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• Post #4406155

  Behold! $94.75 worth of groceries!

• Post #4348064

  Any time you see "New package, same great product!" marketing on something in a store, I guarantee they just shrinkflationed you hard. This package used to hold 56 pads for the same price as what now gets you 40. The individual pads are not materially different.

• Post #4309283

  I've been a skilled benchrest shooter, motorcycle racer, wilderness hiker, airplane pilot, daily driver on US roads, bicycle commuter, worked with lasers and high-voltage electronics, and probably a half dozen more similarly dangerous things. I never would have imagined that telling a bunch of people "I'm a girl actually" would be the one thing that made me nearly certain it was going to kill me.

• Post #4309282

  This is a long shot, but just in case: anyone have experience with AlloClae? It's a cosmetic filler which is very new on the market, introduced in 2024, so there's not a lot of actual accounts from actual patients out there. I'll spare you descriptions of how it's made, iykyk. My surgeon is proposing she could use it as an alternative to liposuction for an upcoming procedure, which would pretty substantially reduce some risks I have due to a clotting disorder (lipo is not a ki...

• Post #4309281

  The internet: Stupidity as a Service

• Post #4309280

  Any catgirls in the audience should give this a listen. It may be enjoyable even though it's old person music (it's me, I'm old people). https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P_n4eeQE2OY

• Post #4256831

  Just in case you were wondering how orbit was going these days... https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

• Post #4068569

  Anyone have recommendations for organizations that are supporting trans folks in the prison system in Washington or California? A coworker just mentioned they have a lead on a granting organization that's looking to get some cash out there in that space.

• Post #3976660

  Someone shared this in a memes channel, and I think you all also need to see it. CW for a mildly distressing and very funny image of a cat's tongue.

• Post #3744599

  Wait, is the "I want to get a good grade at . This is perfectly normal and ok" urge just a praise kink in disguise?

• Post #3447999

  I don't suspect a lot of the people I'm connected to here need this reminder, but just in case: "yes" is consent. Anything else: "maybe" or "umm" or "I guess" are not consent. They mean NO. "Yes" based on incomplete or inaccurate information is not informed consent, and thus not consent. "Yes" given under duress, while intoxicated, or under any kind of threat, no matter how insubstantial it may seem to you, is not consent. &q...

• Post #3334339

  Mastodon (and fedi) instance sign-up idea: Allow instances to use an arbitrary external system to qualify new account requests. The idea is, the current account application process on Mastodon is essentially unworkable, in the age of AI, and the coming age of agentic AI. It's far too easy to bury admins/mods under a barrage of almost-real-looking applications if there's any new-account moderation. This used to be the reasonable balance point between "open registration" and &qu...

• Post #2524973

  @alice this little guy is so pleasing.

• Post #2191982

  I was discussing sexuality on Discord, as one does, and an observation popped up: trans femmes seem to either be hypersexual, or asexual, with relatively few "just normal, I guess" folks. I was wondering why this might be (I have my suspicions, the big one being that people who have an experience that's further from the average have more need or desire to discuss it, simply because it's not as well-known). Anyway, it's time for another highly-scientific poll. Please only...

• Post #1909953

  I can't help feeling like that American kid who contributed 12k incorrect Scots article translations to Wikipedia was just a preview of our glorious LLM-based future.

• Post #1907358

  Hey fellow USians: tomorrow is a general election in most parts of the country. Please vote while it still means anything.

• Post #1885619

  One of the best human design elements I've ever seen in a UI is in the Loop Habit Tracker app. There's an option that's called "Extend day a few hours after midnight" in settings. What it does is shift the "it's the next day" logic to trigger at 3 am instead of midnight. So when I lay down to sleep at (usually) about 1, the habit stuff I'm recording is for the same day that's current in my head, even though the clock officially says it's tomorrow....

• Post #1778140

  Just in case you needed to know, Orly (the nail polish brand) has a line of Harry Potter colors out right now, in the year of our beleaguered goddess 2026. I strongly recommend letting them know how you feel about this with your dollars and your commentary on any websites or online surveys they might offer.

• Post #1778119

  Just in case you needed to know, OPI (the nail polish brand) has a line of Harry Potter colors out right now, in the year of our beleaguered goddess 2026. I strongly recommend letting them know how you feel about this with your dollars and your commentary on any websites or online surveys they might offer.

• Post #1649626

  I made a very silly thing.

• Post #1649625

  I had this conversation deep in a thread, but realized I need to make it a primary post as well. When I started my transition in early 2022, I had a couple weeks of massive gender euphoria, then dropped into the worst depression and anxiety I've ever experienced in my life. It lasted more than a year. I don't know why, but I can guess. I think I spent almost 50 years packing away bad feelings, and carefully ignoring them. I think I did that about a variety of things: my feelings abo...

• Post #1113549

  Ah yes, the bane of women's clothing: "high waisted" jeans that resolutely refuse to stay up where they're supposed to.

• Post #1113548

  Interesting. Went looking for a trans-as-hell license plate frame, just out of curiosity. There are a few "ally" type frames on Etsy. And almost nothing that indicates the driver is trans. It's almost like... marketing to trans people who can afford a car is... pointless? Gosh, whatever could that mean. 🙄

• Post #1113547

  I was thinking about this last night, and realized I should actually ask the question. Poll time! So, I decided a year or two ago that I was probably asexual, based on the evidence I had at the time. Since then, it's become clearer that this is the case. However, this has not done anything particularly good for me, aside from giving me information to pass to any theoretical new relationship partners. I feel worse about myself, I think because I'm no longer getting the flirty interactio...

• Post #1113546

  @caraplayingstuff Well, I suppose correlation is not causation. It could be they dropped away for other reasons that just happened to coincide with my exploring my aceness more vocally. I suspect that one of my problems may also be that I'm letting the label define me instead of the other way around, which is something I'm prone to if I'm not careful.

• Post #573275

  Gender queerdos of the world unite! (Or something) Do you feel like your gender is "I dunno, I'm just me," and not "I am a woman" or "I am a man" or "I am non-binary" (etc)? Does it bug you that there's no word for that? Let's fix that problem. What's a good word, probably a neologism, for "My gender is me?" I thought of sugender and suigender, but the first is already a person's name in some cultures, and the second has u...