Periodic reminder that DIY HRT exists! It’s exactly what it sounds like - buying and taking the medication on your own, without a doctor’s prescription. This can be a lifeline to anyone blocked from standard routes to HRT, and is legal in most jurisdictions! [1,2]

“Official” HRT is generally safer and preferred if you have access, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with using DIY options when you need. Whether that’s an inability to access the best medications, a doctor who won’t prescribe a proper dose, or even a complete ban on gender-affirming care - DIY HRT is morally and legally acceptable.

Here’s some websites with helpful information and links to sources:

• https://diyhrt.info/
• https://diyhrt.market/
• https://diyhrt.wiki/ (backup)
• https://hrtcafe.net/ (backup)
• https://hrt.coffee/ (backup)

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1. Most jurisdictions draw a distinction between buying and selling prescription medications. It’s usually illegal to sell a medication to someone without a prescription, but it’s not illegal to buy one. Many online sellers are happy to exploit this loophole and sell medication out of regions with weak or unenforced regulation.
2. An unfortunate exception is testosterone, which is a controlled substance and therefore illegal to buy in the United States. Many common DIY resources don’t provide instructions to obtain it, but such sources do exist.

#HRT #Trans #Trangender

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

give the kitn star treats

“The most merciful thing in the modern tech stack, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of top-level abstractions in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The reverse-engineers and security researchers, each straining in their own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of computation, and of our frightful dependence upon it, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

– H.P. Lovecraft after learning about CPU vulnerabilities

@aperture fuck if that isn’t a mood. I’ve blacklisted so many variations on “AI” at this point and stuff still gets through the cracks

i would like the ai bubble to pop solely do fedi finally shuts the fuck up

• carrie

Do the speakers for cars that are electric that make them sound like gas cars count as gender affirming care

I'm pleased to share with you the greatest advancement in bottom-sheet technology since the invention of elastic.

@wyatt ohh that makes sense! so it sounds like you essentially had to use C++ if you wanted to use FLTK, but you didn’t have to use all of its fancy features - and I’m glad! it’s pretty cool that FLTK’s API is written that way

@benrob0329 I’ve been thinking about trying Kivy as well! in fact I might try Kivy first and then wxPython after that - since Kivy seems like it has good documentation and even a nice tutorial. and it doesn’t seem too complex either - at least not at first glance. thanks for the recommendation 💙

@wyatt ooh I’ve never heard of FLTK! it looks like there are incomplete bindings for Python so that’s pretty cool tbh. and I like how FLTK looks as well - it seems nice and simple and fast

also that’s interesting that you essentially wrote C for a C++ compiler. I don’t know too much about either of those languages and I’m curious why you did that

tbh I think a whole lot of documentation issues could be solved by just letting people comment on different documentation pages. because then as I’m trying to figure Tkinter stuff out I can leave comments explaining what I’ve learned which will help the documentation be more complete, and save others from having to do the trial-and-error that I’m doing

i think you need to see this

by ig/plumesofficiel

the various species of fedi post:
- extremely serious post which will make everyone mad at you if you disagree with it
- a stolen video or meme
- "cw: lewd, kink, crime, illegal, murder, positive"
- one emoji
- noises

Hang on... Is "body doubling" literally just the way that humans are adapted for working together?

Is body doubling actually more natural (for lack of a better word) for us? Do humans just tend to thrive better when they do the work of life in community with each other?

I give up on Tkinter (it’s not worth learning something that has such bad documentation) but I’m going to try wxPython next. if that doesn’t work I might just have to make this clicker game in something gross like TypeScript

I’m getting whiplash going from Racket’s fantastic GUI library to Tkinter

Python needs a GUI library that is Actually Good because this is so painful to use T_T