food
*grabs 4 leftover tortellini and a grape in an effort to motivate itself to leave the house*
food
I can't really get myself to eat anything that requires any effort at all, or to do anything that I should do, or to do anything to improve my chances of doing stuff (like bullet journal). I feel very very defenseless against the passing of time lol.
Oh look, this looks super promising and can be pre-ordered now (I guess this is the paper book version):
Transcendent 2 – The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction
http://www.lethepressbooks.com/store/p465/Transcendent_2.html
Edited by the super cool Bogi Takács.
Ooh, Hubzilla looks kind of promising. I mean I knew that it existed, but I didn't really know what it was.
Does anyone have any hub recommendations? Something queer, feminist, all-the-cool-kinds-of-political? Preferably with Terms of Service that are not just a blank page? ^^
Or links to anything one should know about that whole thing?
(Also… es ist noch immer Vice-Niveau und dementsprechend kommen zB transfeindliche Formulierungen vor. Aber verhältnismäßig ziemlich gut halt.)
Gerade erst gesehen, dass es vor einem Monat einen großteils ziemlich guten Artikel über #Girlfags und #Guydykes gegeben hat: https://broadly.vice.com/de/article/nevvww/die-verwirrende-welt-von-girlfags-und-guydykes
Nice!
"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."
"What's the problem?" I asked.
"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.
I choked on my latte. "Come again?"
"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."
The Case of the 500-Mile Email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Can I just say… the way that Tumblr forces community to center around ask blogs is incredibly destructive.
There is no way to communicate on an equal level. It's basically all a very public game of "can I get this mod to not yell at me if I disagree, and how much do I have to water my opinion down if I want to get reblogged so anyone except the mods and my handful of own followers ever see that I had input on that".
PMDD-related, suicidality
Huh, think I got this "thinking about suicide for 2 weeks & suddenly feeling fine when menstruation starts" a few years ago, but I don't remember if it was actually a recurrent thing, because I only remember that one time that was just super comical because it was so perfectly timed.
Now it's shifted more to like "I dread menstruation and am what-you'd-expect-depressed the week before, and only want to die 2 or 3 days during menstruation and maybe 1 or 2 days before".
Discussion about Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder; may involve suicidality, illness, depression
Let's talk PMDD! Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder, which gets dismissed a lot as "just PMS" or "moodiness" but is pretty serious. It's a severe, sometimes debilitating crash of your moods connected to your menstrual cycle, usually linked to drops in your estrogen levels. It's not very well researched & a lot of docs dismiss it out of hand.
Here's Draft 1 of the Mastodon 101 article for Autostraddle. Please take a look and add comments (in the doc or here) with your feedback and corrections!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByYZKGqv7Bx4Z_VM8S3QozJbIXhpkpxv93TkUKKIN2g/edit?usp=sharing
@thefishcrow and uh everyone else who asked last month :P sorry this took forever, other articles, work, and mental health stuff took over!
Oh, also "Lesbian & Bi Women Fairy Books"
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/103267.Lesbian_Bi_Women_Fairy_Books
Did you know that a Queer Mermaids list exists on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/101767.Queer_mermaids_
I really like this fact.
Btw, did you know that The Aromantic and Asexual Speculative Fiction Database exists: http://claudiearseneault.com/?page_id=1320
I really want to read Viral Airwaves by Claudie Arsenault (http://claudiearseneault.com/?page_id=936) next, but I'm not in a reading mood right now. I'm not finishing any books I have started, and I don't really want to start reading a new book either, I just want to… have the result of reading it in my brain?
My favourite thing I ever found there is this pin, "I'm living an 'and' life in an 'either/or' world".
https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/1831cj94h
(Bonus: It's in the current genderqueer pride colours, probably like 15 years before Marilyn Roxie came up with the flag we all know.) https://computerfairi.es/media/nEYr6wsgbHRhg_46YJs
smol cat learning about the cyber machines. EN & DE. they, it / per, es, ersie, xier. @maunzikation @maunzikation