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Limestone is a common type of sedimentary rock which I find uncommonly interesting! It's mostly calcium carbonate, which is also what eggshells π₯, seashells π, and pearls π¦ͺ are made out of.
In places where it rains a lot, limestone erodes easily, which results in simply gorgeous landscapes such as:
HαΊ‘ Long Bay in Vietnam
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park in Madagascar
The Li River in China
Additionally, the world's longest (Mammoth) and deepest (~~Veryovkina~~ Krubera is once again the world's deepest cave, thank you to SockOlm for pointing that out) cave systems are both found in limestone formations
Mammoth Cave in the United States
Veryovkina Cave in Georgia/Abkhazia/Russia (disputed territory)
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HαΊ‘ Long Bay https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halong_Bay_in_Vietnam.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsingy_de_Bemaraha.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Li River https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Li-Flussfahrt-160-Huegel-2012-gje.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Mammoth Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mammoth_Cave_Rotunda_(USGS_Lwt02830).jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Veryovkina Cave https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veryovkina_cave._Babatunda_pit.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
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hi, does anyone wanna make the mega in the upcoming weeks? if so, reply to this post and i'll add you to the list!
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strength, exercise
Ive been playing it low and slow with weightlifting recently, been keeping my weights low and my reps high (8-12 reps per set) to adjust slowly, but today I pushed my curls to 3x8 20 pound dumbbells and fuck that felt so good. I had to push and really try to get those reps while maintaining good form, it felt amazing to challenge and push myself and really feel my body put in a lot of work to move weight. I feel so powerful pulling off harder lifts, the feeling of strength is kind of intoxicating
don't see anything about it here or in the news mega but just wanted to share that there was an enormous protest in parliament square (and up and down the UK) yesterday against the supreme court ruling on wednesday. all of parliament square was filled and people were spilling out onto the roads.
Oh my god I need to feel more fem/like a woman 
Hopefully I can do my nails soon I guess. And I'll get access to hrt soon- still worried about actually starting though. So, so worried. Going to go cry myself to sleep. Goodnight mega.
cw: kink ig?
lack of teleportation technology is fucking me right now. There's this bitch~1~ brattying up my phone and I can do nothing about it. 
Now if I could just hop over and give her a bite and a scratch but nooooo, laws of physic and shit.
~1~said with love
Attended a protest here in the UK about the recent ruling. Good times, was a nice show of solidarity between trans people and local allies and other queer communities.
waffling about sexuality, possible HRT changes or maybe just possible life changes
over the past two weeks on multiple occasions I've found myself referring to myself as "straight" in my head and I can understand why. Let me be clear, I'm not straight, I'm bi. I've known I was bi since I was 16, but recently all my sexual/romantic thoughts have fallen almost exclusively towards men and I... don't really know what to feel about that at this point. I don't really think HRT "changed" my sexuality. I know perfectly well that for years of my life I spent pining after women to attain a femininity that I craved but couldn't have in myself. But as I've grown far more comfortable in my place in life as a woman, I feel like my attraction is actually what I'm looking for in a partner, and that's something that feels... like I want a man.
and I'm just not really used to any of this and don't really know what to make of it tbh.
spoiler extra sad i've fallen asleep every night for the past two weeks to the thoughts of men doting on me and making me feel special. making me feel like they want me and care for me. my bed remains totally empty but with a new flavor of sadness that i never really felt before :::
I feel like itβs normal for your preference to fluctuate as a bisexual, especially when transitioning.
When I was younger I leaned more towards men because I was just discovering my sexuality and it was validating to my femininity/identity, but now itβs much more leaning towards women.
face dooming
when i start looking, im gonna tell every ffs surgeon in the first sentence that i want lefort to remove my horseface until i find one unscrupulous enough to agree
Do people ever go from prescription to DIY HRT? I'm thinking of doing so. I'm on prescription, but I already have all the stuff I need to start DIY, and I'm not happy with the prescription system rn, so I'm thinking on just switching already. There's:
I'm probably still going to stick with PP so I can get blood tests, and advice, and prescriptions for other things as needed (like progesterone if/when the time comes, or estradiol if my DIY sources abruptly shut down).
