Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile testosterone...
I'm so alpha I killed every beta cell in my body. HRT: 11.15.23 46, programmer (probably not the kind you need), TTRPG, Warcraft, Ski, my dragon hoard contains song lyrics and useful information, sarcasm is my special interest.
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view profile on Bluesky Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Meanwhile testosterone...
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
When we are reduced to the #2 continental power instead of suzerain of the global maritime trade empire people are really going to regret this period of US History.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
Love that we have a government that in the past people would have written entire books of eschatology about, but the modern equivalent is just posting on social media about it with no magic numbers or allusions to Babylonian myth.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Another drink obviously.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
If you aren't in Iowa she won't read them if you are in Iowa she also won't read them but a staffer might. So yes.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
My new pc came with bitlocker on and this happened to me on day 2. I can't imagine the stress it would induce if I actually had anything stored on it.
Captain Disillusion (@captaindisillusion.bsky.social) reposted
If you're doing a long text post, please include an ALT image where it's a cartoon of you with a dialogue bubble saying all the stuff, in hand-lettered comic book font.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
It is so weird, like women shouldn't feel good about being hot? I wish more did. I wish more people were ashamed of how they treat others instead of being ashamed of their own bodies.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
People don't understand trans they aren't likely to understand detrans as a phenomenon.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Currently imagining that dog with a tophat, a cuppa, and asking, 'chewsday innit?'
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm pretty sure they think eradicating smallpox was sort of an original sin, and that illness is a gift from God to remove weak genes from the species. Whether they actually understand how vaccines work or not is a bit more tricky.
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
This is gonna be real interesting for me in a month, I wonder if the hospital will tell me not to get vaccinated this year.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I absolutely hate it when politicians put their own face or name on things. Kind of small potatoes given all the other Trump nonsense but it is some seriously cringe bullshit that would turn my stomach even if the policy were good.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd tolerate a little smarm in a politician because it is archetypal for the class, but his willingness to throw just about anyone under a bus for attention is where the line must be drawn.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
They will ignore actual guns and take the reminder that they also want to ban guns in video games and movies. I was a kid during the satanic panic of the 80s and it is how these people's brains work.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Video games are not guns. ^.^
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Nah, we're fucking everywhere. They might not be out though.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
One might get the impression people are more upset by the media interviewing a 10 year old than they are about yet another mass shooting. But that would be crazy.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I know you are pointing out hypocrisy and I'm here for it, but the people we are up against will hear this and think you want to join them in more censorship.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Tell religious people that they are free to believe you believe in a higher power, call it a test of faith.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
As long as it crashes the pc less often than your grandma would it is a net win for society, right?!
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted reply parent
Most of the stuff written on the guns were purely for shock value so people will share and utilize it to target their political enemies. It's a sure fire way for these monsters to notariety and have everyone talking about them endlessly. It's a hack for fame in a politically polarized society.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
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Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
In case anyone hasn't been paying attention the first hours after any mass shooting the right tries their best to convince everyone the shooter was trans. They want it to be true so badly we might eventually see a shooter actively fake being trans to help their "side". Always remain skeptical.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
How long before the egg cracks and she regrets?
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
Gun autism is what happens when parents don't support train autism.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
A yikes fr then.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Are starter packs still a thing?
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Truly inspired. Still time to do Halloween as Barbie-barian and Ken-taur everyone.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
"i can't find the clock" "oh there it is, it is 4:05"
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
What a great post I also love it when people assume I only post about things I hate.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I've thought it was a bad idea to give the feds control of things like healthcare because in times like this, they would take healthcare away from people they didn't like, lgbt, veterans, minorities, kids, sick people. But as it turns out they will do that even if we don't have socialized medicine.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
<3 Tacticool interior design and home organisation.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
They did the math and figured out that it is profitable to provide exceptional customer service. Eventually someone will retire, a new idiot will seek to distinguish their reign, and the enshitification will happen. But for now, rejoice.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
This is why we pay extra for the luer lock syringes.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah. All those advertisements are for gold too. Allegedly.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
They should make a separate tab for people who wtb\wts, I think the whole principle is anti video game, but enough people clearly want to p2w they should just facilitate it without bugging actual players.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
We arent even venomous.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
At least the people that do it while skiing I can hose down with snow as I go by. Hiking with Bluetooth speakers is a whole different level of uncool.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm glad the raccoons are safe.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
The Cardinals are going to have to trans their hats or change their name.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I assume trashy uneducated possibly violent people who are also very easy to manipulate if you do have to interact with them for some reason.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Personally I love 3 hour discussions of literal pamphlets. But I'm probably weird. If it is worth knowing it is worth going deep.
Sheryl Weikal, still wishing ill on JK Rowling (@leftistlawyer.com) reposted
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
She wasn't perfect but she was fine, especially in comparison to the trash fire we got. Most likely the next Dem we can vote for will be a whole lot worse on a whole lot of things than she is.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I think a business that was named "restaurant for women who like breakfast at 8pm" would go hard.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, good thing they did. I'm not sure we are mature enough as a species for the tech we have now. We need to heavily invest in the culture tree.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
Girl who waits 20 years to try a crunchwrap. They are pretty good. But I probably need a low carb version.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Better outreach to the right than whatever those two are doing would be along the lines of hour long high concept costumed explainers using simple language and jokes, that push boundaries but not too much. Outreach is important, but you gotta bring people into the tent, not move the tent.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
One is side scroll one is vertical scroll one is overhead camera 4 way scroll. A lot was sacrificed on the alter of 3d.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
When I was a kid I was terrified of meds skipping the liver. Needles were not scary, injections were. Luckily diabetes waited until I was old so it was never an issue outside a few vaccination meltdowns. Most people are, "Everything I needed to know I learned in kindergarten" coded, unfortunately.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
They exist. But, uhh, needles are better. High pressure jets of medicine kinda sting it turns out. Needles also protect your skin from injection sight reactions. Star trek should retcon the hypospray to use teleporter tech to beam the medicine directly into your blood stream.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
If only Vance had a better magic system Dungeons and Dragons could be balanced.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
Love would one shot my limbic system in ways AI could only hallucinate about.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
That's, fuckin crazy.
Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) reposted
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I'll hugbox just about anyone, if I think they are cute.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I just finished it myself in my head a few different ways, just now. If he puts out a book I'll read it but if he would rather do anything else that's cool too. The big dick thing to do would be to put it in the public Domain and watch the chaos while he is still alive.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
All the docs love low blood pressure, but the phlebotomists hate her.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe if you didn't use ai to do all of your thinking...
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
You should provide an apology page to residents of Mississippi, and allow vpn providers to sponsor it.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Seattle isn't a state.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
First they will rob the banks and museums.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Where were going, slaves don't need "jobs".
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah a lot of times insurance makes this sort of thing more expensive. Great system all around. 🙄
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
And you get to do gender affirming conflict avoidance! (I literally did the same, I am not making fun of you.)
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
It's Inanna, Ishtar if you're nasty. Astarte is cool too, but Isis is a different goddess entirely. 😉
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh yeah Walgreens is probably just an employee who wasn't trained. You can probably get the pharmacist involved to give you LLs and train their tech. But it'll probably happen again next time. They don't pay those folks enough.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
It is possible they are just idiots but probably they know what you are doing and are communicating that they disapprove.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Fine, keep your dignity.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I think for viscous meds even the pros would avoid the slips. youtube.com/shorts/TsG4g...
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Just show up anyway and don't accept that you are wrong until they see you.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, my pharmacy includes whatever random needles they have laying around, got the slip the first time, immediately bought a 4 year supply of locks. I need to find out if I can donate the unused ones to a needle exchange or if I should just accidentally drop them around the back.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
For your own safety I recommend you find yourself a witch with thick thighs before boarding any watercraft.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I dunno I just got some luer lock syringes and some fattie 18g needles to draw with. I can't imagine trying to push or pull estradiol through the 32g I use for insulin.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
It'll eventually go away and\or you'll get used to a baseline level of pain. 🎉
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah I had the same experience when a friend made me play it a year or two ago. I'm pretty sure they make you play bots or super low MMR afk people until they put you in a real game.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Oral Ibuprofen and lidocaine cream might be the best you can do anyway. You could also try overwhelming the nerves with capsaicin, but I don't think even I would be insane enough to rub tiger balm on shingles.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I really miss when holy wars only happened on Usenet instead of spilling out into the real world.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Rock climbing is great, and you get to apply some of the XP to your shibari skill tree as well.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I tried to Google it but, obviously, that can't work.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I have no affinity for country music but I enjoyed learning about it a little. I used to imbibe at a dive bar where we were the social contract required singing along to a particular song when the owner got drunk enough. It was about rodeo, ex wife, pickup truck, all the tropes. Total banger.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
-Right hand on head- -Left hand gestures wildly- "Microplastics in the air! Man! Microplastics in the air..." -despondent, scanning eyes-
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Why can't people just say, "I like your top." Why must it be "anatomy detected"?
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
The main statistic they (and their supporters) use to determine the crime rate is how many brown people they see walking around. The actual crime rate simply isn't a factor in their decision making or propaganda.
Rebecca Watson (@skepchick.org) reposted
ME (placing my arm around my best friend): hey buddy here's what I'm prepared to do together with you--purchase one-way tickets to The Netherlands where, together, we will turn you into the International Court of Justice for the genocide you're doing.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I've been very annoyed by this in teams, someone makes a comment and includes a URL, email, or phone number and I need to copy it to use it or send it somewhere else and it will only let me grab the whole message. So terrible.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
We have to embrace buying clothing that might make us happy. If it turns up and is unwearable garbage or it doesn't fit right, keep trying and learning. So far I only really trust myself in the athleisure space.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
They are going to "liberate" more American cities like they did LA. Someone needs to tell them that means "install liberalism" so they stop.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
I'm not sure meatloaf fried rice works but it worked enough. Sometimes you get in late from a road trip and anything in the fridge is fair fodder.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I have always shown up for the comforts of humor, camp, sfx, and tropes. Movies can't be scary, they are movies.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm old enough to have had the joy of pox parties. Shingle showed up in my 20s; thought I got bit by a spider with necrotizing venom or something. It continues to hurt for no reason a lifetime later. Vaccines are very cool.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
The ivermectin manufacturing industry quietly hired the "Got Milk?" ad firm back in 2019 so this is just the reality we live in now.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social)
Is trolley problem autism just low key train autism? (I enjoy trolley based metaphors.)
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
A sarcasm based one, sorry. It will never not be weird to me that I can get tonsils removed because I felt like it, but something equally accessory requires sign off from multiple mental health professionals.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
They do like to make academia sound like being sent to the Colosseum to face the lions. It is always publish _and_ perish in the end anyway. Though I guess if you publish something important enough they will give you immortality in statue or a hall or something.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
Can't you just tell them you are an adult and can make medical decisions for yourself?
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
The feminine urge to be useful and fulfill the needs of society. I wish I could have been the kind of primadonna who thought she could get away with studying history or art instead of always computer.
Tess 🏳️⚧️ (@gortess.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm more of a bronze age girlie but you should get a loan and do it. Inflation is going to go wild, spend other people's money now.