i really do want to scream thinking about how it can be possible that someone entered my life in the way this guy did. like he really just walked up to me on the first day of the group bus trip to climate camp, introduced himself like "you don't know me? i've been seeing you working, i've been […]

ia weherua-kore: non-binary gender

[horny on main] one of the reasons i feel so lucky to fall into the transmasc category is because it means i am completely allowed to find other transmasc people as hot as i do. it just hits different for me in a way even other t4t relationships don't. there's just something about that relative […]

a friend told me the anti-climb-spike wound in my hand looks like stigmata now the stitches are out. i did not think of this. i thought it looked like the hole in a fleshlight tbh

met someone at climate camp and am in full cannot weave mode. it's been a real solid while so it feels like i'm blowing dust out of the jar meant to hold this feeling

anti climb spike got me so good i needed 3 stitches. no fun capoeira for me before juhannus or so

it's interesting that if you boil down a lot of arguments against pursuing or funding the arts, they amount to "study of the arts has taken huge quantities of human energy away from attaining complete dominance of our environment", making them not a public good etc. given what science itself […]

finally had the Capoeira Experience today of having a guy who has just met you but has a lot of capoeira cred point at you and be like "you don't have a capoeira name yet? no I don't accept that, your name is this now". to his credit he picked one which was way more apt than he could have […]

Hand shaking is such a fascinating practice. Like the subtext is absolutely "I am getting within distance of your fist and also simultaneously testifying to you that there's nothing in my hand", but so rarely do we consciously think about the context and thought processes that produced the […]

I genuinely did tear up a bit learning that for the first time in over 600 years, at least for now, Welsh politics will not need translation into English to proceed. I used to date someone whose grandfather was part of the group who refused to pay taxes until the papers were served in Welsh […]

I am staggered by the sheer hugeness of this. The #WelshGovernment has a policy of bilingualism. All meetings include translators, so that speakers of English or Welsh can participate equally. But every member of the Welsh Cabinet is a native speaker of #Cymraeg […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

tired: they call it the blue-black league because these colours represent finnishness and fascism to then wired: they call it the blue-black league as a warning for what will happen to your skin if you get near them

Watched Breaking Bad for the first time ever last night and I 100% know what everyone means now when they say Jesse has the most intense transmasc energy they've ever seen, I'm only up to ep5 but he reminds me of like four different dudes I know and all those dudes are trans

RE: https://social.ahlroos.me/@yle_bot/116599854110840818 Obviously I am happy about this, but I'm also obliged to claim it won't be as good as Tampere's

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116595277034585706 I chaos monkey'd my food aid org by getting long covid earlier this year, and it did hold up, but it was a scramble lol

Walked through Pispala today and once again wondered who the fuck thought building a four lane stroad through the middle of it was a good idea. There's a motorway like... literally adjacent, connecting the same two sets of places with an actual motorway. Like in what world is two lanes not […]

Tampere with Palestine will be on Hämeensilta from 18-17 (today, 16.5), protesting Finland's continued participation in Eurovision alongside Israel. We will have de-escalators present and have some of our own signs and banners, if you don't have time to make your own. See you there, if you can […]

Come march on the 31.5, from Sorin aukio to Keskustori, for a safe Tampere free of fascism! There may be a soup handout as well, bring your friends!

Tervetuloa 31.5 klo 14 marssimaan turvallisen Tampereen puolesta! Mahdollisesti myös soppajako, tuokaa kaverisi!

Vaikka englanti on minun äidinkieli, edelleen ketuttaa, kun englannin kielen käyttöä (ja pelkästään se) oletetaan saavutettavuuskeinoksi kelpaavaksi. Kyllä, kun törmään toiseen ulkomaalaiseen, jos hän on vaikka Länsi-Eurooppasta tai englanninkielisestä maasta, pärjätään keskenään hyvin […]

Had two realisations just now: first, that I achieved a few minutes of pretty fluent simultaneous translation (instead of staccato, abbreviated listen-then-summarise translation) from Finnish to English today, and second, that as of around this autumn I will have been learning this language for […]

My first activist life was in the sort of "consent workshops and more inclusive sexual health education" realm, I did it in the same town for a while and ended up leaving that town with the feeling of "god, finally people will no longer stop me in the street to ask me if they need a chlamydia […]

31.5 at 14, there will be a demonstration in Tampere against right-wing violence / for a safer Tampere for all. More details to come, but if things go to plan there'll be a soup handout as well, so bring all your friends. We will likely be starting or finishing in either Keskustori or Jugendtori.

