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Making your own starter isn't hard! You just need flour, water, and a food scale. (I started with the cheap scale from Walmart.) Feed your starter equal parts flour and water for about four days. Easiest amount is 113g. Keep it at room temperature so it can start fermenting. Once it's bubbly, you can maintain it by keeping it in the fridge and feeding it once a week. I usually remove about half when I feed it and keep the discard for waffles.

Here's an article that goes into more depth: https://www.thekitchn.com/sourdough-beginners-guide-23004397

I’m honestly mad I could identify the artist from the thumbnail alone.

I'm transmasc, but I came out as enby at my previous job (a call center). This involved a new name and they/them pronouns. I felt safe doing it after conversations with the department head about trans stuff. I'd definitely try to get a vibe on the general company culture towards trans people before coming out. I'd also definitely try to get a pulse on how supportive your boss will be if there are any issues, especially if you're in a customer facing role.

Pros: all of my coworkers were chill with it, or if they had problems with it they kept it outside of work. I did have to spend a while correcting people on my name/pronouns, but that just comes with the territory. I think it took about two weeks to a month for the name/pronouns situation to settle.

Cons: The job I worked was the type where we had "frequent flyer" customers we'd support. No one was directly transphobic to my face. But a few of these customers would ask to speak to Deadname instead of my actual name... months after the switch. They never did this to my face. They always somehow managed to remember my name when talking to me. But when they got any of my coworkers on the line, they magically only remembered my deadname. The co-workers on my team were fantastic about forcing the customers to actually use my name. I talked to my boss about this, but unfortunately there really wasn't much we could do besides correcting them. The last incident of this was about six months after the name change. Not a problem I have anymore because I got laid off in the tech layoffs lmao.

I had this issue earlier but it seems to be working for me now.

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Thanks! I'll check it out

Welcome! We're glad to have you.

Whoa I'd never seen this one before. Found out there's a PFLAG group near me which I didn't know about. Thanks!

Yeah while flairs are helpful, that would be a lot to enforce. I’d love to see real post flairs become a feature soon.

I was trying to find some of them but since r/ftm went dark, they’re harder to find. I think most of them were in the wiki, which I haven’t been able to pull up on the Wayback machine. I’ll definetly check out the ones on r/transmascdics. Definetly feel free to post other websites once you dig them up.

Also Trans Lifeline (ie. the hotline itself) would be good to include.