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Transformers: Trans Megathread from March 9 2026 to March 15 2026

Alright gotta do this before I head out, transformers I mostly know them to do one thing and that's changing voltage. You either have step up or what I've learned them for mostly in HVAC as step down as in changing 240 volts to 24 volts. There's not much you really do to fix them if they aren't working just make sure the wires coming in are actually secured on it and the lines out also. If it ain't working you replace it with an OEM and move on but I done some digging into how they work. As shown in the image you got windings shown primary and secondary and how the voltage change depend on the ratio of windings you got and the voltage coming in. Something something Faradays of induction and you got EMF, look I'm not gonna pretend I fully understand it all yet but I'm trying. I know this component is real important since while the main things in HVAC require 240 volts a lot of safe guards and other components need just 24 volt to get working such as contactors and switches to get the power through. Anyway keep looking out on this mega as I add more through out the week as I try to educate myself on it by reading.


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::: spoiler spoiler :::

gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 4mon

HELLO THIS IS THE MEGA SIGN UP POST/LIST POST

if you have a preferred week please tell me

Disaster_of_Passion* (3/16 - 3/22)
meler* (3/23 - 3/29)
Shaleesh* (3/30 - 4/5)
Carcharodonna* (4/6 - 4/12)
GayTuckerCarlson* (4/13 - 4/19)
Busgirl (4/20 - 4/26)
SwitchyandWitchy* (4/27 - 5/3)

​ * after name denotes someone who has posted before and will be skipped by first-time posters

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

You can throw us back on the schedule :3

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

unlimited genocide on every hair follicle not on my scalp. Except pubes I don't really mind you guys too much. So limited genocide.

That is all

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BimboChristmas [she/her] - 4mon

PartnerFiance asked if I want to get married.

But some of our friends also recently announce their engagement like last week and it's a really big deal to them so we're keeping this down low for a bit so they can have their time in the spotlight.

So instead I'm just posting about it on a website for trans communists. I get to be a little excited at least.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Congratulations that's awesome news!

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler more parental drama updates

The audacity of my mom to say

  1. "You can tell me anything" (has been only 2-3 weeks since she fucked me over for coming out the closet)
  2. "I dreamt that you were crying, is there anything you want to tell me?" (Go fuck yourself mom. You feeling vaguely guilty doesn't undo the damage you did)

I can't even trust that this all isn't a manipulation tactic

:::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler bad lifestyle choices

My current lifestyle consists of me constantly switching between caffeine, alcohol, dopamine/internet content and work from about 6 am to midnight and then it takes me an hour of tossing and turning and weeping till I fall asleep.

As you can imagine, it is very healthy.

(please turn the thoughts off I want them gone gone gone gone gone gone)

:::

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ashestoashes @lemmygrad.ml - 4mon

I think a lot of us can relate. I sure can.

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 4mon

It's finally happened. I'm switching to injections.

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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 4mon

Yooooo sick congrats! I’ll be there by the end of the month inshallah

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 4mon

Injections for all!

I'm a little nervous about doing them still but after selling plasma for a few months I guess I don't fear the little 25 gauge needle like I used to.

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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 4mon

Damn I should have sold plasma, I’m still nervous. I just looked up needle pictures and they’re freaky

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 4mon

Yeah those are like horror movie needles

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

People who get dialysis always have central lines- but they do also have fistulas installed in their forearms I guess just in case? Doesn't matter what that all is, they just have surgery to get a beeeeg vein installed.

On those we use a 14 gauge needle, biggest fucker I've ever seen.

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DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them] - 4mon

You can go up to 30g, I use insulin needles.(MCT oil)

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 4mon

Good to know!

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DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them] - 4mon

I am uising diy enanthanat, so ymmv

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

Depression is hitting hard today.

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

::: spoiler depressive thoughts I'm completely unable to do anything that would give some income. Getting a job feels completely impossible, trying stuff with my little shope has been a waste of time. I can't win against depression most days and just rot...

Honestly I've been losing my will to live slowly, nothing works and I'm tired. :::

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Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them] - 4mon

I took a shower in a locker room at a gym after working out!!! This has been a significant milestone!

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Hell yeah no longer stinky

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Moss [they/them] - 4mon

I was looking for a job. I found a job, and wouldn't you know it, I'm miserable now

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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 4mon

Does anyone have the meme thats like

'when you know a trans person long enough you learn they have a second, secret set of pronouns'

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

I captured a gardevoir and she's a trans girl. I only have girls in my team, if the pokémon follow me they're girls, I don't care what the game says, even the "male" alolan raichu is a girl

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SockOlm [she/her] - 4mon

I remember using hacks on my 3ds to change the gender markers on my pokemons snom

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

I don't really care about it, honestly. It's just funny to pretend that the feminine looking male pokémon is trans

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crosswind [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

I talked last mega about how the dam of my emotional repression was cracking, and was going to break under the rising waters of estrogen.

Instead I went out deep in the forest and picked up a clump of moss. It slowly crept along my skin. Now there’s a thick layer over my whole body. My memories from before I was a moss creature feel stranger and stranger.

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Is that a better state than before?

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crosswind [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

Absolutely. It's lovely

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Fuck yeah!!! Maybe those old memories will just break down into compost and feed the moss.

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CommunistCuddlefish [she/her] - 4mon

That sounds very chill, happy for you!

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler current events, transphobia I feel like I'm going fucking crazy. So the 4th circuit just put out a really scary ruling saying out right care bans for adults are a-okay. Even further then what republicans wanted. The NHS in the UK is doing a report into if adult care is going to stay or not (after their report taking care away from kids). What the fuck is happening??!!! ::: spoiler meta If you didn't see that news, it's because no one here cared. Both threads sitting at 20~ votes. One comment each. Even people here don't give a fuck, is this not huge news?? I feel like I'm going crazy, I'm not over reacting am I?? Like these are both big, scary, crazy steps towards just banning us completely??? :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler

The legal stuff changes too much all the time for me to make sense of or track any of it. I know I should keep up, but there are so many things I should think about, plan for, keep up with while my brain barely works. These are such difficult and confusing times I don't know ,,,

What the fuck is happening??!!!

The Anti-Christ is descending upon earth and the empire is trying to engineer the apocalypse. I guess.

is this not huge news?? I feel like I'm going crazy, I'm not over reacting am I?? Like these are both big, scary, crazy steps towards just banning us completely???

It is huge news, but probably drowned out in terms of attention by the war. You are not overreacting. On other forums where this news was discussed it blew up.

:::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

It is huge news, but probably drowned out in terms of attention by the war.

Porn addicts getting their data leaked got 80 votes. An old study about crowd movement (fascinating stuff, to be sure) got 60. A crusty ass my son vs your son meme got 60. A new emoji submission got 50. A few birds got 40. There are tons of posts that got more attention that aren't about the war. People here don't care.

I know I'm not overreacting I just wanted to bitch about this site in general.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Yeah ...

