my greatest success story was posting a vague thing on r/t4t, getting messaged by the future love of my life, and kissing them in the airport 3 weeks later

like i don’t recommend reddit, and i left immediately afterwards, but genuinely this kinda thing can work

the cis are so sensitive

my first partner told me that if u sleep with a furry u are a furry and that automatically makes u a furry, and also apparently everyone i have slept with since.

now i don’t think that’s actually the case but i find it very funny.

as for what truly makes u a furry i guess it’s about identity and relatability. u don’t need to be into (necessarily) full on fur suits to qualify. i think being a puppygirl absolutely qualifies - but being a furry is also about calling yourself a furry, identifying as one. furrydom is a diverse queer art culture and social group, and it’s something u actively identify with, as opposed to automatically being made one because of who u are.

if u wanna be a furry then basically i would say u are one.

i’m a kitten (i fear that may be obvious) and i’m not like super deep in any furry communities but i definitely feel like the term fits me to some degree. tho i also feel like the kitten thing maybe goes deeper. i just am a kitten. but i’m also a furry.

yes

okay so my best understanding of this is that a) air in the needle is only dangerous if u inject it into a vein by accident, and b) it needs to be more air than that in order to kill you and c) it would have happened already if it were gonna

obviously it is important to remove the air in case u do actually hit a vein, u don’t wanna rely on anything, but obv i understand accidents happen.

and also not a doctor

i paid for someone’s hormones cuz i accidentally got a whole bunch of money because trump winning the election made my bitcoin stash skyrocket and the person was struggling to buy crypto and i just wanted them to have the thing

my partner @[email protected] was last on windows 10, we finally got them a new laptop and they were so against windows 11 we installed linux and they’re taking to it so so well

like usually when i help someone install linux i am literally running tech support for 6 months

i support the name gossip. it’s like a reclamation of the term. healthy gossip is vital to social bonding, especially in marginalised communities, and i think its exactly what the slop people want actually is. and tbh if men feel uncomfortable “gossiping” or participating in a community called gossip, they might need to reflect and self crit. you can whine about celebrities all u want, but ultimately it’s still a form of gossip, and u might as well accept that. and accept that u are participating in an activitiy stereotyed as feminine, and maybe that’s a good thing.

thank u! we will stay strong and come out the other side

another serious storm expected, and we’re usually cut off for a few days to weeks when this happens. managed to go down for supplies, food, gasoline in case we lose power again, pick up medication, take medication in order to have vaguely functioning body, and make preparations for the storm. would have liked to be able to fix the roof leaks before the storm but unfortunately that was beyond my capabilities. but i got a whole bunch of dry wood before it all gets rained on so we should be able to stay warm and dryish.

was a p successful day, especially considering how hard everything has been recently. am proud of myself. and resting by the fire and keeping warm :3

thank you i actually typically warn people about it, because for some reason it has a high rate among trans people. the condition i mean. not like i tell people not to take it, just to watch out for the symptoms so they can make the connection if it happens with prog. my (only) cis friend also has the condition and it gets worse every month during her cycle.

that seems v reasonable. i hope that things work out and u get the results u are looking for, whatever u end up doing with prog.

uh well i took it for a few days and got a dramatic worsening of my joint issues. then i tried a different medication with progesterone-like effects and tolerated it better but it still led to longterm worsening of my joint issues that were so bad i had to stop that too. i think it was bad for my mood too but it was the physical effects for me that were so bad. (i have a connective tissue disorder known for being hormone sensitive)

the people i shared my original prescription with, got the negative side effects as soon as it took effect and were unable to take it for more than a couple days. i know that a lot of people get mood swings that improve over time, but i think in both cases it was just such a seriously bad effect that it wasn’t likely to get better.

how long have you been on it? if there haven’t been negative effects that’s definitely a good thing, but if you’re not getting the positive ones either then maybe it’s just not something that works with your system well.

i don’t know what your experiences of it are but my mind jumped to this immediately. apologies if i’m going in the wrong direction here. i’ve talked to people who’ve had good experiences of it, but my own experience, and that of the 2 people i’ve let try the supply i was prescribed but couldn’t take (it’s the good stuff, the kind that you’re supposed to take), has been resoundingly negative. it gives me some p bad physical health issues, and it gave the others such bad mental symptoms they never touched it again.

it’s a mixed bag, some people love it. but not everyone gets on well with it, including you know, an awful lot of cis women. and that’s completely valid and okay.

well they need to do a better job. or if they can’t then the community needs to do it instead.

yeah fair

yeah i am. i checked it out last night after i metioned it, it does seem way more stable than last time i looked into it. Tor not working is a bit of a problem for me tho, thanks for the heads up. i might have to wait until that changes.

i mean yeah, i do see your point. but i still think trying to discuss it seems important? my thought process is essentially: if the dunk tank mods voted to close the comm, then presumably they aren’t up for modding it unless the issues are resolved some other way. so at the very least if people want their slop back some sorta discussion has to be had? or just new mods, act like nothing ever happened. that seems a bit empty.

i’m not saying there was a set of alternative discussions that would make everything clear. i’m more thinking the people behind this need to sit down, write up a coherent argument, post it, and invite the community to decide if there is any substance to it or not. then we decide how to proceed.

i like my power i’m afraid, and i’m not really interested in a second computer. i’m more likely gonna just like try and save enough money over the next few years for a gaming laptop since i know i have a long time left in this one. i have considered installing linux on this laptop though. i looked into it a few years ago and saw that there was something in development for the M1 chips but that it wasn’t finished at the time, so i kinda shelved it. but maybe i should check back in. it seemed like the new chip architechture needed some work done before linux could actually run.

i’ve been a mac/linux person for a long long time but i’ve just kind of happened across the money for a macbook a couple times which has kept me from having to go full linux - i got one from a uni course a few years ago. this one is nowhere near obsolete and i’m sure i have years left with it. but helping my partner set up a linux laptop has made me feel p good about the fact that simply there is no financial way for me to continue my mac habit. i’ve been kinda stuck on it for so long partly due to disability because for some reason the macbooks give me way less pain to use. but money is money no matter how disabled i am, and i think i could cope with the same laptop as they have, physically, and mentally i am feeling good about a linux switch. so i’d already been thinking a lot about linux when i saw this adorable trans mascot post. so thank you!