I recently got a Game Boy cartridge reader. I’ve been playing around with using it to put together full color photos with the Game Boy camera. It’s really finicky, but fun when it comes out well.

When I was kid I absolutely fell in love with the game Endless Ocean for the wii. I really wanted to be a marine biologist or just do something where my job would be to spend tons of time out in the sea and diving.

I still wish I could. I live by the ocean and absolutely love fish and the sea. Getting on a boat and going out until land is super distant or out of sight is an absolutely magical experience. You really feel how big the world is. Maybe one day I can have the fund for scuba gear and do some underwater photography out there, but I doubt it.

Postal service is a bit of a slower option. It takes at most, two years of part time work to get a full time job, but that full time job can afford rent in cheaper areas and you can transfer anywhere in the country with no pay cut.

I close my eyes and do the “four corners”technique or whatever it’s called. inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, exhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, repeat. It eventually lowers your heart rate, increases CO2 in the blood and clears your thoughts. It’s much easier to sleep after doing that for like 20 mins.

Maybe. My work ramps up pretty hard during the holiday season. I rarely go during December.

I want to live in NYC so bad. I live pretty close right now and I take a trip there every month or so and I always love it there.

when you max out the number your gpu supports. I used to have 5 on my desk/wall

Yellow and lavender

My egg friend has been sending me trans instagram reels for months now. A few days ago in voice chat, they said they’re gonna talk to their therapist about possibly being trans. They then said the question had been on their mind for a while and kept them up at night. I replied “Yeah, I figured.” completely deadpan and they were stunned and the other two people in the chat burst out laughing.

I know the famous phrase “The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”, but surely the AI bubble can’t last three more years.

I was in the kiddie psych ward once when I was 12. The place was empty except for me and this girl. She sat next to me and was talking to me and touching me when I was in really a totally awful state.

After I got out of the kiddie psych ward I was mandated to go to therapy every week. In the waiting room of the place was girl who knew my name from me being called in and kept trying to talk to me and touch me meanwhile I was in no mood because those therapy sessions were awful and I dreaded them.

I’m not in Canada, but I had a similar experience. I had just gotten out of the psych ward and spent 2.5 weeks lying daily about my state and I was exhausted.

I had to go to a family crisis facility to get my prescription bridged and when I called, the person on the line asked the classic “Have you had any thoughts about harming yourself or others?” I, frustrated, said “I’m gonna be real. Why would I ever say anything but ‘no’?” He laughed a little and explained to me that there’s actually stages to suicidal ideation and that was kind of an opener to start a conversation to gauge my risk.

So my rough understanding is that suicidal thoughts or even planning aren’t necessarily grounds for an immediate grippy sock vacation. Still it is frustrating to navigate the situation and feels like an inadequate system.

I’m already homeless and I’ve got an okay job. So I either I keep living like I do or things become too expensive and I die.

I’m in the process of signing up for voice training at a local hospital speech pathology department. I’ve stalled out with self teaching. I think I’ll still want vfs after since I have a very deep voice naturally and I’d rather my involuntary sounds be pitched up as well.

How your hair is cut will affect it. If your hair is cut for your usual part, it’ll be shorter on one side and will have slightly uneven layering if you move it. Generally though, moving your part just needs some patience with training your hair or some product to hold it in place. Your hair is used to the part it has, so it’ll resist it to a degree.

I only know curly hair, but a good bit of curl gel evenly raked through my hair keeps my part clean. If your hair is straighter, you may just need to comb a bit of gel into the roots of the part to get it to stay. Supposedly creams or mousses could work too, but my hair is very thick and too strong for that. So I don’t have any experience with them for anything besides frizz management.

I don’t think I can shut up long enough to recover

So real lmao. I hate my voice more than anything else though. So vfs is on the top of my priority list.

I am in the US. I haven’t actually asked about surgery yet. I read that surgery is usually held off for like 3 or so years because they don’t want to mess with the early stages of hrt and I assumed that was just the standard. I would love to get vocal feminization surgery sooner though.

My friends call me their “wine auntie”, so I dunno where I fit here.

Cool skirt! I always like ones that accentuate the hips. Your hair looks a bit wavy, you could try a bit of curl cream or plopping to get it to curl up a bit more and tame a bit of frizz. Maybe moving your part a little more towards the center will help frame your face better too

wow you can get an SRS referral within a year of starting HRT in your country? The standard here is to wait a few years for pretty much any surgery.