It still amazes me that you can be arrested for holding a small paper sign that says you are against the wholesale murder of an entire ethnic group, but seemingly not for actually doing the murdering.
We hid. And if we didn't hide, we died. - we were deemed clinically insane. - we we imprisoned. - we were put in institutions. - we were forcibly medically castrated. - we were tortured with electric shocks. - we were lobotomized. - we were hunted down and killed. - our murderers claimed "panic" and were set free. - many of us chose the "easy way out" instead.
I already went through this with gay people. (Took me some time to grow up on that topic.) Society stopped persecuting them, and suddenly "everyone" was gay. And I was like, this is ridiculous, they must be imagining it.
Eventually I figured it out. Just like you said.
And these days, I sometimes find myself thinking, "Come on. All these people are trans?"
And then I think, "Yes. Always have been. I just know it now."
I used to work at Starbucks. I know exactly how they make every drink. If you ever want an at-home dupe, let me know what one and I probably know how to make it. If not, I guarantee I can figure it out easily enough. Screw Starbucks and their union busting and various other issues, save yourself a few bucks.
For instance: Their mocha is literally just hot cocoa mix with a pinch of salt, and a little extra sugar, mixed with water. Use a hot cocoa packet, add just enough milk to make it into a thinned paste/thick syrup, and add coffee (instant coffee absolutely works for this) and hot milk. It'll taste better and you can get hot cocoa packs that'll work at a dollar tree for 2 for a buck.
@peachymist So the easiest thing is adding a bit of cinnamon to the mocha mix, but if you want something that's just cinnamon-y, go to a local dollar store/pound store/your equivalent. Grab some ground cinnamon, and cloves (you don't need a ton of those, they last forever), and you'll also need just a tiny pinch of pepper.
Heat up some sugar and water in the microwave til it's just a little bit above body temp (so just til you feel the water as a bit warmer, 2 US tablespoons of sugar to every 2 oz of water for this), add cinnamon to taste, 1 clove, and that tiny pinch of pepper. Warm it up again in the microwave, this time til it's starting to get steamy but not boiling.
Add 1 pack of instant coffee to milk of your choice (oat milk is excellent for this one). Fish the clove out, and add the syrup to your coffee, about half to start! It's a good one for winter, and the pepper and clove will add a bit of complexity to the cinnamon flavor ^_^
After killing the CECOT story in the USA, CBS goofed and aired it in Canada. Last night, as Canadians were uploading it to YouTube, CBS was filing copyright violations to block its further release.
But it's too late. Under Bari Weiss, CBS is state run media desperately cosplaying as legitimate journalism.
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Bsky thread discussing how this is a sign of Weiss's incompetence, *and* that none of the people working for her liked or respected her enough to let her know it was going to happen:
@briankrebs tbf, it would still be state run media even without Bari since itβs owned by the Ellisons. She just happens to be the wildly incompetent face of the operation right now.
It is also available through the Internet Archive, a much more reliable and not a site putting money into the pockets of a company like Google which is supporting and abetting the trump regime:
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
I watched the episode and found it to be no more disturbing than many similar shows over the years. It certainly puts the woman who is head of DHS in a bad light, but Trump administration people do that to themselves all the time. Seems to me this was over-the-top censorship by a fearful network executive. A great way to bring even more attention to another heinous act of the Trump administration.
Although I normally wouldnβt link to the website formerly known as Twitter, at least they havenβt taken the video down yet, so might as well use their bandwidth: x.com/spaceghost/status/200330β¦
Can anyone recommend a good app that's like a dating app but specifically for making friends? I'm trying to find other trans people who want to be friends and hang out because... I'm in the middle of nowhere.
Didn't get to it this morn either, actually didn't surf the web at all, just wasn't feeling it, and won't be bothering tonight. Woke up a bit meh, dragged and ran errands before going to work a bit early, including hitting MickeyD's as I had a craving.
Tonight is much the same, mostly skipping the web, I'm tired, and my shoulder hurts bad. Ice and reading.
Reading is the big reason, although some of the stories I'm tracking on FiM Fiction do have updates, I'm not feeling it, so I started reading some of my Read It Later stories. Right now I'm on the 5th chapter of A Phoenix Beyond the Veil - The Philospher's Stone, and I'm rather taken with it.
Sunset Shimmer in the Harry Potter universe isn't unknown, but it isn't super common. However, those always use canon SS, a teenager who uses a portal mirror after the mirror showed her a future where she was an Alicorn, because Princes Celestia won't make her one. This one is more mature, what if anything she saw wasn't brought up, instead, she's gotten fed up with Celestia not teaching her like she used to, so she decided to go somewhere else where she can learn more. None of the desire for alicornhood, nor a plan to conquer Equestria, just a desire to learn more. Despite expecting to come out of a statue by a high school, what happened in canon, she comes out of a mirror in the Grainger household, something she blames on Philomena, her pet phoenix that came with her, because she perched on the top of the mirror where the focus is before they used it.
Any how, I'm finding the writing to be to my taste, and while SS is overpowered, the way they're handling it is quite good, she's happy to learn, experience new things, and help people. It makes it quite enjoyable to see how she interacts with the world.
What really has me engaged at the moment? I just reached the point where she tells Hermine's parents that she can give them magic, or more correctly, she can unblock their thaumic passageways. Apparently this is a known problem in Equestria, and she's been reading an advanced medical magic book, and feels capable of fixing it for them. Interesting idea, muggles, or at least muggles that have magic capable children, are capable of magic themselves but have a malady that stops them, wonder where this'll lead.
