Melody

The shocked anger reaction coming from Trump is priceless as he finds out that there really weren't as many immigrants as the far-right proclaimed there to be.

No doubt that number got inflated, much like it would in a game of telephone, when it was making furious rounds through the conservative disinformation machine. I hope he feels just as stupid as anyone who voted for him and are finding out that he really did not represent their ideals nor their best interests after all.

Now that the mandatory reminders of "It's your choice" are out of the way; fwy will tell a bit about how fwy cracked.

Fwy has always been fascinated with various feminine things from a very young age; and that includes things like fashion, makeup, and other ways and forms of creatively expressing fwyself with fwy's very own body.

Of course as you probably know, or have experienced, being AMAB typically means you get pidgeonholed into very specific, very utilitarian clothing and you don't often get a lot of choices on the colors or things of that nature; and it's typically even enforced at a high level that AMAB bodies also do not sport very many types of body accentuation or decorations that are not of a permanent and irreversible nature. No offense to those who do sport very colorful tattoos.

Even when Fwyfwy was just 8 years old; Fwy found immense pleasure in simple decorations of fwy's own body. Given a box of washable markers and privacy; fwy would be very artistic and decorate fwy body, usually fwy feet and legs as those were easiest to sort of color or decorate to emulate something in some manner, to look like whatever fwy felt she most resonated with. Most frequently; fwy would resonate strongly with many female characters and found it strongly maddening that fwy couldn't display fwy's self decoration publicly; but it at least kept fwy sane to know fwy had the decoration on fwy's own body underneath fwyfwy drab clothes.

This is only a fragment of fwy's experience of being trans; but fwy feels it's the best fragment to offer. Fwy does not want to be discouraging when you may just be seeking to feel like you are not alone. Rest assured that you are not alone.

WYKYK; "When you know, you know."

Don't rush yourself. Don't let anyone try to crack your "shell" or treat you like an egg if you feel uncomfortable with that. Be yourself and feel it out.

If after hearing a few testimonies and stories from other trans people you personally feel that experience more closely matches yours; by all means don't hesitate to consider yourself trans.

Explore our communities, hear some stories, explore the meanings on your own terms and find what fits!~

Welcome to being Queer/Questioning. <3 Lots of space to explore and even decide you want to venture out to explore under the even wider umbrella of being trans.

So yes; technically you could argue you're trans; even as you are. If that makes you comfortable; do it. If it does not; you don't have to. It's your own labels and your right to self-assign whatever labels you feel fit you best.

Yes, Please.

Regardless of that; another shenanigan exists for those who did make it to the polls; Gerrymandering.

Yes; it's horrid as it sounds and it limits the voting power of lower class people, as well as the power of people who are considered to be "ethnic minorities" by the party in power. If there's a neighborhood of blacks next to a poor neighborhood; well both find themselves districted together and their cumulative votes are diminished by how the votes are counted by district such that a 2-3 victory for Democrats; is actually counted as a 2-3 victory for the Republicans...all because the Republicans were already in power somehow and managed to re-district the place so that the vote result never changes anything...unless the unlikely event that all three neighborhoods choose to vote the same way occurs.

Yet another shenanigan exists where voting rolls are frequently "purged" due to false assertions of fraud and onerous and routine registration becomes necessary, which isn't a problem if you don't work full-time in the USA; but good luck getting a day off work if you do work full-time and need to vote. (Hint: YOU DON'T; OR ELSE YOU GET FIRED WITH NO RECOURSE!)

Even if that wasn't enough already; many times the voting times, locations, dates and even rules change from year-to-year, and sometimes even month-to-month.

What worked this time might not work next time. From ID requirements to ballot order manipulation or even other flat out shady practices like misleading or leading poll questions on the ballot are all employed.

The media is even worse; and frequently spouts simple and blatant lies. they could literally be absolutely passionate about their issue in particular and still end up being misled or lied to; as there's no accountability for this. This would result in mistakenly casting a vote for the wrong candidate who would then go on to not represent the will or needs of the citizens voting for them once they're in power.

The average American, just simply can't always be on top of every one of these things 24/7. It's easy to get taken by any one of them by surprise.

^ Another American here; and I second this notion! ^

For some concerning reason; Fwy can't even find the YouTube version of this video without manually concatenating the video ID to the watch page of fwy's personal invidious instance. Please, make sure the video is searchable if it's intended to be live.

An invidious link; this one will take you to public instances so you can find one that's up and running.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=B9BWXvn-rB4

Fwy's own instance, unfortunately, isn't public; it's only shared with fwyfwy housemates on a VPN solution.

This is unsurprising. A Chinese model will be filled with censorship.

Nice writeup as always. I always wondered about Session but it seems like they have the same "I rolled my own" crypto nonsense as Telegram has; and we all know how bad that one actually is as it's not correctly implemented at all; even if the underlying protocol is otherwise good.

I find it frustrating that no discernable effort is being visibly made to pass this project on to another dev or group of devs.

Just unceremoniously announcing it's going down. After a successful fundraiser at the beginning of this year.

I don't know where the funds went, nor do I understand the abruptness of the closing of the project. I'm suspecting that this is a ragequit. Something happened somewhere quietly that led to the developer deciding that they cannot maintain any longer.

This is, in short, quite disappointing.

To anyone; if you do respond to this comment; do not try defend them. Instead, try to provide more context, or evidence that shows I have misread the situation. Arguing about how long he worked, or how passionate he was in the past, does not change the current facts. Provide more facts if you must argue.