Tina Belmont
@tinabelmont.bsky.social
SoftEgg® (She/She++)
I make the things and sing the sings. I write the codes then hit the roads. Fight the fights to preserve trans rights. It's not a hard decision, death before detransition!
tinabelmont.com
tinabelmont.bandcamp.com
I make the things and sing the sings. I write the codes then hit the roads. Fight the fights to preserve trans rights. It's not a hard decision, death before detransition!
tinabelmont.com
tinabelmont.bandcamp.com
Reposted by Tina Belmont
Reposted by Tina Belmont
Our “radical” is their Tuesday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Our “radical” is their Tuesday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Tina Belmont
You should absolutely pay for good journalism.
The NYT is barely journalism at all -- it's largely right-wing billionaire propaganda and slop.
If you need to hate-read something, use Remove Paywall.
Cancel your subscription to the NYT and spend that money on actual journalism.
The NYT is barely journalism at all -- it's largely right-wing billionaire propaganda and slop.
If you need to hate-read something, use Remove Paywall.
Cancel your subscription to the NYT and spend that money on actual journalism.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
You should absolutely pay for good journalism.
The NYT is barely journalism at all -- it's largely right-wing billionaire propaganda and slop.
If you need to hate-read something, use Remove Paywall.
Cancel your subscription to the NYT and spend that money on actual journalism.
The NYT is barely journalism at all -- it's largely right-wing billionaire propaganda and slop.
If you need to hate-read something, use Remove Paywall.
Cancel your subscription to the NYT and spend that money on actual journalism.
If you are a songwriter and have writers block, I recommend estradiol!
You will (eventually) feel every emotion as if it fell on you from space.
If you survive the experience, you will not be stuck for song ideas!
* side effects include younger appearance, nicer skin, regrowth of hair, sexual dy
You will (eventually) feel every emotion as if it fell on you from space.
If you survive the experience, you will not be stuck for song ideas!
* side effects include younger appearance, nicer skin, regrowth of hair, sexual dy
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If you are a songwriter and have writers block, I recommend estradiol!
You will (eventually) feel every emotion as if it fell on you from space.
If you survive the experience, you will not be stuck for song ideas!
* side effects include younger appearance, nicer skin, regrowth of hair, sexual dy
You will (eventually) feel every emotion as if it fell on you from space.
If you survive the experience, you will not be stuck for song ideas!
* side effects include younger appearance, nicer skin, regrowth of hair, sexual dy
Putin must be laughing his head off...
'Richest country in the world' can't feed it's 'arsenal of freedom' because conservatives don't believe in negotiation or democracy?
Oh wait, Trump is in Putin's pocket. Makes sense now... for him.
For all GOP also tho?
www.dw.com/en/us-troops...
'Richest country in the world' can't feed it's 'arsenal of freedom' because
Oh wait, Trump is in Putin's pocket. Makes sense now... for him.
For all GOP also tho?
www.dw.com/en/us-troops...
US troops given German food bank advice amid shutdown – DW – 11/05/2025
The US Army Garrison Bavaria removed references to German food banks and other discounted food provision services from its "shutdown guidance" web page.
www.dw.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Putin must be laughing his head off...
'Richest country in the world' can't feed it's 'arsenal of freedom' because conservatives don't believe in negotiation or democracy?
Oh wait, Trump is in Putin's pocket. Makes sense now... for him.
For all GOP also tho?
www.dw.com/en/us-troops...
'Richest country in the world' can't feed it's 'arsenal of freedom' because
Oh wait, Trump is in Putin's pocket. Makes sense now... for him.
For all GOP also tho?
www.dw.com/en/us-troops...
Reposted by Tina Belmont
"The researchers suspect that the hormone treatment transgender women receive has a protective effect on the heart and blood vessels."
www.news-medical.net/news/2025110...
www.news-medical.net/news/2025110...
New study finds no increased risk of heart and brain infarctions for transgender women
Contrary to previous research, transgender women who use the hormone oestradiol for their transition do not have an increased risk of heart attack and stroke compared to men in the general Dutch popul...
www.news-medical.net
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"The researchers suspect that the hormone treatment transgender women receive has a protective effect on the heart and blood vessels."
www.news-medical.net/news/2025110...
www.news-medical.net/news/2025110...
