For my mega I wanted to celebrate the arrival of October. The leaves are changing and will fill the air with the most wonderful scents and the air is cool and crisp. Grab a rich and warming bowl of stew or soup, a book or a craft, a warm blanket, and get cozy with me <3
The photo is one I recently took, not my best work but I wanted something original and on theme but not doxxing
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Chewed lolipops oit of stress, now my molars hurt, might've broke them.
its been seven years since I realized I was trans. What a mistake its all been. Now I'm alone, am schizo, seeking God but finding no response, and back in my childhood bedroom. Its all been for naught, I'm legally a woman and have been on HRT for five years but I still Look Like This. I am still me.
Can I not emphasize the "alone" enough?
i think maybe i'm just not built for these shoes... size 11 was too small, but 12 almost feels too big while still pressing on my toes
back to the drawing board i guess...
My doll hobby is the only thing keeping me sane atm.
Currently restoring an old Elissabat doll. Really proud of how it’s turning out.
black templars are just the chud chapter
(maybe) not all black templar players are chuds but if youre a chud you are playing black templars
see this is why you can only interact with the transfem side of 40k and cant touch the fandom at all
you can write nasty genestealer smut and not get told "erm but lore book number 327 says-" because the fandom wants it to be boring sterile natoslop
me when a guy posted rhodesian camo on the guard subreddit. Or when every us troop in history plays guard. maybe I just need to go all in on genestealer cult
,,, wait you found nasty genestealer smut?
I'm so tired, alone and naive. I feel violent and in the wrong skin.
I love Autumn and specifically October
They need to invent a haircut experience that isnt a humiliating waste of time and money.
Its called stand in the shower with your bae and go to scissor town
Oh no, the only thing more terrifying and stressful than haircare.
Intimacy.
Or find the cute, queer hair stylist that has the same hair type as you and always does a great job
October best month
October is a wonderful month, Its homey and marks the end of the difficult times, the beginning of the happy cozy times. Summer is hard. I'm glad its moving on now.
I tend to have to the opposite experience: 4/4 breakups were at the end of summer and also it's worst time of the year at my job. This year, I have a lot more community than any previous year so maybe it won't be as bad.
Damn, that is some strong patterning! Summer is a very dysphoric time for me, where I end up overheating constantly. Its also just... Idk what it is. Summer is just hard. Winter is hard too, but its not quite the same? Idk. I dont have that much community rn, I'm not that good at showing up in it and tend to selfisolate when I get uncertain (which is always it feels like), but I'm going into winter the stablest ive ever been so we'll see how it goes!
I overheat like crazy, too, but the warmer nights make up for it. I get to show more skin and not have to worry about bringing a jacket with me. I hope this winter goes well for the both of us
I may just not be made for the heat. I miss walking home in a thin cardigan and miniskirt when its -20 out. I want that. I want that again. Jokes on me tho I moved and now my cold tolerance is fucked, but my heat tolerance never caught up. I hope your transition through fall treats you well :
Since it is Spooptober… Wanted to give a quick plug for /c/creepy, a comm dedicated to spoopy stuff. You should check it out if you’re into that sort of thing.
Continuing off my previous post
24 bits are kinda trash for storing numbers through the prime factor format. But 24 bits is even less than ordinary integers, and maybe we can do better. If we allow upto 32 bits (like ordinary ints), then we have 6 more bits for adding in 11 as a prime factor as well as 2 leftover bits. One of those bits could be a sign, allowing for negative numbers. Another could be fucking anything idk.
Now this way of doing things ... isn't not necessarily too bad, but we could try to improve?
First, we can store the exponents as a 2's complement. Search it up. It's slightly more efficient than storing signed integers. Basically in signed ints, +0 and -0 are stored as 2 seperate numbers even though they are functionally the same. In 2s complement, this is fixed.