Sucks ass

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mean [she/her, it/its] - 4mon

I'm beginning to think that cis "people" are incapable of empathy

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

I'm terrified

I hate being trans

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

My two standards of when I'll feel like I'm actually a girl are:

  • getting a modicum of attention from sapphic women
  • getting harassed by men on the street

Probably not the healthiest things to judge my worth on but it do be like that sometimes

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

-getting a modicum of attention from sapphic women

Damn need

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

Same aware

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

I wish you many lovely "getting dragged to the Dancefloor by a friendly lesbian"s in your life :3 hexbear-lesbian

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

There is a very hard boundary between when cishet men started hitting on me in really gross ways in public lol, no idea why or what it was but on one side I passed to sapphic women and the other presumably passed to everyone

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 4mon

The other day I walked around with my long hair down (I usually have a bun or ponytail) and I noticed I was getting like horny stares from men instead of the usual disgust/scared and I was like, gross and huh milestone I guess.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

From experience the first one is a lot more fun. I hope you get a lot of that and a minimum amount of the second.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

The age of the dominant bottom has begun

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Dominant bottom is unironically the greatest kink category ever (imo)

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WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided] - 4mon

Only the coolest megathread gets to see this picture of one of the cats I just took

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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 4mon

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Looking pretty cozy and toasty

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Nother day with nothing accomplished! Instead of doing my tasks I spent my time yearning for what could have been had I been born in a world with magic (instantaneous perfect sex change) or magic (loving and accepting society)

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Relatable

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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 4mon

this isn't about robots in disguise

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Sadly no 😔

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

nor mailmen in my fries (i looked this up and apparently it's not like a thing. so my siblings just started saying that when we were kids and thought it was funny I guess)

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

This is the longest time I've been this depressed. Really struggling right now

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

meow-hug hope you feel better soon, depression is rough

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

cuddle

Sending some love your way ...

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Painting on metal canvas

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Not complete product. You see that rainbow stuff? That's "thin film interference" which happens when you got a thin film of stuff (usually some oil or organic thing) coating a surface. It's the same thing as those oils giving rainbow colors

Anyway, you gotta remove that oily stuff (it's the leftover photoresist in this wafer)

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

This is the wafer under a microscope after giving it an acetone cleaning. You can see all the colors. Photoresist is still stuck between all the trenches and holes and stuff

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nemmybun [she/her, sae/saer] - 4mon

ooo pretty I love iridescence niko-wonderous

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

And iridescence love you! heart-sickle

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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 4mon

are you fabricating semiconductors?

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Well, yes. It's all semiconductors. But specifically I am fabbing photonic chips

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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 4mon

that's pretty cool, the closest to "making" a cpu or something like it i ever got was making a mips datapath in verilog that could run a little assembly program implemented on an fpga

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Woah that's awesome :I

What are the circular thingies with the straight line and the curvy line through them?

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Part of a ring oscillator or filter (probably, I didn't make this mask, it was given for the assignment).

Light enters and leaves the ring. If it has an integer number of wavelengths along the length of the ring, it constructively interferes and can pass the filter. That sort of thing.

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GiorgioBoymoder [she/her] - 4mon

photonics?! oh hell yeah

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

trying to make the news mega beat the trans mega this week by turning the news mega into the trans mega

damn I miss that time

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler while I'm being shitty about cis ppls body issues (dysphoria) My boss was telling me the other day about how self conscious she is about her top lip being too small, and how expensive filler is for her to be happy with it. Like 500 bucks I guess, one or two injections.

Can you fucking imagine? Like, that's the thing you really hate about your body and how it's fixed? How the fuck do people say my body issues are the same as a cis woman's with a straight face? I've spent that much making sure my body has the right hormone! A fucking lip is too small?? My voice is fucking RUINED by T and you're going to sit here complaining your top lip isn't big enough???

In what world are my issues remotely comparable with this??? God it just pisses me off. Why the fuck do I hate to deal with my fucking ruined voice and my fucking disgusting genitals instead of "my lip is normal sized instead of big" :::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Got to talk with one of the supportive peeps at work today

It was weird/funny to me that my being trans is more normal to her than it is to me. Its more foreign and weird feeling and everything to the trans person then the ally 💔 god I love her. Wish I saw her more.

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

Finally ordered a bra. Had to get my own Amazon account and free trial of prime so it comes tomorrow since I've been sharing one with my mom hitherto (and paying for it, which feels silly. I guess I do make more money than her. More parentification perhaps?). I hope it fits well enough

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

omg I thought you were sharing one bra with your mom

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

Great depression ass scenario

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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 4mon

i hate how easily i get jealous when my friends are closer with other ppl than they are with me, and also how upset i get if i dont get enough attention

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

It's really frustrating for me too, and unfortunately common because that's always the case

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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 4mon

meow-hug

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

waow it's literally me denji-just-like-me

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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 4mon

meow-hug

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rafflesia [she/her, it/its] - 4mon

oh god thats so me

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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 4mon

started testing out "galthing" moniker for my it/it's friend

it seems to like it catgirl-heart

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puppygirlpets [pup/pup's, she/her] - 4mon

doggirl-happy i'm never puppy stressed when i do my puppy best!

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

::: spoiler Sadness and sorrow I've been super emotional this week. Crying, or wanting to cry almost non-stop. Is this normal, or is there something wrong with me? Is this just my depression acting up + estrogen making me cry like a baby?

There's no specific reason, I'm just sad in general. Also probably because I got the money I saved up ran out and I have no hopes of building up any income soon... :::

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

I'm sorry cuddle

It may be worth tracking your mood in a journal/diary or something and looking back to see any patterns. A lot of trans women report having periods.

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler I'm pretty sure this is normal for being trans but don't have a huge sample size. +1. :::

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Disaster_of_Passion [kit/kit's, she/her] - 4mon

I had to go in for bloodwork today and the lab tech at the clinic was the sweetest old lady. She was so casually kind and good humoured, very good at relieving tension in what's normally a pretty stressful situation for me. After a little joking around she told me that I brightened her day... I really didn't expect going to the clinic for bloodwork to pull me out of the anxious funk I'd been in all morning.

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SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them] - 4mon

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 4mon

Diving into a long, story driven game again feels good, especially when it's not just to dissociate. I'm about to make katsu tofu too, so it's going to be a good night.

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Yummy, God I need to find a game to do that with. What game are you playing?

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 4mon

I've been playing Persona 1 for the first time! It's been so much fun, even if it's dated. What kind of games do you like to play?

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

I really like single player games with mystery! I really like nier, shadow of the Colossus, hollow knight, final fantasy, also been getting into the need for speed series lately.

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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 4mon

::: spoiler Today sucks.

It really sucks. Fuck today. Kill it and bury in a shallow grave. Let the animals dig it up and desecrate its body. There should be no day today, the calendar should just jump it over. Fuck this shit. I know my feelings and hurt are disproportionate to what is/what exists. But it still hurts. It still hurts a lot. I want to just... I want to just stop it all I want all of everything to stop. Just for today, is that too much to ask? Just make today stop? Make it go away?

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

meow-hug using my powers as megathread writer to cancel today, rest up

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lilypad [she/her, it/its] - 4mon

doggirl-cry thankies... It really hurts today. A lot. People keep saying nice things to/about me and it just hurts so much to hear those words.

