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Cake day: April 26th, 2026

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  • I sense your frustration and empathize. I cannot imagine how challenging it must be to manage your levels without the benefit of doctors or proper lab tests. Working from first principles and self observation takes amazing patience and discipline.

    However, while transphobia and bigotry is ascendant right now, I’m not entirely sure we can use your account as evidence of widespread systemic malpractice against our people.

    I have a doctor, she prescribes estradiol valerate and spiro, and tests my blood every 3 months. We work as a team to produce hormone levels that will eventually converge with those of any afab.

    The thing is, everyone is different from the jump. Even with the benefit of a fully equipped treatment plan, my physiological goals are a moving target that we can, at best, only approach.

    There’s no conspiracy, other than the social conventions of gender that held me prisoner for decades.






  • The arms race inherent in the world of computer gaming is reaching a point of unsustainability. I started thinking that way back when I could donate cpu time on my ps3 to protein folding simulation.

    And, like most of our field, it’s a ratchet that only goes up. Efficiency and clever engineering to create an accessible experience is almost always lower down the list of priorities for these big corporate AAA publishers .

    They’re more interested in swinging their dick further than the other guy. A lot of the time this doesn’t actually buy something more fun, popular, or playable. But the mind of an exec beholden to shareholders is obligated to invest in bloat. meanwhile I’m having a delightful time running clever little indie games on my steam deck.



  • See, the problem with this is there’s no objective standard for validating whether somebody is telling the truth or not. So we can impose conventions that say you must tag something as being generated in a certain way, but that doesn’t mean that people are going to actually be forthcoming with the community.

    This is a problem that we’re going to have to deal with not just when we’re talking about our self hosted builds, but almost anything that is mediated through a screen. So, if we can figure it out for here, I’d suggest that we tell everybody shortly thereafter; about it because it‘ll solve a lot of problems, in a lot of different places.

    Bonus points if whatever we come up with can actually be self hosted.