Notices by Jasmine running (jasmine@chaosfem.tw)

diaeresis sounds like what you get after eating a bad umlaut

since gender affirming care is gatekept in so many ways here, including "your suffering must be severe enough", i have decided to now treat gender dysphoria as a valid reason for calling in sick. and the next time someone asks what i was sick with, i'm not going to say "oh it's endocrine" like i did today. i'll just be blunt about it. why do you ask if not for knowing?

they need to know better then to ask in public though, wtf

My important trans threads!

These three were pinned individually before, but I want to pin other things too, so I'm linking them instead now.

“Fighting the world as your authentic self is better than fighting yourself on behalf of the world.”

Trans people deserve to start out from a place of joy.

Transitioning is an act of loving yourself because it presupposes that you accept yourself and decide to let yourself blossom, and it is radical because your whole life has taught you not to do it.

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changing my name to Diversity Gender to become invisible to the US government

get a french catgirlfriend for the pun if nothing else (waking up and going "good morning chat")

How about a lil Swedish lesson!

Ändhållplats: End-of-the-line
Andhållplats: Breath holding place
Andhällplats: Duck rock-slab place
Andhålplats: Breathing hole place
Ändhallplats: Edge foyer place
Andhålplats: Spirit hole place
Ändhalplats: Slippery-as-a-butt place
Andhälplats: Duck heel place
Ändhålplats: Butthole place
Andhållplats: Duck stop
Ändhållplats: Butt holding place

I know I'm kicking at an open door with this, but I'm going to say it anyway.

There's this screenshot going around in trans facebook groups telling people to stay on twitter and the meta platforms. The argument is that these companies want to destroy our strong communities by making us abandon them.

And I think it's just such a bad argument, at least for trans people, because look: On facebook, you're not fighting back and standing your ground against meta. Meta is the ground. They are in control of every community that stays. They decide what you see and when. They decide who gets your content put right front of them, and they decide what those people see right before that.

If they want transphobes to see your trans positive post, then that's what's going to happen. If they want your trans positive post on a private group to be seen by almost nobody and mostly just by those who are going to leave disheartened and hopeless comments, then that's what's going to happen.

You cannot fight facebook on facebook. It's not just that they control the terrain. They are the terrain. Maybe it's different if you have enough sympathisers on the inside who can make it work clandestinely, but I don't see how that could possibly be the case for trans people.

it would be fun to say "orthodox" instead of "binary" about genders

in a democracy, freedom of speech serves to allow people to punch up without repercussions to their human rights

and you can recognise the fascist by the way he instead treats freedom of speech as if its purpose is to allow him punching down.

We're here
We're queer
We're fighting over semantics

I still know my ICQ number by heart

apparently ICQ shut down in June 2024. and here I was looking forward to login one last time before I died

sigh smh

uh oh

some people need to pick up a device and touch glass

in NT idiom, using big words means you're condescen… snobby. that's why I take extra care to look for smaller ones

some people will sometimes talk about russia and europe as if russia wasn't part of europe. there's obviously no "natural" truth since by definition this is politics—but it's still amusing to reply that if russia is just asian, then scandinavia (plus finland) is an asian peninsula.

but anyway, the russes were west norse people, mostly swedes and geats (hi 👋) and gutes, who settled between the baltics and the black sea. the finnish name for sweden is "ruotsi", from the old Norse word róðr (meaning "rower" as in rowing-tool, like row, oar, rudder), since we used our long rowing boats to get there I guess?

so the word "rus" actually comes from an old finnic word for, like, norse boating people (vikings) and particularly the swedes from the eastern coast of svealand (swedeland).

which means that "russia" kind of means "swedish land" and "belarus" means "white swede", coming from what the finnic and slavic people called the lands where the rower-people settled.

be gay do gays

heeey…

crass consciousness

just a reminder that meta hired a former project 2025 author and desantis advisor back in august: https://newrepublic.com/post/185306/project-2025-dustin-carmack-meta

they aren't just adapting. it's ideological.

@transcendentempress oh just some billionaire incel on some podcast