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SickSemper [she/her, comrade/them] - 4mon

::: spoiler slightly horny i was trying to infodump about ww2 to my partner and they were too busy w my hrtitties to pay attention, so these must be the consequences of transitioning I was warned about :::

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Ceres [she/her] - 4mon

The first threepack of sports bras I bought fit perfectly in the store then in like 2 washes stretched way out. So for the 2nd threepack (a different brand) I bought some that were a bit too tight when tried on in the store and its been a while since and they havent stretched at all nooooo. maybe third time will be the charm.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Yayyyy transformer thread! We thought it would be about transistors lol we were gonna look for our microelectronics course notes.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Transistor mega would be a good one for the next mega I make

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

This one goes amazingly well with the electromagnetism mega we made a few months ago though XD

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 4mon

I saw a targeted Ad for me that said "struggling to remember the 156 tarot meanings?"

And I thought: No? It's only 78 plus reversals. I can remember all of those, even when I use Thoth deck with it's different meanings. Doesn't everyone just remember the nature of the minor arcana suits and what the separate numbers mean then imagine them as an x-y graph?

Starting to realise not everyone is an Autistic Trans Lesbian...

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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

Spent today working on a denim skirt that I had thrifted using the sewing machine. I used the legs from some some skinny jeans that I had cut into booty shorts to make bondage straps for the skirt, and I've also been sewing on patches that I previously painted.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I can never be truly afraid because my brain just converts horror into horny.

::: spoiler scary horny

Had a terrifying sleep paralysis event. I'm talking waking up at 4 am. Hearing jingling bells and ear piercing machine screams. Some shadowy creature opened my house door and walks upto my bed. I can't see them but they are caressing my hand gently. Then they climb onto my bed, split into a boy and girl then start fucking me front and back.

:::

What the hell ...

At least I can rest assured that I've reached the "monster fucker" stage of girl horny.

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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler

At least I can rest assured that I've reached the "monster fucker" stage of girl horny.

many such cases catgirl-salute :::

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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler

jingling bells

Santa gets up to weird shit on his free time :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler sleep paralysis Ive had it happen to me a few times, but I usually sense it as a vague evil presence. And every time, I havent been super scared per se but I did try and hit it verrrry slowly. My brain interpreted the "paralysis" part as intentional slow movement. By the time I wasnt caught up in the paralysis, Id kind flop over and simultaneously be fully awake and apparently totally vanished whatever the vague evil presence/sleep paralysis demon. :::

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

I'm sorry about the sleep paralysis cuddle ::: spoiler sex You must be the monster fucker final boss :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

No need to be. Sleep paralysis and nightmares make life more interesting.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

I like that perspective

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WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided] - 4mon

got extended hours tomorrow meaning almost 12 hours of answering calls shinji-froggy-chair RIP me

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Florn [they/them] - 4mon

Someone tried talking to me!

He was a veteran so I lied about an early flight and left.

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

I bought trans colored monster cans (1 white, 1 pink, 1 blue), that counts as coming out right?

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Salah [ey/em] - 4mon

I’m excited to learn more about transformers

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

@sodium_nitride@hexbear.net has provided me an excellent pdf, gonna see about updating the mega tomorrow with all I learned from it rat-salute-2 something to look forward to

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Salah [ey/em] - 4mon

Awesome!

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I will watch your career with great interest ...

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Any day now one of so many applications is gonna respond...

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

lea-finger-guns they will, TRUST!

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Used to have a crush on the librarian because she was friendly but got over it now going to a different library and noticing how much of a cadence these librarians have that are similarilluminati glad nothing came of that crush now or else they would have got me the library cabal

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segfault11 [she/her, any] - 4mon

how can you be sure they didn't get to you via an unconventional route galaxy-brain

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

scared

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

do I go for a sports bra or a bralette first? the homies have gotten to the point where it can hurt a bit when taking stairs too quickly but I don't really feel the need for "support" throughout the day other than that. I'd like it to have a bit of a minimizing effect as well since I'm still boymoding for a bit. 42C/43D if it matters, though that's mostly on account of my ribcage

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I started off with a sports bra and even though my chest size grew significantly I can still use em just fine for moving round with no troubles.

Only problem was my first sports bra gave me back pain. Idk what was up with it (had those cross strings on the back. Maybe that has something to do with it?)

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puppygirlpets [pup/pup's, she/her] - 4mon

i went with a sports bra before they got too big and i started presenting femme full time

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

I did a bralette first for a while until they got too big for it. Anti gravity boobs rock

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 4mon

I've been doing padded sports bra, since early on. Feels comfortable, looks good. I'm going to buy traditional bras when things stabilise

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WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them] - 4mon

I started with tanks with built-in shelf bras I think and still regularly use that? Plus side being that its not instantly identifiable as a bra (my mom found one in the laundry once before I came out and she was just confused about what she was looking at - granted, I pretty quickly took it from her after she asked what it was) but still doesn't prevent people from feeling the bra strap. Doesn't do too much in terms of minimizing other than just add an extra layer of fabric.

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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

The needle on my sewing machine broke and now I have to get new ones before sewing on more patches and bondage straps onto my skirt.

catgirl-cry

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Just rewatched matrix revolutions! Whoever says this movie is bad just has no taste! I really can't understand why people hate on the matrix so much, it's literally better than the Lord of the rings. Also Keanu Reeves does a good job of acting. Like the movies make sense like people who say it makes no sense don't seem to have payed attention. Anywho rant over! I'm really excited to watch the animatrix with my friend next week.

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Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her] - 4mon

I don't know if I am bad at searching or if the hexbear search is bad, but is there a place on here where people have talked about places online that supply HRT meds (specifically spiro)? Or does anyone have any recommendations that they have used and know are legit?

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

Oh an actual link for you I guess...

https://hexbear.net/post/3016455

On here is diyhrt.market which I think is still the preferred one.

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

Sources depend on what country you're in. Are the patches not working out for you?

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

If youre gonna diy anyway, go for cypro over spiro. Spironolactone is the first line anti androgen and that is what's recommended in the WPATH (for now) but its not a particularly effective one in terms of effect to side effect (cause its primarily a dieuretic). Because its off label for feminizing HRT and one of the most common dieuretics, it cant be terribly difficult to find a vendor for it.

Depending on your country, some pharmacies you just walk in and ask for what you want and they give it to you. Definitely a bit weird for those of us in the west

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler

If you're in europe I recomend astrovials

:::

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

eeeeep we almost forgot our injection!

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Forgot to update earlier after we did it but all done now :3

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WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided] - 4mon

Gleeb glorp my friends 💚

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

glorp indeed

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Holy shit life is fucking depressing. ::: spoiler spoiler It's everything honestly. Mostly being trans and having gone through and suffered all the effects of T puberty. Also how disgusting most people act about it. Also hate work. Hate that I'm probably going to work for the same small company my dad does because I don't have any options. How fucking shit is that. Dad's a chud and so is the company. But I don't have any fucking options because I'm fucking depressed because of being fucking trans. Fuck being trans.

Complained a tiny bit in group before everyone started talking over me. Was trying to talk with the transfem NB at the group. Hate complaining with them there because they have it way worse as far as trans stuff goes. Not that it isn't pretty dogshit for me too. Also idk why people put there flag on "some people are good though!" like that's what matters and not the like 80% who aren't. Like they can't make life horrible enough. Also thinking transition is just a matter of time :agony-shivering: whatever out of time to whine, breaks over. :::

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

I feel you quite a bit ::: spoiler spoiler For me it's mostly the work thing. If I had an okay job with accepting people that was enough for me to live on my own comfortably, then I'd be okay.

