Once again reminding people that testis-preserving #vulvoplasty / #vaginoplasty is a real thing that exists. All they do is #tuck them up in the inguinal canal and suture it shut before going to work on everything else.
There is no reason for anyone to undergo an #orchidectomy and then have to be on #testosterone. If you want that, and your surgeon doesn't offer that, find another surgeon.
It's disheartening to run into #transgender / #nonbinary people who have had it and didn't know the options, and I run into so many people who are weighing the drawbacks, I really want this to be common knowledge.
#SRS / #GenderAffirmingCare is for YOU, and you should be comfortable asking for whatever it is you want. These people are very experienced cosmetic and genital surgeons, and they can often do whatever you ask them to do.
I think conservatives are just scared of us trans people because we're powerful enough to defy what they consider the natural order of things. We're so powerful in fact that we do so even when they do their best to stop us. And we always have.
can't remember where I first heard it but something like this made a lot of sense to me
"they were taught everything is as ordained by their god. Yet their preachers say we are against their gods wishes. But here we are. This makes them angry. Either their preachers are wrong, or their god is wrong and they've been taught that both aren't possible."
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The sanctioning of two of the evil Israeli politicians who have done so much damage to the reputation of Israel in recent times is a good move, and in many ways, quite a brave one. It must be welcomed.
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You don't need to use weird spellings or algospeak for any topics on the Fediverse ("unalived", "seggs" etc). There is no automated moderation or algorithm on here, moderation happens entirely through human beings and posts are shown in chronological order.
In fact it's better that you use the correct spellings for difficult topics so that people with genuine traumas related to them can filter them more easily.
I find it somewhat disrespectful when people try to outwit other users' filters by mis-spelling common topics. People filter things for good reason and its not up to anyone else to determine what someone else should be seeing. Also, good use of hashtags (accurate, descriptive, but not too many) is really valuable as it allows both follows and blocks so people can curate their timelines properly.
It's a good point but I don't think most people are doing it to fool human filters?
I think they've just picked up these habits from commercial platforms that use automated moderation that suppresses anything mentioning specific words.
@MostlyTato This, 100%. I was fairly active on Twitter before it sold out, and you *had* to twist your words like that if you didn't want their algorithms limiting your reach, suspending you, or outright banning you. Basically all of the popular commercial platforms are like this nowadays. And once you get used to typing like that it can be hard to break the habit.
I honestly didn't even know that was a thing. Which means I'm (a) old and (b) spending the majority of my social media time on the Fediverse and I'm not unhappy about either of those things 😁
Yeah, lots of YouTube videos weirdly fade out the sound or distort it if certain words ("murder", "drugs" etc) are used. They are trying to avoid being demoted by YouTube's algorithm.
Same goes for Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook etc etc.
considering "seggs" as a filter evasion always makes me pause for a moment since I was frequenting circles that sometimes replaces hard consonants with soft ones because it sounded funny. For example "Gadse" instead of "Katze" (german for "cat") and I kinda took it for a much more widespread phenomenon than it probably was.
The post was meant to be about something a bit different through? It's not about slang but phrases that people don't really want to use, but feel forced to use just to avoid being suppressed by automated moderation.
it does stop creepybros searching for those keywords, although there's a lot fewer bots after you if you say "bitcoin cryptocurrency" here. let's see...
I've taken to capitalizing "The Algorithm" in the sense of the manipulative sorts of algorithms referred to here. After all, people are referring to a very specific phenomenon with a very specific design goal when they say that, and not to algorithms generally, without which computers simply wouldn't function.
I think it's useful to treat technical vocab separately in general and technical contexts? Quite often technical terms migrate into a general use with a related but slightly different meaning.
When non-tech people say "algorithm" they almost always mean a manipulative opaque system that messes around with their timeline in unclear ways.
Another example is "computer", which almost always means a laptop or desktop but technically it could mean a phone, watch, microwave etc etc.
Weird spelling or the use of emoji may also impact screenreader use. I haven't tested out myself what "patr€on" sounds like, and while 🍏🍏 may be obvious to (some) sighted users, I'm not sure about anyone else. (Though honestly, it wasn't obvious to me without the context of the post.)
Yeah. I know about the "please don't use unicode for prettier fonds" thing, but it also affects on the smaller scale. That's awful. (And really not necessary here, as posts containing the word are not shadowbanned or restricted or anything.)
My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com, preview.redd.it, i.reddit.com and media.tumblr.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!
IMMEDIATELY added to my browser upon reading this toot. Didn't even wait. didn't even check the reviews. didn't need to. i just know i goddamn NEED this extension.
