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    Interesting. It messes the eyes up though.



    Some people have some fascination for the 80s and 90s, but I feel that fascination for the 2000s
    I rotate through periods but the 2000s is mostly just nostalgic for me.

    2010s next
    I will be very interested to see if people will be able to do this. Younger people maybe. I think the way culture was transmitted changed a lot starting then. Somewhat in the 2000s too but not to the same extent especially the first half of the 2000s.

    A lot of the 2010s internet music genres etc were also hauntological (though of course stuff from the 2000s was really too.) But, it was much more obviously a throw back to the 80s etc. There is some stuff that sort of resembles the 2010s more I guess but harder to pin down because of how cultural transmission changed. And with stuff besides music it's also difficult. I suppose there are certain styles of YT content that can feel nostalgic already.

    I feel like they're trying to make recording in ally ways a thing haha:



    The roko's basilisk part of the video:



    They obviously know each other irl and I wonder if it's the same ally lol.

    It's giving the same vibe as this too:



    And they're both cover versions.

    I'm going to pretend this is a genre now.

    Post ironic nightwalking ally emo
    The impulse is pure
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    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

    Everybody got mixed feelings
    About the function and the form
    Everybody got to deviate
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    "How much free speech is actually tolerated when it's from a leftist perspective?"

    Probably not a whole lot. I've seen a lot of bias in which tweets get flagged as offensive and hidden (the fact they even kept that feature is ridiculous all things considered.) Like someone can say the most insane sexist thing about women, someone responds angrily and the original viral tweet is considered fine. I've seen a bunch of things like this.

    Likewise somehow cis is flagged as offensive every single time (because he thinks it's a slur,) but frequently various slurs are fine.

    I mean either ban everything or nothing. On principle I don't care too much although it has to be said that it's driving numerous people insane and 90% of the women on the site have stopped dating men entirely because of the men on the website and all the [redacted] threats.

    Remember twitter isn't just a website for the far right.

    It's also a website for serial killer wannabes.

    Gnome Chumpskee is a great name btw. I find gnomes amusing though because of The Sims series mostly.

    Ian Miles Cheong lives in and is from Malaysia apparently (just looked that up.) I don't think I've seen him tweet about that country once. I think he's one of those guys that had some involvement in gamergate (can't remember what now) and then just spiraled since then but might be getting him mixed up with someone else dunno now it's been a long time.

    "The woke want to kill or enslave all white people." Is probably one of the most insane things I've seen him say but I've only seen a handful of his tweets really over the years. I just know he's very prominent.

    I understand how difficult it is as a fellow non-American but he's taken it to an insane extreme. Perhaps instead of worrying about white people and American culture you should consider what's happening to yourself. Asian guy from Malaysia.

    ZUBY, a Musk-Minion, is a black man from Dubai. It's crazy.
    No way... Another one lol. I've seen that account a few times too. Wait..... Is this the same guy though? Says his family moved to Saudi Arabia, Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates (the point stands though, but at least this guy was bound to be rootless):

    Nzube Olisaebuka Udezue was born to parents of Nigerian descent in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, on 19 August 1986.[6][7][8][9] His father is a doctor and a fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and his mother a journalist.[10] He has two brothers and two sisters.[11][12] When Udezue was a year old, his parents moved to Saudi Arabia, where they worked for two decades, and he attended an international school.[13] From the age of 11, Udezue attended a boarding school in the UK and frequently travelled between the two countries.[13][14] Between 2004 and 2007, he studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class honours degree in computer science.[2][13][15][16][17] As a child, Udezue played trombone, which he played in a band, and piano. Later, during his teenage years, he became interested in hip-hop music.[13]
    Me everytime my home town inevitably pops up in someone's life history:





    Andrew Tate obviously yes and the racists and the terrorists (not actually as many terrorists as you think, most are just passing through but I suppose that's still a sign. I mean Lauren Southern visited once but that's stretching things,) but:

    From netball team to psychopath: the strange descent of Joanna Dennehy

    It all began to go badly wrong in her mid-teens. She started skipping lessons and associating with a crowd of older boys. When she was about 15 she fell for a man called John Treanor, who was five years her senior, and ran away with him. Her family were frantic. The pair were eventually found living rough on wasteland close to the family home and there was a reconciliation.

