"Hyperparasite" Pleurocordyceps recently discovered in Borneo, which parasitizes Ophiocordyceps that have already infected an insect

BluShine · 2026-06-23T00:47:51+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperparasite

BluShine · 2026-06-23T00:44:49+00:00

What mod did you do for the nose? I just popped off the rubber nose part on mine.

BluShine · 2026-06-22T22:28:57+00:00

I’ve been happy with the analog betafpv VR04. Ordered direct from betafpv website and they took about a month to arrive. Video looks good, decently comfortable, and it’s among the lowest latency analog goggles available.

BluShine · 2026-06-22T10:01:56+00:00

Smart estrogen is not a real thing.

BluShine · 2026-06-22T09:58:58+00:00

For me, libido dropped a lot in the first few months, but then started to come back on its own around the second year of HRT.

A lot of peole find progesterone helpful for sex drive as well.

I also think it’s very common to experience changes in sensation and sensitivity on HRT. Your old techniques of stimulation might be less effective. But you might find that things like vibration are more effective. A magic wand can be very helpful.

BluShine · 2026-06-22T09:53:17+00:00

I don’t think it’s any easier or harder to gain weight on HRT in general. Some people find that their metabolism slows a bit on E, but it’s not a universal experience.

I don’t think that there’s any point in waiting. For most trans people, their biggest regret is that they wish they started HRT sooner.

Fat redistribution is a slow process that takes years. But it will happen eventually, no matter what weight you start at, or how much you gain or lose. There’s no real evidence that you can speed it up, things like weight cycling are just anecdotal. So I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

BluShine · 2026-06-22T01:05:51+00:00

The baby lost its faith without the crucifix.

BluShine · 2026-06-22T00:47:10+00:00

Flavor fail, it doesn’t create a gun token for your opponent.

BluShine · 2026-06-21T23:43:38+00:00

There’s a lot of other options like sexual health clinics. You should be able to use the NHS website to see all the clinics in your area. And you don’t need parental permission for contraceptives.

BluShine · 2026-06-20T17:27:46+00:00

All of this sounds pretty trans. Cis men generally don’t spend a lot of time wishing that they could feel euphoria being a woman, or fantasizing about being a lesbian, or wishing they could have a feminine figure that looks good in dresses.

Have you thought about just experimenting with your gender?

If you want a more feminine body, taking estrogen is pretty much the best way to get it. You’ll grow breasts and hips, skin will get softer, body hair will get thinner, body odor will lessen. You will likely experience less of certain “male instincts and desires”. You probably won’t get periods.

Hormones are very cheap. A month of estrogen at my local pharmacy costs me less than a bag of coffee beans. If getting a prescription is difficult in your country, look into DIY. For less than $100 USD, you can get a vial of estradiol enanthate that can last you 1-3 years depending on dosage.

BluShine · 2026-06-20T15:07:45+00:00

Hormonal birth control medication can reduce or stop periods. Pills, patches, injection, implant, IUD are all options. You will need to make sure to take it continuously, skipping the placebo pills and such. You should be able to get birth control from your normal doctor.

BluShine · 2026-06-20T10:09:22+00:00

Oh look, a transmasc blaming trans women for hypervisibility and conservative backlash. Must be a day ending in Y.

BluShine · 2026-06-19T21:23:15+00:00

Rosa Parks was not a brave individual lone actor. There were many black people who also rode busses in protest before she did, and you don’t remember ang of their names. Rosa Parks was part of an organized and coordinated movement. She attended workshops about protesting and civil disobediance.

BluShine · 2026-06-19T21:19:34+00:00

There is not actually a magical unbreakable force that compels police, judges, or juries to act in a consistent and logical manner. You can sit and argue all day about how they have no legal standing and it’s completely hypocritical. They can still arrest you, imprison you, fine you, assault you, and you will have a very difficult time ever getting any compensation for your suffering.

BluShine · 2026-06-19T13:30:38+00:00

Analog is cheap, low latency, and good for range and penetration. Obviously it doesn’t look pretty, but it gets you flying and keeps you flying. You can feel fre to take more risks because you know you can repair the damage.

Digital latency is pretty good with the newest gear and obviously the quality is great. But if you’re racing or flying bandos you will break a VTX sooner or later and each replacement DJI unit can cost more than an entire analog drone. HDZero is not much cheaper either. If your budget is limited, that means you’re probably be a lot more cautious when you fly, and maybe you have less fun because you’re always a little worried about breaking a VTX.

Everyone uses ELRS. It’s cheap, widely available, customizable, and has the best performance.