I hope you can find supportive friends, that makes so much of a difference, they make me feel like anyone who does not respect me doesn't matter and I love them for it. That's probably the only reason why being trans doesn't make me even more depressed.

Of course, I am still dysphoric and have to deal with that too, but having some support makes it much more bearable. :::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler I don't think it's even possible for me, I hit 40 hours last week and it felt like it was killing me, idk I'm so cooked. And being trans good luck finding anything. If work was manageable and people were actually good that would be a big help to me though yea.

I had supportive friends but I think I'm just too depressed and shitty for anyone to want to be around. So now I'm mostly isolated again, which is mostly fine until I randomly break every now and again. Cis people are rarely supportive and trans people don't like me because I hate being trans and am suffering all the time because of it. :::

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler

I had supportive friends but I think I'm just too depressed and shitty for anyone to want to be around.

I think that's just depression speaking. You might be pushing people off or just avoiding them because you think they don't want you around. I'm sure you are a nice person and a lot of people would be lucky to have you as a friend.

Also, a lot of my supportive friends are cis, except they're all communists so maybe there is some bias about that. But my point is, you might be in a place where people are fucking awful. I hope you can find a better place to live. :::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler dysphoria Oh and while I'm being shitty about the meeting last night, this gnc cis woman (she has short hair, not buzzed just kinda short. I work with old people and loads of them have hair that short) was talking about how society treats her badly because of being gnc, and like that really doesn't make me feel better. If just cutting your hair a bit short makes that happen then sounding like a man, having a man's frame, an Adam's apple, being born "male" like all of that has me fucking fucked then doesn't it? How's that make me feel better? Also you could also always just, grow your hair out?? Like literally just get a longer haircut. Do you know the things I'd do if that could be my fix?? I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ABOUT HOW "BAD" CIS PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE

::: spoiler suicide Oh but what do you want to hear

Honestly idk. Honestly you (hypothetical reader) are probably right. There probably isn't anything. I do not have any hope. For perfectly valid reasons, despite everyone's best efforts to convince me otherwise. I probably do just need to kill myself. All I want is for this fucking HELL to stop and it won't, it can't, nothing is helping. I just need to fucking kill myself :) :::

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Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her] - 4mon

Pharmacies are wild. Got some pills that are the teeniest tiniest pills. Dose is 1/4 tablet a day. How the hell am I supposed to cut this thing into quarters??? Why not just make a pill that has a smaller dose? Sheeesh

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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 4mon

:::spoiler familial dynamics criticism discussion

really sincere conversations happening now (elsewhere) talking about being critical of the nuclear family unit, and the dissolution of that idea.

More interestingly to me is the critique of the "found family" trope. Specifically, trying to re-create the nuclear family dynamics within the found family. Such as : seeking a parental relationship / assigning somebody to be your parent. I think this also extends to sibling dynamics as well. (It should also be pointed out that I don't have a problem with people who give a shit about each other, coming together to help each other as a "found family" in terms that don't have a power dynamic.)

I can say that this was also brought up to me by an older non-binary person, who said that they felt it was ageist for people to automatically assign them as their parental figure and demand emotional labor from them.

:::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler I definitely understand where its gross to assign someone as a parental figure and expect them do emotional labor and stuff- something I have specifically had to try and avoid doing even though I do need kitty-cri

But I guess I don't understand what the issue with sibling dynamics is in this context? Could you expand on that one a bit more? :::

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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 4mon

:::spoiler spoiler

like an older sibling / younger sibling dynamic

an example would be a sibling forced into a caretaker role, when they are not really equipped / prepared (or desire) such a role

and then the lines can be blurred between parent / sibling who also says they are your "best friend"

that's just an example off the top of my head

:::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler misanthropy I forget how much I fucking hate people good lord. Honestly one of the biggest factors for this is the ridiculous, baseless shit they believe and spew and control my life with. If they put some fucking thought into their beliefs (and then actions) we'd all be in such a better place but even basic stuff is too much. :::

Also how the fuck am I supposed to overcome this hump to starting voice training

::: spoiler suicide I am genuinely going to kms instead holy shit. Voice training is awful shit. I genuinely, genuinely, genuinely need to kill myself instead. WHY THE FUCK DID I HAVE TO BE TRANS AND DO THIS SHIT :::

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inTheShadowOf [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler Something to consider about dying If being trans is the most miserable thing that could happen to you, dying with a masc voice and everything else that stresses you out will ensure the most miserable final day.

When you sit and look back on that potential last day, it's the most hollow feeling you could imagine. The emptiness can be a good push to reconsider, but you don't even need to get to that point to understand. If you can move the dial from full misery on whatever final day actually happens, your future self will appreciate it. You're doing this for the future, after all.

::: spoiler Blunt and potentially unhelpful Voice training will not kill you. Small, miserable steps are still progress. Maybe today you can only read about techniques, maybe next time you can only hum to match tones, but every step matters. Eventually, the misery stops following so closely.

You're not a failure for getting stuck sometimes. This shit's difficult.

I think you can do it. :::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler It is very hollow and sad to look back. So much misery and I accomplished so little.

I have been slowly reading/listening to techniques and stuff for like a year and a half now. The misery has not improved. Even attempting it feels like the worst thing ever. I have no hope. When I rant on here about hating being trans, voice training is often one of the things at the forefront of my mind. I've been taking that little step and it hasn't helped :::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

But thank you, I will and am considering what you said.

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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

Got that thrifted sewing machine working! Tbh, it was already in great condition. Just needed to figure out the needle threading since I've never done it before. Definitely excited as this expands the type of diy projects I can complete,

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Sick! What model?

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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

A Brother XL-5340

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30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her] - 4mon

Down with cis

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Down with cis

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MusicOwl [comrade/them, sie/hir] - 4mon

down with cis

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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 4mon

down with cis

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Down with cis

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WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided] - 4mon

Down with cis

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Down with cis

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler dysphoria mention)

I found this personal attack aimed at me on the hell site

:::

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Florn [they/them] - 4mon

I'm going out again

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Have fun and good luck! <3

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

The bra I got isn't all that flattering, of course it's a sports bra so that's not really the point but when I put it on I was hoping to be pleased with the way it looked. But my stupid boobs aren't full enough to actually make it look good. I'm getting back on prog (and at 200mg this time) so I hope that kicks things into gear... that and I need to work out and actually develop a body. i'm tired of feeling undesirable :(

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler trynna do something about depression

Putting this in here so I don't back out. I'm gonna try SSRIs. My psychologist said they might help and I can't live everyday like this.

