things that help me with dysphoria
This felts really corny when i first tired it but doing some positive afformations in the mirror really helped me with this, little notes that say something like 'this is what a woman looks like', 'you are beautiful' etc, I've got an old crimethink 'beauty must be what we define it as, or else it is our enemy' poster too
i generally just avoid looking in the mirror tho tbh
i dont know how long youve been out to yourself for, but with time things like ffs and srs have become a lot less important to me, but it was a lot of mental work
once when i told my grandmother how depressed i was feeling she told me, whenever she's feeling really down she hops in the shower, puts on some nice clothes and does her make up (oddly affirming because she doesnt really get im trans), but self care really helps
also helpful to remember the way you see yourself is not how other people see you
be kind to yourself
this is sweet i have memories like this
I keep some hairties on me all the time (on my keys, in my wallet), gettining to help out someone, is a good feeling in return. I think i gave one to some random retail staff who were getting chewed out by a manager in front of me once
hot? yeah i guess it was a little toasty overnight now i've had to crack out my second blanket, its the middle of winter! This is southern hemisphere erasure!
im doing okay, someone in the vague 'activist scene' in my city is kinda making my life hell atm, theyre not well, but neither am i. So i'm fading out of existence. For how much people all talk about 'community', i'm yet to have many people check in with me.
Theyre going to be living in a worldwithoutlawyers.jpg now i'm gone. no one else is going to tell them to reexamine their preconceptions, theres going to be unexamined racist shit going down, i tell you what.
i kept being told 'well remember what you were like when you were young!', and i kept thinking, yeah damn, they should all be doing drugs instead of crowing themselves godking of the 'movement'.
this has all really destroyed my confidence i'm actually too anxious to even check replies here atm, for a while i couldnt even comment because i felt like everyone was so mad at me lol.
The 'scene' is good for them, but has been a disaster for my mental health. so i'm dropping everything so i can rekindle my energy and re engage myself with my union organising.
i dunno this feels like too much, maybe im too much. I'm getting echoes of an ex telling me 'i'm not availible to do emotional labour for you'. haha hehe hoho yes
if people are treating you like shit, you should leave, its not easy, but its for the best
Oh hey look, China and India are suddenly getting a lot of oil from Kazakhstan
I dunno how good this source is, but you get the idea
honestly how would america survive if there was suddenly an additional 500% exercise on goods from PRC?
fbi shootout in Idaho? I immediately thought itd be white seperatist losers ala Ruby Ridge
Settlers doing settler things
Volcel police
Have bob dylan killed
comrades why do we not have any monty burns emotes? 😥
someone tag the australian broardcasting corporation.
I feel cautious joking about this, but I have no where to share this, and I'm trying to force optimism onto myself.
BIGOTRY WON'T FIX YOUR RENT
Banner seen on unceded Kaurna land, Trans Day of Action, 2025
source, instagram
its a tv miniseries
saw it mentioned in a youtube video by FD signifier, I just finished the first episode, and I enjoyed it a lot, something about needing positive propaganda not just constant commenting on reactionary garbage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_a_Virgo
synopsis below, directed by Boots riley, released 2023
Cootie is a 13-foot-tall (4.0 m), 19-year-old Black teenager raised by his Aunt Lafrancine and Uncle Martisse in Oakland, California. He is shielded from the outside world until being accidentally discovered by a group of teenage political activists
“I didn’t vote,” says the Kangaroo.
“Are you not allowed?”
“I am not allowed and I don’t want to.”
“You don’t want to?”
“No, because it’s not an election,” says the Kangaroo. “It’s just the illusion of democracy, a mock poll, the Fata Morgana of popular government. In short, it’s only the appearance of an election, or, to use the official terminology: a dummy ballot.
“A dummy ballot?”
“It’s as if you go into a supermarket and can choose between soup packets by Maggi or soup packets by Knorr, but in reality, it’s all Nestlé. The dummy ballot suggests freedom, but in reality, I tell you: it’s all capitalism, it’s all Nestlé, it’s all chicken. But because I generally do not wish to consume packaged soup, I don’t really give a hoot about brand options at the supermarket.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kangaroo_Chronicles
I never finished reading it, but the first chapter is on youtube as an audiobook read by the author, it's good for a laugh
Marc-Uwe Kling: Kangaroo Chronicles - Chapter 1 (youtube, 4m 17s)
NSFW probably
content warning for the article and anything related sexual violence, sex abuse (sorry this wasn't here initially)
hey comrades,
I've been having this issue that I thought must have been related to me using Voyager, but I just experienced the same thing through desktop firefox.
When I respond to some users the page load times out and says I can't reply, but it has posted my reply (often without upvoting my own comment)
Obviously not thrilled to be tagging people but one user I have noticed it with replying @[email protected], both threads and comments.
Which is extra annoying cause I've been really enjoying nerding out together.
I think it has happened with other users too. (Really regretting not saving the thread that was extra broken I saw earlier in the week.)
A comrade just sent me this, from https://cubaisnotalone.art/
China says Australia 'plagued by systemic racism' after diplomat raises concerns about human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-24/china-accuses-australia-of-racism/104513232
australian here to confirm that China is correct
In what appeared a blatant attempt to skirt the warnings, dozens of protesters waved banners that appeared to be very similar to the flag of the terror group. One green and gold flag – colours that represent both Australian sporting teams and Hezbollah – depicted Australian outlaw Ned Kelly holding a gun above his head.
Under the image of Kelly were the words: “The boys in green and gold will win.”
[...]
Alex, an attendee who also had the flag, told The Australian he was simply a “sporting enthusiast” who was backing “the green and gold”. “I’m just a sporting enthusiast who is supporting Ned Kelly and the boys in the green and gold,” he said.
snippet about the pro-palestine rally in sydney yesterday
https://archive.md/rR7iH (its the australian, don't read it)
Hezbollah protesters in Melbourne may face police, visa scrutiny
A protester with a photo of Nasrallah during a pro-Palestine rally for Gaza and Lebanon at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne on Sunday.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke threatened to consider canceling visas for people supporting such groups.
“Any indication of support for a terrorist organisation is unequivocally condemned,” Burke said in a statement on Sunday.
“It draws the immediate attention of our security agencies.
“There is a higher level of scrutiny if anyone is on a visa.
“I have made clear from day one, that I will consider refusing and cancelling visas for anyone who seeks to incite discord in Australia.”
What a fucking joke, Posy Parker is coming back to australia in under a month for a "conservative conference", and they're getting ready to round up Brown kids. I saw somewhere that a 13 year old got pepper sprayed in the face for carrying a Hezbollah flag yesterday as well.
a trans person ragebaited me into admitting i'm a transphobic tit, whaaaa 🦈😭🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
I'm sorry your struggling, but I think itd be good to spoiler such negative slurfilled self talk in future <3