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  • ‘I woke up as me’: Trans and non-binary people on joy of having top surgery

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  • Man, I got to say that as a cis gay guy, it absolutely warms my heart to see our trans siblings in the community have support and understanding as they grow up. I never had that, and even though there's a lot of transphobia and shit in my country that needs to be fixed ASAP, the fact that things are even just a little bit better for the next generation truly gives me hope for the future.

    The part about them going to the beach and just having fun without having to give a shit had been grinning like an idiot. I know that was made possible by the top surgery, but still. It was such a sweet moment in the article.

  • Florida Republican proposes bill to ban sale, distribution of lab-grown meat in the state

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  • It's this political cycle's go-to boogyman word.

    I would love someone to use it in front of me as a pejorative just so I can ask what it means and watch them squirm.

  • Florida Republican proposes bill to ban sale, distribution of lab-grown meat in the state

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  • As a pescatarian, I would 100% be fine with eating non-fish meat if it was lab grown and not farmed.

    This shit should be a revolution, not banned. Save animals and have cruelty free meat. Win-win

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  • I don't know you, but I hope things get better for you. I've been in that pit more times than I can count. Nothing I can say will pull you out. So, give yourself a big hug and take what time you need. Wishing you well.

  • Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch

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  • Same. Have a gently used Pebble Time laying next to my Amazfit Band 7.

    You're gonna want a firewall on your phone if you use the latter. The Zepp app tries to send so much crap to random servers online. Using the Rethink firewall right now. It certainly catches A LOT of stuff.

  • NSFW

    [Content Warning: Transphobia] From the very same people who tell us to "boycott Wayland"

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  • Those in power hate losing control. That's why bodily autonomy, sexual freedom, critical thinking, accurate history, and religious diversity are all their go-to boogymen.

    Trans folk are just one of the more recent groups to be targeted.

    I've known four out trans people. One was a piece of shit. The other three turned out to be amazing and empathetic people who all made my life better just by knowing them.

    It turns out, when you deal with people being entitled jerks to you all day, that tends to make you a better person. Forged in fire and all that.

  • Americans don't want to fight for their country anymore

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  • As pretty much any political minority will tell you, the country constantly uses us like ping pong balls and cat toys to win elections or internal battles.

    I am sick of my rights, welfare, sense of safety, and hope for the future being dangled in front of me and ripped away over and over again so billionaires and career politicians can be greedy.

    So, yeah. Not interested in serving. If my country wants me to fight for it, then it should fight for me as well.

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  • These days, it's a little bit janky while the new dev team tries to modernize it, but try out Ubuntu Unity on a live USB or something.

    It's pretty and it's fun to use. Different, but not alien. I wouldn't install it as a daily driver yet, but if you are having fun trying out Linux stuff, I'd say to give that desktop interface a try.

  • That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League

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  • A bit sad, but not surprising. It was always something that felt forced and only propped up by companies trying to create a new market in order to monopolize it.

    If the NFL didn't exist, then suddenly just sprung on the public as it exists now, I think it would have also suffered a similar fate.

    On the player and even team level, I'm sure it felt different, but as a spectator, it was hard to ignore the top down, corporate, ad filled, "fellow kids" feel of the thing.

  • That's an oddly specific phobia

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  • Hey there stranger.

    I can 100% understand where you're coming from. It's okay if you don't feel comfortable with this kind of humor.

    I'm not going to touch on what topics or humor are appropriate in what places, that's a big conversation with very few black and white answers. Please just keep in mind that some of us use dark humor as a way of coping, of reducing the emotional strain by making light of our trauma in a safe way, or by using humor to generate empathy in others who might not have experienced the same trauma. Humor doesn't have to tear things down, it can bring people together. I also don't want to touch on the "rapist shit" comment, so... I won't.

    To anyone else reading, please try to be a bit more understanding when people politely ask you to chill. It's usually not their business, especially in public, but please don't immediately get defensive. I have the right to walk down the street screaming at people, as an extreme example, but no one would defend me if I was doing that and someone else asked me to stop. Most people are automatically aware of unwritten social norms and stuff, this is just part of that compromise we work with every day. Sometimes, you should ignore the person asking you to tone it down. Sometimes, you should tone it down.

    I usually don't subscribe to the "everyone is right" BS, but I think it's true here. There's no bad person in this, just a difference of how people process things.

  • Video: The constant gaslighting that autistic people experience

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  • I'm glad. Thanks for the heads up.

  • Are neurodivergent people more attracted to alternative spaces like this one?

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  • Lol, nah. My school was a U shape, and the art room was at one end, so we could just walk outside, no stairs.

  • Are neurodivergent people more attracted to alternative spaces like this one?

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  • God, yes!

    It's also exhausting when people say one thing, you react to it, then they get all pissy because you were apparently supposed to know they meant something else that wasn't said.

    That or they get angry and tell you not to take things so literally, as if it's your fault they said what they said.

    It's a constant minefield full of their emotions that is somehow your responsibility to navigate without stepping on a mine. Bonus: They placed the mines there.

  • Are neurodivergent people more attracted to alternative spaces like this one?

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  • That legitimately sounds amazing.

  • Are neurodivergent people more attracted to alternative spaces like this one?

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  • I know I certainly am. I like odd things. I also agree with a lot of what people said about smaller groups and a sense of personal safety. It's downright refreshing to read threads in Lemmy, compared to the dumpster fire that was reddit.

  • More fruit pouches for kids are being recalled because of illnesses that are linked to lead

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  • I honestly was thinking something similar, and it stresses me out.

  • Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000

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  • Basically, use Twitter or they let people impersonate you.

    $50,000 is nothing to pretend to be a major newspaper and ruin their reputation.

    Fuck Musk.

  • Video: The constant gaslighting that autistic people experience

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  • Same.

    The video feels very anti-expert or anti-science, almost. I couldn't finish it without wanting to hurl my phone in disgust.

    There's a difference between self diagnosing a mental state that is entirely about how you personally perceive and interact with the world, and acting like science is somehow invalid just because it used to have bad ideas. If it wasn't for science and medical experts constantly self correcting and sharing knowledge, we might still be throwing autistic people in jail or trying to drill holes in their heads to release the demons. What was life like before people invented science to study the world around them?

    Just because some things can be self-diagnosed, doesn't mean everything can.

    Just because we don't have a perfect understanding of the world, doesn't mean science and medical experts are untrustworthy or clueless.

    Just because individual people can be arrogant jerks (like my dentist two days ago), that doesn't mean the global effort from experts in every field and from every country is bad.

    And most importantly, just because a layperson can point out flaws in entrenched institutions, doesn't mean they are more knowledgeable than the hundreds of thousands of trained experts that spend their lives trying to help others or expand our understanding of the world.

    It's like someone reporting a software bug, and because they found the bug, they think the program is a virus and the developers are somehow less familiar with how it works than they are.

    Bug reporting is part of the process that constantly makes software better. Same with medical science. It's just slower to change due to constant cultural and political pressures, despite the built in mechanisms that try to minimize those things.

    The fact that anyone can be anti-science on a phone, using electricity, on the Internet, wearing clothes made of synthetic materials, in an air conditioned building, not starving or dying from a splinter, etc, is mind blowing.

  • [Webcomic] The new girlfriend

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  • Kind of a crappy day. These adorable comics took me down a very soothing rabbit hole. ❤️