    But by this time Dennehy had begun taking drugs and drinking, even turning up to school high or drunk. Aged 16 she left home for good, only returning occasionally when she needed money.

    Dennehy and Treanor set up home first a few miles up the road in Luton, then in Milton Keynes. While she was still in her teens, she had two children. She became permanently estranged from her parents following the birth of her first child when she told her parents that they would have pay to see their grandchild.

    The relationship with Treanor was stormy. She cheated on him with men and women. She was a poor mother, telling friends she had never wanted children. Dennehy would leave home for days or weeks on end, then return and ask for forgiveness.
    Roxanne music intensifies with distortion remixed in the minor key.

    Yes, "Roxanne" by The Police is written in the key of G minor. The song's three most important chords are G minor, C minor, and D minor, all of which are minor chords.
    OK well.

    YoU kNOw WhAt I mEaN.

    Discordant.



    "The vibe of this kingdom is totally off."

    Indeed they are.

    Also it seems he lives in the UK again now (Southampton,) and has probably lived here since 2004 I guess since he was at Oxford uni then:

    In 2008, Udezue lived in Bournemouth, Dorset, with his parents,[10] and since 2019, he has lived in Southampton.[4] He frequently spends time in the United States.[6] Udezue is a Christian.[26][27] He was also the cousin of the deceased Nigerian rapper Lotanna Udezue, better known as Biglo.[39]
    The sad thing about this video is that this is really like a watered down look at how terrible that site gets. I've seen so much worse there lol.

    My dad went to Dubai for work once and apparently it rained a bunch and the country wasn't prepared for that because obviously it basically never does so there was a bunch of flooding. That's not what Crowded House meant.



    Let's not act like Elon Musk is American either. Bro is South African
    I noticed a long time ago it was often people who have lived in multiple countries and/or who aren't American yes. Milo Yiannopoulos too born/raised in the UK and Costin Alamariu (Bronze Age Pervert) spent the first ten years of his life in Romania before his family moved to the US. If some of these people aren't getting $$$ (Obviously Musk doesn't need it,) it's impressive levels of coincidental foreign interference lol. But the commonality in most cases is probably that sense of rootlessness again.

    I got banned for saying firefighters are better than the Police 💀
    Wtf lol? Again this is the website that tolerates x, y, z posts without removing them.

    Well the police (US police especially,) selects for psychopathy more than the role of firefighter does afaik (though both must to some extent given the nature of the work,) and there are certain psychological experiences that would differ so... It's probably less bad than what happens with military guys but still going to be worse than firefighters.

    Prior to starting the channel, Beau was "busted for alien smuggling"[3] in Florida, due to participating in a human trafficking operation that coerced, scammed and exploited over 200 migrants from Romania and Bulgaria from 2004-2007.[4][5][6][7][8] He was sentenced to 41 months in prison, with three years' supervision after being released.[9] Following his time in prison, he served as an "independent military contractor" and an "ex-tactical training instructor for police departments".[10] By Beau's own admission, he stopped training cops in 2006 due to ideological differences between himself and the police force.[11] He now considers himself a "police accountability activist", which stems from his "[familiarity] with the policies" and the police force's continued "disregard [of] company or department policy [as well as] best practices as far as their own safety [and] suspect safety.[12]
    Allegedly.





    https://www.psypost.org/psychopathy-...and-behaviors/

    In a recent study published in Law and Human Behavior, researchers found that certain psychopathic personality traits are significantly associated with attitudes and behaviors related to the use of force in law enforcement. The study, which involved both law enforcement professionals and undergraduates interested in law enforcement careers, offers a deeper understanding of how specific personality traits can influence critical aspects of policing.

    [...]

