Hiiii!

Today: a short yap about computer hardware:

Damn I love the AM4 socket its so upgradable yay, bought a Ryzen 9 5900X for our old desktop soon to be homelab and so excited for it.

Computers are fun! (and expensive)


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  • buh [she/her]@hexbear.netM
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    broke: quitting drinking for health reasons

    woke: quitting drinking because it makes me long for a bf so badly 🥺

  • lilypad [she/her, null/void]@hexbear.net
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    need some advice (cw institutional transphobia)

    Just saw something from a person saying they went to renew their expired passport and werr told that they could not be issued a passport, under any gender marker, because they updated their marker with social security.

    Ive done that, and have a passport thats still valid for a couple more months now. Am I facing a de facto travel ban? I think i am, but im really unsure.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    At like 4 AM a few nights ago, sleepless, I frantically penned down an apparently brand new idea for a gender-neutral pronoun in Esperanto, despite not being a proficient Esperantist. It’s like this:

    • geu estas neduuma esperantisto (they are a nonbinary Esperantist)
    • mi ŝatas geun. (I like them)
    • ĉu vi vidis gees katon? (have you seen their cat?)

    To quickly explain the idea: Esperanto has a prefix that (unofficially) forms gender-neutral words, and a suffix that (mostly unproductively) forms pronouns, so I figured that the most obvious way to create a gender-neutral pronoun in Esperanto would just be to smash these two affixes together: ge- + -u = geu. Simple as that.

    To me this seemed like such an obvious idea in hindsight, that when I looked into it the next morning, I was genuinely surprised to find that apparently no-one else had ever come up with this idea before me: all the other neopronouns coined in Esperanto thus far apparently just smash the gendered pronouns together, or take the gendered pronouns and replace the first letter randomly. This approach comes with its own advantages and disadvantages, but in any case my proposal isn’t really trying to “compete” with these other neopronouns, any more than they competes with xe, you know?

    Edit: A neat little coincidence is that Korean has a gender-neutral pronoun commonly romanized as geu. Maybe that was a subconscious influence!


    In completely unrelated news, did you all know that Margaret McDonald (any/all) is non-binary? I don’t know when xe came out as non-binary, but xe’s an English-language anime dub VA who I have heard in a lot of different things over the years. I was just watching the movie Tamako Love Story with my mom, in which McDonald plays the titular Tamako Kitashirakawa: I couldn’t remember the VA’s name, so I looked it up, and that’s how I found out that thon was non-binary. Among many other credits, ae also plays Miho Nishizumi in Girls & Panzer — which was frankly the only name I could pull out of my butt, I literally said, “Tamako sounds like whoever it was who did Miho” — and McDonald also voiced Rikka Takanashi in the ever-goated Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, and he also played Sachi Momoi in Maria Holic, which interestingly enough is an anime dub that just straight up drops the T slur at one point.

    So yeah, nonbinary pog.

    Also, e’s pan.

  • Eco [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 hours ago
    discussions of transphobia

    how to tell a cis person that trans people should be allowed to compete in sports because sports are arbitrary competitions they’ve attached excessive weight to and they should get over it

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net
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    Saw a posting for a job I actually want instead of just needing to survive, but I don’t think I’m qualified doggirl-gloom Might just apply anyway. If they laugh and throw out my resume it’s not like I’ll know any way.

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    10 hours ago

    fox news: the school nurse is giving kids bottom surgery if they ask nicely

    actual school nurse: i literally cannot give you an ibuprofen or else the entire school district is getting sued to kingdom fuck

  • Tomboymoder [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net
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    dysphoria

    I feel like never looking at myself is giving me a very warped sense of myself.

    I either pass more than I think I do and I’m inflicting needless mental anguish on myself, or I pass even worse than I think and knowing that will destroy me.
    Maybe I’ll hazard a look when I’m 50kg and been on this dose of hrt for a year.