Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]

I don’t have any exact figures to give you but I have discovered that taking fries out and letting them rest for a couple minutes before putting them back in for a little while definitely crisped them up.

Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, they are libertarians after all.

Late to the party with this thread but whatever.

A wide range of emotions this week but I think I’m back to feeling normal, if not motivated. The night of the election there were a lot of trans people who look up to me coming to me for consolation I couldn’t give and questions I couldn’t answer. I recognize that there wasn’t really much I could have done to prevent this outcome but I still feel like I stood there and did nothing. I’m trying to network and see what kind of IRL organizing and activism I can do. I will say that the dissilusionment I have seen in my lib friends has been very good and I have been having conversations to nudge them towards more radical left thought.

Beyond that my experiment with vegetarianism has reignited my love of cooking all over again, the weather has been really nice, and I’m in this era of my life where I have never felt so very myself.

I hope you all have a beautiful day, be well <3

Dawg, is this REALLY the most constructive thing you could be doing with your precious, finite lifespan right now?

I partially disagree. There are creative works that are being made today that are just as thoughtful, inspiring, aesthetically pleasing and engaging as the ones made in yesteryears. Our view of the art of the past is warped by the tendency for the good to be preserved and passed on while the bad is cast aside. However, in the past 30 years or so media corporations have gotten marketability down to a science in the name of creating safe investments, not stimulating art. That approach creates highly sucessful, super visible, and entirely bland slop like the Marvel movies and Call of Dutys of the world. Its not that its all worse, its just that the great stuff is lower profile. In my opinion the advent of high-bandwidth internet has partially counteracted this by making global distribution acessable to the everyman.

Damn, and I nixed that because I didn’t want to get called Ellen lmao… thank you for your rates!

Zephyr

Rio

Gwendolyn

Eleanor

I like to think that my runners-up were strong choices but I await your judgement. (This isnt self doxing… right?)

Very haunting at times too, theres this one scene that lingered in my head for weeks. Fantastic movie, highly reccomended.

“Wash”

Was this machine translated from spanish?

as much as i would like to be the cute trans librarian there also needs to be a strong agricultural workforce in order to make shit work so I guess Ill work the fields, ill bring my copy of Four Season Harvest though! it could be really cool!

If I had my way every domicile in human history would have one of these and a pair of decks.

It was pretty bad and handled the subject matter extremely poorly. I hated it a lot.

The premise is strong, a summer camp lasher flick but the camp is for “conversion therapy”. However it manages to be transphobic, homophobic, and enbyphobic even outside of the scenes of adults abusing queer children. Theres a lot of that “oh theyre queerphobic but actually theyre secretly gay haha gotcha!” bullshit. Theres this femboy guy who plays this femme fatale role, iirc he was one of the camp’s “success stories” and he really didnt deserve to get got IMO. At the end the murderer turns out be a victim of the camp from a couple decades back and the teenage protagonist lectures this mindfucked middle aged lesbian about how revenge is wrong and that, if you think about it she’s worse than the child abusers (and occasionally murderers) that she killed… because reasons?

It was cool that the protag was a transmasc nonbinary person, you don’t get to see that kind of representation very often. Too bad they are an incredibly boring character. I think this movie was made for straight liberals to watch and go “look at those bad people! Good thing Im not like them!” Meanwhile some of these scenes will personally resonate with a queer audience in ways that are uncomfortable at best and triggering at worst. The thing is it’s very competently made and at no point does it even approach “so bad its good” territory.

Did anyone ever get a 100 that way?

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no ayylmao ever misgendered me so they’re in the clear as far as I care

There’s some evidence to suggest that cis women have greater color perception than cis men do. You are not the only transfem that has attested to this and you won’t be the last either, it happened to me too. There are anecdotes about the reverse happening with people on FTM HRT, so there may be something to it. Too bad there’s no way to quantify the change unless one were to have already taken some visual acuity test with a color component pre-HRT.

Fucking nightmare system. Yeah let’s just not have a serious intervention at the plant that produces toxic chemicals that produce fumes when combined with water. Lets just fucking let this keep contaminating the environment where all these people live out their lives, yeah that’s great, no way to prevent this you know? Totally necessary too, 100%.

Chemical fires are some seriously scary shit, it looks like there aren’t any immediate fatalities but that whole community now has an elevated cancer risk.

Trump’s mental health wanes to the point that he has a total breakdown, quits the race, and the ticket becomes Vance/some intern that he picked in a panic the night of Trump’s resignation.

The physical books can be had on secondhand bookstores for significantly less, albeit they’re still sold for more than they aught to be, usually. Thriftbooks is an online reseller that has them for around $25 USD but local thrift stores and library book sales have them sometimes and will sell them for next to nothing.

There are some inexpensive/free programs/websites that exist to automate and simplify basically everything in the game. IME the only advantages the manuals have over the apps is that the manuals convey the bigger picture of how the game works.