TFW: Your bestie (who's been dating around and you've been secretly afraid of losing) jokingly(?) proposes marriage, and it leaves you feeling some kinda way...
November 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
TFW: Your bestie (who's been dating around and you've been secretly afraid of losing) jokingly(?) proposes marriage, and it leaves you feeling some kinda way...
If Trump changes the rules so that he can run for a third term, Obama should run against him.
November 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
If Trump changes the rules so that he can run for a third term, Obama should run against him.
I have to say, the anime "Sanda" is really getting interesting!
The premise sounds *so* stupid, but the actual implementation is actually quite deep.
This is science fiction.
This is about growing up and getting old.
This is about gender issues and lesbianism!?
This is...
... amazingly good!
The premise sounds *so* stupid, but the actual implementation is actually quite deep.
This is science fiction.
This is about growing up and getting old.
This is about gender issues and lesbianism!?
This is...
... amazingly good!
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I have to say, the anime "Sanda" is really getting interesting!
The premise sounds *so* stupid, but the actual implementation is actually quite deep.
This is science fiction.
This is about growing up and getting old.
This is about gender issues and lesbianism!?
This is...
... amazingly good!
The premise sounds *so* stupid, but the actual implementation is actually quite deep.
This is science fiction.
This is about growing up and getting old.
This is about gender issues and lesbianism!?
This is...
... amazingly good!
TTRPG idea:
First session: the characters find themselves as officials on opposite sides of a bitter, brutal war, about to sign a peace treaty.
No sooner is the document signed than a magic attack rains down from the heavens.
Which side betrayed the peace process?
One of the characters knows...
First session: the characters find themselves as officials on opposite sides of a bitter, brutal war, about to sign a peace treaty.
No sooner is the document signed than a magic attack rains down from the heavens.
Which side betrayed the peace process?
One of the characters knows...
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 AM
TTRPG idea:
First session: the characters find themselves as officials on opposite sides of a bitter, brutal war, about to sign a peace treaty.
No sooner is the document signed than a magic attack rains down from the heavens.
Which side betrayed the peace process?
One of the characters knows...
First session: the characters find themselves as officials on opposite sides of a bitter, brutal war, about to sign a peace treaty.
No sooner is the document signed than a magic attack rains down from the heavens.
Which side betrayed the peace process?
One of the characters knows...
Having recently visited two of Berlin's historic bunkers, Spy Family S3E3 hits kinda hard.
I know it's a fictionalized cold war world, with the sides and motivations mixed up, even if it does take place in "Berlint", but the hiding in shelters, watching friends die & doubting the news: that's real.
I know it's a fictionalized cold war world, with the sides and motivations mixed up, even if it does take place in "Berlint", but the hiding in shelters, watching friends die & doubting the news: that's real.
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Having recently visited two of Berlin's historic bunkers, Spy Family S3E3 hits kinda hard.
I know it's a fictionalized cold war world, with the sides and motivations mixed up, even if it does take place in "Berlint", but the hiding in shelters, watching friends die & doubting the news: that's real.
I know it's a fictionalized cold war world, with the sides and motivations mixed up, even if it does take place in "Berlint", but the hiding in shelters, watching friends die & doubting the news: that's real.
I had a couple of ideas about 3d printing that might be worth investigating.
One is printing a test grid to determine the actual useful resolution of the printer for doing things like semi transparent prints using manual infill.
Another is editing g-code to start prints on top of other prints.
One is printing a test grid to determine the actual useful resolution of the printer for doing things like semi transparent prints using manual infill.
Another is editing g-code to start prints on top of other prints.
October 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I had a couple of ideas about 3d printing that might be worth investigating.
One is printing a test grid to determine the actual useful resolution of the printer for doing things like semi transparent prints using manual infill.
Another is editing g-code to start prints on top of other prints.
One is printing a test grid to determine the actual useful resolution of the printer for doing things like semi transparent prints using manual infill.
Another is editing g-code to start prints on top of other prints.
So, why haven't we recalled all of the Republicans in the House and Senate yet?
October 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
So, why haven't we recalled all of the Republicans in the House and Senate yet?
