Sasha
joined 1 year ago
Oh wow you just described exactly the same experience as me lol. Maybe it is an enby thing
This feels like the worst week or two I'm ever going to have. I broke up with someone I love so much, after the worst date I've ever had, every decision feels like a mistake and I don't feel in control; I feel insane, like I'm waking up forced to live with decisions someone else made.
I'm pretty sure I've burnt that bridge completely, but the worst pain is knowing I could unblock him and ask to try again. I just keep telling myself there's no point to a fourth try.
I know it'll get easier, but it's hard to find the will to keep going when something good happened for once, and then collapsed over something so stupid.
Anyway I'm going back on the radio in a couple of days to talk about trans people having bad mental health lol
Not in the US but my perspective on this whole thing is very mixed. Obviously I'm terrified of the rise of fascism and the exterminatory rhetoric that's now so common when trans people are mentioned in politics. I'm terrified for a number of my friends, and I can't help them, I can't keep them safe and I can't get them out.
For now I'm focusing my efforts locally, we've largely been able to keep that sort of thing out of Australia and have had some incredible support outside of the queer community at rallies and a recent counter protest against some terfs. I think we'll be okay, we might even make some progress down here, very exciting and it's keeping me going despite everything else.
I'm not holding up well, but I am still standing. I really hope things turn around in the US and UK soon, my heart goes out to you all. I'd say stay strong, but honestly that's not on you, just stay alive, it's okay to not fight.
Wow, that's devastating. Stay safe friend, hope you heal soon concussions are awful.
About 50 terfs and nazis held an anti-trans rally down here a couple of days ago. 500-1000 of us showed up to drown them out with noise, I handed out about 150 whistles to people, someone played Chappell Roan and we had a dance party, it was intense. 200 cops blocked off the entire intersection and kept us apart by a good 50+ metres. The terfs eventually got forced to leave early, so we ended up having a march through the city and it went to absolute shit.
Arrests were made, cops tackled and beat up a trans woman and put her in the hospital, pepper sprayed a transfem journalist and abused their powers all day to forcefully search people who weren't doing anything. As usual we were nonviolent but the media keeps calling us aggressive and violent thugs, if you watch any of the footage it's literally all just the cops turning violent and beating up some of the most vulnerable people. We have a right to demonstrate and the state tried to prevent us from doing so, it's absolutely disgusting and it's only going to get worse if they pass their anti-protestor laws.
I ended up bailing earlier than I wanted to, I've got an appeal in less than a month and was already on the cops radar that day.
Wait what? Doctors won't see victims? For legal reasons? What???
Are you okay, can we help in any way?
Oh haha, I didn't really care that much about the socks but paw pads? Now we're talking!
I went to grippy sock jail and there were no grippy socks, 3/10 wouldn't do again. One of the nurses was trans and she was the only person there who didn't make me feel judged or crowded, everything else was god awful.
Doing okay now, things aren't stable yet but I'm working hard on fixing everything.
Yeah someone said this in another thread and it's just like, completely meaningless. Just because a thing that can cause harm already exists doesn't mean we should normalise the harm, especially when a tool like this makes it more accessible and far easier for that harm to occur.
So far as I see it that point is just another negative towards AI, it means people want to do harm, taking all of the effort out is necessarily going to worsen the issue. I'm not going to comment on what should be done about Photoshop because this isn't a discussion about Photoshop.
AI image generation in particular is something I think should absolutely be banned completely. Giving the benefit of the doubt is okay, providing sources makes the poster a god imo.
Those tools are able to create non-consensual pornography, it can be used to create CP. It also steals from artists, plagiarises their work and enables some really problematic scams that I've been constantly fighting to keep out of an online safe space I maintain.
It's important to take a stand against exploitative shit, if only to show some basic solidarity with those screwed over by it.
The person walking in two directions at once, another person just walking into a wall, those demonic eyes...