Plume (She/Her)

“I’m in this picture and I hate it” moment

Well, this is some terminally online bullshit if I’ve ever seen some.

Listen. I understand that we all want to be inclusive and I completely support this. I use this instance for a reason. But at some point, we have to draw some sort of line in the sand in cases like this. If you look at OP’s history, you’ll see that this is not a moderation problem, this is an attention seeker problem.

I’ve said it before in a comment that the moderation removed two days ago. Actually, it was removed for misgendering OP, I believe (didn’t capitalize the pronouns), BY THE PERSON OP IS CALLING OUT HERE, too! So accusations of transphobia against that person are ridiculous, but anyway, I’m going to repeat it here: This isn’t the first time I see this user post something, and I can’t help but notice a pattern of aggressively dictating the way people should act. Not only this, but OP’s already tried to pull something similar on Beehaw.

This has been on my mind ever since I first read the initial post a while back and I’m finally going to spill it. OPis literally the only person I’ve ever seen use “capitalized pronouns”. And I mean, on it’s own, that’s not a problem. Lots of people have their own special pronouns, whatever. No, what I question here, is the motive. Because here is the thing: OP identifies as a god. This isn’t coming from me, this is quoting from Grail’s Medium profile. “Nonbinary Goddess” and there isn’t even more details in this post. And I mean, yeah, that carries a ton of baggage, no wonder people had a problem with these pronouns.

Can we stop pretending that people are being transphobic because they question the fact that someone is self-identifying as a god, please? Let’s all be honest with ourselves here: Being inclusive is not the same as enabling entitlement. And making accusations of transphobia for something like this is quite frankly disgusting.

Some of you need to log off, because transphobia is real thing. You can’t just throw around this term like that. A few days ago, I was at a memorial surrounded by fellow trans people, grieving actual victims of transphobia, people who died for simply being who they are. Some of us are dying, some of us are being kicked off from their family, some of are being actually discriminated against, some of us are being harassed. This is what transphobia looks it. I’m sorry for being dramatic here, but come on!

If it can be explained by: “I’m was more focused on making my point and forgot to capitalize the pronouns”, then I’m sorry, I refuse to call that “transphobia”.

We love our FtM kings!

Just read the whole thing. It’s dead serious.

Has anybody tried Revolt? It looks really cool. Like a proper open source alternative to Discord. But I never had the opportunity to try it with anyone, so I don’t know.

1. “Alright guys, it’s time to leave Slack for a better alternative!”
2. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software.
3. It happens again.
4. “Alright guys, it’s time to leave [insert software name here] for a better alternative!”
5. Proceeds to migrate to yet another proprietary and centralized piece of software, again.
6. It happens again, again.
7. Clown moment.

It’s what’s going to happen. It’s what always happens. And on a side note, by the way, I guaran-fucking-tee you that it’s what’s going to eventually happen with Discord as well. I have zero doubt about it.

Hmm. Overall, I’m not a big fan. I kinda like it on mobile, as it feels like what it’s made for. But on desktop? Less. Lots of empty, wasted space.

However, there is one thing that bothers me. On the standard Lemmy UI, I get red accent colors by default and this really cute logo at the top. I can install it as a PWA on my phone and I get the logo as an icon, which I love. This Photon UI is however, is really clean. It’s so clean in fact, that, in it’s current form, it lacks personality. It’s black and white and that’s it, and when I install it as a PWA on my phone, it shows up as “Photon” instead of “Blahaj Lemmy”, and with a generic black and white shape logo instead of the cute Blahaj one.

Take Sharkey, for example, which runs the social network part blahaj.zone for example, it’s got lots of personality. And it works well enough on both mobile and desktop. :)

Yeah, this pretty much doubled my estrogen intake. As far as I can tell, estrogen monotherapy is really efficient, and at least in my part of the world, it’s very popular. There seems to be a consensus around me that anti-androgen are pretty much a mess of nasty side effects for very little results.

My antiandrogen did nothing to my testosterone levels, but it did kill my hunger. I could feel like my body needed food, but I never got the drive to eat. Also, it fucked up my liver. The gel gave me very little estrogen. I don’t think my body was reacting properly to it.

And my doctor is not a dummy. They’re specialized in trans issues. They actually have a diploma for it, which is kind of amazing. I’m lucky. So I told them this isn’t working out and they were like, what kind of problem? Let’s try something else. So we switched to this and it’s been working perfectly.

This pill melting under the tongue, or injections seems to be the most efficient way to do it as far as I can tell. It’s what most trans girls around me are on.

This is of course not medical advice. This is just my personal experience and my personal knowledge. I’m not a doctor. But truth be told, hormone replacement therapy doesn’t seem to be an exact science yet. Even for my doctor, it seems to be a work in progress and we’re still figuring out what’s the best way to do it. It seems that antiandrogen and estrogen gel are just standard protocol, but they’re not necessarily the most efficient way to do it from what I gather. :)

I stopped Bica for the same reasons, doubled my estrogen intake to compensate. No anti-androgen. I used to be on Estradiol gel, now I’m taking Provames, letting it melt under my tongue to avoid liver issues, twice a day. It works great.

Damn. Consumerism really rots your brain, doesn’t it.