For my music synthesizer friends in Berlin, the Synth Jam Session at X-Hain hack+make space in Friedrichshain, Berlin is at 6pm this Thursday October 23rd (today!)
Bring something fun to play and whatever cables and stuff you need to connect to audio & sync, and make fun noise with us!
www.x-hain.de
Bring something fun to play and whatever cables and stuff you need to connect to audio & sync, and make fun noise with us!
www.x-hain.de
Welcome to xHain
Hack and make space in the heart of Friedrichshain, tinkering room for people interested in technology + space for net politics.
www.x-hain.de
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
For my music synthesizer friends in Berlin, the Synth Jam Session at X-Hain hack+make space in Friedrichshain, Berlin is at 6pm this Thursday October 23rd (today!)
Bring something fun to play and whatever cables and stuff you need to connect to audio & sync, and make fun noise with us!
www.x-hain.de
Bring something fun to play and whatever cables and stuff you need to connect to audio & sync, and make fun noise with us!
www.x-hain.de
Wow! Autodesk seems to have removed the ability to export a STEP file from the free version of Fusion 360! A new low...
I found a workaround, but... the money grubbing really does leave a bad taste in the mouth.
I feel bad for building all this content when it was free and now being locked into them
I found a workaround, but... the money grubbing really does leave a bad taste in the mouth.
I feel bad for building all this content when it was free and now being locked into them
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wow! Autodesk seems to have removed the ability to export a STEP file from the free version of Fusion 360! A new low...
I found a workaround, but... the money grubbing really does leave a bad taste in the mouth.
I feel bad for building all this content when it was free and now being locked into them
I found a workaround, but... the money grubbing really does leave a bad taste in the mouth.
I feel bad for building all this content when it was free and now being locked into them
I'm finally realizing why other people don't have rooms with mountains of gear as I have; they don't have time for it because they value their connections with other people more, as I now do.
I was isolated for various reasons for a long time, so I had plenty of time for *stuff*!
Now, not so much!
I was isolated for various reasons for a long time, so I had plenty of time for *stuff*!
Now, not so much!
October 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm finally realizing why other people don't have rooms with mountains of gear as I have; they don't have time for it because they value their connections with other people more, as I now do.
I was isolated for various reasons for a long time, so I had plenty of time for *stuff*!
Now, not so much!
I was isolated for various reasons for a long time, so I had plenty of time for *stuff*!
Now, not so much!
Q: "Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?"
A: "Yes, but not half as much as when they cut off my wings... "
A: "Yes, but not half as much as when they cut off my wings... "
October 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Q: "Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?"
A: "Yes, but not half as much as when they cut off my wings... "
A: "Yes, but not half as much as when they cut off my wings... "
Reposted by Tina Belmont
i am continually thankful for what a cis woman friend told me early in transition, “honey, all of femininity is shadowplay. it’s ropes & pulleys & holsters. being a woman is tricking men into seeing what you need them to see so that you fight another day. now put on the fucking shapewear.”
October 30, 2023 at 4:15 PM
i am continually thankful for what a cis woman friend told me early in transition, “honey, all of femininity is shadowplay. it’s ropes & pulleys & holsters. being a woman is tricking men into seeing what you need them to see so that you fight another day. now put on the fucking shapewear.”
No matter how much I try to insulate myself against it, knowing that everybody will eventually leave me and I'll be alone, it still hurts tremendously.
At even just the first glimmer of it, I seem to spiral into a tailspin of anticipatory depression.
I hate being like this.
#aceproblems
At even just the first glimmer of it, I seem to spiral into a tailspin of anticipatory depression.
I hate being like this.
#aceproblems
October 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
No matter how much I try to insulate myself against it, knowing that everybody will eventually leave me and I'll be alone, it still hurts tremendously.
At even just the first glimmer of it, I seem to spiral into a tailspin of anticipatory depression.
I hate being like this.
#aceproblems
At even just the first glimmer of it, I seem to spiral into a tailspin of anticipatory depression.
I hate being like this.
#aceproblems
Where do you go when the rave ends?
Are any of these people actually your friends?
Who do you look up
after the hookup?
Are all those that found you fly
when you were fucking high
still gonna be around
when you come down?
