kristina

WE LOVE OUR TRANS COMRADES

I will be appointing mods, going over rules, and our gameplan for dragging every trans person alive here eventually ™️, until then feel free to dump whatever trans memes you got here

so right now im having some pretty major annoyances with how federation is implemented by lemmy as a whole. defed makes it so you cant see whole threads, so looking at AMAs on lemmy.ml from hexbear are essentially useless unless you are viewing the main post, same with technical questions. which means lemmy cant replace reddit for a wide variety of uses. what i guess im asking is, can this be fixed, or is it innate to activitypub?

this is gonna be a huge problem as more and more instances are made. you could see someone make a question post but then you could create duplicate answers, wasting many people's time completely because you cant see each other. its also annoying as fuck that if i enjoy the community here, i have to keep making more and more accounts to access the fediverse as it inevitably becomes more fragmented. so in order to make sure that everyone sees everything youd have to keep creating accounts which is completely antithetical to the idea of the fediverse.

like i'd be ok with not being able to reply to certain instances, or choosing to block instances myself, but having that decision made for me is extremely lame. like if im in some instance talking about star trek or some shit, WHY does it fucking matter that im on a wrongthink instance so certain users cant see or reply to each others shit???

I wonder if ozone advisories correlate to crime maps

tl;dw: There is a type of maize in Latin America that can self fertilize and nitrogen fix itself. Though a lot of this is popsci nonsense, they have been hybridizing it to a lot of success

thanks for being one of the not completely shitty communities on the internet to sv victims and transgender people

big vibe

pic unrelated, im drunk

The bill banning the promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships may be passed in the first reading next week, and in November it may go to President Vladimir Putin for his signature. TASS was reported by Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin as saying.

According to him, within the next week, the law may be adopted in the I reading, then in the II and III, and after - sent to the Council of Federation. Volodin expressed hope that Putin will sign the bill in November.

The Duma speaker also noted that the bill to ban gay propaganda is not meant to limit, but to protect the rights of citizens. He believes that this document should have been adopted much earlier.

Earlier, it was reported that the Russian government gave a favorable review of the bill providing for LGBT propaganda charges.

:fidel-wut: Why can't Russia be more like Cuba

Reminder for everyone here to support the Rainbow Railroad.

Weird factoid, they didn't even want to say the word 'homosexuality' in the final draft, they changed it to 'non-traditional sexual relationship', so it effects basically any queer person trying to be in any sort of relationship.

dw he's everyones favorite cute rich socdem himbo, i understand

like how many fucking mass shootings have their boards done at this point???

like you mfers really getting tattoos of video game characters and pickle rick? corporate commodity fetishism, but you go through a painful process to permanently etch it into the largest organ of your body

I know a handful of trans people IRL that stan Ukraine very hard. I mentioned that trans people were being held at the border and are being forced on to the front lines instead of being allowed asylum. This just caused these people to double down and say, no no, its Russia's fault! I can't even do a simple 'oh both sides are bad for trans people so you shouldn't get invested' because they think Ukraine is like Sweden and both are European and therefore enlightened on LGBT stuff and anything else is me belittling the situation. And even more obviously, they don't speak any Slavic language and therefore are incapable of talking to first parties about anything happening in Eastern Europe.

Of course, these people only cared about Ukraine recently. I've been in contact with LGBT groups in Eastern Europe helping ferry marginalized people to safer locations through funding, scanning police radios, and miscellaneous illegal activities in association to those governments (did you know it can cost an American 50 bucks to save a lgbt person mentioned on a radio in Chechnya from Kadyrov's goons? true story). Ukraine was no exception. It sucks to be there. Women desperately apply to be 'mail order brides' in order to escape the post soviet dystopia that is Ukraine. Trans people are no exception here, the outlook is grim and people do a lot of very sad things in order to get out of these post-soviet states and for every one person the org I was in helped 100 slipped through the cracks. The population of Ukraine has been posting negative growth numbers since the collapse of the USSR and has lost nearly 10 million inhabitants from either death or immigration, 1/5th of the population. And that is part of the reason why they're in the predicament they're in now- all the people who weren't nationalist left. Only people that are 'Ukraine or die!', or are too poor to leave, are left in the country. But everyone seems to be acting like Ukraine is a veritable utopia in comparison to Putin's Russia.

I had one lady compare it to the holocaust. She said Putin was stealing people's kids or something, which I don't know if that is true or not. But it really stung for me. My family had members in it that were kidnapped by the Nazis and we only learned about survivors of that a couple years ago. Our town was annexed by Nazis. Our family was never listed as victims because there was no paper trail, perhaps on purpose by the Nazis. For a while, we just figured that side of our family died/went missing during the war. But the real situation is that the parents were likely killed by the Nazis and the babies were kidnapped to be Germanized in the Rheinland (which is where we found them after a DNA test, they were put into adoption agencies and raised German instead of Czech [other theory is some decentralized Nazis killed the parents and took the kids to adoption]). And the thing that irks me here is that people are saying these things with supreme authority, that there is no possibility that they are being misled and that what they are saying is 1000% factual. I think this way of thinking is terrifying. Its precisely the sort of thinking that the Nazis themselves preyed on. And the idea to be so gungho and know absolutely what is going on one month from the outset of a war when even my own family didn't understand the full extent to which we were affected by Nazis for nearly 80 years is mindblowing to me.

And i just find it disgusting to compare things to the holocaust. If we have documented evidence of people being used as slaves, their bodies being thrown in mass graves and starved to death, and being murdered for not working hard enough - I am more than glad to compare it to the holocaust. The industrialized nature of the genocide perpetrated in the holocaust was the defining feature of it. Its possible to be terrible and evil and not be comparable to the holocaust.

I'm just tired. Like, I've dedicated quite a lot of my free time to helping people across the globe that I'll never meet in person and I'm just so disheartened when people throw all of my experience with people over there out the window as soon as a headline from Azov Battalion twitter hits their brainwaves.

I don't know. Fuck everyone for listening to the news instead of doing something productive with their day myself included