Abt switch
The Abt switch is a kind of railway switch used on funiculars (inclined cable railways) that doesn't have any moving parts. It allows two cars to pass each other going uphill/downhill while sharing the same tracks. While most train switches rely on physically moving a section of track so the train goes one way or the other, the abt switch doesn't move at all. Instead each carriage has a grooved wheel which makes it turn left or right at a junction by sticking to the track on one side.
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I'm leaving the following words for myself and might come back to them later. Feel free to read (and agree/disagree)
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Shaming yourself, especially body shaming yourself is cringe.
Either you believe that other trans girls/boys/enbs are also flawed and deformed and undeserving of love, or you believe you are special and that the laws of dialectics are specifically consipiring against you to fuck you over and mark as a "categorically inferior/shameful thing".
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Yeah this is real and unfortunately something that I've had to remind myself of a lot.
True. I dipped my toe into TransTok for inspiration while I start doing the girl thing, and it’s really useful, but you have to get through a lot of “I’m ugly and masculine but everyone else is a beautiful goddess” which I don’t really have time or mental capacity for atm