Babs
joined 2 years ago
This was me as a teenager. I didn't get why people wouldn't just choose to be straight - I made that choice every day that I repressed my attraction towards men!
But now it's like, "Wait holy shit there are people who are categorically not attracted to an entire sex?". That's way more wild to me than the idea that people would be attracted to people of the same sex. Imagine seeing a hot guy/gal (tastes accounted for) and just not being into that. Damn.
I try very hard to maintain my love of humanity in the face of overwhelming despair. Sometimes it can be very hard not to hate people, to not pray that some day death will rain down from the sky onto the oppressors and that they will know even a fraction of the torment that they are inflicting. I want to tell myself that the average person, even the average citizen living under fascist governments, is a decent person worthy of life and dignity. I don't want to be someone who poisons my soul by wishing ill on others, even if they might rightfully deserve it.
Lots of religions have principles that align with a love for mankind and communal sharing of resources.
How many of them have the understanding of material conditions needed to organize people into a force capable of meaningfully fighting against capitalism?
I went to a small robotics tournament this weekend and was worried that making my robots pink, white, and blue with trans flags painted on them might have been a bad idea at such a STEMmy event, but I actually met a couple other really cool trans gals there and my bots got a lot of compliments! The whole community was actually super wholesome in general and there were a lot more women and families than I expected.
It's also starting to get warmer here which is a real double edged sword. Winter means I get to bundle up and hide my dysphoria in oversized hoodies and overalls, but if I feel like dressing up cute I don't have many options. Otoh when it's warm I get to be adorable every day, but if my BDD decides to ruin my day I have nowhere to hide my grotesque body.
Being trans is weird.
When the king of Swaziland changed the name of his country to Eswatini back in 2018, the Communist Party of Swaziland called it out as a populist distraction and continued to use the colonial name while demanding real change.
http://www.solidnet.org/article/ba5f172f-e2d7-11e8-a7f8-42723ed76c54/
So I think the question should be, what are Indian communists calling their country? How do they feel about the various names?
This one's my favorite
Kadiivka (Ukrainian: Кадіївка) or Stakhanov (Russian: Стаханов), is a city in Alchevsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Donbas, eastern Ukraine. It is located on the Komyshuvakha River, a right tributary of the Luhan.[1] Ukraine renamed the city Kadiivka in 2016, and refers to the city by this name, however Ukraine has not controlled the city since early 2014.[2][3][4]
On release you couldn't add friends across PS5 and PC if the PC player's steam name was anything other than 3-16 alphanumeric characters (like a PSN name). My name had a special character in it so when I friend my bf he gets the request, but clicking accept doesn't do anything. So I changed my steam name to one that should work, but it doesn't update on the back end so my friend requests still have my old unfriendable name. Following the bug reports on discord, it looks like the mech update broke it for some more people even.
It's frustrating because it has sort of worked for other people. My bf has one friend on steam. We've been waiting for her to get online to see if she can be a hinge to get us in a game together, but I guess it's finals or something.
It's my weekend now so I'll add you both. I'm a little soured on The Community right now and the new update didn't fix the problem.
Tryna buy a kufiya from hirbawi but keep getting a "payment processing failed, please try again." I hope this is a website problem and not a "bank preventing me from sending money to Palestine" problem.
Wanna live with all my bros in a giant building that looks like a hand.