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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1h

Why Must You Tell Me This. Butt Out Of My Business. I Am Bearer of the Sacred Flashlight of Galadriel

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 10h

"your flashlight is on" is the "your shoelaces are untied" of the digital age

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 1h

ummm yeah i suppose i have observed over and over, to myself and therapists and 988, that life gets harder toward the en of the day and sleep can be an amazing reset

(e.g. last night i went to bed firmly convinced i want to die, so far today i’m not happy but i am unwilling to give up)

Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 1h

If night time is a trigger for you-- as it is for me, & lots of other trauma survivors-- have a strategy for how to handle what comes up at night. Do not try to just vibe your way through.

Your "parts" & inner child need more from us as the sun goes down.

Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 1h

also, sounds like more “spiro is bad” evidence :)

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Ada Cheung @adacheung.bsky.social · 1h

A world-first 🌈🧬 Published today in Nature Medicine: gender-affirming hormone therapy changes the body’s proteins, aligning biology with gender identity.
Led by @unimelb, @MCRI_for_kids & @Austin_Health — a huge step for #TransHealth research.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plasma proteome adaptations during feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy - Nature Medicine

Researchers analyzed 5,279 plasma proteins in 40 people undergoing feminizing gender-affirming hormone therapy over 6 months, revealing significant changes in 299 proteins. Such changes could have…

www.nature.com

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 1h

i have also read i.m. in glutes with a long needle can be significantly slower than in quads or deltoid, but i am not ready to risk changing any time soon after finally resolving my hormone rollercoaster

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 1h

yes yes this, absolutely

i am not sure about emotional effects but purely from blood tests i discovered that i absorb i.m. shots in my quads waaaaaay too fast (on day 5 my levels had dropped to “too low to measure”);

now i inject 4 days but subq in belly and blood tests show i’m stable

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 1h

maybe the best thing about orchi/hrt has been that i *can* forget about sex, making it completely a deliberate choice

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 1h

for me it’s more like actively hating sexuality some of the time, because ewww, but forgetting sexuality most of the time because sighhhhh

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 1h

what if you did it at night but on a tighter schedule (one day less between shots)?

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 2h

not allosexual, not asexual, but a secret third thing (it’s dysphoria and mental illness)

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 2h

i’ve not yet had a moment in this group class where i felt like i learned something i had missed the first time i did a dbt class — we’re not covering any different material (to my disappointment)

(and i still feel like i am an outsider to the group)

Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 2h

group class in just over two hours, doubting its utility for me at this point in time

but this whole exercise might have been useful in a painful way just to gain perspective on my relationship with my old therapist

or maybe it’s all about avoidance and surrender and passivity 😞

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 2h

she’s a 10 but only for her bust, hips are a 6 and ribcage a 12, nothing fits well

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 2h

if you swim hard enough you get endolphins

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

haha i turned off autocorrect years ago, this is all on my semi-distracted brain

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

i mean, the hardest part is starting to look for the return policy i think, though the thought of printing a label and packaging up and dropping off wherever is also Too Much

sewing project feels so much more in my wheelhouse

(it’s also been 2+ weeks of staring at them on the bedroom floor so far)

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

is there a word for making a typing mistake that is phonetic rather than slipping up mechanically? like “retune” instead of “return”?

phonetic mistakes seem to be a new thing developing with age 😕

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

of course the moment i take the threadripper to a seam there’s no return possible

Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

(at least they are not too small, or vastly too large, this is feasible)

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

the clothes i ordered in what i thought was my size are very definitely too big but i am also still overwhelmed at figuring out the retune process and part of me clearly is arguing it would be easier to deconstruct and retailor them to fit

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

a close up of a man with a beard and long hair .

Alt: the meme of an outdoor bearded guy nodding with a smile

media.tenor.com

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 3h

I mean, they’ve done worse things to heads of state.

The Economist @economist.com · 3h

The fact that a former president, in office from 2007 to 2012, will be imprisoned, let alone while still on appeal, has shaken France—and divided it

France puts a former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, behind bars

The first French ex-head of state to be jailed since Marshal Pétain

econ.st

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Jimmer Cork-Bottle @jimmerthatisall.bsky.social · 6h

It's hard to use the word orotund in a post without seeming magniloquent.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 4h

they HAD to demolish the white house, on account of all the diarrhea

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Aurora, all boo Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.social · 3h

ohh i see, it’s not a “pick one” kind of thing necessarily, just different sets of underlying core beliefs that may come to forefront in a certain situation