Yes, absolutely. I use Okular when I need to fuck with pdfs. It’s quite decent in my experience. Great pdf reader and allows you to annotate, sign, fill forms, everything I’ve ever had to do with a pdf, really.

motherfucker just look at all the fucking nothing Biden has done on that. Roe v Wade overturned on his watch and the only response was… nothing!

I’ve tried using this line of argument on a lib (my mother). It doesn’t work. Her response was “Biden is super catholic and had a hard time even saying the word ‘abortion’. Kamala is a pro-choice woman, so of course she’ll be better about reproductive rights.” In my mind that response is almost delusional, it’s clear to me that abortion is too potent a political football to ever be truly “solved”. Democrats will pay lip-service to it to gain votes and then do fucking nothing to protect reproductive rights. But in the lib mind, since Kamala is a “progressive” (ha) woman, abortion rights are as good as saved, even though we’ve had a democrat in office for the last four years and reproductive rights are more under threat than they’ve ever been.

I don’t know how to get through to people, I think sometimes you just can’t.

Noooooo!!! My favorite hate-reading/self-harm substack went private between yesterday and today! I’m certainly not going to give them an email address, so apparently I’m doomed to have one less transphobic website I read religiously. This is probably a good thing, all in all, but some of their stuff was really funny sometimes. A lot more of it was absolutely awful, sure, but where else will I read about how minecraft makes kids trans?!?

Gravy is one of the laziest foods ever! I’ve made gravies while blackout drunk. I’ve made gravies while too high to function. It takes a little time (like 10 minutes, maximum) and some pretty constant stirring, but for the amount of tasty it adds to a dish, it’s well worth it. It often feels like the gravy makes itself while I just stand there waiting for it to come together.

Oh, it’s a pretty straightforward, very lazy gravy! I make a roux with flour and oil, then add in broth while whisking vigorously to get rid of any clumps. Then I add a can or two of canned mushrooms and I season it with salt, pepper, soy sauce, maybe some msg, and herbs. Lots of herbs. Rosemary, sage, thyme, parsley, usually dried because that’s what we have sitting around, but I bet fresh would be even better. We also have some, like, mushroom stir fry sauce (I don’t exactly know what it is) that we found in an asian market, so I usually add some of that to get it more mushroomy.

And yeah, I’ve done fried onions on a green bean casserole. In my mind that’s different than a tater tot hot dish. I do love green bean casserole though!

They have this thing they call “hot dish” which is they dump green beans and cream of mushroom soup in a casserole dish and put tater tots on it.

I’ve made this! Well, a vegan equivalent with mushroom gravy I made myself. And I used frozen mixed veggies, not just green beans. Oh, and I seasoned it. And put some (vegan) cheese on it. But it was really good! Sure, it’s not something I’d serve to anyone or even admit I enjoy (except anonymously on the internet, I guess), but like, it’s almost a shepherd’s pie situation, except with tots instead of mashed potatoes. Surprisingly good for a lazy meal, and lots of leftovers!

Ah, I had totally missed that you’re injecting stuff you made yourself, that changes things! Your worry is more about what you’re injecting than how you’re injecting it, and for that, my response is extremely, entirely unhelpful. Well, I’m hoping for good things for you, hopefully in a few weeks you’ll know that your hormones are working and you brewed them correctly!

Hey, I know anxiety isn’t always rational (usually not, in fact), so what I’m about to say might not actually help you at all. Still though, I’m going to say it.

HRT injections are pretty idiot-proof. If they weren’t, it wouldn’t be so common for people to self-administer them. If injections were easily messed up and dangerous, quite a few of us would have weekly appointments at clinics to have professionals do them, but we don’t. My sister didn’t even get any training on how to do her injections, she was literally handed a pamphlet with instructions and diagrams and told “go for it”.

Injections are absolutely scary, I don’t like doing them, but I always remind myself that there’s nothing that can go seriously wrong. Some weeks hurt (or bleed) more than others, but that’s the extent of it. There’s nothing I can do to actually cause injury or to cause the hormones to not work or something.

