Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still trying to get good enough at foot controls to get through BIT.TRIP Runner.
I'm gonna say mojeek is.. situationally useful. It's good for when I have a set of seemingly-unrelated words and I want to find a page with all of them.
Esme Povirk
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Hello Fediverse! I am coming before you all today to promote my new instance: blackqueer.life! You may have seen my post on my old account about it a few weeks back. I wanted to wait until I finished migrating my old account over here, got the instance up and running to where I wanted it, etc before promoting it fully.
We all know Fedi isn't always kind to Black users, doubly so for Black queers. My instance represents my attempt to continue the amazing work some folks are doing in the Fediverse to make these platforms more accessible and safer for all users, ESPECIALLY marginalized folks.
When I joined the fediverse, the first thing I was searching for almost from the beginning was an instance dedicated to or centering Black queer people explicitly. While there are a few amazing communities like that out there, many of them are either not federating, offering limited federation only, or are currently closed to new users.
This allows them to have much greater control over the content their users are exposed to, which I have tremendous respect and appreciation for. Hell, I've got alts in some of those places!
However. As a newcomer to Fedi, it was not overly easy for me to find these places and gain access, which I recognize is somewhat by design. Limited or no federation meant the only way to locate them was by word of mouth and extensive research.
This is where BlackQueerLife comes in. I want to build a place where Black queer, trans, and GNC folks can feel safe making a home while also being able to venture out into the rest of the fediverse. I want somewhere they can use as a landing pad. I want as many multiply marginalized Black folks off of corporate hellsites like Twitter and Bluesky as possible. We are not safe being corporate playthings.
Most importantly, I want every Black queer person who joins Fedi to know that they have somewhere they can go. I don't expect that all would necessarily want to join, but I want all Black queer fedizens to know that they are welcome to.
So if you see this, please boost this post to spread the word. If you already boosted the other posts that have gone out about this instance, no pressure. Thanks so much!
@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse #BlackQueer #BIPOC #QTPOC #LGBTQ
Easy mode in Klonoa helps out a lot more than I expected, as I'm working with significantly less dexterity than in the past.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Just doing some casual Klonoa today.
religion/proselytism
The Jehovah's Witness who sent me a letter never responded to my email. It's almost as if they were never interested in a conversation at all, and had no interest even in politeness once it became clear that my Quakerly ways weren't going to be convinced by some passages in a shady translation of an old book. :(
Moved from google to duckduckgo years ago because google was ignoring my search terms. Now I'm moving from duckduckgo to https://www.mojeek.com/ because duckduckgo is ignoring my search terms. Haven't used it long enough to give an actual recommendation but it seems promising.
Esme Povirk
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PSA
You DON'T need to have ANY of the below to be trans:
* Noticeable gender dysphoria.
* Strong dislike of your genitalia, body, voice etc.
* A desire for HRT or surgery.
* A medical diagnosis.
It's enough to feel that your gender doesn't match the one you were arbitrarily assigned at birth.
You don't need anything else to be valid 
#trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #agender #genderfluid #genderqueer #GenderNonConforming #cisnt #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+
Esme Povirk
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thanks to chronic illness communities online for being the only way many other chronic illness patients will ever figure out what the fuck is wrong with them because the medical system sure as hell won't
Esme Povirk
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The thing about painted bike lanes and flex posts is that there's a pretty big difference in user experience between places cars *shouldn't* go and places cars *can't* go.
Paint and flex posts are like rumble strips: they are designed to gently remind cars where they should go in a way that does not damage the car. This makes sense for a highway off-ramp, but it clearly falls apart when we're talking about safety for someone on the other side.
bash scripting
I've been slowly becoming more evil ever since I learned you can have terminals in gvim.
function :e () {
gvim --remote-send '<C-W>:e '"$(realpath "$1")"'<CR>'
}
function command_not_found_handle ()
{
case "$1" in :*) gvim --remote-send '<C-W>'"$*"'<CR>'; return 0;; esac
/usr/lib/command-not-found -- "$1";
return $?;
}
I'm plural and have a bunch of different internal voices, and only realized in adulthood, but I now suspect that many of these voices were based on the body's voice at the time they formed including changes from endogenous T.
Esme Povirk
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Girls in skirts ❤️
Boys in skirts ❤️
Enbys in skirts ❤️
Everyone is cute in skirts!
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still playing BIT.TRIP Runner (in perfect mode with feet and a spaced repetition system), but I think the pace is picking up now? No more learning new buttons/mechanics at least.
Esme Povirk
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I've been writing again! This is a story I've been wanting to tell for ages, despite it involving the darkest thoughts and moments of my life. It's about the time I time-traveled in order to save my life.
(Or that's one way of looking at it, at least.)
Huge bold font blinking content warnings for suicidal ideation on this one!
https://medium.com/@tattie_potate/saving-myself-252d2cac327a
#TattieWrites #transgender #trans #suicidalIdeation #trauma #hope
Esme Povirk
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Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.
Mastodon: You actually don't need a billionaire at all.
Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that's true.
Esme Povirk
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I saw a post here (that I can't find) that kinda changed my life.
It said the best first step to changing the world into a better place is to just stop making fun of people. Ever. For anything. Including in your own thoughts that you may never speak aloud.
I try very hard to do this! it's such a stabler and nicer-feeling foundation to my thoughts and my life. It sheds a mental weight/burden I couldn't see before.
Such a great distilled bit of advice for a big concept!
People who regularly take naps: do you adjust your bedtime afterwards? I worry if I go to bed at my normal time I just won't be able to get to sleep, and I don't know how to adjust it.
vim
So it turns out that you can start terminals in GVIM and manage them like buffers. I needed to tweak it a bit, but it's really nice to have this without having to learn an entirely new tool like tmux.
Joined Aug 2018
