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Ada

@ ada @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone

  • Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport

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  • Who said it would be entirely men?

    First hand experience

  • Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport

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  • 'cause I know I feel welcome, and not completely othered and invalidated when I'm forced to play on a team that is otherwise entirely men, whom have athletic advantage over me thanks

  • How do you build your snow forts?

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  • If only it wasn't so cold! :)

  • How do you build your snow forts?

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  • I've never seen snow except through an airplane window

  • Out of ten, how would you rate your ability to empathize with people with opposing viewpoints?

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  • It depends on what those opposing viewpoints are. If they involve actively targeting and harming vulnerable people, I have no space at all for those viewpoints or the people that hold them.

    For the other stuff, maybe a 7.

  • What kind of situation would you have to be in to think, "I really wish there was an American here right now."

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  • Like, a Colombian, or an Argentinian or a Costa Rican?

    Honestly, all the time. They're awesome folk!

  • What do you think about each Lemmy instance trying to be a Reddit alternative?

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  • Well, in that regards, they're similar to blahaj, as in, our instance doesn't just have trans communities. Our user base is focused on trans and gender diverse folk however. Hexbear, similarly, has all sorts of communities, but their userbase is focused on shared politics, even though their areas of discussion are not restricted to that.

  • What do you think about each Lemmy instance trying to be a Reddit alternative?

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  • Hexbear is very protective of it's trans users and it has a lot of them. But its "specialist area" is politics.

  • What do you think about each Lemmy instance trying to be a Reddit alternative?

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  • I think it's a good thing, because it discourages centralisation. If we end up with a bunch of specialist instances, then diversity suffers, because everyone looking for a specific area will end up on the one single specialist instance dedicated to it.

    And I say that as the admin of an instance focused on the trans and gender diverse folk. There is a reason that we don't enforce specialisation on those topics in our instance communities though. Even so, we still tend to be "the trans instance", when I'd much prefer it if we were just one of many, like we are on the microblog part of the fediverse.

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  • On the chance that you're engaging honestly, rather than just trolling...

    WhatsApp, Roblox and Signal all run fine in Linux.

    This is the ProtonDB page for Roblox. https://www.protondb.com/app/2181790. ProtonDB is a database that assesses how well windows games run under linux, and in this case, Roblox is Gold rated.

    There are numerous WhatsApp apps and wrappers that run under linux, and Signal has an official Linux version found here https://signal.org/download/linux/

  • What is this lightning?

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  • This is a post processed cropped version of one of the original stills. I have a hard time believing there's an object behind it...

  • What is this lightning?

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  • What sort of additional information?

  • What is this lightning?

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  • This would have been a very low flying aircraft, flying directly in to a very energetic thunderstorm! I have the 100MP original stills too, and there is no sign of an aircraft that I can make out

  • Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout

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  • Well, it turns out I can use emails from facebook in that time period as proof, and I've got plenty of those. However... I would need to provide my ID to facebook to make a claim, and the reason I no longer have a facebook account is my adamant refusal to provide my ID to them.

    So thus it ends before it begins :)

  • Were you on Facebook 10 years ago? You may be able to claim part of this $50 million payout

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  • I was active back then, but I no longer have an active facebook account, so I have no easy way to confirm my eligibility.

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    Is there a Lemmy instance worth using yet?

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  • Sorry, I was trying to be outright hostile, not passively.

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    Is there a Lemmy instance worth using yet?

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  • There are no widely federated edgelord instances at this point in time

  • NSFW

    Had a date with a heterosexual man for the first time. He had a hard-on when we cuddled. It felt strangely validating.

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  • It's something that you would not have thought, let alone said, if a cis woman had talked about enjoying her date having an erection when they hugged. Your comment served no point except to diminish the positivity that a trans person was feeling after a positive dating experience. If you read the sidebar, this particular community is "a supportive community for all transfeminine or questioning people"

    Nothing you said was supportive, and this community is not the place for it.

  • what country would you never go to again?

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  • You're right about that, and if I ever do go back, that will be why! But the sameness I was talking about is more the cultural identities of the countries. Every place we stayed felt like it could be transplanted to Australia, and fit right in. It might be different if I wasn't Australian :)