jamrolls.jiv.us
I like making things and finding stories. I feel it's important to understand that things are just complicated sometimes. 毎日の事には美がある。
Cat mom. Quad skates! 地衣類と変形菌が大好き！💖 Trans, despite everything.
On hiatus while moving.
She/her. (アメリカ) AM 日本語、PM English
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Cars, like bikes before them, give us access to more opportunities, especially in cities where enough people gather for rarer interests to coincide and coalesce. Effective mass transit can and should handle many trips, and yet many people will still find uses for a personal car.
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Livable / walkable communities are absolutely a necessary antidote to car-centric living, and yet what @werner58.bsky.social will still be true.
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I love your cats so much! Their ears go on forever and ever!
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「… え？」 is so classic.
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I’m sorry to hear you are still feeling so isolated. If you ever want to like, go to a con or something together, I’d love to do that once my life settles down post-move and surgery.
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Teach a man to become a fish, and he will taste great with lemon. 😋
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Making myself a schedule of fun things I like to do in order to stop staring at my phone or the ceiling while dissociating. This is a normal thing people do, surely.
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Ahh the little pawprint scrollbars! 😍
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Simply documenting the compex reality of the world is kinda the whole thing a museum is all about. It’s not the museum’s fault it became a political hot button topic!
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There are lots of folks with vaginas out there!
- cis women, of course
- trans men pre op
- trans women post op
- intersex folks
Wouldn’t it make sense for a *museum of vaginas* to cover all of these? Even if the latter categories are in a brief little “Bet you didn’t know … “ panel or something.
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I understand you have had experiences here that make this feel strictly political—but I have a question. Setting the politica of it aside…
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Balancing that—I think that tendency is gradually receding. Life is still brutal, but so much less in so many ways than it was a thousand, a hundred, even fifty years ago. I think we are slowly figuring out how to live better. I wish I could to see where we go, but my life will see only this.
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USA is the tyrant of the moment simply becasue we are big enough and stronrg enough to do so. Sufficient evil will soon end that tyranny, and you can already see the response forming. But evil will be back, any time people have big sticks and feel scared.
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I’d like to see that claim and raise you one “humans end up doing at least some evil things to each other literally every time there is enough power concentrated for it to happen.” It never goes away.
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And like not even that much money! But with the promise of more if she can turn it into a regular grift I guess.
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(I say this even as a middle-aged woman of roller derby experience whose knees click very audibly every time I get up.)
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Meanwhile, I would pay to have one of these installed in my house if I could. What could be more natural than squatting? And how better to keep a base level of physical capability than to have to do it multiple times every day?
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Whichever way you take it, a “sex” field, by itself, is not sufficient, even for cis people. But, patient notes can fill that gap intelligently.
Clarifying “birth sex” and asking for gender identity purports to solve the problem but actually makes thing worse by ignoring our complicated realities.
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But it could just as easily be the other way. Maybe I will be forced to reverse my legal sex change, and then they will need an M there instead. In which case people will incorrectly assume that my breasts are implants, and that my blood work should be submitted for male reference ranges.
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I have been learning the hard way when talking with staff in clinics that despite its label, they usually need an F in that field for me, because they use it for insurance submissions and female is my legal sex. Either way I make a point to talk to my doctor about transition specifics.
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If you ask only for gender and sex assigned at birth, as is becoming common, my experience is that it leads only to confusion. Too many systems treat their one “sex” field as legal sex, organ expectations, determinant for screening needs, and even social sex, even if they have a field for gender.
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This framework is more useful for cis people also. I have a cousin who due to a condition had no natural puberty. It’s medically relevant that they have only had normal hormone levels for the last 5 years of their adult life. It is medically relevant to know if someone currently has a uterus, etc.
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Rather than this framing, does the following make sense to you?
1. Gender
2. Legal sex
3. Hormonal sex, incl. duration of treatment if any
4. Body inventory
If you just have assigned sex and gender, you may make a lot of incorrect assumptions. There are many ways and stages of transition.
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I feel like this would certainly have been the theme for Lode Runner, if color had broadly existed on Macintosh at the time that that game came out.
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Parents: Kids spend too much time on the phone. In my day, we went outside and didn't come home until the streetlights came on!
Also parents:
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It’s a trip realizing that I have only ever lived in the two dark and stripey states on that map. I wonder how different things will be, if at all, once I’m in Oregon.
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Somehow this seems right uo your alley
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Ooh, I love the tattoos on her shoulders/ arms! The pow block and guardian mask are deep cuts.
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Love the timing of this one. 😄
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Not the sort of thing one has much choice over, really.
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@whitewoof.bsky.social sorry to hijack your comment to basically tell other people a story illustrating how this kind of thing would help. If you wanna share (dm?) which manufacturers of non-prescription needles have worked well for you I’m all ears and would love to be more self-sufficent here.
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That’s why I think this is such a valuable effort. A trans-focused harm reduction project is going to know and stock the right equipment. The people who use them may not have the capacity—financial, mental, having a permanent address, etc.—to figure out what they need and get it on their own.
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Right after the bad injection, I briefly but seriously considered trying to disinfect and reuse some discarded single-use needles rather than use the shitty/scary ones again.
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It was a whole panic attack situation, but it got enough hormones in me that I had the mental capacity that week to call around and find a clinic that would work with me and had stock.
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So, I totally looked at that! I was worried about the quality of needles I was able to find, and reviews on them suggested that worry was well-founded.
I tried going through my pharmacy instead, got the right gauges but wrong types, destroyed the seal on one of my vials and were super hard to use.
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At least one day every two weeks. 🤪