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Happy New Year everyone. It’s the first year of grad school for me. It’s gonna suck but maybe I’ll make, well….not *great* money, I’m going for a MSW, but, well, *good* money in a few years. The kind of money a girl needs to buy fun food and candles and incense and her own place finally!
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Half the time I post in this thread I mention some dumb tangential thing that nobody engages with and that’s perfectly fine. Not every post is meant to start a discussion or get quoted a ton.
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Jan 2, 2024 07:02
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I could still have kids - and if I end up with another trans woman, we could just adopt - but I feel like I'm fine if I don't. I would have to really want to have a kid to do it the, uhhh...conventional way though. It would be a process. My ex has a wonderful (and terrible) twelve year-old daughter and when I thought we might actually end up together I was really excited at the prospect of being her mom. I still look forward to seeing her whenever I visit my ex and occasionally bring her snacks. Kurgarra Queen fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 17:48
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Joey Freshwater posted:Ok I watched Us and all I can say is ...I should probably just watch it again along with Get Out and Nope.
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Jan 4, 2024 05:20
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General Dog posted:I wish someone could make them run on time.
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Jan 6, 2024 16:48
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I can’t judge OC-lovers, because I binged The L Word recently (it’s a sapphic right of passage). Trashy drama with lesbians…and it was a Showtime show, so you know what that means! I would totally let Shane shatter my heart into a million pieces. I enjoyed it through Season 4. I found Season 5 profoundly mean-spirited and narratively stale and had to put it down.
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Jan 7, 2024 19:15
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Tulalip Tulips posted:RuPaul's Drag Race is back so my Friday is great again. Just an entire Pride flag’s worth of queers eating Thai food and watching RuPaul’s Drag Race together in a small apartment.
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Jan 9, 2024 06:54
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Happy birthday, ya Silly Burrito!
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Jan 9, 2024 17:07
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Nothing terribly interesting happened at any of my schools. The *other* high school in town did have a pretty infamous murder though. Not keen on specifying, in part because trans.
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Jan 13, 2024 03:25
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Actually I also have mature and respectful communications with my significant other about possible sources of tension so that we can take a collaborative solution-oriented approach based on mutual respect and compassion. Air Skwirl posted:If the only time you talk about your SO to others is to complain about them, it's definitely a problem, but I think it's fine to vent about trivial things like how much you hate their favorite TV show to other people.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:40
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Carrots I can take or leave. They don't have much flavor to me, so I find them unappetizing whole or in large pieces, but they're utterly inoffensive sliced or shredded and offer good nutrition plus they come in unique colors. When I made a big pot of chicken soup a while back, I had rainbow baby carrots in the fridge, so I just sliced those suckers up and dumped them in, so my soup had little orange, purple, and yellow discs floating in it, which looked cool.
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Jan 15, 2024 05:23
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Hey, it took me 20+ years to admit to myself I was a woman. Now I’ve been out for 2 years, I’m in grad school (for a MSW. I’m always going to be poor lol), I’ve made a bunch of new friends, I even had a girlfriend and maybe I’m going to have a new one in the near future? But yeah, it didn’t feel like I was going anywhere for a long time and then I kind of looked around one day and noticed everything was different (my ex telling me that I’m a person who “just does things” helped! I really do love her, in spite of how our romance ended). I’m 36 going on 37, and I’m just getting started. It took a lot of work to get here, including almost three years straight of therapy. I’m easily not the oldest person in my classes: one dude’s a grey beard who was a teacher for 30 years. Never too late to change gears, find love, or whatever it is you want/need to do.