    "The results of this study indicate that different facets of the psychopathic personality are associated with differing outcomes in performance," McKinley told PsyPost. "Namely, the callous lack of empathy/antagonism facet of the construct was associated with acceptance of excessive use of force while the impulsive facet of psychopathy was associated with making more errors in a rapid decision-making task. However, of the three samples we collected for this study (police officers, law enforcement-interested undergraduates, and general undergraduates), the police officers were best able to differentiate good from bad police behavior."

    As with any study, there were limitations that need consideration. The use of self-report measures and online methodology might have affected the integrity of the data. Moreover, most participating officers were from specific urban areas in the United States and had considerable experience, limiting the generalizability of the findings to the broader population of law enforcement officers.
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37816137/

    Abstract

    Objective: Compared with other jobs, the law enforcement profession is a high-stakes occupation that has the potential to greatly impact public safety, and officers must face daily dangers not experienced in other professions. Previous research indicates that many law enforcement officers exhibit varying degrees of psychopathic traits, which suggests that it may be useful to examine police officer performance, specifically proxies of excessive use of force, through the lens of the triarchic psychopathy domains.

    Hypotheses: We predicted that high boldness and high meanness would be associated with greater justification of excessive use of force, whereas low boldness, high meanness, and high disinhibition would relate to greater errors in high-stakes decision making ("trigger bias").

    Method: We employed criterion profile analysis to elucidate optimal profile configurations in both law enforcement and undergraduate samples in relation to justification of use-of-force scenarios and decision making in high-pressure situations (i.e., police officer's dilemma shooter task).

    Results: In general, combinations of triarchic psychopathy traits accounted for similar variance in performance criteria as individual psychopathy trait domains. In particular, trait elevations in meanness were associated with ratings of unjustified-use-of-force vignettes, and disinhibition was associated with commission errors on the shooter task (although effect sizes were small for the latter).

    Conclusions: The findings of this study support the conceptual validity of the separate dimensions of the triarchic psychopathy model and substantiate the moderate utility of personality indicators (e.g., antagonism, difficulties with impulse control) in relation to career-related performance in law enforcement. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8199706/

    Firefighting is considered a dangerous profession that imposes unique safety hazards. In this research, we investigated the relationship between the Dark Triad traits of firefighters (N = 1434, Mage = 39.03, SD = 6.9) and their risk-taking at work, considering the mediation role of altruism, honesty, and courage. We showed that firefighters high on Machiavellianism and psychopathy reported high risk-taking. Altruism, honesty, and courage mediated the relationship between Machiavellianism and risk-taking in firefighters. Honesty and courage mediated the association between psychopathy and risk-taking. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
    I wanted to google to see if there were studies comparing the two but the built in AI was disapproving of my search results 'it is not appropriate' (cause of the way I phrased the search lol,) and trying to do pro-police PR and it always freaks me out when it gets judgy like that. Which is what they want >.>

    (AI didn't do that with the bisexuals from what I remember. I see how it be. I just tried searching the same thing replacing police with bisexual now to test lol):

    An AI Overview is not available for this search
    Mysterious. Somehow this feels even worse than when it lectured me.

    Clearly the US FBI are going to break through my door.

    In the UK.

    Please send special agent Spencer Reid.



    I'm sure distrusting/fearing the police is connected to psychopathic traits too though. And the bisexuals. We're all psychopaths together. 👍

    I mean The Police are (were) a great band though:





    This channel is so irony-poisoned so I have no idea how genuine he is
    "This channel" was unnecessary.
    The impulse is pure
    Sometimes our circuits get shorted
    By external interference

    Signals get crossed
    And the balance distorted
    By internal incoherence

    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

    Everybody got mixed feelings
    About the function and the form
    Everybody got to deviate
    From the norm

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    the commitment to deadnaming twitter is my fave
    It's not even out of spite. It's a lot more personal than that. I refuse to call it my favourite letter of the alphabet that is associated with:

    • The gender neutral pronoun on passports, Mx is the gender neutral equivalent to Mr, Ms, Miss and Mrs in the UK.
    • Strange symbolism I used in a bunch of my art work throughout my life without noticing until the past two years while looking at various work.
    • I have this weird childhood memory of walking with my mum and there was this building with metal things on the side (I dunno what, it's hard to describe just like these square metal things) that had an x pattern on them (not really visible to normal people haha,) and for some reason as a kid I would get really excited about that and point out the x's.
    • A letter that is very connected to the aesthetics of the 2000s e-culture/nostalgic
    • A letter associated with pirates/treasure maps - that's pretty cool.
    • It just sounds cool when added to random names like Nyx, Phoenix, Calix. Who doesn't love a name that ends in x?
    • IAMX uses it for his band name/song/project stuff and I like his music a lot.
    • Unknown/missing variable in maths
    • Many other things


    He's attempting to ruin/co-opt it with his use of it on all his products. 😠




    This song used to be called something else but he changed the name lol. I forgot what it was called before now I just remember he changed it:




    At this point 4chan is a beacon of intellectualism compared to Twitter.
    My problem with 4chan is that you can never be entirely sure who means how much of what they are saying. The problem with twitter is that everyone fully believes the insane things they are saying.
    The darkest timeline.

    The other problem with twitter is it's like all the worst parts of 4chan with a miniscule fraction of the creativity. 4chan is like twitter fused with Tumblr at least. Twitter is just twitter and had been [BEEP] for years before Elon bought it but then got progressively even worse amazingly. I guess twitter is probably like the worst of boomer right wing facebook, cryptobros, boring/dead inside aesthetics, and I never used telegram but that too probably. Still remember the time from ages ago I saved this one screenshot (I think I edited this partly for reasons because I posted it somewhere else but the funny part is still there):



    Trans demon hackers. Also just realised that is gab so nevermind lol but there's a bunch of that kind of stuff on twitter but mostly more boring bigotry really.

    Found some other funny stuff while looking for that screenshot:







    Contrapoints has basically left twitter. There are a few interesting trans accounts, and Aella and that's about all that isn't just dumb ragebait, or not that interesting to me at this point. At least for more than 5 minutes.

    Oh yeah and Grimes occasionally. Despite her abysmal taste in men haha.
    Not like this comment section is any better and intellectual. This is just as bad as a bubble as what many people experience on X. This comment section is filled with tons of equally mined people, most of whom probably don't use X, but just despise Elon, because of his Trump affiliation.

    Anyway, the truth usually lies between both extremes, and this is definitely on of those extremes.

    And no, 4chan is not a pace for intellectualism. The worst pace for intellectualism is probably Instagram/TikTok/Facebook. Followed by Youtube (video entertainment platforms). And then at the top, it's likely platforms like X. Id ague that Bluesky, purely because of how early in the stages it is, is probably the most intellectualist site, followed by X. After all, both sites are primarily debate oriented.

    You just dont like Elon. Admit thats what your opinion truly comes from. Have you even used X or prev Twitter?
    LOL I've spent too much time on twitter over the past few years and it really is that bad regardless of whether that channel I just stumbled on is a bubble or not. There are very few insightful ideas being posted there, most content is coming from other sites like people reacting to tiktoks or news stories, 4chan posts, sometimes even tumblr posts though that site gets much less attention nowadays thankfully. There's an endless amount of stupid fighting so none of the debates are interesting or productive in anyway. Most people will block and dismiss what you're saying in 5 seconds based on your bio. Very tribalistic. It's really just there to piss people off and encourage fighting which is the opposite of intellectual really. Unless you pay the character count is too small to really write anything extensive and if you write a thread most people won't read the whole thing - if you write multiple tweets in response to someone many won't read more than one. Most cultural trends do not start on the platform, so it's not great in that sense either.

    The idea that twitter is somehow 'the best' or second best is ridiculous. Bluesky doesn't seem debate oriented really - I went on there briefly it was like a more chill/friendly twitter but I haven't spent much time on there. There were some posts there suggesting the appeal/intent was to have something that wouldn't just be designed to make people miserable/angry. So of course it won't appeal to people who want that.

