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crosswind [they/them, she/her]

@ crosswind @hexbear.net

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    Lancer - Trans Megathread from November 17th through November 23rd, 2025

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  • I got my first blood test results back and my e level was way higher than I was expecting! Which is fun but I don’t know why that would be.

    The level itself wasn’t all that high, but it was about 75% more than estrannai.se predicted. It’s valerate, so the uncertainty cloud was ~15%. Are there things that can throw off the results by that much? I know everyone’s different but that seems like a lot.

    Also yay, it’s a problem that makes me feel good.

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  • My mom was happy to take me shopping for new clothes, and since we went, has been asking to do it again. Recently, I mentioned that I could use some help paying for HRT. She got uncomfortable, and said it sounded like I shouldn't have a problem affording that. Then she offered to take me shopping again, and I get the impression she was offering to pay more than the amount I said my next HRT appointment would cost.

    It sure feels like she's hiding having a problem with my transition, but it would be nice if there was another explanation. I'd love to hear other peoples thoughts and experiences. It would be difficult and probably not helpful to ask her about it directly.

  • China is Building Gravity Batteries (good video about gravity batteries)

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  • If you wanted to build a gravity battery that could store one day of energy for your average consumption household (~30 kWh) you would need to lift your 24 ton block about 570 m if your energy recovery was 80%. That would make your battery the sixth tallest building in the world.

    I think a large scale facility like the one in the video can make good use of the technology, and it has clear advantages over other forms, but energy storage is still a difficult problem, and for many applications, gravity batteries will always be underwhelming.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • This is supposed to pair with Copilot Actions, which allow the AI assistant to perform tasks on your local machine, like editing folders or looking stuff up.

    Good thing the training data doesn’t include thousands of people over a span of decades consistently repeating that the solution to every problem is to delete system32.

  • AI slop is gonna get even sloppier

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  • Building data centers to wreck the climate was taking too long, so they innovated a new, faster climate change.

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    Abt Switch - Trans Megathread from October 13th, 2025 to October 19th, 2025

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  • I know it’s not ideal for regular use, but would undecylate be a good way to cover a gap of a few weeks and avoid having to take hrt things across a border?

  • Fox News Greg Gutfeld engaged in the smear campaign alleging that Hasan shocked his dog

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  • Fox could have stirred up the same amount of outrage by saying the left wants to take away your shock collars because they don’t believe in discipline.

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    Yes hating Jeff Bezos and the jews is very much the same yes yes

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  • Either the soviets or smallpox killed more people than the nazis. I don’t remember which one it was, but just trust me that they were bad, okay?

  • CHARLIE KIRK JUST GOT SHOT IN UTAH!!!!

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  • "Shit, we're all out of candles! I meant to get more."

    cocking gun "Plan B it is then"

  • Walgreens just refused to vaccinate me for COVID

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  • Do you know why they're trying so hard to get novavax?

  • Get an E-Bike

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  • Maybe so, but in that case this advice turns into “reduce your carbon footprint by cutting out exercise and becoming more sedentary” which I don’t think is a good strategy.

    If we were doing that, we could outlaw treadmills, since they emit infinite CO2 per mile.

  • Get an E-Bike

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  • This only applies if you assume people are minimizing the amount of calories they spend, but for people trying to maintain a level of physical activity, switching to an e-bike would mean adding some other exercise to compensate, and it comes out worse.

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  • Thanks!

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  • @WoodScientist@hexbear.netThat stand looks super helpful! I would love the file for it. Does the site 0x2640 posted work for you to upload it?

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    Trans Megathread from August 18th, 2025 to August 24th, 2025

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  • I'm trying out 29g fixed needles for castor oil and I knew drawing would be slow, but it took probably five minutes. Should I be doing something differently, or is that actually how long it takes?

    Also, while I was drawing, there was some void space in the syringe from the low pressure. Is that okay, or should I try to minimize that?

  • If there are millions of people saying "the Ukraine", I am one of them.

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  • Same thing with 'Keev' suddenly becoming the only acceptable pronunciation of Kiev/Kyiv. The 'authentic' way to pronounce it uses vowel sounds that are close to Polish and are very difficult for most English speakers to get right. The distinction between the Ukrainian and Russian pronunciations was artificially reconstructed within the bounds of English speakers' familiarity as "keev" vs "key-ev" in a way mostly unrecognizable to the actual speakers. But now there was an easy indicator of whether someone was sufficiently loyal and willing to snap to the good righteous Ukrainian way, or if they were an agent of Putin who said it the Russian way.

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  • I was looking at this more, and if you're going to order through customs, you should do it soon. If you order now it can still get through before the de minimis exemption ends on the 29th. After that it might be more difficult/expensive.

  • I may be extreme right wing now, but at least db0 are a bunch of libs

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