Thanks for this! I personally find most of Hexbear annoying on a personal level, but that’s a problem I can personally solve with community blocking (and I mostly surf my subbed communities anyway). The way the original metathread devolved put them on thin fucking ice as far as federation is concerned. They seem to have a large proportion of people who are assholes for assholes sakes and haven’t learned that just because you believe you’re right about something doesn’t mean you have a pre-ordained right to be a fucking asshole. Or at least I’ve seen a lot of those folks, which has left a bad taste in my mouth.

They included the wrong parts in the Build A Baby blue light special at K Mart.

I lost it in my backpack on the way home from school.

I’m honestly mad I could identify the artist from the thumbnail alone.

They have at least one community named after a trans slur which is not great. Unfortunately I was on mlem when I saw it so I couldn’t report it.

Kept on having issues today but was finally able to log in. Glad to be back :)

Also Trans Lifeline (ie. the hotline itself) would be good to include.

Transmasc but I would unironically buy those. I fucking love sour patch kids and they’d only be improved by having them in trans colors.

Glad to be back and thanks for your hard work!

I'm transmasc, but I came out as enby at my previous job (a call center). This involved a new name and they/them pronouns. I felt safe doing it after conversations with the department head about trans stuff. I'd definitely try to get a vibe on the general company culture towards trans people before coming out. I'd also definitely try to get a pulse on how supportive your boss will be if there are any issues, especially if you're in a customer facing role.

Pros: all of my coworkers were chill with it, or if they had problems with it they kept it outside of work. I did have to spend a while correcting people on my name/pronouns, but that just comes with the territory. I think it took about two weeks to a month for the name/pronouns situation to settle.

Cons: The job I worked was the type where we had "frequent flyer" customers we'd support. No one was directly transphobic to my face. But a few of these customers would ask to speak to Deadname instead of my actual name... months after the switch. They never did this to my face. They always somehow managed to remember my name when talking to me. But when they got any of my coworkers on the line, they magically only remembered my deadname. The co-workers on my team were fantastic about forcing the customers to actually use my name. I talked to my boss about this, but unfortunately there really wasn't much we could do besides correcting them. The last incident of this was about six months after the name change. Not a problem I have anymore because I got laid off in the tech layoffs lmao.

This week has been A Lot since I’m putting on my last family performance in girl mode helping prep for my sister’s wedding. Which would already be a lot without the gender shit lmao. But I’m seeing Spiderverse again this weekend so it balances out :)

How can I have Nugget's job?

There's now !ftm@blahaj.zone :)

Seconding tape! I have what’s considered to be a larger chest but mine are not very dense. I’ve noticed that helps me a lot with getting my chest to look right with trans tape. From what I’ve heard/seen online, tape is harder to use if you have denser chest tissue.

The other thing I do in hot weather is wear a moisture wicking under shirt under my binder. It helps a lot with general sweat and making sure things aren’t too swampy under there. I like the Uniqlo Airism shirts, but anything moisture wicking and thin will work great.

Unfortunately not out of the woods yet. Wedding is next week 😞

Yeah for instance bottom surgery discussions usually get tagged NSFW in a lot of places because that's inherent to the subject matter.

Weirdly I found Lemmy (as in this instance) through the Blahaj.zone Clackey... which I found by googling "Blahaj statistics". I haven't interacted with the main Lemmy instance. Enjoying the vibes here :)

I wanted to make an infographic for my graphic design portfolio about Blahaj, so I wanted to find some sort of statistics to use? Not really sure what I thought I would find. Maybe how many are sold in a year or something?? Never did make that infographic lol

I call it my brain getting deep fried. I tend more towards losing words. One time I did spend five minutes wondering what Stede Bonnets first name was... by asking my friend "What is Stede's first name?" (It's Stede. Which I said in the moment.)

I literally just made one- c/ftm