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Hello, Friends.

As the server shut down yesterday, I am turning this into an archive of our time on this blog. In doing so, I have changed the password and only I will know the password from here-on-out.

And I will not be logging in to the server in any near future.

Anyway.

From the River to the Sea. Palestine Will Be free.

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Hello everyone

After much discussion, a new date for shutting down the server has been decided upon. If you are a part of the server we have made sure to give everyone time to add friends with those they wish to stay in contact with, and gather screenshots or pictures that you wish to keep.

The server will be shut down on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024. If you are seeing this after that date we hope you find the place that you are looking for. Just know you are not alone and there are others like you.

Thank you for having been apart of the server, and we wish you all the best.

Staff

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Being kind isn't actually about how much shit you can quietly take. You can be kind and still shut down people who attempt to use and manipulate you. Kindness is about treating others well whenever you can, not about how much you're willing to suffer for others. So don't confuse being kind with being a victim and a pushover. No one with your best interests at heart will claim that it's the same thing.

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A trans man has been reported missing in New Jersey, USA. His name is Elliot Ganiel (though he was initially misgendered & deadnamed by police and the news). He is a 32-year-old White trans man, 4-foot-4, 140 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. He has been missing since February 28th, 2024. His car and belongings were found at Mullica River Canoe Landing within Wharton State Forest.

Anyone who has any information on Elliot should contact Detective Matthew Locotos at 609-641-3122 or the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection hotline at 1-877-927-6337.

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“but AI art lets me create my OCs!” YOU WILL USE PICREW AS GOD INTENDED

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2024 RISK map for transgender people in the us

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Folks have got to understand that they probably aren't messed up by some Secret Big Trauma that they just can't remember; but rather by a million tiny microtraumas that they do mostly remember but don't even register as traumatic because nobody actually understood that these things would cause trauma, much less stack on each other over the years.

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hello everyone!! this is a burner account to share this:

as photomatt deletes everything, me and a few others are trying our best to compile screenshots to spread the word of the situation. most of the screenshots in the dropbox feature a comment by one of our helpers containing context. if you have any screenshots you'd like to add, please dm me. there is a high chance this account will get banned, so please save this dropbox and the screenshots included and continue to spread the word.

thank you!!

edit: thank you to all the people sharing and reblogging this! please note that this dropbox is being constantly updated (as i type this, files are being processed) so be sure to check in frequently for updates.

edit 2: as this gets more popular, i'm getting more and more worried about the probability of getting banned. to send me screenshots, please feel free to add me on discord (@mit_skies). i'll try to keep everyone updated on there + it'll be easier for me to see and document screenshots.

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Guys, stop being crap to creators. You aren’t hurting Amazon. You’re stealing from writers.

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we should hype up bottom surgery more i think. both twitter transphobes and chronically online trans people really like to be disgusted at phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, ext. and i really think we should treat them as cool and sexy and neutral like top surgery scars or whatever

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Big survey shows that 94% of transgender Americans who have transitioned are happy with their choice

The National Center for Transgender Equality in the US published the results of a survey of 92,329 transgender Americans.

The survey shows that trans people who come out and start presenting and living as their true selves experience a vast improvement in their quality of life.

On transitioning

The U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) reports:

Nearly all respondents (94%) who lived at least some of the time in a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth (“gender transition”) reported that they were either “a lot more satisfied” (79%) or “a little more satisfied” (15%) with their life. Three percent (3%) reported that transitioning gender made them “neither more nor less satisfied” with their life, 1% were “a little less satisfied”, and 2% were “a lot less satisfied” with their life.

The claim that a lot of trans people regret transitioning is clearly a lie.

On hormone treatment

Nearly all respondents (98%) receiving hormone treatment reported that this treatment made them either “a lot more satisfied” (84%) or “a little more satisfied” (14%) with their life.

On surgery

The similar numbers for gender-affirming surgery was 88% for "a lot more satisfied" or 9% for "a little more satisfied". Only 2 percent was some shade of "less satisfied".

On identity

Of the 84,170 adult respondents, 38% identified as nonbinary, 35% as transgender women, 25% as transgender men and 2% as crossdressers.

"Crossdresser" as a cultural category is clearly been replaced by terms like nonbinary and people coming out as trans.

Support from families

We are glad to see that the support trans people get from their families is getting better, although not as good as we could have hoped.

36% of adult respondents who said that some or all of their immediate family knew that they were transgender reported their family members were “supportive” of them being transgender, and 31% said they were “very supportive.”

Among 16- and 17-year-old respondents, 27% said their family members were “supportive”, and 17% “very supportive.” 

Young people (16-17) are facing the hardest resistance, with 29% reporting unsupportive family members. There is probably a selection bias here, as more of the older trans people who have transitioned have done so because they have gotten support from their families. Many continue to live in the closet out of fear of losing their loved ones. Older trans people are also more likely to have chosen important family members, like their partners, avoiding transphobes in the process.

NBC News has more.

Figures from  Early Insights: A Report of the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey and NBC.

Photo: vandervelden

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“Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you. Live in the present and make it beautiful.”

— Unknown

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💫 It's okay to write fiction you would not want your grandmother to see.

💫 Different stories are for different audiences.

💫 You do not have to appeal to everyone.

💫 Don't sacrifice the story you want to tell for an imaginary audience or for imaginary critics.

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Homosexuality explained in a German Children’s Book