:::

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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 4mon

:::spoiler spoiler

they helped [redacted person I know,] I hope they work for you!! 💟

:::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler I took Effexor and it really helped me! Effexor is an SNRI instead of SSRI. Anyway between graduating, breaking up with my, and about a year of therapy I felt ready to try and come off it. And I did, very gradually, and Ive been very grateful I was on it! :::

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler I'm taking fluoxetine (an SSRI). I'm really not sure if it helped me much. But I started it right before HRT, so idk which emotional effects are from which. :::

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GayTuckerCarlson [she/her] - 4mon

we like to party

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

::: spoiler mental health problems I feel awful. The money I saved up when I had a job is gone. I haven't made much progress since, so no money for me for a while. I'm living with my parents for an undetermined amount of time, not that I ever not depended on them financially, but now it's worse.

I just canceled my appointment with my therapist too, maybe I should have saved up all my money, but therapy helped me quite a bit. Lately it kinda felt like a pressure to get more money to at least pay for that, so it was doing more harm than good.

I'm not going to starve or be homeless or anything, so I'm fine. I just want to vent. It's just that I feel very uncomfortable and unable to be myself here.

I spent almost all day rotting and doing nothing. I'm super depressed and can't find any motivation to do anything. That feeling of just being incapable of living in this society. Unable to find a job, or even doing some freelancing or anything really. :::

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Mood, it's why I read so much and try to study hoping things get better

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

I don't know where it is you live but I'm assuming your USian I highly recommend applying to local pizza places in your area as they seem to usually be friendly to trans people in blue states. And places like that are great for meeting other trans/queer people!

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

Not USian. It's complicated here, not even for being trans. I have a lot of trouble navigating any recruitment situation, might be some neurodivergent thing. I have a design degree and cannot manage to get a job as a designer. I tried some freelancing and had no luck, now I have been selling personalized products (apparel and etc), but it's tough to get anything and keep my motivation up with no results...

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Good morning beautiful people!

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KrupskayaPraxis - 4mon

I can't get my estrogen from the pharmacy for a week because I suddenly had to go to another country, and tomorrow my last pills will run out. I had my Pamorelin shot a couple weeks ago and have some bicalutamide pills so my T will still be blocked, but further feminization will be on hold. It sucks and it makes me dysphoric.

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Ooh that sucks! Sending hugs!! Also what's pamorelin

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

Any drug with a name ending in -relin is a GnRHa, sometimes called a puberty blocker. It's a drug that turns your gonads off while you're taking it. So it lowers your body's production of sex hormones.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler self-destrucive behaviour

Can yall give me motivation? I'm dangerously depressed and spiraling again.

If you want deets, it's basically like

  1. Sleep late
  2. Wake up late
  3. Spend time not working
  4. Overeat
  5. Don't take care of myself
  6. Extreme dysphoria
  7. Too much substance abuse

Haven't been crying at all recently, but that's not a good thing. It means that I'm distracting myself from thinking too much. And that is interfering with my functionality and also causing financial problems.

(Putting it that way makes me realise how bad things have gotten ...)

:::

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meler [she/her, pup/pup's] - 4mon

I learned that aroflux is a thing. Perhaps when I'm feeling like I might be aro I actually am and when I feel like I might be allo I might actually be that too.

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bolshevikLovelace [she/her, love/loves] - 4mon

typing this out to keep myself accountable

::: spoiler voice training i've been doing voice training for about a year and a half. our public system pays for 5 trans-related specialist sessions per calendar year so i've had 9 sessions with a speech pathologist over that time. even since my last session (9 months ago?) i've improved my target voice quite a bit and i do really like where it sits now. but i still have a rough time with two main things - endurance (keeping the voice up for a whole day or for consecutive days) and normalisation (making it my automatic/default voice to use).

my speech path gave me some advice and i've tried to look online for tips as well (please provide any if you have more catgirl-sorry) and i think the former just comes down to doing lots of practice. which sucks absolute ass. the latter requires me to change my internal monologue voice – i've been trying to do this for months and had no success.

soooo i'm thinking maybe i can record a little self-coach audio playlist for myself and listen/respond back to. it should make sure i'm doing my vocal warmups and that i can do the rest of my morning crap without reading off a resource booklet. my other hope is that listening to my fem voice over and over again drills it into my brain enough that it can be my internal monologue voice as well. it's obviously gonna be a bitch to hear myself talk everyday but idk exposure therapy or something? :::

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

I am sad. I think I fucked my legends z-a save. The DLC missions are gone, probably because I had some problems with the emulator and opened the game without the dlc after starting the missions. I put the dlc back on and nothing happened. So I'm just locked out of the DLC content.

I have an older save from like 8 days ago, but like, uh I kinda had idk, 20 hours of gameplay or something. Maybe I'll just pkhex all the pokemons I caught onto the older save, because most of the time was spent completing the pokedex anyway, so I'll have almos everything except the missions I had done.

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rafflesia [she/her, it/its] - 4mon

::: spoiler dysphoria complaining trying to wear a shirt after shaving my chest is top 5, maybe top 3 most unpleasant experiences ever doggirl-tears :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler

You know it's kinda crazy that I take psychic damage now everytime I think about my parents. Even the concept of calling myself a woman hurts cause of that (indirectly, feels like I have to confront them). These people managed to curse me with eldritch corruption over a phone call which is quite the feat.

:::

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Get you a partner who supports your dreams and who's dreams you support in kind panting

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler horny posting

How Ive been feeling lately ♡

A friend who had bottom surgery found it easier to do lying on her side, and wouldnt you know thats her preferred position when we fucked. Another had the standard laying on back legs up easiest and, I didnt ask, but presumably thats her preferred position. Im a little annoyed that after trying a bunch of different ways the easiest for me is doggy 🙄, but it does really help everything line up and go in with less lube... :::

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler sex questions How long has it been since surgery? I thought it was like 6 months before you could have penetrative sex? Also yay!! Hope your having fun! :::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler spoiler Oh I still havent, its just easier for me to dilate face down butt up lol

They said 3 months minimum for penetration even with sex toys so Im still living this virgin life 😇 :::

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Up with trans!!!

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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 4mon

up with trans

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Up with trans!

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CommunistCuddlefish [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler body-specific question that could trigger some dysmorphia for people especially if they have a history of disordered eating

Tit growth has begun and girl is my chest sore!  I sure would like them to not end up massive, because that seems like a pain in the back and I love my t shirts, don't want to have to lose them.  Should I be targeting weight loss to end up with smaller tits overall, body recomposition (heavier muscle building but restricted calories to lean out), or something?  Or is just trying not to get pregnant and avoiding going on progesterone enough?  Or is there just no way to control it?

:::

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler weight There's not really a way to avoid breast growth on estrogen but obviously they will be smaller with less body fat. If you gain weight later they'll fill out, you cant really avoid how big or small they are its kinda determined by the genes your parents gave you and just sheer chance. If they get huge - obviously a breast reduction is a choice you can make and depending on insurance it might even be covered. You can expect to have more or less a little smaller than the cis women in your family, theres plenty of exceptions either way but thats what you should expect.

You definitely dont have to take progesterone if you dont want to but it has nice effects besides breast growth. I have heard theres a feminizing HRT that doesnt do breast growth? I gotta do more research, it just kinda femmes people out. :::

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

SERMS!!! (Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators) They were originally developed to treat breast cancer but they have all kinds of interesting uses.

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Your t-shirts are probably gonna start to fit funny anyway even with small ones. The fun solution is to make them into crop tops!

