Thank you for this perspective, it helps.

Trying to reconcile my own beliefs and political stance with the feelings Venezuelan people in my life have been expressing to me has been difficult ngl. Like… What am I supposed to say? I just try to listen. I dunno.

I’m genuinely a much happier, healthier, and overall more satisfied person now that I live in a walkable city and can bike as both a hobby and a mode of transport. I wish more cities in the US were this dense. I wish this was more accessible to people.

Maybe someday. Things seem to be moving in a generally positive direction, even if slowly. I’ve recently realized just how effective local activism and showing up to community meetings is (spoiler: VERY.)

Wanting a video interview for an admin spot is so wild lmfao, they take themselves so seriously

If anyone here manages to pull together or already knows about resources on testosterone microdosing (without intention to fully transition) in AFAB bodies, that’s something I’ve been interested to read about but have found very few sources on.

My local food pantry takes pretty much anything a person could find useful (backpacks, clothes, shoes, etc). Try seeing if there’s any local outreach/resource organizations in your area.

We should give the buses snow plows to push people like this out of the way.

If only there was some kind of alternate mode of personal transport that doesn’t require government licensing and registration…

… Ride a bike, you say? What, like a fucking communist or something?

Trying to reconcile my nonbinary dyke charm with the embarassing gender envy I feel when I see an athletic man in techy sportswear enjoying a perceived sense of freedom.

I probably just need to buy a binder and work my issues out at the gym, honestly.

100% polyester

The world’s stinkiest fabric.

I would love to run my main machine off Linux, but none of the software I need in the day-to-day runs seamlessly on it, unfortunately. That’s still a pretty big obstacle for me.

Every time I hear her name I’m haunted by that one British lesbian artist who made a horny Hillary Clinton fanzine and sold it online.

Had no idea this forum even existed lmao. Absolutely bizarre to scroll through it and every other post is like “The Cybertruck killed my family and sliced my ankles and also the employees spit in my eye when they delivered it,” inevitably followed by comments along the lines of, “Aw man, I’m still waiting for mine. Lucky!”

Brain rot.

Good shit.

Difficulty impossible, afuckingpparently.

I’m going to give you additional context to make the implications even more insane: I come from a Muslim family and these friends are familiar with that fact.

That seems to be a good personal policy, I think I’ll adopt it going forward. None of the conversations I’ve had with these people surrounding this topic have ever really led to anything productive, and I thought it was an issue with me not being well spoken enough, but I see now that that’s just the typical experience in our political climate right now.

Extremely thoughtful reply, thank you!

Makes sense! I wish there was a way for me to get through to them in a way that they wouldn’t just completely ignore, since unfortunately some of these are friends I’d like to keep (though maybe I shouldn’t.) They’re extremely sore about their failure to convince me to vote for the guy who said Muslims are motivated by “ancient hatred.”