    Debate does not equal intellectual either. I disliked the site before Elon took it over but the quality has gotten worse since he let on all the far right trolls, and no I don't like Elon (I also didn't like Elon before the Trump thing,) but that's not why the site is bad.

    I'm sure you can find anything on the site in a niche sense but the major stuff you're going to stumble on will all be what I said and all very political stuff.

    There isn't a good social media site but among the major ones twitter is probably the worst now. Also blogging platforms and people's personal sites tend to have more interesting ideas.

    Anyway, the truth usually lies between both extremes, and this is definitely on of those extremes.
    That's a kind of bias/fallacy that is not necessarily true at all but is nice in a kind of cliche sense that can encourage complacency.

    Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)--also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacy[1]--is the fallacy that the truth is always in the middle of two opposites.[2]
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    By external interference

    Signals get crossed
    And the balance distorted
    By internal incoherence

    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

    Everybody got mixed feelings
    About the function and the form
    Everybody got to deviate
    From the norm

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    My least "woke" opinion, since that phrase is doing the rounds on twitter, is that First Cousin Marriage should be banned, we have shedloads of evidence that the risks of rare genetic diseases and infact mortality rates are considerably higher in first cousin marriages.

    The fact that is a cultural norm for the Travellers and the British-Pakistani communities does not trump the brutal reality that it is the children of first cousin marriages that are suffering from there parents decision to ignore all the evidence against it and have children with there first cousin.

    And no, I don't care that it supposedly "improves family bonds" and "allows for a better financial footing", or that it is "common in the middle east and sub-saharan africa." The evidence is there. First Cousin Marriage increases the odds considerably that your child will have a recessive gene genetic disorder, because if a grandparent has it, there is more chance that both parents are carriers, and could therefore pass two copies of this gene onto there child. Which is what is happening, hospitals in areas with first cousin marriages are seeing more and more children appear with rare genetic diseases.
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    I feel like that shouldn't be that conversial? I guess the issue with banning things is figuring out where to draw the line. Like the risk is also higher with older mothers and I don't believe that should be banned especially given the state of Western culture and not providing many options for women in terms of achieving economic and personal stability and having kids. A year or two ago they found 50% of women in the UK aged 30 hadn't had kids yet. I feel like very few people are really ready before the age of 30 these days and many who have kids before 30 had those kids by accident or they were unplanned (or they're part of very conservative religious families.)

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/...-birth-defects

    The risk of having a baby with birth defects - usually heart or nervous system problems which can sometimes be fatal - is still small, but it rises from 3% in the general Pakistani population to 6% among those married to blood relatives. The researchers also found a doubling of the risk in the babies of white British women who were over the age of 34. That increased risk, rising from 2% to 4%, is already known.
    I guess the problem would be repeatedly doing it over many generations though that is also happening with older mothers now too.

    I know someone who used to work in a special needs school though and the majority of the students there were South Asian, although the South Asian population in general was pretty high.

    Also why I think we need more research into IVG etc to try and reduce risks. Since it's going to increasingly become a problem it's pretty essential now.

    But anyway I don't think the decision should be effected by whether it's more popular in certain minority groups regardless.
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    Signals get crossed
    And the balance distorted
    By internal incoherence

    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

    Everybody got mixed feelings
    About the function and the form
    Everybody got to deviate
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    I was wondering what this video would be about because I saw it and didn't bother to watch it but I just read about this elsewhere so watching it now:



    Burgandy and orange is a choice but he's pulling it off.

    Wasn't expecting Curtis Yarvin to eventually pop up in this video lol but sure why not. I probably should have done though really given the CEO topic and his 'patchwork' idea.

    This isn't a good thing but as people become more and more desperate and hopeless about any possibility of change vigilantism will increase.

    Nobody is talking about how hard and aggressive law enforcement has gone after this dude too. If you or I got shot in New York, they wouldn't be spending these resources on finding our killer. Total bullshit. Law enforcement exists to protect the elite. Disgusting
    Another fair point.