Moon Bugs, released in 1983, is one of the earliest IBM PC games ever released.
And to be precise, Moon Bugs is not a DOS game. It is a PC booter. The disk bypasses the operating system entirely and boots straight into the game. No command line. No DOS prompt.
Technically, it is impressive. Despite using CGA, Moon Bugs displays 16 colours instead of the usual 4. Very few CGA titles pulled that off, and almost none did it this early. In 1983, this was pushing the hardware harder than most developers bothered to try.
The gameplay is another story. Moon Bugs follows the familiar Space Invaders, Galaxian, and Defender lineage. Fixed patterns. Predictable enemy behavior. Competent, but routine. You can enjoy it for a while, but it will not surprise you.
If you run it in an emulator, throttle the CPU hard. At modern speeds, it becomes unplayable almost instantly.
For retro computing enthusiasts, Moon Bugs is a genuine curiosity. For modern players, it is mostly a historical artifact rather than a compelling game.
I'm a trans woman who, if anyone ever asks, will give my deadname as a different male name each time. It's been the single fastest way to find people who talk behind my back. If that name leaks I know just who leaked it and just who to instant block forever.
Iβve done that with email addresses for the same purpose of finding out which websites are signed up for sold my email address.
Still to this day, I get junk email from random Democratic affiliated sites that ref referred to me as Jerell which are written or originated in some single source that invented that name for my email address.
Canβt necessarily assume that the website you put your details into is the party that sold on your contract details. So many of these sites, and their suppliers, have been breached repeatedlyβ¦
California Attorney General asks the public to help identify federal agents engaging in misconduct. And yes, you can submit video. Here's the link. oag.ca.gov/ReportMisconduct
Whether you live in California, I urge you to pass along the form the AG has provided for reporting misconduct by federal agents. If nothing else, people need to read through the options witnesses can check b/c everyone needs to know these things really are happening everywhere - time and again.
Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language Tabloid is a Turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines. tabloid.vercel.app/
This is absolutely true. Americans are the biggest suckers in the history of man. We believe in the trickle down economic theory after proving it wrong again and again for decades.
Theyβve been tested on canyoneering trips β we use whistles to communicate over the sound of waterfalls; nothing else is piercing enough to cut through the thunder. These work as well as the gold standard Fox 40 classic.
I print it florescent orange PLA, with an 0.6mm nozzle and 0.3mm layer height, and make lanyards out of orange paracord.
Microsoft email asking me to verify my age on an account I registered 20 years ago to prove I'm over 18. You know what? I don't actually need Xbox Live. Certainly don't need to have my driving licence on the internet.
North Dakota Monitor: North Dakota law accidentally lists fake critical minerals based on coal lawyersβ names
"...A landmark North Dakota law approved this year accidentally lumped in two fake names in a list of critical minerals that appear to be inspired by coal company lawyers who worked on the bill.
The inclusion of fictional substances is being called an embarrassment by one state official, a possible practical joke by coal industry leaders and mystifying by the lawmakers who worked on the bill.
The fake minerals are friezium and stralium, apparent references to Christopher Friez and David Straley, attorneys for North American Coal who were closely involved in drafting the bill and its amendments. Straley said they were not responsible for adding the fake names. ..."
The Alaska Department of Health recently published a report about deaths in the state over 3 years beginning in March 2020. About 1 in 500 people in the state died of COVID during that time.
βSeventy-four percent of those who died and were eligible for COVID-19 vaccine had opted not to receive itβ" states the report, published earlier in December by the stateβs Section of Epidemiology.
The comprehensive Alaska Department of Health report examined how the state fared between 2020 and 2023, noting successes and failures in the public health system.
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If you are traveling or expecting visitors this holiday season, remember that Marriott hotels do not want your money. They have all the business they need housing the terrorists from ICE and Border Patrol. Take your business elsewhere.
(Note that the flyer mentions Southern California, but this is not just a local issue).
In 2019, Marriott International pledged not to rent rooms to ICE to house detainees. Since 2023, they have broken that pledge.
A group of Tucson activists, known as The Marriott ICE Melt Coalition, is starting a boycott campaign in Tucson.
A rube named Karoline Leavitt, who holds the title of White House Press Secretary, recently said that Cher's activism is " .. irrelevant, outdated and rooted in a world that doesn't exist anymore." #Cher #Trending #KarolineLeavitt with #AltText
The viral story about the singer reacting to a supposed rant from Leavitt about "out-of-touch celebrities who think they can lecture America" originated on a network of websites and Facebook pages run from Vietnam. It contained verifiably false details. Dozens of versions of the story with other celebrities reading the bio also appeared online, including Barbra Streisand, Joan Baez, Ted Cruz and many others.
Did Cher tell Karoline Leavitt to "sit down, baby girl" after reading out her bio on MSNBC? No, that's not true: The viral story about the singer reacting to a supposed rant from Leavitt about "out-of-touch celebrities who think they...
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in reply to πΏπΆππΆ "not yet begun to fight" • • •I already went through this with gay people. (Took me some time to grow up on that topic.) Society stopped persecuting them, and suddenly "everyone" was gay. And I was like, this is ridiculous, they must be imagining it.
Eventually I figured it out. Just like you said.
And these days, I sometimes find myself thinking, "Come on. All these people are trans?"
And then I think, "Yes. Always have been. I just know it now."