Transtronaut

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone who realized they are trans and therefore also gay within the past year...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Trigger warning: explaining jokes in way too much detail.

The phrasing is a reference to the "Is this a pigeon?" meme (see: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-this-a-pigeon ). This is meant to indicate that this is clearly not egg_irl, but the topic of the original post seemed like something repressed trans people can relate to in hindsight. It reminded me of a common pattern among eggs where there's a vague but insistent internal voice (not literally a voice, more like an occasional impulse) telling you to do things that you associate with your actual gender, rather than your assigned gender, with varying effects depending on the person. For example, it generally made me feel uncomfortable without understanding why, leading me to assume I simply didn't like those things, when in fact that was more or less the opposite of the truth.

Anyway, these sorts of things can make the idea of an unknown, voiceless, internal personality separate from your surface-level persona resonate with trans people. Add the fact that when you're deeply involved in gender issues and transitioning, it's so much on your mind that there's a tendency to interpret everything as being somehow related to gender even when it isn't, and it seemed like a good fit for the pigeon meme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I imagine they’d count capital gains in the analysis

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/8544719

The NYTimes analysis is just about income taxes

Aren't you contradicting yourself here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Somebody around here linked this on mangadex a few months ago, and I haven't been able to stop binge-reading yuri manga since. True story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Is this egg_irl?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ROFL, I always wondered if that was intentional or not. Thanks for solving the mystery!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You don't have to vote for Biden. In the primaries, vote for whoever you actually like. In the general, vote for the Democrats' candidate (however flawed they may be). In neither case are you obligated to frame it as voting for Biden as an individual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Along the same lines: being amused by egg_irl and yet feeling a vague and nebulous yet irresistible sense that it would be dangerous to subscribe and therefore avoiding it.

Still cis tho.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably the biggest one for me was always feeling discomfort when being referred to or referring to myself as a "man". I didn't have any problem with words like "male", "guy", "dude", "lad", "boy", "fella", etc., but "man" was just one step too far, apparently.

Always figured it was just a reaction to my strong distaste for toxic masculinity, and/or a reluctance to grow up. With hindsight, it seems silly that it wasn't a dead giveaway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can do all that without force push. Just make a new branch and do the cleanup before the first push there. Allowing force push just invites disaster from junior developers who don't know what they're doing. If you want to clean up after them, that's your business, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just recently I started replaying “VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action”. I'm also working on Rune Factory 4 Special - the remake is only 4 years old, but the original is from 2012. I still periodically fire up Castle Crashers from time to time, and I have yet to give up on my much-procrastinated attempt at Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (the Xbox 360 version).

There are many others, but that's just off the top of my head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Facts. Force push belongs in Star Wars, and nowhere else.

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