This is such an important point about HRT that gets lost in the noise: you will feel whether or not it is right for you long before any "permanent changes" set in. This is one of those areas of medicine where letting people experiment freely and without judgement is the single best path forward. 🧵

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center— IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

Threaded Knight

Conventions are wayyyy too pricy to table at these days and stifling the future growth of both aspiring and up and coming creators.

alternative title: "Leonardo Decaprio Wins By Doing Absolutely Nothing" (i thought it was pretty good, the second act specifically was great)

If you live in Illinois, we need your help. This will take less than five minutes and will truly pressure your local elected officials to stand with the people rather than ICE.

is there any way we can just swap a bunch of useless dem senators at the national level with the dozen dem state senators in chicago who have been running around to mobilize their communities and confront ICE directly

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Incredibly frustrating that we can't choose which distribution channels we want to use with the one tool that bridges access from indie presses to small bookstores, libraries, and what is currently the most affordable way to get print books to readers outside of the US.

advice from our last pathfinder group: "no one should exist in chains; Your past does not dictate your future." advice from our current pathfinder group: "you dont have to kill your mom, unless she's bad."

tonight on City of Mist my mild mannered Anglican priest who may or may not be the superhero Millenium Man punched a guy so hard he made a crater in the street of his quaint little english village and it was still there when we woke up the next day but at least the dead dog was alive again

why does my cat always need to go back and forth between my legs for 10 minuts before deciding whether to jump up on my lap or not like shit or get off the pot girl.

abandoned parts

i finished up the last of Act II and hit an end screen, and i've been softening a lot on my pain points in Silksong. The last few fights were very satisfying and i found some areas where i had a lot of just good plain fun and approachable challenge. but HORNET HAS NOT SAID "SHAW" ONCE????

My high school physics teacher once got mercury poisoning and the doctor told him to drink a lot of beer. He always said that was the best doctor ever. Well i had a doctor tell me to play with my tits more so I might just have him beat.

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

i remember my first rapture scare.

another thing that rubs me the wrong way is the grinding. Conceptually i love the rosaries, they *really* lay bare Pharloom's extractive nature, but sometimes it feels like the reward i get for exploring is more stuff to buy, and the "kill x enemies" side quests are nothing.

i'm all for getting good but Silksong often crosses over into downright aggravating with its endless ambush fights, long boss-runbacks, and ubiquitous double-damage attacks. IDK, maybe i'm just in my 30s and past my prime when it comes to those twitch skills.

Sliksong devs design a single area without an obnoxious 10-round boring arena fight challenge (level: IMPOSSIBLE).

I immediately got banned from tumblr back in the day for posting Courbet's L'origine du monde in response to the porn ban. Labeling art as degenerate is anti-intellectual and anti-human - fuck you for capitulating in advance, Capital dick suckers.

I bring a real "dog eating the tiles" vibe to family mahjong night that makes my discards very hard to read (I don't know what hand I'm going for)

For sale: baby parachute, never opened

I’ve got a lot of euphemisms for but one on my mind atm is “cud media” as in the food matter a cow is constantly regurgitating re-chewing and re-swallowing repeatedly in loop, until it’s easily digestible slurry But at least that provides nutrients to the cow Eventually, this is 0 Calorie Cud 😭

Imperium Commissar voice: "abhor the reboot, the legacy sequel, the franchise."

Everything is just Shit That Made Money Before, and new ideas are massaged into the molds of Shit That Made Money Before, and it sucks?!

i dont know how the fuck anyone is supposed to keep celebs straight in this post-monoculture world, i haven't had even a basic broadcast TV since high school

WAIT JIMMY FALLON AND JIMMY KIMMEL ARE DIFFERENT GUYS?

Jimmy Kimmel spent years doing mealy-mouthed middle america bullshit, petting trumps stupid hair, and they STILL axed his show for telling the obvious truth. goes to show you what capitulating to fascists gets you.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

you reap what you sow.

This is the only dress I have that hides the compression bra so I wear it all the time

surgery recovery sucks because you cant do anything. I swept our apartment hallway and the girls are crying out for rest.

Hungary does this too and has done so for several years at this point. (if you are wondering why my Hungarian short story collection was quietly indefinitely delayed by the publisher...)

I couldn't be at Everfree Northwest this year, but I can share the zine I made for last year's show Ponies in Therapy, Cover and Page #1

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

dishonored is a game that lets you control swarms of rats and i was like "no i want the good ending" fuck was i thinking.

been playing deathloop recently, and liking it, which is weird because i bounced off everyone's favorite imsim dishonored. I think my issue was i tried to play the "good/stealth/nonlethal" route which forbids use of all the coolest toys, and in deathloop i charge in headfirst with a shotgun.

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

2/2

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Man I love having tits.

how do i make something perfect (6/13/2017)

either i go 0-10 and lose or i go 12-2, dominate my lane, take their camps and slot machines, stomp in teamfights, take midboss and lose.

they added slickness to Deadlock which is great because it has all that Valve character design charm but bad news for me because video games are supposed to be fun and every game of Deadlock is queuing up for a 45 minute brain aneurysm.

cis people do shit like this and still have the nards to call *us* cringe. fucking lunacy.