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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • Honestly, I’m surprised they’re running this, at all, considering I assumed it was solely a means to divide Queer people and funnel them to vote against their issues.

    I first noticed it’s advertisements on Twitter last year (maybe 2023? I can’t quite remember) and it signaling to right-wing dog-whistles and ideas was immediately obvious (to me); it felt like the type of stuff Peter Thiel would believe earnestly. Present itself as innovative explorers of new ideas and the real rebels (because the left is the group that’s the real authoritarians~ That type of nauseating BS).

    I just assumed it was purposeful, meant to pipeline Queer people to those ideas and peel off support for actual progress (at the time, I probably would’ve assumed to help with the 2024 election).

    Not sure what its purpose is, now; maybe speak to the harm the right always causes (but can’t be ignored, now) to keep its readership and hopefully influence the useful idiots (in the future) to keep supporting those who wish to obliterate them.




  • Weird; I mean, I know it’s anicdotal but I’m 5’6" and I’ve never had anyone so much as even mention my height (maybe when around other men when I was younger once or twice but the bulk of my friends have always been more women such that I don’t truly remember).

    I guess it doesn’t really contribute to the thread but I was just genuinely surprised at such a difference of experience.

    But people who limit their choices to strict deterministic traits tend to completely skip right over awesome people, and then they wonder why they’re partners are so terrible.

    True as Hell, though.



  • Have you tried biking? I like it because it’s so easy to zone out with (and easier on the knees than running).

    You can buy a cheap standing bike and watch shows or read books; and, if you go outside to bike, you get the benefit of the sun and trees. If they have rentable electric bikes, those can make the exertion part easier (and, if it feels like cheating, it’s still more exercise than you’d’ve otherwise been getting; plus studies have shown that some people, with electric bikes, ride for longer periods than those who don’t because they’re having so much fun).




  • This.

    I remember, when Unity first came out and Gnome was considering mockups for Gnome 3, so many people complaining and me thinking that, yeah, maybe these weren’t perfect but they so clearly contained improvements over Gnome 2.

    It was an exciting time to be joining Linux because there seemed to be real desire to experiment with new work flows and UI ideas that improved the standard computing experience.

    I feel like time’s kind of borne out my feelings, there.