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Cake day: November 1st, 2023

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  • Thats fucked, I’m gonna look for that story. I’ve been seeing lots of stuff (even locally in a relatively progressive state) about trans folks’ documents being confiscated and/or destroyed when they try to leave or get a new or updated passport or sometimes other docs iirc. Please don’t come here, to anyone thinking about it. Period. Unless you’re planning to stay a while and help us out, I don’t recommend it but we will be needing all the help we can get :(









  • I feel like pointing out some info that was not known to me at the time it would’ve really been helpful and not knowing it almost lead to my death by drowning as a child: when trying to swim, (some?) shoes can act like “anti-flippers” by increasing the difficulty of moving your feet as quickly and staying afloat past what one might usually be used to and so swimming is really hard. I think it’s because water is pulling against the bottom of the shoe, sort of, at least that’s how it felt. I was like 5-10 yo in a lake and almost drowned before I got to the dock I was swimming to. Another problem was that no one noticed I had gone under and was having trouble getting air. Overall it was traumatic and really probably preventable in several ways, including by not wearing shoes while trying to swim in water, which was my original point.

    Edit: although a life jacket would’ve fixed it too




  • I wonder if there is a way to do this on a degoogled graphene OS installed pixel phone.

    BTW, I’m looking for a source of a cheap pixel 6 or newer phone for privacy purposes (to install graphene OS on), I’m a disabled activist on a fixed income so it’s hard to afford stuff like that most of the time but at the same time it’s becoming more and more important to take measures like that for privacy, if anyone is interested in a trade or otherwise has a good idea for how I can get one, please let me know. Located in Midwestern US