Legit considering at this point printing out a sheet with a summary of wtf has been going on with the taloyhtiö, putting it in everyone in the courtyard's letterbox, and seeing if any of them contact the taloyhtiö to be like "for gods sake just let them have their damn greenhouse we are sick of […]

tram users of tampere: name me places you've noticed that are sunny, exposed to rain, well draining, and in a spot that is not often walked around by observant humans, but would be visible from the tram track once a plant got big enough

RE: https://mas.to/@WorfEmail/116562664637468880 Me when Americans tell me off for greeting them with "ay who's this cunt?"

we are fully a year into our fight with the taloyhtiö about our desire to build one, tiny, fucking, greenhouse, in our own front garden

omg i've made it through most of a capoeira session twice this week! and i don't feel my ears and lymph nodes immediately swelling up! omg!! here's to hoping i am indeed having a pretty typical "young healthy person" version of long covid, i'm at approx 4.5 months since the infection that […]

[transpoli bullshit, ed trigger] transpoli effectively told a friend of mine to lose 15kg by the autumn, so like, a kilo a week? that is a deficit of 1000 calories every single day, for 15 weeks? as someone who has done that before, like, it's possible, but it will fuck you up to a degree […]

If you are an anarchist and you speak only one language, learn another one. Learn the language of your land, the indigenous language where you live. Learn the language of your ancestors, especially those languages that the state has tried to murder away. Learn an international language other […]

It really helps me to tell myself "autism doesn't mean I can't have social skills, it just means I have to learn them the same way I learn other skills, without the natural boost neurotypical people have for this specific area". I get so in my head being like "god, so many of my problems happen […]

i sometimes wonder if peter singer is like that because of the way you have to be as a person to be serious about healing ecology in australia. there's something of the "look, it's simply not worth it to let kids start feeling fuzzy about rabbits" in the dna of his thought somewhere

Tampere would be better if it was walkers and cyclists only (allowances for deliveries, public transit, and emergency vehicles) between approximately Pispala, the long distance bus exchange, the centre university campus, and the rantatunneli area

Have heard through the grapevine that the Finnish police have permission to not participate in defending far-right marches, things like defending the White Mayday march/policing Tampere Against Nazis this year. Whether it's true or not, it seems to work as an in for talking to normal Finnish […]

[sexuality introspection] Trying to practice listening to my own thoughts without judgement has brought me to some interesting conclusions, about things I never expected. Like for years I have been actually quite judgemental of myself about who I'm attracted to, like who I am "allowed to" have […]

Nearly finished with this knitting project, have done it all by improvising, still gotta make it a little apron with "Korjaus Kahvila" on it

RE: https://mementomori.social/@paivanannos/116505603052859559 Medieval peasant toots

I almost felt bad for the one sinimustaliike lad waiting for his mate outside the poliisivankila today. Like the antifascist jail support group was huge and had soup and painkillers and stuff, and this wee man was just sat on the other side of the road, literally alone, filming us with a face […]

Reading a book called "against empathy" right now and the guy is arguing for a more self-decentred approach that relies on cognitive empathy more than affective empathy, and on acknowledging that our concern for those closest to us can lead us to make stupid decisions regarding the many. He's […]

finland's yearly clash between fash and antifa seems to have franchised, i think the developing tradition of SML "reclaim white vappu" vs local "fuck off fuckwits" response in tampere may end up becoming as entrenched as helsinki ilman natseja. on the bright side, glad my local version gets to […]

got a relief work pair the other day who was like "yeah i had to take this shift because the price of petrol is so high now". obviously she drove to work (my workplace that has a tram stop within 1km and a bus stop within 50 metres) even though it was like 4km. i never know what to say to car […]

yeah sex is cool but have you ever ridden a bike past cars stuck in traffic?? #BikeTooter

I don't wanna jinx it but I have felt shockingly free of the various "everyone asks me if I have long covid" symptoms for a week now. Still not at full capacity but I managed some weighted pullups this morning, and the kind of "feel your blood pressure in your ears" feeling, such as one gets […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TinJar/116450886321438689 I wish this was happening where my mum lives on Leòdhas. Energy is so expensive there that people who stopped burning peat years ago are doing it again. The ageing community there would love initiatives like this.

How many girls are riding their bikes to school is a better measure of a country's success than GDP. Tells you about so much more, about education, gender equality, road safety, the environment... #kiatikakiapono

does anyone else remember the degree of discourse that went on in the early 2010s about people who take testosterone without identifying as men socially of course, "you don't have to transition you can just be a gender nonconforming woman you know", but if your gender nonconforming womanhood […]

I've had this feeling for some years that I've gone "too far in one direction" with my appearance, having been on testosterone for some years and only done "masculinising" therapies, and now having been pretty consistently read as a man by casual observers for a while. I halved my dose of […]

made a bunch of pie mincemeat (the kind that is made of candied peel, dried fruit, nuts, spices, and rum, and has no actual meat) in december, and now i absolutely can't be fucked to make pie crust to cook it in. i have however discovered that adding a couple of big scoops of it to the batter […]

getting in from a 22 hour day of travel, get online, and the first piece of news i learn is that orban is out of power? what a blessing, time to immediately turn off the computer and go to bed happy

[home economics] our house goes through about 4kg of peanut butter a month, which sounds like a lot, but if you have several people who work active jobs, cycle, enjoy sports, and eat plant based, and especially if one of you is nearly 2 metres tall and has a very sandwich focused diet, you'll […]