So when I feel particularly dysphoric, nervous or ashamed, or like I'm not worthy of any of it, I tell myself this is what she deserved.

I would protect and reassure any trans girl in her position, so I do. And since she's me, I hear it too.

She wanted to be happy, to have friends, and make stories. She wanted to be pretty and even wanted to be an adorable gay disaster, though she'd have hated you for saying so.

I don't think I killed little Ohmic, but I do try to separate her in my mind. Not because I feel like I'm not her, but because it makes it easier to comfort her.

She's been through a lot and some days, all that keeps me together is remembering that I'm doing all of it for her.

Looking back, there are just too many things she wasn't able to recognize. Too many fantasies about herself as a girl, too much shame about her body, and too many fixations on queer women.

I think little Ohmic was always a girl, even if she didn't know it.

For a while after I accepted I was trans, I thought my old self wasn't. That if you hooked my 12 y/o self up to The Gender Machine (tm), little Ohmic would be cis. My transness had just been acquired at some point as I grew and changed.

Now, I think that's valid, but I don't think it's me anymore.

A 2nd person short story about a one-handed man awkwardly negging a woman for relying on both of her hands.

Call it "Secondhand Embarrassment".

Assuming all fanfiction is written poorly really just shows you've never been caught in the chokehold of a 150k slowburn that changed the course of your life at 2:40am written by someone whose username has 4 Zs in it and they only wrote one fic and then vanished like an ethereal legend.

And it's also very notable to me that his standard of "until they stop drugs and illegal immigration" gives him large outs via pointing at symbolic gestures.

Or he could just say they have and move on, he's hardly beholden to reality.

For example, while he's less beholden to business interests in his second term, he's far from immune, and they will fucking riot over these tariff plans.

I just want to point out that what Trump says he will do is at best an unreliable predictor of his behavior.

He cares enough about tariffs that he'll probably do *something* with them, but the actual countries and percentages? All up in the air, regardless of what he says.

Interesting. Here are my favorites, though Fennikin and Frogadier are neck and neck.

And so that narrative of authoritarian elitists grows over time, referenced and reinforced whenever reality is inconvenient and someone is using science to prove it.

But then you run into a problem, because scientists are studying reality, and most people aren't willing to fully reject the concept of empiricism. So to explain why the scientists aren't recording reality properly, they have to say that scientists are so authoritarian as to ignore the truth.

I think it's entirely a narrative thing. People don't like "elitists" telling them what to do, regardless of how reasonable it is. So if there's ever a case where scientists are advising something that people don't want to do, a percentage of them will latch onto the anti-elitist narrative.

I think, and I wish there was a way to make this sound nicer, most people don’t have belief systems. They have individual beliefs but there’s no real effort to make them gel nor any real concern about the contradictions.

Sorry if turns out you're an actual person, but if someone follows me and their entire feed is just 4 posts with no replies, I'm assuming that's a bot lol.

I've blocked and reported like 5 today alone.

Like clockwork

has included some monstrous stuff throughout history. Nothing stops them from saying something blatantly unconstitutional is actually fine, because they don't have to give up power to do that. They still retain the right to rule on the subject in future.

the Constitution? Only in a very limited capacity, if ever. The Constitution is where the SCOTUS's power comes from and the court almost never disempowers itself. They protect their own power, like all institutions do.

That being said, limited capacity...

With limited expertise: Schedule F and military deployment are a given. Schedule F is an admin rule and military deployment is allowed for "civil unrest" under the Insurrection Act.

Funding clawback is entirely unprecedented, so idk.

But outright revoking...

I imagine it's the faction of mostly Resistance types who are primarily anti-trump and read the Cheney endorsement as a bipartisan unity against Trumpism.

🧵🧵 While everyone was understandably focused on national politics, something happened in Texas this week that has received far less attention than it deserves, given its potential consequences. And I'd guess even very plugged-in folks dont realize the full scope.

Let me explain (at length):

Can’t stress enough if you plan to attend a protests, turn your phone off miles from the site & don’t turn it back on until you’re miles away. Go ahead and buy a faraday bag. It’s not crazy.

These people constantly reveal how hollow their values are. "It can't be evil if half of a population agrees with it" is incoherent if you actually believe in things.

It's a moral association argument, I think. People treat reading as a thing intellectuals do while other forms of media are lesser, even when talking about entertainment reading. So this is an attempt to include audiobooks in the Good Media Consumption category.

I really worry about lingering associations with AOC. Her style is exactly right to capture these kinds of people, but the right has spent years painting her specifically as a lunatic to these sorts of voters. There's a real chance everything she says fails in comparison to that stigma.

@ohmicimp.bsky.social profile on Skyzoo.blue The Curious Cat Conversationalist Poking your whiskers into every interesting conversation you find. Your strength lies in pure dialogue, weaving words into meaningful exchanges.

I always enjoyed these things. Apparently I am a fellow cat. Though if the bar is having more replies than posts, I imagine this system will produce quite a lot of cats.

Same. It was not helped by the fact that they usually are in games! Women in general are allowed far more diversity in appearance and presentation, and that's reflected in character customization.

brianna wu mentions that she was the first student to transition at ole miss

brianna wu is such a serial fucking liar

she's not the first student to transition at ole miss because she didn't transition at ole miss!!! she dropped out in 2001 and didn't transition until 2004