Saoirse

It's a high dysphoria week and I gotta vent about it.

There have been rumors for years but as far as I know nobody has been able to substantiate the claim. The organization that eventually produced Signal, Open Whisper Networks, received some seed funding from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (today known as the US Agency for Global Media), from which has been spun some CIA fronts like Radio Free Asia. However, this is also true of Tor, and many other non-profit private communications projects during this time, and does not itself prove any technical subversion has taken place. The source code for both the server and client are open source, and have been subject to frequent scrutiny, including full independent audits and penetration testing. No backdoor has ever been shown to exist in the code itself. Beyond that, people mostly gesture towards Moxie Marlinspike's radlib posturing and bad hair and invite people to Draw Their Own Conclusions.

It is the 90s again for Apple.

I am speaking from personal experience when I say you HAVE to stop arguing with people who hate you for existing. The very act of so-called debate is merely another theater in which to enact cruelty. More than that, you should simply not listen to or read anything they have to say directly.

I used to go on TERF blogs almost every night and it fully made me insane. Stopping was really hard, because it was a form of self soothing by self harming, but it was a huge improvement on my daily life.

Ah, sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

There appears to be more evidence every day to support this hypothesis. And I've seen it before, so many times. A lot of repressed US transfems go into the military in the hopes it will "fix" then, make them proper men. It's deeply traumatic for most I've spoken to.

Even as we honor Bushnell's commitment, I want to remind anyone who reads this that a long life of organized anticapitalist action does far damage to the imperial state than a single act of self-annihilation. Stay with us. Play the long game.

I left one of those sumo mandarins in my fridge for two weeks and I just ate it and it was so sweet. I feel like it healed me.

You get used to them. My top tip, tap around the area you're injecting for a spot with fewer nerve endings. You'll feel it less, or if you're lucky, not at all.

Protip: only wear black, everything will always match.

Got it. Definitely worth asking about with your doc, then. In the future, estrogen will help too.