spent 3 hours at the DMV today to get a new driver’s license photo but not actually change my gender marker. baby steps I guess 🙃

my hair hasn’t been this long since high school, when I took such a pretty football photo that it was the only photo of myself that I actually liked to look at until I started transition almost 20 years later 🥰

I haven’t seen this before. It’s very accurate and clever. I hate it.

great comment, even

That’s true, but that does imply that this war would conclude first. Which is consistent with saying Russia does not want this conflict to expand beyond Ukraine.

I’m not arguing either of these points, I’m just pointing out that all NYT is saying here is that US officials have always believed that Russia wants this war to stay contained to Ukraine. Not that they think Russia didn’t want this war or that Russia doesn’t have other interests it will pursue external to this war.

All I’m saying is NYT didn’t really reveal anything here.

I’m not trying to get flamed as a lib here, but there’s a gulf of difference between “not wanting to expand the war” and “having no further ambition once the war is over”

I gotta start going to bars 😅

right?? RFK jr is married to Larry David’s ex-wife 🤯

the first sound plan I’ve seen on here

my shoes were feeling a little tight

I’m nonbinary transfem and I also don’t relate to “woman”. My identity really grew out from wanting people to not perceive me as a “man”. I wanted to be a beautiful queer little femcreature that other queer femcreatures adore. As I experience femininity, particularly within cishet society, I find myself even more turned off by any expectations of gender, and emboldened in my own identity and selfexpression. It’s a good thing 🫠

When my tiddies first started, the right one grew wayy faster than the left. It made me a little nervous, that maybe I wouldn’t love all the changes that were coming. But I gave it time and focussed on the things that did make happy. The boobies kept growing, and sure enough, even though they’re still mildly asymmetric, theyre both lovely little jubblies that make looking in the mirror now so much better

We love a good twist ending, don’t we folks

Saaaame timeline for me too! So much time living to other peoples expectations, suppressing every hint of personality or self expression if it conflicted with what was “proper”. It’s a bit sad to think about lost time, but I love who I am today and the broken pieces of my past life are slowly healing or finally being shed as dead weight.

the meta of posting this thread to shitreactionariessay 😵‍💫

You seem to think walking away from the systems of power weakens them. In your desperation to not be part of the problem, you refuse to be part of a solution. I can’t blame you, it’s a rather bleak situation. But I see more suffering in the world where people give up the struggle out of hopelessness than the one where people keep fighting.

You seem to consider acknowledging that fewer people will suffer with one option than with the other as “standing with” that option. It’s not about poc, queer trans and LGBT liberals taking some kind of deal with the devil; marginalized peoples are far more likely to already have disengaged politically. It’s the fact that under one regime, more of societies burdens will be borne by those who least have the ability to bear them. If a system is to be resisted and revolted against, why sit back and let the system be as cruel as possible to those who least deserve it?

Powers that the Biden administration will do nothing with are powers that a Trump administration will do evil with.

Finally, some good fucking [regulations on predatory games]