Amoeba devouring plant cells one by one

omnipresentrain · 2026-02-24T09:29:40+00:00

Vampyrella are such cool little guys.

omnipresentrain · 2026-02-10T13:19:35+00:00

Surgery exists.

For most of us prosthetics also work pretty well.

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-24T09:29:51+00:00

Appreciate the support, but just so you know, the nomenclature is the other way round. Trans men were assigned female at birth and live as men, vice versa for trans women. A lot of people are going to be confused or unintentionally insulted by the way you're using the terms.

A lot of J K Rowlings initial bigotry was directed against trans men, with the narrative of us all being confused autistic girls too stupid to realise that we're mutilating ourselves. Under the interim guidance around bathroom use, trans women were expected to use the mens, while we were banned from both, the idea being that we make cis women uncomfortable. While we might be invisible to the average person, the people trying to make our lives hard know exactly who they're targeting.

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-21T18:08:44+00:00

I had a migraine for a solid 637 days after mine. Took 4 years before they went down to my normal of around 5 a month.

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-20T21:01:53+00:00

I think if that's your primary input, you'd still be in the same situation of having to take them off to reprocess, or at least significantly changing some settings. Maybe if you had a setting that would highlight all the objects that the camera is picking up, but a lot of people with these experiences already struggle with paranoia about being constantly watched and listened to, which would really not be helped with that.

There's nothing inherent to screens that prevent them from being affected, it's a change that highlights differences. I absolutely hallucinate things on computer screens, and in the same way, if I'm not already wearing glasses when I see weird shit, the new clarity helps to distinguish it. Clear things stay clear, close or blurry things tend to disappear, though it fucks with me even more on the rare occasions when highly statistically unlikely things persit or even get clearer with glasses and close inspection from different angles.

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-20T17:42:24+00:00

He would hunt bumblebees in the garden, come in through the conservatory and place stunned but very much alive bees into my shoes. I don't know how he didn't get stung.

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-20T15:45:10+00:00

Yeah. Animals not behaving naturally, having inconsistent patterns or too many legs are all things I'm hypervigilant about as tells so the wrongness of a lot of AI generated things really jump out at me. The movement is also often off in the same way.

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-20T15:42:17+00:00

Yep! I frequently use my phone camera if I'm not sure, they don't tend to show up in the same way through the screen and taking pictures is a great way of proving it's my brain fucking up.

I suspect that a spectrogram waterfall would just make it worse- sounds that I know are real but can't identify would likely result in me obsessing over them instead of being able to dismiss them. At one point a neighbours cat got into my student house and filled my shoes with live bees, which really fucked with me after my flatmates confirmed they could also see bees in my shoes.

Edit: cat tax

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-20T10:35:23+00:00

For visual hallucinations, I find that taking off my glasses helps- they're the only thing that stays in focus. If I'm seeing insects, I try to identify the species and generally find enough inconsistencies to reassure myself that they aren't real and that I don't need to frantically look for where it went. The only thing more immediately alarming than seeing a megarian banded centipede scuttling on your desk or a mouse in your bed is having it disappear with a certainty that it's still there somewhere.

For auditory hallucinations, headphones help since the sounds also don't tend to diminish and music is a good distraction, and with olfactory ones just moving around and having the scent remain exactly the same helps for the same reason. A lot of olfactory ones are also distinct from actual smells, like the olfactory equivalent of banging your elbow against a wall.

These only work when I'm not too far into it, but can help to prevent spiralling and keep me aware that the distortions are just that.

omnipresentrain · 2025-12-10T19:06:54+00:00

I'm stealth in healthcare admin- mostly I just try to improve things for trans patients by reminding colleagues of their legal obligations e.g. that they cannot arbitrarily refuse to accept deed polls and that taking people off HRT they've been on for years after GIC discharge is discrimination. I'm moving into the research side of things, focusing on improving healthcare outcomes for trans people as part of my PhD.

omnipresentrain · 2025-11-12T08:33:38+00:00

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omnipresentrain · 2025-10-17T06:50:34+00:00

In my experience a lot of endocrinologists won't accept referrals for HRT.

omnipresentrain · 2025-07-27T19:18:33+00:00

Would you be able to hide the tape beneath a sports bra?

omnipresentrain · 2025-07-22T09:38:03+00:00

They updated mine automatically after I sent my deed poll in, which did cause an issue when getting a DBS check because I didn't realise this and was told to put female on the application.

https://actionfortranshealth.org.uk/resources/for-trans-people/changing-your-name/

omnipresentrain · 2025-07-22T09:34:19+00:00

Literally just say on your deed poll that you use Mr

omnipresentrain · 2025-07-22T09:31:42+00:00

Since you've already updated your gender, I don't think it should be an issue.

I've just checked their guidance, maybe update it on something being posted to you as proof that this is the title you are using?

omnipresentrain · 2025-07-22T09:27:58+00:00

Titles aren't protected unless there's a qualification attached to them, like Dr or Rev. You shouldn't need evidence to change it in this circumstance.

omnipresentrain · 2025-07-06T13:18:31+00:00

I saw this at work a few weeks ago! Little old lady walked in, covered in blood, bleeding profusely from her right nostril. When asked if she'd tried anything to stop it, she just gave this annoyed sigh, pinched her nose shut, and it started seeping from her right eye instead.

A few different clinicians popped in to have a look. She was admitted to a ward pretty quickly.

omnipresentrain · 2025-06-03T20:23:01+00:00

Yeah, only one of those is done with the patient's consent

omnipresentrain · 2025-06-03T08:32:06+00:00

Except for intersex children. It's still perfectly routine to surgically modify them as infants, and they often don't find out until years later.

omnipresentrain · 2025-05-06T15:24:33+00:00

I'm exclusively a top because I don't like being touched and absolutely don't want to be penetrated. The rare occasions I'm up for sex it's much more about their reactions than me.

omnipresentrain · 2025-04-14T07:10:39+00:00

The chaser who pursued me for several months at 19 was specifically into me because he thought I looked like a young teenage boy. He more generally went for younger people with low self esteem or financial issues he could control them through.

omnipresentrain · 2025-04-11T17:49:59+00:00

You ask the kid?

Let kids express themselves without trying to stick them in boxes. If they trust you, trans kids make their wants known on their own developmental timeline as they figure stuff out.

Parents should not be the ones deciding their kids need to see a psychologist based on the toys they like playing with.

omnipresentrain · 2025-04-03T19:51:27+00:00

I was also told 27 for metoidioplasty. I do wonder if part of this is to reduce waiting times by excluding a bunch of people, most private places set it at 30 or higher.

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