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grym [she/her, comrade/them]

@ grym @hexbear.net

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  • Its funny having French as your native tongue and having internalised all that. Like obviously a machine is feminine.

    It can make for fun play on words, imagery and parallels, but it also sucks ass for neutral or degendered language..

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  • The earthsea series as a whole is insanely good. The growth of recurring characters over the books, as Le Guin herself went through decades of her life and was able to approach femininity and masculinity through a different lens later, is really special as well.

    I would love to have your thoughts on each book, and on the series! I can never have enough thoughts about Earthsea.

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  • Gel also works for mono and I really find it convenient, but not available everywhere.

  • DSA member Rae Huang announces candidacy for Los Angeles mayor

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  • WSWS as a source genuinely should be banned. Absolutely worthless.

  • DSA member Rae Huang announces candidacy for Los Angeles mayor

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  • WSWS article lmao. Utter garbage trot website with shit takes that are either anticommunist or ultra, and never useful.

    I'm getting disappointed in some comrades on this site ngl.

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  • Yea given the effects I've already had (plenty of breast growth for example), and the fact I can achieve this with just gel, I'm very happy here tbh

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  • Great numbers folks, the best numbers

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  • Latest blood test results are in, my levels are perfect! Sweet spot estrogen at 162 ng/L (at least that seems perfect according to various recommended levels I've averaged together), and nuked testosterone at 0.22 ng/mL.

    And all that with just E gel and a prog pill, no injections

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  • He does! He's insanely consistent. He's opened up his game genres a ton now, no longer just playing Mario romhacks and similar platformers, he even plays FPS games (and struggles immensely), recently played Cruelty Squad and it was fascinating to watch how he approaches the game lmao.

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  • I still watch good ol' raocow, one of the LP OGs

  • Sunday was gaming day! What did you play? Weekly thread

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  • Picked up Kingdom Come Deliverance with all DLCs for like 8 bucks.

    Started playing, since i love making things way too hard for myself I started in hardcore mode having never played before. I'm getting my ass eviscerated by any random group of bandits but I'm enjoying it a lot! 'Enry is a fun protag.

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  • God grimrock was so peak. grimrock 2 is to me the absolute peak of that genre.

    I have not found anything that scratched that itch the same way since. I haven't really been looking to be fair, but the few things I did see were missing something for me.

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  • Saaame. I don't understand how nobody has said anything. Despite my baggy clothes and all its kinda hard not to notice something now lmao.

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  • I don't feel old otherwise being early 30s but trans crowds online lean very young its crazy.

    Its also very good and hopeful, its unprecedented to have so many trans people realising and embracing it so young!

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  • Ye it was dope

  • Before revolution can take place, the proletariat must have lost absolutely all hope in bourgeois democracy - George L. Jackson

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  • I agree yea, you can't fight every battle, but you can strategically find battles worth fighting and trying your hardest to win, even if we think they are bound to be blocked.

    My comment wasn't trying to frame it as "not trying hard enough", but against nihilism and leftism (in the lenin sense). I see a lot of marxists that understand the futility of bourgeois democracy and end up stuck, they don't want to participate in it and any discussion around it or organising on the topic receives only sneering lectures, and that's also a lot of wasted energy at best but more often the people that fall into that thinking just don't do anything at all. And in a more general sense, most people can absolutely tell if you think they're idiots, rubes, naive, that they're wasting their time, etc, and that's not gonna convince them to trust you. You often can't afford to stand aside or try to do something else when the mass of people is active in electoralism, we can be as correct as we want but if we're not where the people are to help them, even if it's to help to almost certainly lose so they can be educated in practice, then we're never gonna get what we need: People.

    Bourgeois parties and organisations are also not as strong as we think. They don't have unlimited energy and resources, and once you actually have a large amount of people backing you it takes them a ton more to attack you. It exhausts them too, and can force them to take the mask off or to reveal their hand. That's not to say this is simple or just "participate in it and that's it", it's very complicated. You need to know what you're doing, to make very annoying choices, etc. It's also extremely contextual to the place and time. But every political moment has to be utilized, every crisis, every story.

  • Before revolution can take place, the proletariat must have lost absolutely all hope in bourgeois democracy - George L. Jackson

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  • Good quote.

    Which is why you need to organize to "exhaust" them too. You need to actually try your hardest to win and enact change through those old methods, so the people can see it being blocked (if/when it does), in parallel with dual power and more long-term organizing.

    You can't be too ahead of people. If you've lost all hope in elections but most people haven't, then you're not very useful to the people right now if you just stand aside and wait or lecture them. Push with them and be there, and not just to expect to lose but to actually try to win as much as you can, so you can truly EXHAUST those methods. Other people need to see them as exhausted too, being a very smart little marxist on your own isn't gonna do shit. Until they do understand through their own practice, then you need to be with them in support.

  • NYT: "A.J. Jacobs went 48 hours without interacting with artificial intelligence. The experiment revealed just how embedded A.I. already is in our daily lives."

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  • What the fuck is this. Conflating literally everything, LLMs and algorithms used to edit sound or determine a feed are not the same thing lmao.

    This is what calling this shit "AI" does to people's brains, it's meaningless and it ends up blurring together in their minds

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  • It can be hard to tell but yea I went through the exact same feelings. I'm also in my 30s, started transitioning ~2 years ago, ~1 year HRT.

    I also went through high ups and low downs, very strong doubt about everything, hesitated. I started making slow plans and sticking to them, following what "felt right" despite my own thoughts. Like, even if I doubted a lot, i would try to remember or keep track of when I had felt good/better about myself and do more of that, but it's tough for me to know how I feel in the moment and I usually feel things with lag.

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  • I struggle with that too.

    There's different approaches to this as Terminal said and they're all valid and personal, personally I try to accept that I was a dude, more or less. And I try to see him less as an intruder, remains i want to bury, and more as a small part of me that did it's job. You did it buddy, you hanged in there, you held strong for 30 years and masked, hid, disassociated, and all those things, so I could be.

    I sometimes see him in there in the mirror, and at first I hated it, but now I just kinda mentally wave and say "hey thanks man". He's still me, an old me, a mask, but also a mental helper or even a guardian. The shit he went through, he did it to survive. He's here to protect me, he's also the self-conscious myself-looking-at-myself voice, the automatic "watch out, other men will see this as gay/effeminate/weird" sense, etc. And that can suck and be mostly anxiety, but it doesn't have to be bad, trauma responses can be healed. So if I only see it as a tool, as an advice from someone that may be a little over-protective, it's just there, sometimes it's useful.

    So I guess i'm working to neutralize the bad parts, and keep the good or neutral ones. I accept that who I pretended to be for 30 years was still me in many ways. I can't pretend it's a stranger, or that it's gone, so i'm doing my best to love myself including those parts.