The Liverpool horror & pre-emptive police action to shut down lies is instructive. This is the society created by Farage & his ilk. Racism. xenophobia & bigotry whipped up by our toxic media & by vile individuals with axes to grind. Always follow the money & the power dynamic.
they also feed into a whole load of existing bigotry - whenever there's a collision there's always speculation that the drivers are "foreign" and also a lot of envy that brown/black folk (whether new immigrants or second generation born in England) who work hard can often afford fairly decent motor cars..
To be fair, the Ponzi scheme is pretty much a constant. The whole idea is investing in a system that most of the time simply cannot produce value. So any value extracted by investors has to be the funds injected by other investors. It's not really 1-to-1 with a proper Ponzi scheme, but close enough.
I was once a blockchain enthusiast. Missing are NFT of monkey pictures and staking (I.e. give money to others and thinking you will get more back over time)…
@mike805 Crypto is probably the only thing keeping governments from cutting off donation flows to protest orgs like Wikileaks. Because, you know, everyone now has the option of a censorship-resistant payment method.
Not everything in crypto is a scam, only 99.8 percent, the last bit is people buying hrt because they're stuck in fascist regimes where they can't obtain it legally
that could be the best argument ever about how wrong it is to support diversity. On the other hand, there might just be diversity in everything. But I support with every fabric of my being the encouragement of equal treatment of the Diversity in our attitudes to other people, so long as it also leads to more Equality.
i remember reading a paper years ago, while I was still in school talking about blockchain being one of the greatest checksum technologies available that would usher in a new era of fraud tolerant contracts and banking ledgers, and finally render mainframes obsolete. I hope that guy isn't living in a dumpster in disappointment. I feel bad for him because it was a good paper.
I hate how people have turned crypto into an investment system, when it was intended to simply be p2p money. I think only 30% of people holding crypto actually understand Satoshi Nakamoto's vision
Every rightful criticism of Israel's genocidal behaviour instantly produces the threadbare anti-Semitism response. It isn't anti-Semitic to want the genocide to stop. It never has been. Netanyahu and his cronies are mass murderers & war criminals. Nothing can ever disguise that.
the whole of #israel are mass murderers and war criminals. They are all culpable. They live there and have all served in the #idf and this isn’t just the last 10 years. The treatment of #palestinians as none citizens and shooting practice has been going on for over 50 years.
@Queen1066 No they aren't. That is terribly off the mark. The majority of Israelis are good people who have elected a monster and don't know how to get rid of him now. No elections in 'war-time'. NEVER lump them all together. That is dangerous ground and should be avoided all al times and especially now, in relation to the situation in Gaza.
@Erebus_Amauro Yes. I am aware. I thought of including that point but there weren't enough characters in the post to do so properly. Thanks for confirming it for the benefit of others.
I'm still traumatised by getting that reaction from my friends the first time I told them about my diagnosis. A decade and a half later and I still have imposter syndrome about my own diagnosis.
Maybe the doctors were wrong and my friends were right all along? Maybe I'm actually just a worthless, lazy piece of shit?
I've only recently got diagnosed and I've been very selective on who I tell it. So far, only my dad and current gf know. The real irony is that my ex, a psychologist, never raised a suspicion, not even as a joke, that I might be one.
If it helps, like often attracts like. My diagnosis was delayed because my wife insisted I was normal. It turns out we both have ADHD and autism. 🤷♂️ Also, an impressive number of our friend have now been diagnosed as various neurodiversities. It set off a bit of a chain reaction.
And then proceed to use two data points to extrapolate your entire history in their heads, and conclude that the issue is really [something irrelevant].
Reply guy is an internet slang term for someone who excessively responds to social media posts, often in an annoying, condescending, or overly familiar or flirtatious manner.
Those people are awful and not who I meant. I'm talking about reply guys who point out that your joke doesn't work because it is factually incorrect. They (reply guy can be any gender) can see how it would be funny if it were that way but alas it is not.
hmm, I'm autistic and i learned that you don't have to bring it up when a joke doesn't make logical sense pretty young. as an autist, i find that shit annoying. especially when it's dudebros pointing out "that's not how guns work" in every movie ever.
Them: “Hey you seem a little unfocused today is something wrong?”
Me using 90% of my focus to not say random thoughts out loud or pace or make weird faces because everyone will think I’m insane: “yeah I’m fine, just a little tired is all”
NTs don’t know what autism is because every time it’s talked about someone always has to pipe in “thats not autism” because it’s not their personal experience or don’t realize it is in fact how they behave from the outside it looks different than how they think it looks
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
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(very) quickly sketched "day in the life of a #topfree activist" #webcomic page inspired by a screenshot of a tweet by some dudebro, who you absolutely know would freak out at a topless woman at the beach despite being topless himself, making cruel jokes about a woman in a burkini (burka-bikini)
not erotic, just nude. I like how the plant is pushed over to clear her bow arm. She should probably be sitting on something like a sarong or towel for hygiene, though.
