Notices by CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)

you cant just mumm in real space, you have to mumm in virtual.

trouble i see with morris is sure you need to disrupt as the ethos of the work, but the aesthetic you push to disrupt has to also be considerate to now.

if you dont consider at all, you look ragged and feeble. if you choose traditional aesthetics you end up too twee, if you try to revive traditional then you end up looking like a a bad flash dance.

if you're going to mumm, you need to pick an aesthetic to push that happened in this millenium.

"like the goku of kink"

PS: if you have executive dysfunction issues like this, my best advise is turn off your voicemail.

if you dont have voicemail, no one will leave messages there thinking they've contacted you.

how bad? lets say.. about maybe.. a month and a half of me not reading the emails?

the sweet feeling of finally finding out that really important serious of scary emails that you've been putting off reading for FAR too long due to executive dysfunction turned out to be the other persons secretary continually apologising for having to keep rebooking your appointment because of their own issues and not in fact you having messed everything up.

O'Dwyer being a legend actually took time to reach out with an update and apology on this. The documentary was being worked on and rendering right up to the last minute so they didnt have time to do captions that would be correctly timed but they're being added soon.

now i feel sheepish.

also its O'Dwyer and (im guessing the NoClip team) who are famously great with captions.

and to be clear, i dont mean this is just accessibility.

anything on youtube where the captions are filling in from automatic captioning in that way where its all to the left.. we the audience have learnt thats a value signal for a lot of different things about what we're watching.

if the text is centered pretyped (and correct), it projects like the thing you're watching actually matters. Someones put effort into it.

not just cheap but like, just makes it all seem painfully old and out of date.

a tiny critical failure for a brand.

Valve putting out their 20 year anniversary doc for Half Life 2 on youtube.

critical failure, they didnt hire someone to do captions. like how many people watch with captions nowadays - especially documentaries where the words said are important and are often being spoken by non-actors.

makes the whole thing seem cheap.

With the long scheduled final dry docking of the good ship Octodon coming up on the horizon, i will be transferring my account to hackers dot town and findable here: @siege@hackers.town

I will be beginning the auto transfer system shortly. Just posting this here cos.

@melissagreen @JoscelynTransient @amberage thank you for the offer <3

@thraeryn @TheGibson that actually sounds ideal

@amberage yeah most def, just need to figure out where would be good to leap to

also octodon is shutting down shortly as a fediverse server so i wanted to make sure i put it somewhere safe - even if it is just anecdotal polling.

@x4nw yeah, long going argument with the person who set up transfemscience dot org. Theyr'e still sticking to their guns that it inhibits sexual desire.

https://transfemscience.org/articles/progestogens-sexual-desire/

as i think i commented on the original thread, the most interesting result of the polls to me was the clear lack of decrease in sex drive reported across all three groups.

when i first started posting about progesterone for transfeminine HRT, one of the most common counter theoies given against taking it was that it would be more likely to decrease sex drive due to its anti-androgenic effects and potential for negative mental health reaction.

i have updated the old WHY PROGESTERONE doc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OGiomfiMk18nPb3ITKZD9pWPvWRUlyI06enxahQpHBI/edit?tab=t.0

to now include a small section at the bottom with the PROG POLL conducted on the fediverse in 2023.

https://octodon.social/@siege/110441708843689395

its of course completely anedoctal but in lieu of any actual desire of scientists to conduct any real scientific studies on transfems taking progesterone, i felt its inclusion was overall more beneficial to those considering prog as an option in their regimen

@janegayclerk oh yeah, thats that allopregnanolone kicking in hardcore as a sedative.

great if you're having a panic, terrible if you're trying to be a normal person walking down the road to buy some milk and bread.