I had 6 bit for the exponent. 1 for the sign. 3 for the powers (upto 7th power). 2 for the roots (upto 4rth root)
With 2's complement we can change to 4 bits for the powers and 2 for the roots. This allows the powers to range from -8 to +7
Which is ... wierd? And stupid? I don't think -8 is a very common power to use. Imagine being able to store 1/256 exactly, but not 13. A better way imo is to go 2 bits for the powers and 2 for the roots. This restricts the powers down to -4 to 3 which isn't super nice, but has the advantage that prime factors are now stored as 4 bit blocks. This plays nicely with the computer.
Now I introduce my next trick. Not every prime factor is equal. 2 and 5 are important. So I can give 8 bits to the each of them. That's 16 bits. Then the remaining 16 bits are divided into 4 other prime factors (3, 7, 11 and 13).
What am I doing in my life?
Being awesome
Sometimes I'll cry for seemingly no reason at all, which can be frustrating. But then I'll remember the state of things broadly and realize there are so many reasons to cry all the time. So really any time I'm not sobbing has got to be a win
I wish I could cry more. Too much pent up in my body and its probably physically harming me.
Yeah that's the other half of my experience as well, real feast or famine style. Definitely can't be healthy long term
::: spoiler one of my favorite singers giving me gender euphoria (because we look similar) in his glam rock era
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there's this one youtuber who does all kinds of neat makeups. a bunch of them are glam rock and they look so goood
truly we need a renaissance of glam rock, i want to look at people in pretty makeups
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
October fucking rules.
::: spoiler spoiler ::: spoiler suicide Genuinely why. Why am I here. My life has been horrible. The next few years are going to be even worse. I am so dysphoric. So far off of what I would be comfortable in. 6 months, one year, whatever. Ruined and everything is miserable. I am okay only if I don't think about anything. Dysphoria, coming out, voice training, medical system, fascism, climate change. What am I doing. Why am I continuing. I don't want to and there's nothing on the other side.
I should kill myself. I don't want to do this. Life is a complete fuck and I have only the other members of this rat fuck species to blame. Fuck them.
I don't want to do this. I am so done. :::
::: spoiler spoiler there's genuinely nothing to do but kill myself. lord I wish I had a gun right now. I am so sick and tired of being here. :::
let it be known, i love my wife
My partner and I recently watched HBO's Rome and I read your post in the voice of the news reader guy
https://youtu.be/WTxcTzCJZiE?
Edit: as in I imagined him proclaiming your words, not that I imagine you sounding specifically like him at all
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
up with trans
Up with trans!
Up with trans!
Up with trans!
::: spoiler sadness and doomerism (also mentions of SA, racism and transphobia) I thought I would wake up feeling better today, but I'm not, the election yesterday fucked me up, the next 4 years are gonna be tough, the only hope we have for presidency is Lula waking the fuck up and doing everything to win in October 25th against Flávio Bolsonaro, which is gonna be though because every single other relevant candidate's base is gonna flock directly to him instead of Lula.
Not only that but even tho the Radical Left has had the best campaign we had in decades, with UP basically doubling their numbers from the last election, it is still far from enough, specially when the nazi Missão only legalized themselves this year and already surpassed us by a lot, their president candidate, Renan Santos ended up in 4th place with ~2,3% of the votes (2,6 million votes), I even started calling him by his real name, Hitler Santos, because that's what this piece of shit is. This fascist fuck got that many votes while saying that he wants to exterminate the favelas, even going as far as to call one of them "Planet of the Apes", and also threatening to sexually assault a woman
There's still a bit of hope outside of that as Jones Manoel, Humberto Matos, Érika Hilton, Sâmia Bomfim, Elias Jabbour, Renato Freitas and others were elected but they are such a small minority, I hope they do everything in their power to change as much as they can, Jones and Humberto already said they want to use their election to further build the communist movement and help organize a large amount of people since one of the main issues with communist parties/orgs here is that not a single one of them have the structure and capacity to organize large amounts of people, they are already struggling with the small numbers we have right now.
