Adding that note about not condeming the violence is pathetic. They could have left it as is perfectly fine but there goes Jezebel showing the side they are happy to comply with.

Yeah, estrogen does make you lose considerable muscle mass. That really, really shouldn’t be surprising. I used to be able to do overhead shoulder presses at around 40 kg without deliberately maintaining muscle mass. After 10 years of estrogen and antiandrogens, I can’t do 18 kg and that is with active training including a much more careful protein-based diet.

All your example suggests is that the 6’3" trans woman can do is… Something a 6’3" woman can do. Cisgender people aren’t discriminated against because of their natural height, their frame or their reach either, but applying that to a trans woman for something as non-competitive as yoga is all kinds of weird.

While frame doesn’t change much, it becomes much, much harder to use that frame, which becomes a considerable disadvantage. Muscle mass of trans women is less than cis women, our T levels (if properly suppressed) are drastically lower than that of cis women.

Or, to be as pithy as your final comment. Bones and the muscoskeletal system have mass, WTF?

(I know this because it strikes me as neat - swamp witch vibes)

Mildew is clearly a trans femme non-binary name though

Trans guys please stop bullying me because of your taste in names 😭

Ahhh, I knew I was forgetting the third in the trinity of trans guy names

But, if you feel the need to make up little conspiracies about everyone being hasbara, I’ll wish you well and move on with my day.

Just stating how it is. There is so much, rightful, support for Palestine here and it isn’t being suppressed.

Does the UK and Europe suppress protests? Absolutely. Look at what has happened with climate focused organisations. Look at what has happened with trans rights.

But, thankfully, that isn’t happening for Palestinian causes and even the explicitly anti-Israel protests against council use of Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering go ahead without issue.

Not sure how talking about local and country-wide support for Palestine, and against the zionist genocide enacted by Israel, makes me supportive of Israel but everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I would love to know a trans masc called Steve. I do know multiple Haydn and Rylan though! Most of the trans femmes I know either pick a perfectly fine normal name or they are a flower. So many Rose.

Yeah, Israel is shit, but unless you have a video for each of these protests being shut down in this way, that just isn’t the norm. Plenty of pro-Palestine protests and meetings here; outside Barclays, protesting specific businesses, sharing information in our most popular streets for tourism and shopping, musical protests at art galleries. Plenty going on, never even seen a police presence at these.

Not to say it isn’t happening, but trying to paint Europe as some pro-Zionist totality is weird.

Mildred is a fucking great name. Airyn is a bit rougher, but in general I feel that us trans femmes have absolutely nothing on trans mascs who really do go wild with their names or end up as one of the 75% of trans guys called Ryland, or a variation thereof.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

“No, you have free speech as well, but it is also has its limits.”

Which is true. A lot of Europe learnt from World War II that certain types of speech should not be tolerated. In the rest of the article there are examples given - neo-Nazis for one. I am not particularly keen on tolerating the freedom of speech of Nazis or others that call for genocide and killing.

Still not happened to me yet, and that is in the UK which has the far more authoritarian Policing Bill looming over us. That doesn’t make as interesting a soundbite though.

Christ, this is such a stupid take. You’d think that someone who was around on the fediverse would have an inkling about just how many instances are based in the EU and Germany in particular.

Just because a country or userbase wants a degree of moderation and accountability, and doesn’t tolerate hate speech, doesn’t mean that views are censored. Basic Popperism stuff right there.

I saw that analysis! I’m currently just before the level 95 dungeon and while there are quite a few “speak with Wuk Lamat” quest endings so far, I’m not feeling overwhelmed by it in the slightest. So far, I’m quite enjoying DT but I do think there is a good degree of novelty since it’s not obviously an expansion that hinges massively on the Ascians / Ancients and that’s pretty nice. I do strongly think that is why I enjoyed post-EW and quite liked Zero despite an obviously one dimensional character carried by an angsty hat tilt.

I’m also not at all bothered by Wuk Lamat in terms of character or voice acting. From the outrage online I was anticipating something truly awful and that’s not been the case for me.

Maybe it will all come tumbling down soon though. I’m yet to hit the pacing issues and the equivalent of “Raktika / Trolley / Giant Talos” or “let’s kill all momentum and visit Elpis and by the way this type of time travel is entirely different from what we established previously yay”.

I really do hope the final zone of DT is good though because all the prior ones have been really, really lacklustre imo. I really, really wanted to like Ultima Thule due to the setting and the amazing music but the quest for inspecting the malfunctioning Omnicron really was the signpost that it was only going to get worse…

I have been using Tuta since the start of the year when I decided it was time to remove myself from Big Tech as much as I can. Really highly recommend them!

Fun so far! More than the usual 8 badges and with some replacement fakemons and S/V pokemon too. This hasn’t been integrated brilliantly so there are odd cries and Pokedex entries that are messy (might also be the patcher I used?) but it’s fun enough and I like the focus on just having a big world to explore instead of difficulty modes and such.

I enjoyed Pokémon Unbound and I’m working through Golden Glazed at the moment which isn’t as polished and has some odd issues but is good fun.