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Going to wear my new #lgbtq "join or die" shirt from Crooked a media to the PTA meeting tonight... I'm sure our "woke *principal will appreciate it, but the trumpers also in the group, maybe not so much 😅
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surprise livestream! Inspired by yet another fresh ban on my topless equality content, I'm back at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics chatting with you all while I draw more webcomics about how bullshit gender-based censorship is ❤
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Lm-fucking-wow, I tried to make an "early access to my new video" post on #patreon (in which I discuss whether topless equality should apply to all ages) and even though my entire account is already marked as 18+, patreon FUCKING BANNED IT as "violating community guidelines" for being "sexually gratifying" simply because my heinous female nipples are visible. Once again the only fucking websites that allow female nipples in any capacity to be visible are fucking porn sites, regardless of what the person with female nipples is doing-- in this case, advocating for gender equality of chests!
literally I don't understand how more people don't get how fucking insane this is! all I want is the SAME EXACT RIGHT to go topless online and in public without getting banned as "sexually explicit nudity" that males already have, and yet every fucking mainstream platform that doesn't allow full on PORN won't allow me to have my nipples VISIBLE in any capacity 🙃🙃🙃 this is so fucking insane, fuck patreon
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Lm-fucking-wow, I tried to make an "early access to my new video" post on #patreon (in which I discuss whether topless equality should apply to all ages) and even though my entire account is already marked as 18+, patreon FUCKING BANNED IT as "violating community guidelines" for being "sexually gratifying" simply because my heinous female nipples are visible. Once again the only fucking websites that allow female nipples in any capacity to be visible are fucking porn sites, regardless of what the person with female nipples is doing-- in this case, advocating for gender equality of chests!
literally I don't understand how more people don't get how fucking insane this is! all I want is the SAME EXACT RIGHT to go topless online and in public without getting banned as "sexually explicit nudity" that males already have, and yet every fucking mainstream platform that doesn't allow full on PORN won't allow me to have my nipples VISIBLE in any capacity 🙃🙃🙃 this is so fucking insane, fuck patreon and fuck the patriarchy! Jesus Christ!!
i know all these companies choke over how to word these awful policies, but ‘sexually gratifying’ feels particularly heinous. just blatantly shifting the blame onto someone who has absolutely no say in how ‘gratified’ their audience is.
@brhfl INDEED. it's the old "men find women's bodies sexually attractive, therefore the onus is on women to cover their bodies so they don't 'tempt' men" bs, aka "what was she wearing?" 🙃
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Several storms hit Spain for almost a month. Raining, clouds, cold and wind. We decided to go to a motorhome parking in Alcaracejos and stay there for several days to wait for the storm to calm down. We put a lot of strain on our batteries and our patience 😄.
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A quickly drawn "Day in the life of a Top free Activist" webcomic page, inspired by an actual conversation between my son and his female friend, both under ten years old, about why society only allows HIM to go in public without a shirt. 🙃
...might as well be youI'm amazed this isn't uploaded yet, this is my favorite sequence. Not as sextastic as Toxic Love which has been uploaded 700 times but...
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@Jencen Someone on Etsy was selling fake/joke Cobalt 60 rods and I was thinking “wtf” - they look close enough to the real things, could cause a really serious scare.
@DeltaWye @Jencen Yeah, that's the thing, using the trefoil for aesthetics dilutes it's effectiveness.
Like finding some medical stuff at the scrap yard with the cool logo on them and cracking them open to see inside, as somebody with great, nerdy taste stickered them when they had it.
I'm certain @funranium already has a blogpost or copypastable rant about the subject.
@DeltaWye @Jencen @funranium That might actually be artistic, unless it's 32 cans of Campbell's soup with their labels replaced. Then whoever gets to respond to that incident will be unhappy.
@ftg @Jencen @funranium I think that’s why there’s an additional variant with a skull and crossbones and a running person symbol for dangerously hot sources.
(I think the guys at Goiânia in Brazil said they saw the trefoil symbols, but didn’t know what that symbol meant)
@DeltaWye @ftg @Jencen Also known as the IAEA symbol for interior packaging, just in case you some how get at thing you shouldn't ever see without it's shielded casing. Went into effect in 2008 as I recall, 20+ years after Goiânia.
@funranium @DeltaWye @ftg @Jencen "In the beginning, the trefoil was created. This has made a lot of people angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move."
@DeltaWye @ftg @Jencen Because Goiâna was hardly the only incident to inspire the change and very long and complicated argument about semiotic value in iconography had to happen first.
In general, radiation safety AND semiotics professionals are not pleased with this.
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in reply to Njion the Cofftea Dragon ☕ • • •can't remember where I first heard it but something like this made a lot of sense to me
"they were taught everything is as ordained by their god. Yet their preachers say we are against their gods wishes. But here we are. This makes them angry. Either their preachers are wrong, or their god is wrong and they've been taught that both aren't possible."
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