IF YOU'RE TRANS AND YOU TAKE HRT PLEASEEE BUY A SHARPS CONTAINER!!!! YOU ARE PUTTING THE WORKERS WHO PROCESS YOUR GARBAGE AT RISK IF YOU DON'T PROPERLY DISPOSE OF YOUR SHARPS!!!!!!!
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
โผ๏ธ NJ riot police on horses are firing tear gas and advancing on protesters. mikie sherrill is collaborating with the fascists. WE NEED ALL EYES ON DELANEY HALL.
@Hazel_qs Freshman year of high school, a substitute pointed at my cane as I was walking into the classroom and shouted "is that a weapon" then tried to rip it out of my hands, and tried to make me walk without it to retrieve it.
The dryer lint advice you see all over Pinterest is actively bad for birds.
It sounds nice, save the lint, leave it in the yard, watch the birds use it for nests.
But Audubon, US Fish & Wildlife, the Cornell Lab, and most wildlife rehabbers all advise against it now, and the reasons add up fast.
Lint loses its structure when it gets wet. A nest lined with dryer lint holds up fine in dry weather, but the first heavy rain collapses the whole nest.
Eggs and chicks fall through the nest and likely don't survive.
Lint also carries with it the chemical signature of your laundry. Detergent residue, fabric softener, dryer sheet compounds, fragrance oils, and dye all end up concentrated in the fibers you're pulling out of the trap.
Even "free and clear" detergents leave trace chemicals that are fine on adult human skin but rough on a 4-gram baby bird.
Lint is mostly microplastic. Most modern clothing is polyester, nylon, acrylic, or some blend. The lint trap collects shredded synthetic fibers. Lining a nest with that is lining a nest with plastic.
Sadly, this folksy bird advice from a decade ago hasn't aged well. The new advice is closer to: provide nothing artificial, and let the natural materials in your yard do the work.
this post probably goes hard to transphobic autism parents
and by that i mean it is incredibly ableistic to assume that autistic ppl who are trans are just confused and stupid autistic people. genuinely fuck you.
I remember i was around 12 when someone whispered "Ky$" in the hallway to me. I had been contemplating heavily all day. I attempted the week after.
"it's not that deep." My stomach was pumped and I stayed ~2 weeks in a ward.
@AnOrangeDaimen He was relentless and so after a really bad day he told me I didn't deserve to live and I should kms so... shocker I followed his advice and tried to take a handful of pills. Last time I spoke to him was that day. I exploded at him and he was completely apathetic. We were 14 yo.
@AnOrangeDaimen Trauma time: I had a "friend" who would tell me and other members of our group that he *knew* had histories to kys including his girlfriend! Over and over I told him not to say things like that and especially not to people who are struggling but that didn't stop him. 1/?
oh hell, two things: it shouldnโt be unreasonable to have a chair on set for someone with EDS, & more importantly DO NOT USE A CHIROPRACTOR IF YOU HAVE EDS. an osteopath, maybe, but the combination of unstable joints & poor collagen makes chiropractic corrections so dangerous ๐ญ
Hey new and old oomfs, here's the current outlook on trans people in India currently.
- With the current iteration, only hijara folk would be considered as trans (hijara being a subset of indians)
- Any currently transgender folk even ones going through HRT are no longer trans...