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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 2d

My friend challenged me 2 months ago to a wrestling match that's finally gonna happen this weekend. She's been hyping it up and talking shit the whole time despite me having 20 lbs on her and actually hitting the gym.

And then you go and post this just in time. She's gonna be so mad. :)

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 2d

I'd say it's 95% correct at best.

There are certain high-profile people where they're just outright known quantities.

You don't have to wait til JD Vance or Jesse Singal do what they're known for doing *here*, to kick them out.

You can just say, "no, you're not welcome here." Really.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 3d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 3d

I love them very much, but I believe you.

Thank you for loaning your car. 💚

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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 4d

Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

🦅 🦅 🦅 #ResistanceUnited 🔥 🔥 🔥

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jeph 🍣 @rhythmik.bsky.social · 4d

hey girl are you polonium 210 because you are dangerously unstable and can only come in small amounts

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

I might bring it up with my PCP at my next physical, but at the same time, it seems like a *lot* of trans women describe period symptoms. Way more than the 2% rate that the general population is intersex.

If there's a higher prevalence of intersex conditions in trans women, that could be of note.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

I love your guide, but I'd ask that you reconsider/rewrite 11.11 ("myth" about periods). This post today wasn't about you (it was about Instagram comments), but it is my actual, lived experience.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

I am so tired of cis women denying the lived experience of trans women, and doubly so when it's because they have a poor grasp of their own anatomy and biology.

To wit: trans women CAN get periods. Not all of us do, but it happens, it's real, and honestly, it sucks.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

"-phobic" in its sense in English means "repulsed" rather than "fearing," anyway.

We talk about "hydrophobic" substances. These substances do not have fear. They repel water and are repelled by water.

Transphobes are definitely repulsed by us.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

It's not something I'm necessarily looking to eliminate, even.

It's a part of my body; it's just wild that people would deny that it's happening and that it's possible!

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

To be clear, it's not *that* bad.

I push myself very hard at the gym, and there's a palpable difference in what I can lift or how I feel the day after depending on cycle, but I always make it to the gym.

Emotion-wise, I just feel things a bit stronger, it doesn't plunge me into a spiral.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. The funny thing is that some other trans women don't get them and are envious because it'd be affirming for them.

The grass is always greener, and fortunately I don't get *massive cramps* like some folks I know, but yeah, I could definitely do without!

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

We've barely studied cis women's bodies enough, that's well known! How the heck should we expect that trans women's bodies and cycles are well-understood?

All I'm asking for is that people believe women, even trans women, when we describe our experiences. Just say, "wow" instead of "no." That's it.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

"Oh but how could you have a period? Your hormones don't cycle like a cis woman's!"

Well, what if the hormone cycle doesn't cause the period, but is the *symptom* of the period? What if you're assuming A causes B, but B causes A?

Maybe my hormone levels are changing, but we don't measure that?

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

I've even said to my partners that I ought to start tracking this better, because I could use a heads-up for planning around it.

The only time it's ever moved was post-surgical recovery, and when I started cycling progesterone. And the latter? Yup, cis women can control their periods with prog too!

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

And I do get them. It's not psychosomatic. It's not delusional. I am not predicting the time period and projecting. I have a terrible time remembering dates and tracking calendars...but I do journal.

Weak gym days? Weepy weekends? I check after the fact, and yup, 4 weeks later. Consistently.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

First off, when I say "period," I mean "period." Not ovulation. Not menstruation. Period, as in the length of time, the event, the cycle, as in "periodic."

Period is more than just menstruation, it's a constellation of symptoms. Cis women who've had hysterectomies can get periods, why not us?

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 5d

I am so tired of cis women denying the lived experience of trans women, and doubly so when it's because they have a poor grasp of their own anatomy and biology.

To wit: trans women CAN get periods. Not all of us do, but it happens, it's real, and honestly, it sucks.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 7d

You're not wrong, but part of the problem is that folks like Singal act as ringleaders, and because he's allowed to flout the rules, he can direct hate to someone like me, and then all these rando accounts can still harass.

Yeah they get labeled eventually, but ringleaders are the problem.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 7d

Telling my spouse that I'm going to the "gyme".

Screencap from the Simpsons with Homer in workout clothing, saying "Oh! A gyme (sic)!"

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 7d

It's because it's indicative of a choice.

You see a Red Sox hat, and you think, "yes, this person is from the Boston area."

You see a Yankees hat, and you think, "this person consciously chose the evil empire over the working class Mets."

It's not prejudice, it's being attuned to a dog-whistle.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 7d

A thong is the compromise you want and your viewer deserves. ;)

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 9d

It's a betrayal of the implicit trust in their game and release design.

There was a point where you could buy cards knowing that they'd stay relevant for longer, even when obviously nothing is static.

Now they *intentionally* shake things up, it drives out players like me.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 9d

That's true, but older formats were slow-moving, and designed as a place to be able to play your cards. You could keep a Storm deck or an Affinity deck and maybe it'd be tier 2, maybe it'd require a small tweak, but it could be played.

Then they started making cards that bypassed Standard power.

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I.V.Y. - buff butch babe @ivynyx.bsky.social · 9d

They realized that printing shiny new things to shake up the meta was way more profitable, even if it ruined that promise of getting to play with the cards you love. New players came in faster than old players left.

I'm not even sure it's short-sighted, it's been working for a decade. But it sucks.

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