun and much less mess.
- Puberty ruined my voice.
- Why can't humans have soft smooth feline fur? Or at least hairless skin?
- I hate my assigned name. What's the point of legal name changes being so fucking hard in my country?
- I imagine my soul as a catgirl.
- I spend a lot of time imagining scenarios of being transformed into a catgirl.
These might be symptoms of gender dysphoria and/or species dysphoria. You might be entitled to estrogen and surgeries. DM for further advice.
dr. fennec 
Misofist in the VoidTransphobia sucks to be subjected to for the obvious reason that being hated hurts and being discriminated against makes life harder.
But I think another way that transphobia affects the mental health of trans people is that we are constantly subjected to people being extremely confidently wrong. The majority of society, in fact. And I think that makes us feel crazy.
Like, the trans women having an advantage in sports thing has been scientifically disproven so many times. Bone density, wrong. Muscle mass, wrong.
The prevalence of the term "biological women", and especially its use by "neutral parties" and "allies". The way cis people have zero idea what HRT does and have so much magical thinking around chromosomes. The way that *doctors* have so many misconceptions around progesterone, etc...
Arguments around "singular they", especially by English teachers and "educated people".
Extremely bad faith arguments about trans mass shooters. The complete myth of trans bathroom predators. Fearmongering around gender neutral bathrooms, despite their previously-unproblematic existence on planes and in homes.
Not a single one of these things stands up to even the most cursory amount of research or reasoning. And yet we still hear about them day in and day out. The media treats them as being worthy of debate. Our own fucking families consistently fall for this bullshit, and it takes so much more effort to convince them of the (extremely obvious) truth than it ever did to sell them the lies.
And it's all so fucking obvious to us that we start to feel crazy. How do other people not see through it? If the number of people who see things so clearly is so few, are we somehow the people who are wrong? Are we missing something big that blinds us to the complexity? Are we in so deep that we can't see reality?
But no, it's because transphobia is a manufactured wedge-issue and the average person has zero idea how much propaganda they are exposed to and zero inoculation against believing it.
But I think another way that transphobia affects the mental health of trans people is that we are constantly subjected to people being extremely confidently wrong. The majority of society, in fact. And I think that makes us feel crazy.
Like, the trans women having an advantage in sports thing has been scientifically disproven so many times. Bone density, wrong. Muscle mass, wrong.
The prevalence of the term "biological women", and especially its use by "neutral parties" and "allies". The way cis people have zero idea what HRT does and have so much magical thinking around chromosomes. The way that *doctors* have so many misconceptions around progesterone, etc...
Arguments around "singular they", especially by English teachers and "educated people".
Extremely bad faith arguments about trans mass shooters. The complete myth of trans bathroom predators. Fearmongering around gender neutral bathrooms, despite their previously-unproblematic existence on planes and in homes.
Not a single one of these things stands up to even the most cursory amount of research or reasoning. And yet we still hear about them day in and day out. The media treats them as being worthy of debate. Our own fucking families consistently fall for this bullshit, and it takes so much more effort to convince them of the (extremely obvious) truth than it ever did to sell them the lies.
And it's all so fucking obvious to us that we start to feel crazy. How do other people not see through it? If the number of people who see things so clearly is so few, are we somehow the people who are wrong? Are we missing something big that blinds us to the complexity? Are we in so deep that we can't see reality?
But no, it's because transphobia is a manufactured wedge-issue and the average person has zero idea how much propaganda they are exposed to and zero inoculation against believing it.
Eve ✧ taur time
Void Chickenone of the many things the Orville gets right about trek is the sincerity
it lets the episodes be earnest. its the true trek vibe of we gave the aliens a Problem That Sure Seems Familiar done with unapologetic heart
nutrek tries so hard to be Prestige that it forgets to be cozy. its all shaky cam and betrayals and every episode the Fate of the Universe is at stake
the Orville understands that real trek is people talking about ethics while wearing space pajamas