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RION [she/her] - 4mon

been watching our diabetic dog since sunday and he's started whining at me in the middle of the night. which of course worried me because i didn't know if it was a blood sugar thing. broke down and called my mom at 1am and she told me to just say "it's bedtime" in a firm voice and what do you know he just chills right out. what a curious lad

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Arahnya [fae/faer, he/him] - 4mon

the age old tradition of standing in your parlor room eating fried rice as you watch someone park across the street.... taking bites as they see you watching them. (I'm expecting someone)

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I know I'm overcommenting, but I'm currently in my "things are happening to me" era.

We had a "field trip" to the in uni labs for implementing quantum communication infrastructure.

The rooms were noisy as hell. Hearing loss guaranteed. And yet the uni determined that it was an acceptable level of noise so no protection was provided. Imagine chucking some PhD student into the "fuck you and your ears" room for hours and days.

Meanwhile the equipment this guy was working on cost 100k-250k eur per box (I saw 8 boxes plus a helium cryogenic chamber with "advanced nano materials").

The stabilised steel table for protecting the equipment (from earthquakes? Missile attacks?) was more expensive than whatever sound insulation would cost.

Mind you, the noise wasn't even from the equipment in the room! It was the room next door!

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Acceptable noise levels as one of our classmates had to leave the room cause the noise was too much and everybody agreed that they didn't want to work in that lab cause of noise

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Your not over commenting your telling us interesting things and keeping the thread from being boring, we appreciate your posting

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I've purchased enough dry rations either to last me a year or to share with multiple neighbours and keep them alive for some months. Ok maybe that's a huge overestimate but I have purchased 10 kilos of rice+quinoa on top of about 4 kilos I already have plus a few more kilos of random popular Indian dried grain products my mom sent me.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Great thing about being raised as a middle class Indian is that I'm about as used to eating cheap rice meals with lentils/beans as one could possibly be.

Given all the beans and shit I also got (about 6 kilos?) and assuming 5 kCal per gram of food on average (number pulled out my ass) and assuming 22 kilos of dry rations, I got about 110,000 kCal of rations in my house. Enough to last ... 55 days (around that range) catgirl-huh

Ok so I really overestimated how prepped I am for the long war, but buying 2 months of food for 66 euros isn't bad ...

Now all I gotta do is stop eating out and go on a calorie deficit and I can extend my current money by a grand total of 0 weeks cause I only got a month of rent money on hand

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Cold take incoming. Fuck the parasite landlord scum. Shot that mf who I'm told lives in a Swiss mountain house while his tenants share a 20 m2 studio between 2 people.

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

assuming 5 kCal per gram

It's going to be more like 3.6 kcal per gram, depending on the ratio. Carbs and protein are each about 4 kcal per gram, and those account for most of the calorie content in the above foods.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I see. That's only about 40 days of food (again, 2000 kcal per day). Not the cheat code I thought catgirl-cry

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

Hey the numbers aren't what you thought, but the basic idea is still the same.

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Florn [they/them] - 4mon

I don't know why I bother going out. Nobody wants to talk to me

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Because the alternative is worse

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Real, wouldn't if I didn't have to

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

It feels like every nerve in my body is on fire. ::: spoiler suicide I need to kill myself. I am sick of constant pain.

I'm hoping to do it in a year or two. I'm hoping I can stay closeted with work/family for at least another year.

I hate every part of this experience. It is too difficult.

I am glad to have gotten a brief window into the world. The vastness of the universe, evolution, the dinosaurs. The tinyness of atoms. It's all so incredible.

It is such a waste how miserable I've become. I don't want to suffer like this. I am so tied down to my suffering I can't do anything anymore. It's inescapable. There is no way out but suicide. I got a little, tiny slice of life before all this. :::

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

I wish we could just drag you to a gay bar. Or club. Or a trans hangout. Not that I think it would fix your depression, but getting out into community can really help.

Also we really wanna voice train. If you want a buddy to do it with let us know. We can hop on a call on matrix sometime and make funny sounds together :)

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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 4mon

Whenever i start voice training, can i try it together too? :3

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Yes absolutely!

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OffSeasonPrincess [she/her] - 4mon

Ty!

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

Look if you're going to be miserable either way you might as well make a serious effort at training your voice. I think if you keep at it for a while you'll feel better.

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

How do I start? When I have tried in the past I've been extremely overwhelmed with frustrations about not understanding what I'm doing, what information is good or not, dysphoria, suicidal thoughts, I really don't know how to start

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

Step 1: embrace that it's going to be uncomfortable for a while, and that you're not going to let that stop you.

If you want more than what TerminalEncounter gave you, there are some starter guides (and other resources) at https://transvoice.party/

If all of that gets overwhelming to do on your own, which it may well do, maybe you should talk to a voice coach. There are some good coaches who do lessons on discord/zoom. If you can't afford to pay for vocal lessons, you'll probably still benefit from talking to people on discord or whatever, just as practice.

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

I don't think I can do step 1. It's more then uncomfortable. I'm crying now thinking about it and cried earlier when I read her comment the first time. So yea, don't think I can even do that :/ I want/wanted to try. But I don't think I can. Failing out on the very first step. What a disappointment I am.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Failing out on the very first step. What a disappointment I am.

Don't feel disappointed. First step is the hardest.

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

First step is the hardest.

Literally true.

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

Idk maybe you need someone to bully you into practicing. Or maybe anxiety medicine. Do you think you could do it while you cry?

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

No, I definitely can't.

Don't really understand what anxiety meds would do for me in this case, probably couldn't get them anyway though. The issue is my dysphoria.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

Start with raising your pitch! Like 3 weeks 30 mins a day. You want to make a VERY loud mmmmm sound and you want to start low deep in your chest, deeper than you speak, and slooooowly raise it up until you feel buzzing in your mouth/teeth some people feel it in their cheek bones or tip of their noses. Then youll say one of "My, Me, May, Moe, Moo" and repeat from wayyy low again. Do that for about 10 minutes.

Find any list of at least 2 syllable words, youre going to go through them one by one for 20 minutes. This one youre going to raise your pitch from low again and slowly raise pitch with as loud a NG sound (like last sound in siNG) and really press the back of your tongue against the rough of your mouth - itll go there because thats how we make a NG sound but youre gonna be pushing it up too. Your fingers should be resting gently on your larynx, around your trachea, and this will be a time where having an adam's apple is useful because its more or less just on top of that. As you raise your pitch you will feel it kind of pop back - thats your cue to say one of the words on the list at that pitch. At the second syllable of the word go one tiny half step pitch up.

Do this for 3 weeks, then ask for next steps. I have all the exercises I did in voice training written down and the sequence I did it. Pitch is great to get a handle of, next steps are like making your voice uh smaller? Adding pitch variety, etc.

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Sorry for the late reply, been really tired and drained lately. Thank you terminal. I'll give it a try.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Have you ever wondered why transformers only can be used with AC? It's cause transformers only react to changes in voltage, not voltage itself.

As it turns out, when we use AC in the grid, we use a sinusoidal voltage. It has the property that the change in a sinusoidal voltage is also a sinusoidal voltage. The shape remains the same which is convenient.

