XiaCobolt

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I have a memory of being like 6 or 7 doing a lucky dip at a school fete. There was a blue boys lucky dip and a pink girls one. A girl I knew did the pink and got a fantastic giant pretend emerald ring and I got a stupid little red plastic biplane (wasn't even cool). I remember having a tantrum and being so mad I threw it on the ground and stomped it breaking it.

Wonder why that stuck in my memory somehow and I can barely remember anything else from that time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

No need to be sorry. I get it. I had to socially transition almost immediately being an extremely minor public figure, instead of the timeline I might have wanted. And it's been a lot of highs and lows.

We all believe in you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Used to sign my emails "warm regards" or "kind regards", since transitioning it's "warmest regards" or "kindest regards", because you better believe those regards are kinder and warmer than when I thought I was a sad man.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Early in this year I was talking to a friend who is a trans woman (and knew I was non binary then) and the topic of Neil Gaiman came up, she made a comment like "why are men like that?" and it was clear I was intentionally excluded from being considered a man. And it felt really good and was probably one of number of factors that made it finally click that I was a woman.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The more you learn about Carter the more you learn to hate just how fucking bad he was for how little he did but just by how much he even still managed to fuck up with 4 years of power.

He's History's greatest monster!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Nah it's legit, being excluded from being considered a man is nice, and often shortly comes before inclusion and being considered a woman.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Meh the Shah's son is such a boring choice. Put MEK in with their very alive leader who no one has seen in two decades who has magical powers.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Yeah it's called "purchase leave" in a Australia, it's not super common yet, but it's like a payday loan for paid holiday leave. You take time off paid but make up for it later by salary deduction over a period of time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah it's kind of dialectically linked, for a material to be that useful, it is going to be bad if you inhale it.

A crank belief of mine is asbestos could probably be used completely safely at some point under a later stage of socialism where we don't have the perils of capitalism or even minor bureaucrats making quotas to risk lives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Actually did that on the follow up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's a coin flip whether a trans person is a based communist or lib. (Landing on the side is rightwing grifter). This is still a better ratio than the cis though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I'm surprised I haven't seen any wild takes from conservatives or pro-Russia nazbols about Iran's (nuanced) trans rights, during this conflict. lathe-of-heaven

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