Also if I do switch, should I bother getting hormone levels tested right before switching? I'm due for the first one since I started only a few months ago, but I've read that switching methods can change hormone levels, so I feel like whatever measurements I might get would be meaningless in the long run if I switch.
I used to get it at a local lgbt health clinic, but that also came with seeing a therapist because I was institutionalized recently at the time.
So I stopped because of that and for years my access to hrt was kind of shaky, sometimes I would have it sometimes I wouldnβt based on if I could pay for DIY which was more expensive.
Idk how expensive the clinic would be without insurance tho as I was using my parents at the time.
Anyway, Iβm stabley on DIY now at a pretty high dose that I think is better than anything the clinic would have given me.
The grey market for DIY HRT is just part of how trans healthcare stays resilient in the face of gatekeeping or full obstruction. Feel free to get on it for any reason.
Having it from the medical system is gonna make things more convenient mostly down to how you gotta pay for DIY HRT (it's annoying). Also easier to get a doctor to monitor labs. But having a little DIY stache is nice, plus the actual know how of how to get it vrs the theoretical know how via a guide (experience is a good teacher).
It'd be nice to know where your levels are at now after you've been on this dose, regardless of if you're gonna change route or method or whatever. Everybody bodys is different and metabolized E in its own way, so it'll be nice to have some evidence on how your body deals with E! It'll give you and your doctor an idea of how you responded to the dose you're at now which is nice to know even if you're taking something different later. There are tools online that can give you an idea of your levels after switching, and the WPATH somewhere has recommendations for bumping or down based on E levels across routes (like sublingual, transdermal, SQ, IM) which'll also help you get an idea of what your dose ought to be. I have no idea where it is though
Get your levels checked, if you're switching to DIY then switch and after, check your levels again in like 6 to 12 weeks and adjust as necessary.
But having a little DIY stache is nice
I have never seen stash have an e on the end π that makes it mean something completely different
But having a little DIY mustache is nice
Anyway sorry I just thought that was funny
omg lol
Yea I've definitely heard of people doing this. If Planned Parenthood will still do tests/prescribe prog I don't see why not. I'd rather diy then get a script too, and having a stable supply is a big part of that. Having a few months of meds vs years just seems like no contest to me.
I have yazidi acquaintances in my area (not gonna tell more than that for opsec) who yesterday told me they were celebrating Easter excitedly. Any comrades know much about Yazidi culture/Religion wanna help me find some sources to understand this a bit better? They're super nice, and I'm sure they'd explain if I asked, but I'm kind of embarrassed to know them so long and just now realize I know less about their religion than I thought. And Wikipedia is useless, and other sites that come up on Google are giving very conflicting information.
in that case it's literally better to just ask them, if they're telling you that stuff without prompting then they care enough about the topic to talk about it
Fair enough. Probably just some social anxiety lol
exercise
curls 4 the girls
I like being the cold girlfriend
You sound like a really chill gal, cool even. 
She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat except it's just me, I'm alone and I'm both of them.
get you a girl who can do both
vegan mac and cheese boxes are nice but same issue that regular mac and cheese in that the flavor to noodle ratio is way off, have to add more noodles to balance it out
it's 4/20 in moscow 
I've made the terrible mistake of switching text editors. I've done nothing with my free time but configure emacs for the past week 
Yessssss emacs!! Tell me about your config?
Made some 
toast
Thatβs not Toast thatβs toasted bread
whats the difference?
Toast is the kind of stuff you have for breakfast
You've been in the UK too long
why?
misgendering
I think the funniest form of misgendering is when people call my skirt a kilt. I wear skirts a lot, and, to be fair, a lot of my skirts are plaid (though they definitely aren't kilts). And sometimes when strangers compliment my outfits, they say things like "I like your kilt" or "nice kilt, that's the right word, right?". Like they see me wearing what is clearly a skirt, and want to compliment my outfit, but I guess decide that I look like a man too much for me to possibly be wearing a skirt, so they call it a kilt to not insult me, I guess. But that ends up being kind of insulting, although I don't think people are doing it out of malice. Idk, kind of funny tbh
spoiler
just drop a "Uhh it's a skirt, dummy?" and see what happens next time
I did want to buy a kilt for myself but all the lady sizing is like miniskirt level, which is fine, but like I would just like a knee length one with all the kilty goodness 
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