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Weekly Queer Thread (8/18/23)
  • I will now aim to find a legitimate use for the term penetralium in everyday parlance

  • Demerara Rebellion (1823) - New General Megathread for the 18th of August 2023
  • Did you really "carefully review" my resume if you rejected me less then 30 minutes after my application

  • Weekly Queer Thread (8/18/23)
  • Thinking about asking my mom directly to use they/them pronouns for me. She used them for a little bit after I told her about my gender cornfusion but she stopped doing it after a while. I don't feel ready to use she/her in person (online it's easier because it's not connected to my physical representation) but this would at least cut out the discomfort of being called "he" all the time

    also working up the courage to join a local-ish queer discord. I just don't wanna join and find out it's like 5 random people and they're all libs

  • Weekly Queer Thread (8/18/23)
  • "Negative capability do be pretty poggers"

    • John Keats, 1817
  • Ruth First - New General Megathread for the 17th of August 2023
  • "sophisticated" people really think they're all that, when they go and eat something called "charred cootery"!!Disgusting

  • Marikana Massacre - New General Megathread for the 16th of August 2023
  • My record is about a month and a half. My dad has had some rejections come in 6-8 months after applying with complete radio silence in between

  • Marikana Massacre - New General Megathread for the 16th of August 2023
  • Employers should be legally mandated to reply to job applications for a listing in a timely manner or face heavy penalties.

    Furthermore, they should be barred from reposting a listing unless they have replied to all previous applicants.

    Will be opening donations for my constitutionally impossible 2024 presidential run shortly 😎

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 14th to August 20th, 2023 - America's War On Pipelines
  • ATTENTION:

    This post is now in planet-hillary mode. You may planet-hillary every planet-hillary seconds.

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • I'm so fucking over asking for the world to meet me halfway. I don't even want to be here any more but I can't do anything about that because of the pain it would cause my family so I'm stuck. I hate having to claw every semblance of stability from the cold rock of a fucked up world that will only get worse

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • Is CompTIA A+ still the go-to certification for help desk jobs?

  • The Great London dock strike, 1889 - New General Megathread for the 14th of August 2023
  • Laying in bed going over all the dark thoughts I'll be telling my therapist tomorrow (◕ᴗ◕✿)

  • Luigi Galleani - New General Megathread for the 12th of August 2023
  • "sink a ship on the open oceans"?

  • Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - New General Megathread for the 11th of August 2023
  • Well one in the hand is worth two in the bush, as they say

  • The Great Pueblo Revolt - New General Megathread for the 10th of August 2023
  • Current mood: would like to be swaddled like a baby and told everything will be alright

  • The Great Pueblo Revolt - New General Megathread for the 10th of August 2023
  • Dad got laid off again. Now 4 out of 5 of my immediate family are jobless. Don't even know what to say

  • [CW: Brainworms] Questioning my gender has somehow made me transphobic in the more literal sense

    I've been questioning for roughly half a year now, and haven't done much IRL about it besides tell some family (which went... ehh) and look around for therapists (which I now have to redo since I've since switched insurance).

    I also have a :storefront: alt subbed to a bunch of trans subs that I go into occasionally. I end up browsing very analytically, looking at people's features. I really like seeing pictures of good-looking and/or passing trans girls (side note: being a "girl" sounds cool but being a "woman" sounds terrifying. Does that mean anything?) because it makes me feel like I could plausibly achieve something like similar, like I'm not hopeless. When I see trans girls who don't pass, though, it just makes me feel awful, almost disgusted. I can't help but imagine myself failing to transition and being stuck in some awkward in-between. I never had this reaction before I started actively questioning.

    Logically I know that's silly—every transition is different, looks aren't everything, and so forth, but knowing that can't change my gut reaction, and having that reaction in the first place makes me feel like an asshole, so I'm doubly screwed up when it happens.

    I know this is something I'll probably have to work out in therapy but wondering if anyone's gone through something similar?

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    RION RION [she/her] @hexbear.net
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