US tech was like hey a foreign gov (potentially not actually that much) spying on US citizens? That’s OUR job. It must be banned

I hate this timeline

Thank you! I’ll post around a bit before doing that but I’ll get to it. May need some funds for getting out of this hell state in Feb

This is a genuine travesty.

Growing up my fave was Snuffleupagus

I’m getting my orchi on Jan. 10 and am starting the process of getting top surgery. Not sure I’ll be able to get top surgery before they ban gov coverage of GAC but at least I got the process started. If they do, I’ll get it done privately and raise the money the old fashioned way, a combination of getting on my knees and also mutual aid

Was it something I said?

The nonsense is strong with this one

Valid, I’m in an informed consent area and it still took me five months. But it sounded like OP was wanting to start, so “why wait” was intended to apply to OP’s side of things. Getting the process started etc

I started in spring of 2019, and it was so amazing. Like others have said, it was like being able to breathe for the first time, a weight had been lifted, like I felt alive after decades of being walking dead. I felt connected to myself in a way I never had been before. Literally the best decision I ever made for myself. Life is worth living now.

Mental changes happen first. I was happier and bubblier. My introversion turns out to have been partly due to gender anxieties. Your sense of smell expands, colors seem to pop more and be vibrant. Keep in mind here that you’ll be in puberty brain for the first few years. I was def acting like a teen for a while. You’ll be sleepy, you’ll be dealing with reconnecting with the full range of your emotions and that can be a rollercoaster sometimes. Your skin will get softer and fat cells will redistribute after a while. I first noticed it in my legs. I remember looking in the mirror one day momyhs into HRT and realizing hey those … those look different, rounder, more feminine. I may or may not have but definitely did do a happy squee. You can have height changes, weight changes, even my fingernails became softer.

Why wait? You can take them for a few months (three or so I think) without permanent changes to your body, so if it isn’t for you you can just stop.

They used teeks to pop his head like Scanners

Yeah I’ve seen at least two studies showing that no matter what stuff you’re into online, the algo pushes you into the right-wing and into conspiracies, which both tend to overlap. I know FB and YT shifted their algos in 2019 (and obvs X later) after RWers threw a fit that they were “biased” against conservative hate-content. Now it’s like no matter what I watch on YT I get anti trans and RW bullshit. I literally never click on them, yet they keep getting pushed

Yeah and conspiracies are literally all pervasive at this point. I think covid isolation pushed ppl online a lot more and broke a whole lot of brains

The SECRET TRUTH about JFK’s assassination THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW: Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone. Watch this before THEY TAKE IT DOWN

Thank you, I saw that earlier today but yeah I feel bad. On the other hand I’m in need of a ton of help and don’t know what to do about it

I swear the only way to get ppl to take facts seriously is going to be by presenting them as conspiracies at this point

Haha I will never forget that moment

Unfortunately I am a pools and have only 2.5 gigs a month of data. When its used up it gets shut off completely. So I’m text based until that changes, which its unlikely to. Just got declined for disability again and lots of hiring bias against trans ppl in my area

Sauce?

It’s not just Bluesky but yeah. I didn’t expect the libs to start Project 2025 themselves on a volunteer basis.

Libs love to support minorities to make themselves feel like a good person right up until there is the slightest risk of personal risk or sacrifice. Never allies, only fair weather friends

I uh have consistently read over 100 books a year on everything since I was a teen. Plus I would go to the college library and pick a section and just go down the row and read the intro and conclusion to each book so I had the gist and could select the couple best on the subject to read fully. Politics, theory, feminism, sociology, psychology, history, theology, philosophy, economics. I was homeschooled by Christian Nationalists so I’ve read a TON of that garbage (Hayek, Friedman, Sowell, von Misses, various CN Christofascists) and know their arguments from the inside. I became a leftist because I kept looking up their sources and going “hang on, I’m being lied to”

Oh I’ve played Hitman 2! I liked that one. Before Borderlands I’d been replaying all the AC games up to Rogue. Im always discovering PS3 games I missed that is old hat to everyone else lol

Yeahhh the us is awful and about to get even worse. The system was always bad, got marginally better and has been crumbling since the 80s. I’m trying to brace for impact but without resources it’s gonna be rough.