If you use a different shape, you get trouble. It's why electrical grids have to take care of the power quality and keep it as sinusoidal as possible. Those grid AI datacenters? They fuck up the shape of the electricity cause they are digital and digital circuits don't like sinusoids

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Though I say the shape is fucked up, it's not actually visible by the human eye.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Brb sticking our oscilloscope scope probe in the outlet so we can demonstrate :)

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I know you're joking but for the sake of safety I will clarify for people to not do this unless they know what they're doing

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

Oh good call we probably should've given a safety disclaimer. We weren't joking though, we're qualified to work safely with these voltages and have done exactly this before to demonstrate the important of power factor :)

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Baller 0_0

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

All the more reason to do away with them data centers maddened

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Typically these datacenters are now making their own generators cause they're fucking up the grid too much to be supplied like that. But in many small towns and shit they just fuck things up instead of making their own generators.

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queermunist she/her - 4mon

Good thing oil and gas prices are stable and aren't shooting through the roof!

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sisatici [he/him] - 4mon

Wolds most powerful transformer is for DC. I thought it was a typo or something but no it is true. Key to using it is using DC solid state switches to keep voltage fluctuating as much as possible.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I see ... it must be for those HVDC power transmission lines.

They also use regular inductors in DC-DC converters and use high speed switching to change voltage levels. There the inductor is doing a different job than in the transformer.

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JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

Went to a show in a different town yesterday with my diy punk/goth clothes/gear. Got a ton of compliments and had some convos with cool folks, but it feels a bit bittersweet since I didn't exchange contacts with anyone of them so it's incredibly unlikely that we'll be able to chat or otherwise make new friends. Of course, I can keep an eye out for other shows at that venue, but I kinda wish I had some more of a non-anonymous/pseudonymous social media presence so I could just swap contacts. I tried making an alternative insta some time back not connected to the Facebook account under my legal name (not out on Facebook, I don't use it anyways), but it got blocked as a duplicate account.

I guess that I just need to be more proactive to ask for folks' contact deets in these scenarios.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

I always leave it up to fate if I see someone again. If it happens that second time then I exchange info.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler silly [sex]

Homosexual? doggirl-tears

Heterosexual? doggirl-tears

Not having sex-ual? doggirl-thumbsup

:::

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

Omg that's so me

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Day one of voice training: didn't do anything. Thought about it but couldn't bring myself to make a sound.

::: spoiler spoiler ::: spoiler suicide Thought a lot about killing myself today, last few days. This bout of si thoughts has been really bad. :::

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

It's okay, I think a lot of us know what that feels like but there will be more days and opportunities :3

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Thank you.

I'm so sick of more days and more work.

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

It works, it takes time and it's hard but I was able to make some progress with some half-assed practice, so as you get better it won't feel as bad. Keep that in mind, any practice gets you closer

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Busgirl [she/her] - 4mon

Watching Gokudols( 3 Yakuza get unwillingly medically transitioned and have to become idols) it's funny as fuck!

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

I need everyone to know I'm a weenie

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GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's] - 4mon

ugh dysphoria is kicking my ass today catgirl-flop

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler geopolitics speculation I doubt it'll happen but the PRC doing a hard-core blockade or actual landings to try and reunify Taiwan I guess is a possibility. Like September or so if the US keeps losing THAAD batteries or components, all of its interceptor missile stocks, maybe a carrier or two sinks (🤞). Its not like there will be a time, provided the US continues to fight Iran, that will be better. Wonder what they would even, like, do. Presumably withdraw from the middle east to move to the Pacific?? I guess Australia, Japan, South Korea would be the people who would try and intervention.

If it would happen, I would expect a two systems one country style deal for Taiwan as well. If they manage to do it without invading or whatever there might not even be any rebuilding to do lol, just a decrease in trade protections with the mainland. :::

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

One nice way to think about electrical circuits is by using complex numbers and the laplace transform. This of course requires at least 2nd year university level calculus so it is not such a nice way of thinking for lay people.

An easier way to think about them is to think about the mechanical analog. Because one thing you might not know is that all well behaving linear systems have the same math.

So think if a piping system full of some flowing compressible gas.

Pressure = voltage (this is a better analogy than you might realise cause pressure = energy/volume and voltage = energy/charge)

Flow rate = current

The conductivity (opposite of resistivity) of an object is like the thickness of a pipe. Bigger pipe = faster flow. Infinite conductivity also does not exist the same way infinitely wide pipes don't.

Capacitance is like a tank. More pressure = more voltage = more gas you pump into the tank.

Inductance is like a spinning frictionless turbine powered by the gas. You don't need energy to keep it spinning (ideal case), but to change the speed (aka rate of current or flow), you need to add or subtract energy.

A transformer is 2 turbines connected together by a shaft and gearbox! Spin one turbine and the other moves, but you can use gears to change the ratio between torque and rpm! It's the exact same math.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

The analogy does have some limits. Sadly. The relationship between electricity and magnetism is truly magical and not easy to explain. And resistance and capacitance and inductance themselves are less "stuff we put in circuits sometimes" and more like fundamental parts of how electromagnetism exists and moves.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Capacitance and inductance together are like the speed of electricity. Hell, in radio engineering we even find the speed of light with them. The speed of light was first computed by electrical physicists.

The fabric of spacetime has its own capacitance and inductance (kind of) that we use to calculate the speed of light. If the fabric of spacetime didn't have this, special relativity and general relativity and E = mc^2 and all that jazz wouldn't exist (not a coincidence that the speed of light shows up in that formula!)

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

The fabric of spacetime has its own capacitance and inductance (kind of) that we use to calculate the speed of light.

This reminds me of what I usually tell people when they first experience problems as a result of parasitic capacitance or inductance:

With a fast enough change in current, everything is an inductor. And with a fast enough change in voltage, everything is a capacitor.

I remember the time my mind was blown by the fact that the loop area contributed by the leads on a mosfet added enough inductance to a circuit to be necessary to model.

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TerminalEncounter [she/her] - 4mon

Usually they use the water analogy for intro electromagnetism physics and circuits. Height stands in for voltage, the rest works similar enough to circuits somehow that its a good analogy.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Ok these analogies help a lot ngl, I took did lapalce transforms in college (highest math I took before I dropped out) that final bit with the gears made it click. Been reading the PDF you sent me and while I'm somewhat familiar with some of the terms I can go back to it now with this and get more out of it. I won't lie some of that shit looks alien still but it's coming along, prob not helped that I jumped to the transformers part

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I took did lapalce transforms in college (highest math I took before I dropped out)

In my experience that's about the highest math they teach you in engineering degrees anyway. You gotta go to the math department to learn other shit

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

My dreams of higher education ended when the money ran out and unbankruptable student loans seemed like the only option. To think that and well a lot of engineering classes could have meant I'd be engineering shit... still I'll study what I can and one day when the empire falls maybe I'll go back amerikkka

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WhoaSlowDownMaurice [they/them, undecided] - 4mon

TFW no generator trans mega ooooooooooooooh

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

There is a course I do wanna take later on in the electrical section on generators 🤔

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Moss [they/them] - 4mon

Chainsaw Man will return in Avengers: Doomsday

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

@sodium_nitride@hexbear.net as promised in response to this comment, a waveform captured hot off of our oscilloscope of our home power. Showing quite a bit of distortion due to devices with poor power factor:

We've been trying to find either the transformer or just the ferrite toroid we have lying around somewhere to demonstrate some transformer stuff but no luck so far :(

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Huh, I didn't realise it would actually be visible by eye. That's a lotta distortion. There are 2 datacenters relatively close to where I live (same metro area), maybe I might see some myself (if I had an oscilloscope)

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Blaming hrt on this, last 3 days I've gotten a headache every afternoon. And just more in general. Is this the artificial hormones come back to bite me?

