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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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i make music: maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

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if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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i'm like a fujoshi but only exclusively for sam and max. i will not be taking any questions

y'all think there's an audience for reviews of old TV and
Film soundtracks?

I've been on a film/tv/game soundtrack kick as of late, almost wanna write about some of these (the ones where a bunch of songs are put together as an "official soundtrack," not isolated film scores)

The C64 BBS FriaBad offers the daily price per kilo of shrimp when you log out. It's worth calling that board just for that service!

#C64 #Commodore64 #BBS #RetroComputing #Textmode #8bit
#ShrimpPrices #OnlyOnBBS #LogOffBonus

the spaces still exist. forums, irc, even some avatar chats. but the people aren't there anymore, and nobody seems interested in participating in those when i call to them. the attractions aren't there anymore. the things i spent whole days doing aren't there anymore. and now i waste time doing nothing because there's nothing to do

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the things that made me addicted and social on the internet no longer exist and now i am isolated and in withdrawal

If you’re British and trans and feeling like everyone’s against you, take a look at the 1,600+ writers who have signed this letter of solidarity: docs.google.com/document/d/18p

Names on the list that made me smile included historian Fern Riddell, poet Nikita Gill, and comedians Sara Pascoe, James Acaster, Sophie Duker, and Aisling Bea.

re: transmisogyny 

what's especially insidious about all of this is that, in queer communities at least, these traits are universally celebrated in cis women and people commonly perceived to be cis women (i.e., femme/non-transitioning AFAB enbies).

our communities love it when cis women are assertive, speak up, advocate for their needs, or express sexual agency.

transfeminine people don't get that privilege, because we're perceived as men - and men already get too much of all of the above.

nevermind the fact that we're not men, and we never have been - and that transfem people are more likely to be violence, abuse, SA, and trauma survivors than perpetrators, especially at the hands of the very same cis men whose sins we're saddled with.

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transmisogyny 

when I say that transfeminine people are pressured into the role of fawning mommy-girlfriend in order to distance ourselves from our perceived masculinity, I mean that in the most literal sense of the phrase.

both in queer-specific spaces and the world at large, everyone is constantly scrutinizing us for signs of perceived "maleness."

if we assert boundaries or advocate for ourselves, we're expressing male entitlement.

if we display any perceived anger or aggressiveness, that's our male socialization poking through the veneer of femininity.

if we speak up too much or too loudly, that's us flaunting our male privilege.

if we're the least bit sexually forward, it's because of our "masculine sex drive."

it's little wonder that so many of us are browbeat into subsuming our true selves behind a fawning caricature of patriarchal femininity.

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