Sasha

Uhhh the history of how Labour introduced neoliberal anarchy to Australia and then made it queer???

None in particular, I want my US friends to be able to escape persecution and be here where they're safe

My job only exists because it was cheaper to hire several thousand tech workers to replace all the oracle products in house over several years than to keep using Oracle lmao

The anarchist-faq will get you most of the way there, and the K-On manga will fill in the gaps.

It's always going to be a personal preference kind of thing. Personally I don't really care much about "passing" and I'm usually completely okay being outwardly trans, unless it's being used to harass/bully.

I had a weird experience the other day when getting an ultrasound where I told the tech I was obviously on HRT which she immediately denied. I get she was trying to be supportive, but it kinda just made me feel worse because of how awkward it was lol.

I love this stuff, I always put it on my face. It's just enough to stop feeling like my skin is as dry as paper and it's not oily, it feels more watery than anything. I switched to it years ago, use it after every shower and now my skin is so nice, presumably just because I'm not leaving my face all dried out, I doubt there's anything special about this stuff.

That said, I do also use a very gentle sorbolene body wash and hand soap because my skin was too fragile for normal soap. If I don't, I tend to get lots of sores on my fingers.

A favourite phrase of mine that comes up in so many different areas of life is: "soft on people, hard on structures." Individuals tend to be pretty good, genuine and caring people.

It's much like how an atheist might be a great person, but the new atheist movement became a festering cesspool of anti-feminist right wing bigotry. Having a religion doesn't change much really, shit people are universal.

I'm having too good of a day to argue about this so believe what you will, it's no skin off my back. But I'll say that being poor is not the same thing as being crushed by external forces, I never mentioned anything about anarchy making people rich. Anyway, wealth is literally a meaningless metric to those of us who don't want or believe in money.

The case of the Spanish collectives is a lot more nuanced than that. Regardless, acting as if being disorganised is a result of anarchism is just silly.

Like I said believe what you want but again, there's no reason anarchy is any less susceptible to external forces than anything else. It's just about structuring society and giving a shit about people.

It's my HRT birthday today, two years now and it's really sunny and warm. It's a nice day :3

I don't understand why people think this is the case, anarchy doesn't mean we let shit people do shit things. We still fight back, we still kick them out of our communities and we still protect one another. Real world anarchy has a pretty strong history of fighting back and keeping itself safe, the Zapatista still exist, the Spanish anarchists basically just lost a war and that's not exactly a problem unique to anarchism...

It's no more vulnerable than other societal structures, it's significantly less so given the way that corruption is much much hard to get away with given that individual people can't hold positions of power, only positions of responsibility which may be taken from them at any moment.

It's not it "would work if," it does work.

I love OT so much

I didn't have an experience like this growing up, my family didn't realise we were all autistic until I pointed it out earlier this year, and even then they weren't really accepting of it lol.

Imo support has to include listening to what you want, otherwise it's just controlling. Regardless of whatever support you have had, you've gained skills through your own efforts, no one can just give them to you. You deserve to feel good about that.

Handling family can suck, especially when they treat you like you've described, but things get easier when you have space away from them and live your own life. Them pushing you has helped you grow, I had to learn to push myself, which is a skill in its own right but it seems like you're already doing it. Independence is hard to achieve and I think you're doing a great job so far, keep it up.