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google translate defaulting to chinese at first
okay but for those of us with interests in both the murderbot and the daomu biji fandoms this is kinda hilarious
(english-side-only really, i get that the kanji and hanzi are completely different)
our good (air)ship murderbot! thanks google
hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...
Hey guys! Check out this block of pure sodium that I got!
one day i will make a masterpost of all the shit T does to your junk of only to spare the dozens of young trans guys i see panicking about it the embarassment of having to ask a bunch of strangers if their dick is okay
fuck it im doing a cliffnotes version now:
-bottom growth varies widely. I've known guys who get barely any growth and I've known guys who end up with huge t-dicks (lucky bastards 🙄) it really just depends
-it feels weird at first, but it's not particularly painful. i would get mild pain occasionally when mine first started to grow but I've known a lot of guys who haven't had any pain whatsoever. it's really nothing worth panicking over, relax.
-it is extremely fucking sensitive when it first starts to grow. like EXTREMELY sensitive. i had to switch from boxer briefs to boxer shorts because the chafing was too annoying
-you are going to end up with a foreskin if you get any growth at all and you will have to learn to clean it. thankfully it's very easy to do.
-to put it bluntly, your junk will start to smell like balls. I've seen a lot of guys panic over this. it's normal, i promise you're fine
-atrophy is a bitch but there are things you can do to fix it. I've never tried any of them because i wasn't really big on bottoming to begin with, but I've talked to guys who have had success with it. just ask your doctor.
-while I've known a lot of people who have gotten dried out by T, i haven't really noticed any change myself so ymmv
-you will probably at some point have to compare notes with other transmascs because most doctors dont know shit from fuck about medical transition. it can feel awkward at first, but you'll be surprised how quickly it dissipates. it helps to have a handful of transmasc friends you're already comfortable with vs a bunch of random strangers.
-the "you will never be able to orgasm again" myth I've seen terfs spread is laughably untrue. don't worry. there was a bit of a learning curve for me figuring out how to jerk off since i was used to working with smaller equipment, but it's fairly easy to get the hang of
-you aren't going to be unable to find any sexual partners because of your bottom growth. that is a myth and a particularly cruel one at that. i have met people of every gender and sexuality, cis and trans, who have been very very into t-dick. you'll be fine, bottom growth is hot.
Adding that bottom growth tends to start significantly earlier than a lot of medical timelines show, at least in my experience and in the experiences of those I know who are taking T
forgot to say this but yes for me it was iirc the first physical change i noticed
French trans woman Marie-Pierre Pruvot, known by her stage name Bambi
Female Mimics magazine 1965
It’s worth noting too that Marie-Pierre Pruvot is still alive. She’s 87 years old. She was a showgirl and later in the 70s became a literature teacher, a quite esteemed literature teacher at that.
it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
i wisely turned off the notes on this when it was at 700 but oh my god stop telling me what you "just" use it for in the notes shut the fuck up shut the fuck up I AM NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST, I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS.
You write thorough analyses of concepts and events, so I thought I would ask for your take on Senator Booker's speech today. Some people say it was disrespectful. What do you think? Thank you in advance for your opinion.
I think what Booker did was extraordinary on several levels. First, the sheer physical endurance it takes to speak for that long, almost uninterrupted, while remaining cogent, is absolutely incredible. Second, the actual content of what he said, based on what I've seen, was fantastic; he was impassioned, engaging and incisive, and the extent to which he kept on topic over that many hours is staggering. Third, the fact that he broke the record for the longest speech on the Senate floor, which is not only an achievement in its own right, but doubly meaningful given his status as a Black man when the previous record was set by a segregationist, Strom Thurmond, protesting the Civil Rights Act in 1957. And last but not least, the moral clarity inherent in rebuking, loudly and at length, the myriad abuses of a historically corrupt, fascist government while working to delay their business.
All that being so, I think there are only three plausible reasons for someone finding Booker's speech disrespectful. The first is predicated on agreeing so completely with the Trump administration's policies that disrupting their operation via a lawful, established form of political protest is cast as inherently bad - which would be very much in keeping with the logic of those who, to take just one example, see nothing illegal or indeed remarkable about Trump's insistence that the executive branch should be able to unilaterally overrule both the Senate and the judiciary. The second is predicated on being such a spineless appeasenik milquetoast that some nebulous concept of "civility" is considered more important, and thus more urgent, than doing literally anything to protest an administration so nakedly corrupt that the president is publicly shilling for crypto and Tesla in order to line his own pockets. And the third is, simply, racism, whether subconscious or overt, which here translates to the reflexive assumption that a Black man being loud and disruptive must of course be inherently bad, and certainly a worse offense than whatever he might be protesting.
So, in conclusion, no, I do not think Booker's speech was disrespectful - but even if it could be fairly labelled as such, as I don't believe this current administration is remotely deserving of anyone's respect, I'd still be cheering him on.
Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He'll give them a million dollars. It's all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now
The invincible Susan Crawford:
huh weird.
oh thank god for the ui update i was jsut thinking that WAY too much space in the ui is devoted to the conent of the posts (the thing i come to the website for) im so glad that those upstart Posts are finally getting overshadowed by their rightful overlords, the real stars of the show, icons and urls,
every time i see this post reblogged the combination of reblogger + my icon / url bar is nearly as big as the post itself. im going crazy. most tumblr ui changes are whatever this is absolutely insane
Don’t buy other stuff
*Cas tuning out and not listening to boring conversations because he’s looking for his favourite songs on the radio* *Cas sitting there quietly but he’s actually scrolling through Facebook via a wifi signal* *Cas figuring out the wavelength to watch TV and learning Game of Thrones spoilers on the road to threaten the guys with* *Cas generally really exploiting the fact the world is a buzzing mess of signals and wavelengths* (via elizabethrobertajones)
tumblr publishing a major cosmetic update (at least for the ios app) the day before april fool’s day is so suspicious….. girl what are you planning
ohhhhh. it was nothing. they didn’t plan anything.
they threw together some polls because they clearly prioritized changing fonts and spacing in arbitrary ways for their update and didn’t have time to do an april fool’s gag
thats so lame lol
I'm a few weeks into my beginner glassblowing course and so far I have learned that glassblowers are always saying things like "put that punty deep in the glory hole to get it hot" and "when you're done necking, wet it off" and "blow that pipe as hard as you can." There's not even a joke here they're just always saying this stuff like it's not funny as hell.
things I've been learning since moving out of my (abusive) family home:
