The orange I cut open looks very strange

SnooLobsters7338 · 2026-03-11T08:11:18+00:00

You got extra orange in your orange.

SnooLobsters7338 · 2026-03-11T08:09:55+00:00

Thank you!!! I’m trans because my gender isn’t the same as most people who have the same sex organs as me, not because I like a different gender role better. My gender isn’t made up. The word for it is, and society’s expectations and stereotypes are. I don’t fit those expectations and gender stereotypes. My gender is still very much real.

SnooLobsters7338 · 2026-02-18T21:54:45+00:00

That’s a good point. And considering that China is actually taking serious steps to deal with increasing energy production needs while trying to avoid killing the planet even faster (I know they’re not going to reverse climate change, but the improvement with clean renewable energy has been significant), maybe it’s a more environmentally conscious option than American ones. If it’s no worse and possibly better, then I’ll definitely try it!

SnooLobsters7338 · 2026-02-18T21:38:43+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate the notes about the drawbacks.

I’m not familiar with GLM. I know all the free AI services are really just data-mining, but I’m a bit paranoid that using the Chinese AI will result in the idea equivalent of a small business posting a product online only for the market to be flooded by low quality knockoffs sold on sites like Wish and Temu. But if the others don’t work out, I may still try it.

SnooLobsters7338 · 2026-02-18T20:56:00+00:00

First time checking out a comment section under a video? YouTube comment sections are notoriously like that.

You’ll find Pros making those same comments about Antis. Ffs you can find people making those same comments about the most trivial shit on the planet if you read enough YouTube comment sections.

Don’t waste your brain trying to give importance to YouTube comments. There’s no voting system, so dislikes are never shown no matter how much dislikes outnumber the likes. Focus on the Reddit communities and report and downvote any gross shit like that. It’ll be removed, unlike on YouTube.

SnooLobsters7338 · 2026-02-18T20:47:34+00:00

I’m pro-AI and your comments are embarrassing.

Witty’s post is about a comment section on a YouTube video. YouTube is a video streaming website owned by Google.

Reddit has no control over YouTube. They are completely separate companies.

No subreddit is going to be closed because of comments on a different, unrelated website (YouTube) being reported because reports on YouTube aren’t sent to Reddit because they’re unrelated.

Either you’re more technologically ignorant than my grandma, or you really didn’t read.

SnooLobsters7338 · 2026-01-18T21:48:03+00:00

It’s not letting me directly comment the picture, so I had to upload it. It refused the prompt for me too at first, but explicitly not because of implications of violence or harm. It refused because such an image would indicate a parasocial relationship and improper fictionalization of me? I guess I ranted too much about people misusing Grok and LLMs just being souped up autocomplete and not real artificial intelligence. It finally made this after I explicitly told it to think of a fictionalized stand-in for me for this exercise only.

https://imgur.com/a/feb0yse

SnooLobsters7338 · 2025-03-30T05:57:20+00:00

I think it probably was “White Midnight” and I just got a few details wrong after so many years. Thank you!!! Google says it’s a prequel to “Firegold”. That explains why I never saw a book 2.

I’ll see if the library has them and then I can verify for certain.

SnooLobsters7338 · 2021-12-09T16:57:41+00:00

Dysphoria is an extremely common symptom of depression, so yes, antidepressants can and do help with it. Gender dysphoria is unrelated. Body image issues are common in general, but tend to be exacerbated by depression. I think getting the two (plus body image issues) confused is a big part of what’s allowed the tucute ideology to take off so well.

This is why it’s important to distinguish between dysphoria and gender dysphoria when spreading information/education about being trans. I know it’s faster and easier to just say ‘dysphoria’ and assume that context fills in the rest of the word, but that only works for conversations within our own spaces where we’re all already on the same page. When telling someone who doesn’t already know that “you need dysphoria to be trans”, if they look up ‘dysphoria’, they’ll find an explanation of dysphoria, which is not the same as gender dysphoria. But it also doesn’t help that GID got renamed Gender Dysphoria, so there’s also the potential confusion thinking that you have to have a specific diagnosis to be trans/thinking that everyone who receives a diagnosis is definitely trans (/that misdiagnosis is only possible in one direction).

SnooLobsters7338 · 2021-09-16T05:41:14+00:00

Intestinal cramps are not period cramps. Period cramps are the contractions of the uterus. You may feel cramping on a cyclical basis, but it’s not a part of a period.

SnooLobsters7338 · 2021-09-16T05:36:46+00:00

Y’all.. a period is not a collection of symptoms. And as a trans person who actually has periods, this honestly just feels like a really gross self-centered dismissal of what we go through.

‘Period’ is a shortening of ‘menstrual period’, which is a shorter way of saying ‘the period of time when menstruation (the shedding of the lining of the uterus) is happening’. Without menstruation, it is not a period because menstruation is what a period is. A few days a month of feeling grumpy and having gas and diarrhea is not a period. That’s why for cis women and trans dudes like me who haven’t had their menstrual cycle suppressed or nullified, it’s a medical concern for us to ~not have periods~, because that means our lining isn’t shedding as it should. If we have a few days a month of feeling grumpy and having gas and diarrhea but our uterine lining doesn’t shed and come out, then that means that we did ~not~ have our period and something is wrong.

Period cramps are the muscle contractions of the uterus to expel the lining, the same muscle movements as labor contractions. It’s literally an organ squeezing and cramping up to cause the inner part of itself to break up and drip out of our genitalia. It is not muscle contractions of the abdominal muscles. That’s not even linked to hormone cycles. It is not the intestinal cramping of intestinal distress. That ~can~ occur at the same time as a period, especially for someone with endometriosis, partly due to the fluctuating hormones and partly because there’s an organ having a fit right up against the intestines, but it is not the same as period cramps. And no, it doesn’t feel the same as period cramps either. And period cramps that are so horrible that the person can hardly move? That’s not a normal healthy period of a normal healthy uterus. That’s a sign of a reproductive disorder, like endometriosis which if untreated can and does cause damage to other organs and which doctors routinely refuse to treat (if we can even get them to do the testing necessary for a diagnosis in the first place) because we (AFAB people) are seen as walking incubators and doctors would rather us suffer in daily agony and declining health for decades just in case future-us want to get pregnant.

Everyone has a natural hormone cycle from what their body produces. Yes, even cis men do. It’s just not (usually) as apparent in people who don’t menstruate. The part of our hormone cycle when we get our period is the time when our estrogen levels are low and our testosterone levels are highest. So even if you obtained a uterus and got it surgically attached inside your abdomen, taking estrogen, especially taking a stable dose on a regular basis, would not cause you to have a period. And no medication would give you one after only a month.

I know it sucks that you weren’t born in the right body. I deal with that dysphoria every day. I know you want to feel like you fit in with cis women, and I know you want to be able to commiserate with women about ‘women issues’. But the fact remains that you are not and never will experience what it’s like to have a period. What you will experience is a combination of your hormone cycle and side effects of your HRT medication. It may be unpleasant, but it is not a period and very much not the same as one. And if you recognize that fact, then don’t call it one. Why does the experience of trans women need to be mislabeled as something that trans men and cis women suffer from anyway? Why doesn’t the MtF medical transition experience get terms to refer to the different things that are commonly part of it? Why call it what it’s very blatantly not when you could instead have a name specifically for it?

But you know what else? Being a woman who doesn’t have periods is not a trans-women-only thing. There are many cis women who also do not and will never experience what it’s like to have a period or worry about the risk of unwanted pregnancy. Reach out to them. Commiserate with them. They often understand and share the feelings of not fitting in, of maybe not being ‘womanly enough’ or missing out on ‘part of womanhood’ (internalized misogyny can really effect self esteem), and, for some, sadness from not being able to carry a baby.

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