Saphire Lattice @saphire@dragon.style

For Jax, Webster and Kasi

cishets stop writing settings that do this please

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/88361446

hello! hi! I'm taking a simply ungodly amount of T gel with me on a 6 week backpacking trip. I will be backpacking where it is very hot and humid. My T is in dose-size individual packets (manufacturer-sealed). How worried should I be about heat tolerance? I will keep them out of light easily.

We're 150$ away from paying our first bill.

https://gofund.me/d96161c7

#TransCrowdFund #MutualAid

All dry cat food from AVA, Applaws and Sainsbury's is being recalled for contamination very likely to kill your cat.

Due to recent management controversies, IRC network #FreeNode has being abandoned by most of its users and staff.

The most popular replacement is #LiberaChat (https://libera.chat), a new network set up by former Freenode staff.

Libera Chat has also just set up an official Fediverse account at:

@liberachat

Give them a follow if you are escaping from Freenode 👍

here's my favorite example:

when you become medicare eligible, you don't just automatically get it unless you're already receiving SSI. you aren't contacted about it in any way either! you have to go out of your way to make sure you enroll in it!

if you forget to enroll when you first become eligible, when you finally do decide to enroll, your monthly premiums will be higher! FOREVER! you will literally be penalized for the rest of your life!

I gotta say as an autistic person— I’ve noticed having an actual -physical- mask on ironically relieves me of some of the mental stress of masking.
If I think of something funny & physically can’t stop myself from grinning, no one’s gonna give me a weird look and ask or wonder why I’ve got a huge goofy smile on because they can’t see it. I can silently rehearse conversations while moving my lips without anyone noticing.

Today I learnt that the original vision for the American freeway system was "inter-city/state roads that end at ring roads that go AROUND the city" rather than "inter-city/state roads that carve a gaping wound through the heart of the city". Damn, that'd be a different world.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/6/23/kansas-citys-blitz-how-freeway-building-blew-up-urban-wealth

Have you ever considered that your mental image of a person who has normal, healthy desires and who thinks for themselves is actually the result of a constant barrage of advertising you've been absorbing since childhood?

Isn't it annoying when you're searching on Google or Duckduckgo, & the top results are hate groups, conspiracy theories, phishing, & the same Pinterest post over and over? Or when you end up on a web page that you would rather not have touched with a ten-foot pole?

I just finished this project that helps fix that. These files have lists of more than 28,000 urls that you can paste into url blocking browser extensions. On Firefox, I recommend the extensions uBlacklist (to block them from your search results) and Whitelist-Blacklist-Blocker (to block you from accidentally visiting them).

This project is not for childproofing the web. It's more for queer adults like me who don't have time for TERFs or other nonsense. The "about" file in the folder gives sources for where much of the list came from, such as from Southern Poverty Law's list of hate groups, and Media Bias Fact Check's list of pseudoscience sites.

Enjoy your better-quality web search results!

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1qlxKvUrryyptRakVeJEU272M6atohjkH