Notices by ana of the dawn (ana@starlite.rodeo)

transitioning is both the hardest thing i’ve ever done and the most worthwhile, but i never even would have started if it wasn’t for all the beautiful transfems i saw online being the badass girls i wished that i could be

there’s lots of different kinds of visibility and lots of different ways to be seen, and i guess i just wanted to say thank you to everyone who came before me and could never really know who they were helping and how

you saved lives by living your own to the fullest

and i’ll do my best to keep the fires burning for whoever’s coming next, because i owe everything to this :trans_fire:

#tdov

the finding out is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

robot girl who has a vast library of pirated content but it’s all “fair use” because she’s training an ai (herself)

so strange to say that we “follow” each other on social media. like, our accounts could just meet up for a drink or something instead of being so weird about it

passports should have no gender and also they should not even exist

so am i reading this right? the firefox browser as distributed by mozilla is proprietary now and includes a predatory terms of use that claims rights to all of your data?

i do not accept this at all. fuck off mozilla

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

@roadriverrail going to be thinking about this one for a while

theory: societal gender roles are actually so restrictive that almost no one fits them, but a whole lot of people kinda sorta fit so they learn to repress and file off the bits that don’t and they’re often more or less successful at this. we call these people “cis”

please stop assigning numbers to things. where is your sense of mystery?

no one can ever know how many "users" the "fediverse" has. these are concepts with fuzzy and unclear boundaries and the answer you think you have doesn't mean anything at all

yes, they are trying to destroy the internet. that’s really the whole point and it always has been, at least of any corporate intrusions into this space

and it’s come to the point now where any source of actual information and any place where people can connect directly to each other is automatically a threat

we would have ended all of this a long time ago if they weren’t using every trick they can think of to divide and misinform us, and as the truth becomes more and more obvious they have no choice but to double down

it’s not going to work, but they are going to try really really hard, and i hope we’re ready

i'm begging you to please put content warnings on your political posts. queer mental health is a precious resource and we need to preserve it

no one can fight fascism if they're a complete mess, and we need to respect the fact that different people take things in and process them in different ways and at different speeds

be kind!

“the fediverse is great because it’s decentralized and made of way too many individual servers to effectively shut down”

yes, except for your servers, which are way too large and present easy targets that could be shut down trivially :subtoot:

i have been consuming media about the coming apocalypse for my entire life, and none of it has even remotely prepared me for this

it’s sad, but technology of this era was actually useable and functional for everyday people in many ways that exceed what we have today

society lost something once it was no longer possible to make homemade banners on a dot matrix printer with print shop

@Redfuchs they’re called vibrators lol

i never really changed but the way i saw myself changed

that’s what changed everything

the day i started to learn to see myself as a woman and not a failed man was the day i began my transition

cis people think i was a man and “didn’t like it” so i changed, but this is so far from the truth

i never was anything like that, i only had to see it