Congratulations to those in São Paulo who burned the statue of Borba Gato, a 17th-century perpetrator of colonial violence.
To quote our comrades in Brazil, "If monuments still honor slavers and rapists, it is because the system they built is still standing." Let's take it down.
I have a few reflections and advice on the 5-year anniversary of coming out as transgender:
1. The best piece of advice I got: "Your transition belongs to you." There are no true rules in this. You don't even have to transition, and you certainly don't have to transition to anything established, or understandable to anyone else.
There are no objective body schedules or social milestones. You are free to make up WHATEVER you want. And you are free to push for your standards to be respected and assisted. Transition belongs to you.
Outside of hard-and-fast medical numbers and safety guidelines (real physical safety, not gatekeeping bullshit), you'll encounter invisible rails attempting to direct your experience. It's alright to oppose this, and to call them out. But the core of your experience is your own, and that can't be taken away.
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(boosts of this thread are ok)
fuck it, I'm releasing my databending drum machine TONIGHT
make drum loops with percussive samples procedurally generated from opus codec glitches!~ 🥁💥💻
Domain Block
eveningzoo.club
Edgelord, Soapbox-using paedo, can get in the fucking sea until they're at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
trans, getting letters
A list of mental health professionals in the United States who will provide a letter of support for transgender services on first visit
(as given to me by one of the professionals on the list)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mQo2vls2x1FeCihQmQ0FftY9x5jEvbHykZUWEijSRYQ/edit
Boosts very okay
food recall (baby carrots), 6abc.com link
https://6abc.com/carrot-recall-baby-carrots-bunny-luv-o-organics/10903819/
"Grimmway Farms is voluntarily recalling bagged carrots sold at grocery stores across the country because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
The recall includes carrots sold under the brand names Bunny Luv, Cal-Organic, O Organics and Grimmway Farms' own brand. All the retail products recalled have a nine-character lot code beginning with 195, 196 or 197 and ending in BF or SP.
The company said the recall is a result of a routine internal test. So far, no illnesses have been linked to the recall.
In addition to the carrots sold at retail stores, Grimmway Farms said it also recalled carrots that went to food manufacturers and food service distributors.
Anyone who has the recalled product in their possession should not consume it and should destroy or discard it."
shoutouts to the cuba section at the pittsburgh botanical gardens that was so shockingly materialist about how american tourism destroys countries and the fall of the soviet union negatively impacted cubans that some butthurt boomer scribbled "cuba is a totalitarian dictatorship" on a sign about international cooperation in botany
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.