I’ve decided that I’m getting an associate’s degree in programming, because maybe in 2 years there will be tech jobs again and maybe the corpos will fucking take me seriously for once if I have a degree

a periodic reminder that these places exist:
https://genderdysphoria.fyi/ (recommended)
https://diyhrt.wiki/
https://diyhrt.info/ (recommended)
https://transharmreduction.org/
https://gtrr.artemislena.eu/
https://transreads.org/ (recommended)

transfem specific:
https://pghrt.diy/ (recommended)
https://diyhrt.market/transfem-hrt-guide
https://www.reddit.com/r/estrogel/wiki/
https://transfemscience.org/
https://startwith4mgestradiolenanthateweeklyandtestatonetothreemonths.com/
https://estrannai.se/

and places like these:
https://diyhrt.market/ (recommended)
https://hrtcafe.net/ (recommended)
https://www.unitedpharmacies-uk.md

and some country specific things (please recommend more):
FI https://transitiokanta.fi/
FR https://wikitrans.co/
FR https://www.fransgenre.fr/
FR https://baotrans.fr/
GB https://genderkit.org.uk/
GB https://dandeliondiy.com/

post-surgery results (skews to transmasc):
https://www.transbucket.com/

feel free to boost, and reply with other useful links for #trans people

nearly all of the above are being archived continuously, and torrents are published by https://fire.asta.lgbt/@ashley here: https://sciop.net/tags/trans please help by seeding as it will keep the content alive if access to those resources is later restricted by govts.

edit: refining list of links, if you have any you want to add and don't want to reply publicly, DM me

ughh Second Wind’s most anticipated games of 2026 are entirely story-driven fuck off

40k as a setting actually has a lot of cool shit in it, but 40k media almost invariably fixates on the least interesting and most generic parts (space marines, orcs, tyranids)

but like 40k has:

• cenobite demons of hedonism and temptation that can break your mind with unimaginable pleasure of any variety you can imagine
• shapeshifting assassins in sexy skintight suits who have psychic cannons that can fry your brain through any amount of armor
• the Adeptus Mechanicus (thankfully they get a little screen-time sometimes and they even got their own game once)
• also I don’t know what the Tau’s deal is but they seem interesting I want to see them in something

also I mentioned orcs as generic above but that’s not actually true? the orcs in 40k are actually a fungus that reproduces asexually and they’re so psychically powerful that their technology only works because they believe it does. but in 40k media they’re presented as generic for some reason lol idk

okay I’m morbidly curious about the correlation between transness and unemployment. are you…

Just an FYI in case anyone was interested: if you're printing something potentially clandestine, be careful about where you print it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

imgui but said with the same tone as “im fops ”

FOUND IT

At the job interview: “What do you bring to this company?”
Me: “I’m fops ”
Them: “Okay but what about your skills?”
Me: “I’m fops ”

#GeneralStrike called against #ICE in #Minneapolis with local labor and community support

FediverseTV
It will make you smart.
It will make you funny.

A slushfund of the best videos and you can add your own picks with the invite link. It keeps growing every day.

Sort by "newest" to see the latest additions. #fediTV

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTh3hv32NLhrPBgOXrUgwp6BQaC94lt9n&jct=rzvgLmETlwUMZiz6bVZrTA

I think I’d enjoy survival games a lot more if:

• they didn’t have hunger/thirst mechanics
• or, hunger/thirst was only expended when doing actions so there wasn’t a constant time pressure
• or, hunger/thirst was paused while you were at your base so it was only a problem when you were searching outside of your base for more supplies

but omg having an omnipresent time limit that is refilled through constant tedium is so incredibly stressful and unfun to me

I find languages that don’t have methods cursed because you end up with a bunch of nouns (data structures) but you have to read the entire codebase, and have a very good understanding of the language’s core features, to understand what verbs (functions) you can use on them

I find languages that only have methods cursed because sometimes you want a verb that doesn’t operate on any particular noun, or you don’t want to go through the entire ceremony of defining a new type of class and then instantiating it just to run one function or to get the answer to one question. so you end up with code that is incredibly convoluted and boilerplate-y and obfuscates what you’re actually trying to express

I find Rust incredibly cursed because it found a way to have both functions and methods while keeping as many of the disadvantages of both as possible

so it turns out that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is extremely good. my previous experience with roguelikes has been POWDER (I was briefly kind of obsessed with it lol) and Angband (my first impression was “oh wow they took all the fun stuff out of POWDER”). but my first impression of DCSS is “oh wow this is like POWDER except ridiculously user-friendly and with all kinds of QoL features and what might be the best tutorial I’ve ever seen in a game”. it’s even open source

aaa I’ve officially hit a point in the Starcraft 2 campaign where the complexity is too much for me and the amount of APM spam that’s required for me to succeed is more than I can manage - even on casual difficulty at the slowest speed T_T also there are time limits for everything now

I wish someone would make a chill RTS where this kind of stuff isn’t required. I might give Company of Heroes 3 another try. although the WW2 theming is pretty bland to me, I really like that it has pausable real-time