Sasha [They/Them]

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

No this doesn’t sound normal. Do you have any other symptoms, including things you might think are normal but that other people your age don’t deal with, joint pain or fatigue for example?

I thought I was just someone with the knees of an 80 year old, but then I got diagnosed with fibromyalgia, which is almost certainly a misdiagnosis of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Severe varicose veins at a young age is a known symptom of vascular EDS, not something you want to take lightly, I’d suggest trying to rule it out if you do have other symptoms as it’s life threatening.

I have no reason to diagnose you, so don’t take my suggestion of EDS that way. It’s just worth taking things seriously if your quality of life is being impacted because it might save you a lot of pain in the future. Hence be on the lookout for other problems and consider that they may be related. You should also be careful of doctors dismissing your symptoms as it’s extremely common for illnesses like this to be dismissed as “all in your head” especially if you’re a woman.

Regardless of other symptoms, I’d still suggest you take it seriously and be sure your doctor is doing the same and not just declaring you healthy for no obvious reason.

I think they were just being careful not to erase or assume your personal experiences, at least that’s how I’m used to that language being used. It would really come down to the context though.

If they didn’t stop to actually ask, I wouldn’t think that’s a question in any case.

I regret my snake bites, only because I want a slightly different piercing in the same place instead lol

Having jewellery in your mouth gets annoying when you can’t stop unconsciously messing with it. I’ve swallowed so many of them at this point…

Fuck law abiding activism, stonewall was a riot and the law will not make us silent.

I’m no hacktivist but I’m a pretty experienced back end dev/sre and an activist. I won’t tell your secrets if you wanted to run your idea past someone or need advice.

It would be easier and faster to just train it on the stuff you want it to output. There are hundreds of billions of weights in models like gpt, and no one really knows what any individual one does.

I’m probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but I went from considering suicide after I was diagnosed with an incurable disability that turned my life into an existence of pain, with next to no medical support or advice beyond “do yoga about it” to doing suprisingly well in life. I was also depressed before all of that, a shitty person and still trying to escape a really awful person in my life.

I turned it around gradually, but the two biggest things were getting the right meds (and being absurdly lucky to be one of the rare few who respond to it at all) and starting with a psychologist. Years of dealing with trauma and learning to accept and change the bad parts of myself eventually led to reading leftist theory, becoming an anarchist and meeting some incredible people. At some point in that journey I got on HRT and that did wonders for the worst of my depression too.

I’m at a point where I don’t think I resemble the person I was two or three years ago one bit. I used to deal with all the bad shit going on in the world by just trying to ignore it and only caring about myself and those close to me, but actively trying to improve the world is infinitely better.

Trans inclusive radical misogyny

Personally I don’t, I can see someone not hating that kind of humour as much as me thinking it’s funny, in which case I guess it would be.

Don’t even get me started on how god awful finder is, windows 3.1 was nicer to use, macOS is garbage painted silver

As a friend of mine once said people who join to change the system either end up dropping out, or compromised. The only way to fix the police is to not have police

HAH NONE

It used to be a couple dozen, but I cleaned it up a couple of months back and somehow haven’t had any get stuck since

I don’t know I just downloaded this to shitpoat

I can’t explain this

It’s embarrassing how often I confuse Austria for Australia when reading these articles…

Honestly most of this album, but Bicycle Spokes in particular.

Great movie btw

Even the community kitchen I use has one of these…

Sometimes I just eat the cereal without milk

I’m going to laugh so hard if Trump has an “apparent suicide” and at least one cop says it’s not suspicious, if they can do it to whistleblowers who risk their profits, surely this qualifies?

Not saying it’s likely, just that I absolutely will laugh, probably for days.

My water doesn’t really need filtering, but I dated someone who didn’t want to take the risk (and for a really good reason) we just used a brita branded one.

I don’t want him prosecuted, but not because I think killing people is good or forgivable (though it couldn’t really happen to a better person) but because the criminal justice system is awful, especially in the US.

If the death penalty is on the table, then I don’t think I need to explain why that’s bad, but I fundamentally disagree with imprisonment. I’m no expert, but there are better ways to handle harm and justice, and I feel the current system is unjustifiably evil in it’s treatment of convicts.

I should probably point out that I’m not making a judgement about what he’s done. More that depending on the context and why he’s done this, there will need to be a different more nuanced response than the judicial system is capable of.