I sort of agree in that I very much would like to abolish gender, I don’t think it’s a super helpful framework to have so heavily embedded in society and in how humans interact with each other. On the other hand, I’m wary of equating manhood with shittiness, because there are (a) non-shitty men and (b) people who actively choose manhood. I’m simply unwilling to say that a trans man is actively choosing to be a shitty human by virtue of choosing to be a man. That doesn’t seem right to me, there’s something drawing trans men to manhood, and I do not believe it’s as simple as wanting to be a misogynist.

I understand your frustration! Patriarchy is extremely shitty and misogyny is so often ignored and downplayed, it’s really infuriating.

There’s not a man alive who doesn’t think women are beneath him.

Please, we can talk about how men are shitty without saying that they are literally, all of them, to a man, irredeemable. Because that’s obviously not true, there are plenty of men who see women as their equals. Yes, there’s “male socialization” or whatever and men are often taught to be extremely shitty, but their shittiness is not a necessary part of manhood and they can be educated out of it.

In fact, I would argue that saying stuff like this, that “there’s not a man alive who doesn’t think women are beneath him” actually gives men a pass to be misogynistic assholes. If part of being a man is viewing women as lesser, then we can’t hold any man accountable when he views women as lesser. But we can hold them accountable for this, and furthermore, we need to if we ever want to build a better society.

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I think the updated textures look worse than the original. I looked through all the screenshots and I can’t for the life of me figure out why I’d want to play the re-remastered. The lighting is harsh, the extra detail makes every scene harder to parse and it just looks, I dunno, messy.

But, that’s the beauty of modding! People who like the updated textures and lighting of this mod can install it, and I don’t have to!

Sure, that’s extremely fair! Those qt dependencies are no joke! How do you feel about Evince (apparently now called gnome document viewer)? It seems to be the standard gtk pdf viewer, but I’ve never used it, so I actually don’t know what it’s features are like. It’s a heavier application than mupdf (of course), but at least you don’t need to install qt to use it!

When zathura (my beloved) isn’t feature-rich enough for my needs I usually turn to okular. Sure, it’s kde, so if you’re on a pure gnome system you’re going to have to install a bunch of dependencies, but if that’s not a problem for you, okular is quite good in my experience!

Oh yeah, Caster Semenya is a massive terf bugaboo. They’re absolutely certain that she’s “a man”. They’re wrong, of course, but that has never stopped a terf!

I’m very confused by this. She’s a billionaire, it’s actually unthinkable that there would be that much mold on her walls. That’s just like, literally impossible. Even if she doesn’t notice it, one of the people she pays to clean/cook/whatever surely would. But if this is an unedited photo (actually, hold on, maybe it’s an edited photo, that might be the explanation), then I’m struggling to see what else that could be except mold. It doesn’t look like weird wallpaper, it’s far too uneven for that.

I think I’m going to believe the photo is edited to make it look like she has mold on her walls, at least until I see a video or some more photos from slightly different angles or whatever.

Edit: Oh. A picosecond of googling has shown me this is actually her twitter profile pic? She uploaded this herself? Well there’s my theory out the window! She wouldn’t edit mold into her own photo, that doesn’t make sense. So very possibly indeed a full on billionaire has tons of mold on her walls? That makes no sense! That actively makes negative sense! I don’t understand!

Ok. Doesn’t sound like great world-building to me. There’s a reason I don’t like capeshit. But enjoy your crappy stories about a shitty billionaire and the unrealistic impossibly broken city he beats people up in.

Like, actually “good” billionaires

Hahaha, no such thing. How did they get their billions? Where did the billions come from?

Oh. I’ve taken psychic damage from this post. Thanks, I guess.

Let me write out some of my thoughts on this.

First, obviously Dave Rubin doesn’t believe this. This is hog slop. This is slop for hogs. This isn’t serious, by any definition of that word. No one truly thinks this. The “Ugandan Giant”? Kamala isn’t particularly large and she wouldn’t do well in pro wrestling. You can actually trace her career, because she’s been a politician for decades. But. Despite all the obvious reasons why these two people are obviously different people, there’s at least one fucking weirdo on the internet who is going to believe this stupid fucking theory and make it a cornerstone of their identity. Fuck.

I’ll look into those. I’m afraid they won’t work with my carrier, but it’s probably worth checking!