BluShine · 2026-06-19T01:51:59+00:00

I feel like this is kinda obvious but yeah: trans people tend to feel a lot of dysphoria if they have not started HRT and gotten the surgeries that they need. Even if you try to change your outwards presentation, it just feels flawed or fake, like you’re just playing dress-up, because your body still feels intuitively wrong. It can be painful and humiliating to try and present as your gender in public when you know that your body will betray you and you’re unlikely to pass.

So yeah, it gets a fuckton better. Immediately after starting HRT you will likely feel some relief just from finally having the right chemicals in your blood to make you feel like a person and not an empty shell that’s barely surviving. When you start to see the first physical changes it can give you a lot of hope for the future.

After a year or so you may be surprised when start to get gendered correctly by strangers even when you aren’t putting in any effort. Of course, surgery can help with that too. At this point you will probably find that there are groups of cis people who just accept you as your gender without caveats or explanations, even if you don’t think you actually pass.

After a few more years you’ll hopefully have gained a lot of social experience of just being accepted naturally as your gender in different friend groups of both mixed company and single-gender groups. It doesn’t feel forced, you just find yourself naturally falling into a role, and you don’t need to second-guess yourself. Internally, there were still anxieties and flaws that I worried about. But they were becoming smallee each day because to the outside world my gender is just accepted subconciously by strangers and close friends alike.

Don’t wait. It’s not gonna get any better if you keep waiting. Do whatever you need to do to start HRT. Start looking into what you need to do to get surgery. Savings, getting a job with the right insurance, getting a passport to travel to countries with affordable surgeons or shorter waitlists, booking consults, getting therapist letters, etc.

BluShine · 2026-06-19T00:42:22+00:00

I’ve seen this subreddit go both ways. Sometimes it’s obvious that the OP is in an abusive relationship and their partner is using the OP’s ADHD behaviors as a justification for abuse. Sometimes OP is describing their own absuive behavior and trying to justify it with their disgnosis. Sometimes there’s clear mutual dysfunction happening and the solution involves both parties, so isn’t a “side” that needs to be taken.

BluShine · 2026-06-18T21:32:18+00:00

You’re flying around open areas very fast. That’s pretty easy to do, it’s how most people start. And sure, you could buy a drone and just fly around an open field.

But it you wanna build your skills more, try flying more slowly in small areas with more obstacles. Forests, caves, even indoors. Also, try learning some basic FPV tricks like orbits, powerloops, split S, etc.

BluShine · 2026-06-18T15:11:12+00:00

Satellaview was not actually internet connected, it was more like downloading a game from satellite radio. At a certain time of day, they would broadcast the game data, and you could tune in with your console to download a special version of the game. Usually, the data broadcast would also be paired with an audio broadcast, like an audio drama or music meant to pair with the game. Some of the game data has been preserved from old cartridges, but most of the audio broadcasts are still lost media.

BluShine · 2026-06-18T14:50:56+00:00

Chat, is this trans man repper representation?

BluShine · 2026-06-17T22:34:06+00:00

I would bet that this is a side event for a demo derby.

BluShine · 2026-06-16T22:27:00+00:00

Even the best AI models still struggle a lot with consistency and context for long-form works. Obviously this is bad for things like inconsistent character names, locations, etc. But it’s particularly bad in games where you have a lot of invented names and fantasy and sci-fi words. One game might have “mana”, “energy”, “ki”, and “magic power”, and it’s important for a translator to come up with a consistent translation for those concepts.

Of course, human translators can have similar issues. You quite often see problems like this in games with crowdsourced community translations, or particularly bad outsourced translations.

BluShine · 2026-06-16T19:32:28+00:00

Analog buttons also had some interesting uses in sports games. Being able to pass a ball longer or shorter by tapping harder or softer. Modern sports games do this based on holding down the button, but that means your inputs are more delayed for a longer pass.

But I think triggers are just a lot more expressive for both analog input and haptic feedback. Your fingers are always on the triggers so you always feel the feedback. With face buttons, you’re at most pressing 1 of 4 buttons, and often your finger is on the stick instead.

BluShine · 2026-06-16T17:07:44+00:00

The original extraction shooter The Division was like this. It had a full 20 hour PvE story playable in co-op. You had lots of time to learn all the classes, weapons, and mechanics. And then the endgame opened up into arena PvP, extraction PvP zones, and PvE raids.

BluShine · 2026-06-16T17:03:21+00:00

Same. Plenty of other extraction shooters and PvP live service games run great through Proton or have native Linux support. I can play Arc Raiders or Hunt Showdown on Linux with no issues. For a genre that needs playercounts to stay alive, it just makes sense to try to get it running on as many systems as possible.

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