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Jan 17, 2024 14:46
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Grittybeard posted:On WW1 chat I'm currently reading The Sleepwalkers, which I do want to say is a good book in my opinion. e: (this is not what I would call an easy intro to the subject, there are a lot of three dollar words and footnotes involved) It's not about the war but tries to explain why the war happened. But most of my enjoyment comes from ridiculous British names from the 1880s to 1910s. We have some doozies in there that were very important for one reason or another. I've also read three different books about the peace process and it cannot be emphasized enough how loving criminally negligent, insane, and racist the process was. But my favorite one about the aftermath was definitely The Vanquished: Why The First World War Failed to end, because it examines the countries that either lost the war(Germany, Russia, Turkey and other usual suspects) or subsequently lost the peace (Italy and Greece, for example) and how incredibly hosed up their experiences were and how those experiences sowed the seeds of WW2 while fighting born out of WW1 was still going. But yeah, history curriculum in school sucks. But here in CT we had an entire Holocaust segment in our...English class? The teacher was an old Jewish lady, I kind of feel like she came up with it, but it was actually pretty good. Outside of that, I didn't get any in-depth look into the Holocaust until college. Kurgarra Queen fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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Jan 24, 2024 04:06
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I’m a Paradox girl, but Hearts of Iron interests me least, honestly.
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Jan 24, 2024 17:27
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I wish I had people to play board games with, but no dice!  I am going to a cat cafe Thursday apparently, so that's great! My coworker legit thought I would judge her for wanting to sip coffee while surrounded with cats. Like, negatively! That woman be anxious.
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Jan 27, 2024 05:06
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LeeMajors posted:Wife and I both have “good insurance” and our daughter’s completely uncomplicated birth ran us like ~6k out of pocket. The bills were hilarious because they filed about 35k of charges with insurance. …I’m so glad I’m on Medicaid. And so sorry, that’s loving absurd.
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Jan 27, 2024 15:25
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Ornery and Hornery posted:I do not watch SNL. Any good skits make their way into some SA thread and I enjoy it there. I have no idea who Troye Sivan is, so that bit flew right over my head.
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Jan 28, 2024 17:43
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Quiet Feet posted:This but literally every goddamn Democrat. Oooh, what's this text? Is it a friend getting back to me? Maybe my grad student friend wants to grab a bite. Maybe it's the girl I'm crushing on saying something cute? Nope, it's some Numbers Fuckstein running for Congress in Who Gives a gently caress texting me doomerism in the hopes of scaring me into giving them money I don't have.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:06
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Manoueverable posted:Loving the Mazda endorsements, I've been looking at new cars and the 3 Hatchback is the best by far out of the ones I've test-driven but I'm just making sure it's absolutely the one I want before I pull the trigger.
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Jan 31, 2024 21:35
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Hell, I scheduled my first real salon cut with the lady a coworker went and in the special request box I explained that I didn’t really get my hair because I had only just come out a year ago. So that lovely woman spent the entire loving hour(+) teaching me about my dumb hair and different things I could do with it and how she was cutting my hair and why she was doing things that way. Needless to say I’ll never go to anyone else ever again. Like, legit barbers and stylists are specialized professionals. Don’t be afraid to tap into their knowledge and ask their advice.
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Feb 3, 2024 17:47
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Ornery and Hornery posted:That is extremely blessed and radical!!! What style did you go with? Do any coloring? But I’ve since decided that isn’t gay enough and the past two cuts have been based primarily on Courtney Barnett, whose hair is best described as being the same but dykey. My stylist figured out how to curtain my bangs exactly so that they don’t get into my eyes even after four months of growth (and my hair is very healthy and very straight, so length happens fast!) No color, can’t afford color, but I want to do something different next time. I’m going to a Caroline Rose concert, so I want to look the part…
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Feb 3, 2024 23:27
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hell yes, Loner is one of my favorite albums of the past few years, Caroline Rose is fantastic Then they dropped "The Art of Forgetting" like a month after I went through a messy break-up and I binged that album so loving much. I will always love Uncle Carol. I told them "The Art of Forgetting" was my album of the year on Instagram and THEY LIKED MY MESSAGE! 
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Feb 4, 2024 04:49
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I don't normally think about watches and would never wear one, but Julien Baker was wearing a watch last night and it went great with her ensemble. It felt appropriately....butchy.
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Feb 5, 2024 23:46
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LeeMajors posted:I’ve got “Before the Storm” sitting on my bookshelf now but I haven’t had the time to pick it up. I couldn't make it through Invisible Bridge, it was too real. I'm very frightened these days. 