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

The artificial hormones are your best friend. Please don't blame them catgirl-cry

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Alisu [she/her, they/them] - 4mon

They're equivalent to the natural ones. The only thing that could be wrong is having too much or too little

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peanutbuttercupola [she/her] - 4mon

Or any number of non hormone-related problems. Drinking too much water, or not enough. Eating too much salt, or not enough. Poor sleep. Stress.

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ashestoashes @lemmygrad.ml - 4mon

You might be giving yourself trans broken arm syndrome

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler hornyposting

:::

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

soviet-bottom

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

I just need my mind/thoughts to stop for a god damn minute bocchi-glitch I'M DONE THINKING

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 4mon

::: spoiler When I played Red Dead Redemption I had some good names for Arthur's horses. CW spoilers In chapter 2 I had a workhorse (Chocolate Roan Dutch Warmblood) called Rocinante, which is Don Quixote's horse literally work horse. I figure Arthur is being self-deprecating about himself.

In chapter 3 I had a race horse (dapple grey thoroughbred) called Gunpowder which was Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow's horse. Arthur references Rip Van Winkle from the same author. Ichabod Crane is kind of awkward and ungainly in the book. Plus I figure it works with the spookier Lemoyne setting.

In Chapter 4 I had a war/work horse (tiger stripe Mustang) I got it by glitching to New Austin when finishing legend of the east. I called it Mazepa after Ivan Mazepa a historic Cossack figure who was tied to the back of a wild horse and left to die. I figured this matched the tension if the chapter as the gang got closer to their doom. Plus a Mustang is a wild horse.

Finally in chapter 5 I rode a war horse (Rose Grey Andalusian) called Babieca which means fool or idiot. It was El Cid's horse. Andalusians are Spanish horses and famously Babieca carried the corpse of El Cid into battle. I figured some gallows humour from Arthur given his condition. :::

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XiaCobolt [she/her] - 4mon

But also Rocinante, Mazepa and Babieca are good transfem names, Gunpowder is a great non binary one.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

::: spoiler silly nonsense to take the edge off

If I were to invent a religion it wouldn't be lovey dovey or hippy dippy. It would be a religion that emphasizes the following:

  1. Cool AF mythology. The cooler the better. I want tons of eldritch gods.
  2. Pursuit of knowledge and mad science with the ultimate goal of eternal life.
  3. Epic WW3 for world conquest (to defeat the imperialists)
  4. Democratic centralism
  5. Monuments and shit
  6. Piracy (both internet piracy and the seizing of vessels bound for the EU)
  7. Space exploration with the goal of finding the gods in point 1, killing them to steal their essences (thus powers)

Ok, so I just ended up making a more fun and less sane communist party.

:::

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tamagotchicowboy [he/him] - 4mon

Overall my new job is going well, I learned one department of the building I clean is committed to getting a deal with no down payment at Big Bill Hell's, somehow they piss on top of urinals, first few times I was impressed, but like watching Cirque du Soleil too much now I'm not. Other than physics defying messes no one gives me any trouble like in retail which is still a breath of fresh air, downside I learn way more about people's health than I'd like to and its a bit concerning to observe powerlessly.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I forgot for a second that it was Albania and not Al-bania

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

I hate dealing with hardware. Give me software any day of the week over this pile of shit. I've been fighting with this pos thing for like a month and its soooo frustrating. I hate dealing with things in meatspace. I don't want to mess with physical shit.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

RC stuff or something else?

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

Yea it is lol, getting the fucking steering set back up has been killing me. Nothing is tight. Wanted to upgrade the steering blocks and it's been a mess. My servo saver is loose too. Everything is fucking loose and sloppy and shit. And that's after getting the blocks even fucking assembled which took me ages. It's so frustrating.

When hardware works decently well it's fine. I upgraded the motor/speed control with no issue. Shocks, no issue. I don't necessarily enjoy it but it's fine whatever. But then this fucking thing won't work right an it makes me so frustrated I don't even want to finish.

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SwitchyandWitchy [she/her] - 4mon

ugh loose steering is frustrating. we've gotten some surprisingly good handling out of somewhat loose feeling steering but it always still bothers us knowing that it's loose.

It's high time we start fixing some of our vehicles. Even if just to sell them (gonna keep the most fun ones to drive but we've got others taking up way too much space and could use the money :/) At least one can be fixed just with 3d printed parts at least. Actually two of them most likely.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

Transformers?!

Let's go!

Transformers do more than 1 thing. Few things I'd like to share Transformers can do

  1. Change current in the opposite direction to voltage. If you bump up voltage by 10 times, you cut down current by 10 times. Voltage*current = power and you can't make power out of nothing

  2. Transform resistances. If you know ohm's law, it is resistance = voltage/current. You up the voltage by 10 times and cut the current by 10 times. Thus, the resistance is 100 times higher! You can also do it the other way around.

This you can use for loading power correctly. Something from circuit theory is that to give maximum power from a power source you need the "internal resistance" of the source (its internal losses) to be equal to the "external resistance" (the load you connect it to). Or maybe you are aiming for maximum efficiency, so you use the lowest current (which can be adjusted by transforming loaded resistances).

This is the reason Transformers are used in the electrical grid so much

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Hitting the star next to this comment to save for future study ty 🫡

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

My fae bretheren, I got a whole buncha textbooks and slides and shit i could give you if you want.

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Wmill [they/them, fae/faer] - 4mon

Yes pls that make me happy, it might take me a while to get through but I'd appreciate it very-smart

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I managed to share the pdf. If anyone else wants, I can message you. It's just a reader on some basic electrical power stuff.

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sodium_nitride [she/her, any] - 4mon

I'll do it when i get out the clean room. The heartbeats of the machines here pervades my mind and erodes my sanity (and I don't got my laptop)

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gaystyleJoker [she/her] - 4mon

tud

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

God life is fucking awful. Just actual shit. And I don't have anyone. Fuck me.

I mean have anyone to what, annoy with my garbage. How hopeless and awful and dogshit my life is. Sounds productive already.

::: spoiler suicide Just genuinely need to die. I'm sick of feeling like this. Suffering. I hate living. Just so shit. :::

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BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her] - 4mon

egh I feel terrible again. At least no si rn. Just bad. Tired of this.

Also tired of there always being a new terrible story. Like 4 this last week.

Wish I had someone/was closer/better friends with more people. idk how to explain it. Just feel lonely I guess? Despite hanging out with a couple guy friends online (which is mostly nice, bit dysphoric but what isn't) and my coworker today. I don't really know what I'm looking for.

E: like I actually do not understand. I got plenty of interaction today. From people I really like and our conversation earlier was super nice. Playing games was super nice. Why do I not feel like the social needs box has been checked.

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