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.

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 got this in January, and it’s been my mantra too. “Keep on loving, keep on fighting” reminds me why I push through all the bad stuff in my head and the world at large.

Everyone’s already given great advice, being a person comes before being trans is the most important imo. I also think it’s worth considering how far along this character is in their transition, be that the physical, social, internal/mental etc. and how that interacts with the rest of their personal development.

The important thing is that zooming out, many of the challenges we face aren’t necessarily trans things: we all want to be liked, to be happy, to be able to express our genuine selves etc. For those of us who are trans, achieving those things might look different and come about in a different way, but it’s still a classic story of self discovery with the same goal of becoming a complete person. As long as their self actualisation is wholistic you’ll be okay.

I deleted a big ramble, but the important part is that it’s fantastic to explore their character arc from a trans perspective, but the arc itself should go beyond being transgender, real people have huge and complex worlds. Ultimately we’re all just people trying to get through life and gender isn’t a story on it’s own, but it is a part of every person.

If an example helps, becoming myself has been equal parts transitioning, finding my true community through activism and discovering the things I want to spend my whole life doing like making music and feeding people. All of those things are deeply connected: transitioning gave my licence to explore being outwardly punk, activism gave me the space to stop living as someone I wasn’t and my love of music changed the way I see the world so much that it stomped out my internalised transphobia, made me an objectively better person, and gave me a deeper and more solid connection to my new community, to my home. It’s all caught up in my being trans, but it could easily mirror a cis person’s story, even much of the dramatic external change.

I’d definitely get at least a couple of transpeople to bounce ideas of or to proof read your drafts for potentially harmful stereotypes and stuff, it’s a learning process but worth it. Including well written trans people in your work is valuable and I highly encourage it, inclusion can mean a lot to people and you’ve no idea who you might end up helping.

You can also be the “good at maths, bad at maths” kind

Wide angle lense go brrrrr

I’ve never played PaRappa or Lammy, but I love Milkcan’s one album so damn much, Millenium Girl has never failed to cheer me up, even on my worst days.

I’m not growing much, but I’ve recently gotten unclockable’s bra buds and I absolutely love them. Took a bit to find a bra they worked well with, but they make a pretty big difference

Oh wow you just described exactly the same experience as me lol. Maybe it is an enby thing

Yeah someone said this in another thread and it’s just like, completely meaningless. Just because a thing that can cause harm already exists doesn’t mean we should normalise the harm, especially when a tool like this makes it more accessible and far easier for that harm to occur.

So far as I see it that point is just another negative towards AI, it means people want to do harm, taking all of the effort out is necessarily going to worsen the issue. I’m not going to comment on what should be done about Photoshop because this isn’t a discussion about Photoshop.

AI image generation in particular is something I think should absolutely be banned completely. Giving the benefit of the doubt is okay, providing sources makes the poster a god imo.

Those tools are able to create non-consensual pornography, it can be used to create CP. It also steals from artists, plagiarises their work and enables some really problematic scams that I’ve been constantly fighting to keep out of an online safe space I maintain.

It’s important to take a stand against exploitative shit, if only to show some basic solidarity with those screwed over by it.

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Took me way too long to realise that wasn’t the standard model lagrangian, not sure if that would be better or not.

I’m an enby working a software dev job, and I have to say that the longer I’m on E the better I get. Maybe they’ve been giving me Engineer hormones…

I’m realising now that my journey to becoming a radical leftist did in fact start with me getting a speedrun world record.

In my house the volume needs to be a nonsquare coprime to 10

We’re both at the same time