These people are a beacon of hope right now, but it still feels so bleak, the right won everywhere, most of Brasil will now be ruled by far-right politicians, even some of the more "leftist" states are fucked. My state elected a trans woman (Érika Hilton) with 1,5 million votes, but also elected the most pathetic transphobe right-winger in existence (Lucas Pavanato) with 3 million votes, his election campaign was all about trans people, the only thing left to say was that he wanted to straight up exterminate us.
I'm so fucking tired :::
Calm down comrade, this is not the end of the world, our fight is not won via elections. It is a blow to every minority and to the working class, but it's just a matter of getting up and organizing the working class. Alone we are weak and afraid, but together we can FUCK THESE TYPES OF DIPSHITS UP. Get organized, the real fight is out there on the streets. You can even organize online, if you want to talk more about this stuff, dm me (maybe on matrix) and stay strong.
Thanks comrade! I'm not that doomer about it, I just wanted to vent mostly, I know it's not end of the world and that there is much to be done, I'm just feeling mostly pretty sad since it's only been a day since the elections, I'll make a proper recovery in the next couple of days, I'll try to look into what I can do more effectively online because there's absolutely no left whatsoever anywhere near me and it's not like I can even leave my house most of the time to go looking for other like minded people at the very least. I've been seeing other trans people online also worried and it sucks, at least we also have other trans people talking about organizing from what I've seen.
I get you, I was feeling down and bleak yesterday too, but now I'm mostly fine, since this morning actually. I think the best thoughts of my comrades rubbed off on me and that makes it easier.
if only the working class actually would fight for us
Instead they love torturing us
Unfortunately it is still our job as revolutionaries to reeducate them somehow. Not us specifically but someone, and having people on my side to defend me makes it a lot easier, I lucked out with the good people I met. Oh but if they've been given chances and are a lost cause... There are other altenatives like [Redacted]
Just got our influenza shot! Everyone praise Princess for being so brave
Waiter comes to take orders
Brother, dad, dad's partner, and sister all get gendered prompts
My turn
"And how about for yourself?"
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Cuckoo might be shaping up to be even more tough than Manhunt bweh, have had to stop reading and take a break multiple times and were only like 1/3rd thru. Lowkey gave us a panic attack /mostly joking cuz while we did have a panic attack after reading it was mostly other stuff that caused that
Rly good too tho, so wanna keep reading :3 i love Shelby the book keeps being so mean to her :(
I've read Manhunt, Cuckoo and Black Flame. And honestly I think Cuckoo is her best so far, like 11/10. I was so stressed and panicked, but also wanting to know more and invested in all the characters.
Yee thats absolutely our feeling so far too
Cuckoo is where she’s really exploring all the ways you can describe viscera. There’s a point later in the book where it felt appropriate to put it down for a week or two, and I think I needed the break. So glad I got through it though.
Princess is a big fan of viscera so this is great for us
"10/10 gave us a panic attack" -trans girls reviewing stuff
Almost word for word my review of tv glow lmao
(Touches Power Bank board. Quickly stops touching it.)
Okay! Yeah! I think that 22.5W spec on the AliExpress listing is pretty accurate!
Yeah I bought one of those "IP5356" based power bank modules off AliExpress. Soldered a battery up to it, hooked it up via a USB-C to USB-C cable into a (honestly quite nice even if overpriced) 12V car phone charger, and that into my solar power setup.
Yeah it negotiated a higher voltage, and it got it!
Well shit, the PCB itself is absolutely not enough heat-sinking for this thing. Don't have any proper way of mounting a heatsink that'll also be electrically isolated. I have cheap thermal paste and cellophane office tape!
.....Yeah I'd much rather use a thermal pad.
Good board though, I'm impressed!
down with cis
Down with cis
down with cis
down with cis
down with cis
Still naive, a naive idiot
Just did my injection! A day late but nbd
Ah, the Sunday injection thread. Actually found the time to do mine on sunday morning before heading out to my Shadowrun group.
ahh yis first
I made some japanese curry on the fourth day of october ! Roasted it in the oven in a cast iron pot, with several kinds of vegetables.
Omg that sounds delicious, once Ive gotten through more of what I already made I might have to find a good Japanese curry recipe