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Feb 11, 2024 16:40
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LeeMajors posted:Look, im voting for Biden because I want to be stuffed into my rail car by a diverse collection of jackbooted thugs. FizFashizzle posted:Jesus Christ
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Feb 20, 2024 04:14
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Just ordered a Kinesis Advantage360 Professional My big recent purchase was a Victrola Revolution Go. It's a portable record player, and I've used it to play my grand total of two records (a peach smoke press of NOVA ONE's "lovable" and a blue press of boygenius' "the record") and it seems kind of silly, since I have Spotify (student discount rocks), but those records are loving gorgeous and there's something magical about watching them spin and the fact that the grooves in them are music. Gonna have to buy more degenerate queer filth on vinyl in every color of the rainbow, I guess.
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Feb 20, 2024 05:17
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Nervous posted:Apparently I did some scandalous poo poo in someone else's dream. She painted mine, we were little girls at a sleepover. 
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Feb 26, 2024 17:40
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The only podcasts I listen to are The Pants Pod and We're Having Gay Sex. They are...not educational. I get enough of reality working retail and going to school for social work! ....I am so telling on myself right now.
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Feb 27, 2024 04:05
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LeeMajors posted:These republicans seem bad. The dems should probably take popular policy positions and try hard to materially improve lives so they can win the election. The DNC should pay me a million dollars a year for my brilliant insights.
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Mar 1, 2024 17:25
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Hope the genital reveal goes well. …sorry, those things always make me cranky. The butt looks great though!
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Mar 2, 2024 15:44
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Venture Brothers is one of the best things in life, even though the older seasons have some deeply questionable choices (the creators are at least self-effacing enough to regret their bad choices. Which is probably why it just got better somehow)
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Mar 8, 2024 21:39
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Silly Burrito posted:Ok, definitely got hit with a reality check today. Louisiana has a TOPS program which pays for tuition for college. My daughter qualifies for it. I had it when I was in school (for 3 years, it began one year after I graduated high school). Luckily, that professor is awesome and said in the first class it was available free online, via dubiously-legal means that made it impossible for her to link us to it.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:25
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I got lunch and then went hiking with a friend. She was the only one in my two classes who lived in the area, and she’s this loving rad lady who has lived in half a dozen different places around the globe and is generally smart and interesting and lovely. We inevitably veered into what a shitshow…everything is several times. Great way to spend an afternoon!
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Mar 18, 2024 00:43
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I’ve always liked corned beef. It’s salty brisket! But the boiled cabbage, carrots, and potatoes? Total loving waste of perfectly good vegetables, IMO.
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Its Rinaldo posted:When is the Truly China is evil! Yoooo, someone rear end in a top hat customer went off on my little 18-year old coworker. He was reaching over our cooler to grab poo poo off of backstock, and she said something to him about it, and he just lost in on her. And oh no no no, you don't disrespect my sweet little sis! I think she was more composed than I was. Just a tiny calm teenager and an angry trans lady engaging some jerkass dude and eventually succeeding in getting him to leave us the gently caress alone. Anyway, that's my story.
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Air Skwirl posted:After her appearance on SNL there were a bunch of rightwing think pieces on how the existence of a white woman with large breasts is somehow anti-woke. ....no, I suppose they wouldn't, would they?
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Mar 24, 2024 22:50
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I’ve always been fond of beer, especially stouts. I had to adjust my drinking a little when I transitioned though, because it tanked my tolerance. Always have to take heavy stuff slow, really savor it. The good news is I need less alcohol to get to a good place, which means I spend less money on booze.
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Mar 25, 2024 05:26
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I'm going to die in this hell country, sooner or later, because I'm poor and trans. Depends on how hard and fast we go fascist...
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Mar 26, 2024 03:03
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Silly Burrito posted:Modern medicine really is a miracle when you think about it. Braks went in for gall bladder removal surgery today. We got to the hospital at 5AM, she was wheeled back for surgery at 7, she was done at 8, in recovery at 9, and we're back at home at 11. That's almost slightly insane how fast that was.
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poo poo, Joe Lieberman died? That's loving awesome, I wish more pieces of poo poo had the decency to die.
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