Wow, that’s devastating. Stay safe friend, hope you heal soon concussions are awful.

About 50 terfs and nazis held an anti-trans rally down here a couple of days ago. 500-1000 of us showed up to drown them out with noise, I handed out about 150 whistles to people, someone played Chappell Roan and we had a dance party, it was intense. 200 cops blocked off the entire intersection and kept us apart by a good 50+ metres. The terfs eventually got forced to leave early, so we ended up having a march through the city and it went to absolute shit.

Arrests were made, cops tackled and beat up a trans woman and put her in the hospital, pepper sprayed a transfem journalist and abused their powers all day to forcefully search people who weren’t doing anything. As usual we were nonviolent but the media keeps calling us aggressive and violent thugs, if you watch any of the footage it’s literally all just the cops turning violent and beating up some of the most vulnerable people. We have a right to demonstrate and the state tried to prevent us from doing so, it’s absolutely disgusting and it’s only going to get worse if they pass their anti-protestor laws.

I ended up bailing earlier than I wanted to, I’ve got an appeal in less than a month and was already on the cops radar that day.

Wait what? Doctors won’t see victims? For legal reasons? What???

Are you okay, can we help in any way?

Oh haha, I didn’t really care that much about the socks but paw pads? Now we’re talking!

I went to grippy sock jail and there were no grippy socks, 3/10 wouldn’t do again. One of the nurses was trans and she was the only person there who didn’t make me feel judged or crowded, everything else was god awful.

Doing okay now, things aren’t stable yet but I’m working hard on fixing everything.

Yeah someone said this in another thread and it’s just like, completely meaningless. Just because a thing that can cause harm already exists doesn’t mean we should normalise the harm, especially when a tool like this makes it more accessible and far easier for that harm to occur.

So far as I see it that point is just another negative towards AI, it means people want to do harm, taking all of the effort out is necessarily going to worsen the issue. I’m not going to comment on what should be done about Photoshop because this isn’t a discussion about Photoshop.

AI image generation in particular is something I think should absolutely be banned completely. Giving the benefit of the doubt is okay, providing sources makes the poster a god imo.

Those tools are able to create non-consensual pornography, it can be used to create CP. It also steals from artists, plagiarises their work and enables some really problematic scams that I’ve been constantly fighting to keep out of an online safe space I maintain.

It’s important to take a stand against exploitative shit, if only to show some basic solidarity with those screwed over by it.

The person walking in two directions at once, another person just walking into a wall, those demonic eyes…

It’s always funny to watch people try to fix capitalism by doing more capitalism…

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I was part of an organising collective for a rally on TDOV and one of our messages was that visibility without protection is violence. There’s way way too much attention on us right now…

Accidentally took my E 7 hours late and went to bed crying, so that was fun. Made especially hard by my bf being in another state, but I’m excited he’s coming home today.

Everyone else is saying it, you get to choose and no one else.

I’m non-binary on feminizing hormones, so I feel like I’ve got quite a lot in common with trans women in particular. I’ve always half jokingly called myself a transfemby, I think it’s a fun term and places me exactly on the gender spectrum where I feel like I should be. Even if my expression day to day is fluid, it’s still accurate because I feel the fem things about me aren’t as permeable. (In the sense that an identity can be permeable, but it’s in theme with gender fluid heh)

Being able to choose the language to talk about your gender identity is the best, it’s a great chance for some self expression imo.

I expected 4-500 people, we got 2-3,000 3,000+.

It was the most empowering thing I’ve ever been a part of, that crowd was angry, proud and loud.

Today’s the big day, big rally for trans rights in Naarm (aka Melbourne Australia). Feeling pretty nervous tbh, never been involved in anything like this before but there’s an awesome team of people involved and I’m sure they’ll make sure it goes perfectly. Praying no neo-nazis or alt-right dicks show up.

Had an awesome time chatting with a non-binary presenter on community radio yesterday for their Trans Day of Audibility program where they only air trans voices. They had signs up saying no cis voices allowed, it was so cool.

Oh, and the trans fundraiser gig was awesome. Not only did I get to chat with the band I was excited to see, I managed to get one of their songs on the air.

What a ride this last month has been! I can’t wait to take a break lol

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Took me way too long to realise that wasn’t the standard model lagrangian, not sure if that would be better or not.

I’m an enby working a software dev job, and I have to say that the longer I’m on E the better I get. Maybe they’ve been giving me Engineer hormones…

Congrats on the bravery and the piercings, that’s huge! To me there’s nothing better than the feeling of looking in the mirror and liking the person you see.

Quite a lot has happened recently that I could talk about, publically dead named and misgendered, started to accept being autistic (and finding it to be a relative positive process so far), made a bunch of progress with my music and I made the best brownies last night.

But honestly I’m just really happy because I have a pair of overalls now and I feel cute, the rest is just noise. It’s so awesome how affirming clothing can be when you get it right.

I’ve been super busy this month doing what I can to help prepare a grassroots trans rights rally, and I’m so damn excited to go to a trans music show on Saturday. It’s almost like a big celebration that all the hardwork is behind us, and I’m going to get to see a local trans folk punk artist that I really admire. I’m extremely tired, but in a good way I think.

If I ever have a week that isn’t all over the fucking place, I think I’ll either have died or been institutionalised.

Been organising a local rally for trans rights, it’s been good meeting other queer activists and being able to put my connections to use. I’m pretty excited to see it all come together and hopefully we can announce it soon.

Still finding my dosage of ADHD meds, but noticing small improvements which has been nice. First few weeks made me feel like I was going completely insane, I completely lost control over anything I was doing and spent almost every hour of the day playing guitar, despite the pain, hunger and people who needed me. Thankfully I’m past that.

Got court in a couple of weeks, they’re forcing us to go in person for literally no reason. I’ll have to spend several hundred dollars on travel and accommodation just to be there while our amazing legal team asks for another adjournment. Stressing me out a lot and I hate feeling like a burden for the overworked lawyers.