@noelle would fav this whole thread but I don't want to clog your notifications too much :)
~everyone else on this flight has left their seatback tv screen on and set to the default channel, and I'm like, why. Why are you okay with having ads blasted into your eyeballs for six hours.
My hobby: saying #transitiongoals as a response to images of monsters and especially monster girls.
@raccoon so relatable it burns.
Hypothesis: platforms whither and die when they no longer feel like places we can safely be emotionally honest. We stop posting about the actually unique and compelling parts of our lives. The vacuum is then filled with sanitized selves and performative politics, which ultimately isn't nourishing.
I definitely feel like this is a lot of what's happened to fb and increasingly to birdsite, anyway.
So let's be open and kind to each other here, okay?
@vahnj the world needs more soft boys <3
consent
Irregular reminder:
The majority of the time respecting consent is really easy, but where is matters most is the infrequent times where it's hard.
95+ percent of the time, it's pretty easy to accept a no and back off. Sometimes though you'll *really* want to do something. That's when it's hardest to not be pushy, back off, and let things go. But if you don't respect consent when it's hard to do so, the 95% of the time when it's easy hardly matters.
HRT question
@Eve@witches.town Clarification on the above: unless you order from grey market online pharmacies, those medications must be proscibed by a doctor.
The typical paths to that here are to see a specialist, who (if they're regressive) might demand a letter or referral from a psychologist. The newer model is an "informed consent" clinic where you basically just sign a thing that says "yeah, I know what these meds do" and a doctor gives the prescription without further obstacles.
Moving to @starkatt
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