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    Signals get crossed
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    By internal incoherence

    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

    Everybody got mixed feelings
    About the function and the form
    Everybody got to deviate
    From the norm

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    I don't know if any of these guys have been 'bought' but I can see why Vaush and presumably others have said that these guys have been 'bought' (well Vaush suggested that about Joe Rogan specifically in a video I watched recently.) They all seem to have all the same opinions and their political view shift(s) didn't really seem entirely organic (especially sus when people just have all the same opinions on a variety of topics and just flip all of them at the same time. Suggests either grifting or a personality disorder most of the time,) and the Russia simping seems a bit much I dunno.

    I also know Joe Rogan said at one point he was going to vote for Bernie or something and now he's like a Trumps supporter with normie conservative positions on everything? I get why someone like him probably wouldn't vote democrat but it would make more sense to be independent or something. Just seems incredibly fake to me honestly.

    I haven't watched his podcast in a while so can't really say too much on that but it does seem weird.

    Lol that one guy with all the face tattoos and piercings.

    "I don't see any gays and liberals on the streets, I see men and women couples, I don't see transvestites, I don't see homeless people this place is heaven on Earth I'm moving here forever."

    LOOK AT YOUR FACE.

    You're going to judge other people for their appearence? Sit the [BEEP] down boy lol.

    "Right now you have people who were in prison for Spoiler: killing and raping people they go to war in Ukraine to get free, then they get back from Ukraine and continue Spoiler: killing and raping people"

    Oh I think they were doing a bit of that inbetween in Ukraine too and in the past in Eastern and central Europe since I had a relative who was a first hand witness to various events taking place after world war 2 and plenty of others have spoken about that too.

    Oh speaking of my nan her home country (Danzig, now part of Poland,) came up in the video lol. Not in the context of what the soviet army did there though ironically. Just the earlier Nazi occupation. I've posted about this before but no one talks about what the Russians did there and when an art student in Gdansk in 2013 made a statue showing that it was removed and the artist was faced with 2 years in prison.

    Prosecutors have launched an investigation into a possible charge of inciting racial or national hatred against the 26-year-old artist, even though his concrete sculpture was only in place for one night.
    I get so angry thinking about the response to this, and the general way a lot of stuff has been downplayed because Russians were supposed to be 'the good guys (tm.)

    On another site I was on for a few years there was this Russian radical feminist lol so the idea that they are all tradwives amuses me too. Though more outspoken women tend to end up leaving or getting into trouble with the government like [BEEP] Riot obviously.



    The UK sometimes arrests people for saying things online but they police it in a highly inconsistent way with very vague, ambiguity regarding laws. Consequently I self censor a little (though not just for that reason,) but yeah I know the feeling and I can imagine it being x1000 worse in Russia so I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving for that reason alone.

    "Or the new infamous law about discrediting the armed forces of Russia."

    Yeah I would be in prison 5 minutes ago lol.

    I have a serious issue with the Russian military, followed by all militaries. Also war.

    I guess one thing that made me laugh and revealed just how pathetic they are was when someone in the Russian government said that they had to create an alternative to The Sims because basically The Sims was too powerful and influential (and progressive,) in their country LOL.
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    Signals get crossed
    And the balance distorted
    By internal incoherence

    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

    Everybody got mixed feelings
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    Everybody got to deviate
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    I visited my dad earlier and there was this weird table in the living room with a pattern that looked kind of like some kind of magic sigil on it which was new to me. Apparently my mum found it in the shed and gave it back to my dad (no idea how it ended up in the shed.) So I joked about it being a magic table and he was like 'oh it is.' And I was like 'did someone do some kind of weird ritual?' Joking again and he was like 'oh yeah my sister when she was 16. She and her friends were messing around with a ouija board on the table because she had the same idea about the table I guess.' It was the 60s (I liked how that was just thrown in at one point like some explanation lol.) So I asked him if anything happened and he said they all got freaked out at one point and started screaming. He said he was about 9 or something at the time. Apparently they were all wearing miniskirts and it was her 16th birthday he thinks.