Are any of these people actually your friends?
Who do you look up
after the hookup?
Are all those that found you fly
when you were fucking high
still gonna be around
when you come down?
October 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Where do you go when the rave ends?
Are any of these people actually your friends?
Who do you look up
after the hookup?
Are all those that found you fly
when you were fucking high
still gonna be around
when you come down?
Are any of these people actually your friends?
Who do you look up
after the hookup?
Are all those that found you fly
when you were fucking high
still gonna be around
when you come down?
The first episode of "May I Ask for One Final Thing?" starts off almost exactly like another anime ( I think it was "I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss") but the ending of the episode is oh, so very satisfying!
Violence... might just be the answer!
...at least, in anime, it can be...
Violence... might just be the answer!
...at least, in anime, it can be...
October 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The first episode of "May I Ask for One Final Thing?" starts off almost exactly like another anime ( I think it was "I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss") but the ending of the episode is oh, so very satisfying!
Violence... might just be the answer!
...at least, in anime, it can be...
Violence... might just be the answer!
...at least, in anime, it can be...
I was going to answer this, but everybody already has: His intent is to squeeze targeted groups until violence erupts & then use that as an excuse to have a pogrom and kill them all.
After Charlie Kirk they even said "this might be our "Reichstag Fire moment", admitting to being the Nazis.
After Charlie Kirk they even said "this might be our "Reichstag Fire moment", admitting to being the Nazis.
Am I the only one who thinks that this militarization of America is inevitably going to lead to a bloodbath of some kind? What will happen if it does?
October 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I was going to answer this, but everybody already has: His intent is to squeeze targeted groups until violence erupts & then use that as an excuse to have a pogrom and kill them all.
After Charlie Kirk they even said "this might be our "Reichstag Fire moment", admitting to being the Nazis.
After Charlie Kirk they even said "this might be our "Reichstag Fire moment", admitting to being the Nazis.
So, is there a rotary encoder with addressable RGB LEDs as indicators available?
The stuff from TopUp seems to be regular LEDs with a lot of pins to wire.
APA102 2020 tiny RGB LEDs should do it well, although I kinda like the one wire protocol better than SPI because only one pin is needed.
The stuff from TopUp seems to be regular LEDs with a lot of pins to wire.
APA102 2020 tiny RGB LEDs should do it well, although I kinda like the one wire protocol better than SPI because only one pin is needed.
October 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
So, is there a rotary encoder with addressable RGB LEDs as indicators available?
The stuff from TopUp seems to be regular LEDs with a lot of pins to wire.
APA102 2020 tiny RGB LEDs should do it well, although I kinda like the one wire protocol better than SPI because only one pin is needed.
The stuff from TopUp seems to be regular LEDs with a lot of pins to wire.
APA102 2020 tiny RGB LEDs should do it well, although I kinda like the one wire protocol better than SPI because only one pin is needed.
If the government shuts down, does ICE have to stop abducting people?
Doers the national guard get to go home?
Do they stop fucking up medical regulations & all our other rights?
Do they stop enforcing executive orders, or overturning good law, or...
Maybe shut it down?
Do they just fucking stop?
Doers the national guard get to go home?
Do they stop fucking up medical regulations & all our other rights?
Do they stop enforcing executive orders, or overturning good law, or...
Maybe shut it down?
Do they just fucking stop?
October 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
If the government shuts down, does ICE have to stop abducting people?
Doers the national guard get to go home?
Do they stop fucking up medical regulations & all our other rights?
Do they stop enforcing executive orders, or overturning good law, or...
Maybe shut it down?
Do they just fucking stop?
Doers the national guard get to go home?
Do they stop fucking up medical regulations & all our other rights?
Do they stop enforcing executive orders, or overturning good law, or...
Maybe shut it down?
Do they just fucking stop?
There is a rule of economics called something like "the law of perfect monopolies" which says "in the absence of competition, the price will rise to the maximum amount the market will bear". I would argue that even market friction can cause this to happen; you don't need a monopoly.
September 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
There is a rule of economics called something like "the law of perfect monopolies" which says "in the absence of competition, the price will rise to the maximum amount the market will bear". I would argue that even market friction can cause this to happen; you don't need a monopoly.