    He said he didn't think it was her 18th because she went to Israel when she was 18 and got into a relationship with a guy who had no legs (because he lost them fighting in a war.) But later when she moved back to the UK they had to break up because he couldn't travel because of his disabilities, which apparently was harder or impossible back then (I dunno if that's true.)

    I never would have imagined her messing around with a ouija board tbh so kind of interesting. It's very much not the kind of image she gives off during my life time.



    We have to normalize getting off T as part of some people's transitions. Transitioning isn't a binary thing, even for binary trans people

    I don't know why people would think it's weird especially if the person is non-binary anyway. I think a big reason a lot of people go on t is to get a lower voice. A bunch of the changes like that, genital changes, and facial hair is permanant or mostly permanant. I think there are likely some psychological benefits really with testosterone but then also potential sexuality stuff which can have pros and cons depending on the individual. If you don't care about getting your period (which can happen to some people on t anyway,) or if you get a hysterectomy, and you're not that bothered about being physically stronger + fat redistribution, and you don't want to lose your head hair (which happens to a lot of people on testosterone,) you might as well go off later.

    I have an estrogen dominant hormone system and have numerous skin issues on my face (and also spots on my back) lol so... Not being on testosterone has not worked out for me in that department lol. Most of the issues began in my 20s really on/off. Previously there were a load on my forehead and I got some prescription stuff which worked to clear it up until it started causing an allergic reaction so I stopped just before the time they suggested to stop using it. After that the issue came back later but to a lesser degree. Whatever is going on now is probably some hormonal thing since the spots move around throughout my cycle and get better/worse but never go away entirely. I cba doing anything about it now but if I was going to start dating or something it'd be an issue.


    "I have hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome probably unsurprising if you already know that I'm autistic, and I'm trans"

    Uh it wouldn't have been unsurprising to me. But I have since read a bunch of posts by that one doctor so I guess:

    **Elevated Serum Homocysteine Levels, ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Hypermobile joints (often also have flat feet, pectus excavatum/carinatum), "Fibromyalgia" (I hate this diagnosis name but basically unexplained pain issues) Hashimoto's thyroiditis, IBS / Inflammatory GI issues, Queerness (gender or sexual orientation), migraine headache (mostly XX humans). Non-gender normative behavior, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (hormonal disruption, hirsutism, or passing out when standing up / "POTS", high resting heart rate, poor stress tolerance), PTSD, Bipolar/Schizo/depression (burnout type), Generalized Anxiety, Eczema, Severe acne in natal females (PCOS), Mast Cell Issues / Allergies, Myopia (negative glasses prescription), Increased Intelligence, Genetic mutations in MTHFR or MTR/R, Irritable Bladder or IC (acidic urine typically, gets up a lot at night to urinate), Spider veins (especially at the base of the neck posteriorly/upper back as well as "cherry hemangiomas". "Translucent" skin with easily visible vasculature.
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    Signals get crossed
    And the balance distorted
    By internal incoherence

    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

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    In January 2019, Beckinsale was reported to be dating American comedian Pete Davidson. In "called time on their romance."[225]
    Lol really? My brother was talking about him yesterday actually. He's like the Taylor Swift of men.

    I don't get the hype though personally.

    Why do we keep debating the appeal of Pete Davidson?

    Much of the confusion spawned over Pete's dating history stems from a suggestion that he's stereotypically less attractive than the objectively, by Western.
    "He's stereotypically less attractive."

    Yes, yes I know. I've liked several guys like that in my life. Still...

    He's had a large quantity of short term relationships with high profile women so I think that's the main reason.

    Off the top of my head he's dated Kate Beckinsale, obviously, Kim Kardasian, Ariana Grande, I thought he dated Lana Del Rey but apparently that was a joke. There's tons of other people I don't recognise too lol.
    The impulse is pure
    Sometimes our circuits get shorted
    By external interference

    Signals get crossed
    And the balance distorted
    By internal incoherence

    A tired mind become a shape-shifter
    Everybody need a mood lifter
    Everybody need reverse polarity

    Everybody got mixed feelings
    About the function and the form
    Everybody got to deviate
    From the norm

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