One thing that I will say is that whenever transphobic people talk about all the experiences I will never have and how I'll never know what it's like to have certain bodily functions, I legit feel devastated. I was devastated when it clicked for me the first time. It's just grief that I was born with, really.
I legit spent a good hour yesterday sobbing over it.
I didn't have a choice in the matter. I'm personally just trying to hold onto my victories wherever possible because otherwise I'll just be a crying mess.
If a podcast has video is it still a podcast?
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How to see tonight's 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse from Australia
All of Australia will be treated to a "blood moon" tonight wherever the sky is clear. Here's how you can catch a glimpse of the last total lunar eclipse until 2029.Amy Briggs (ABC News)
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Novo Hamburgo vai a Taiwan em busca de investimentos e conhecimento na área da saúde
C'est vraiment quelque chose de réaliser chaque jour qu'une immense partie de la population mondiale n'aspire qu'à : 1/ vivre en paix /2 avoir de quoi manger /3 avoir un toit. Et que si nous n'avons pas tout ça, c'est à cause d'une infime clique de personnes ivres de pouvoir qui prétendent gérer le "moins pire des systèmes".
Et les personnes en charge d'analyser les agissements de cette clique les commentent à la façon de commentateurs sportifs, nous empêchant de réaliser à quel point on pourrait s'en dispenser sans souffrance.
C'est tellement absurde que c'en serait presque drôle, pour peu qu'on ait aucune sorte d'empathie.
Oooh, this is nifty visualization from The Guardian (scroll down to the animated visualization of marine traffic)
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How escalating Iran conflict is driving up oil and gas prices – a visual guide
A near-halt to shipping in strait of Hormuz and attacks on Middle East refineries are threatening supplies and stoking inflationRob Davies (The Guardian)
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Old snap I took during #momaps1 Julien Ceccaldi exhibition, #lomomatic110 with OrcaBW #110film
While this is part of a global trend, PS1 exhibitions are always great at working with the museum space as an integral part of the curation. Current Ayoung Kim and Vaginal Davis exhibits are great examples of how they approach usage of space as part of the narrative as well.
Speaking of space - I've used quite a number of 110 cameras by now, and lomomatic is turning out to be a unique beast among them. Shots I take with 110 shooters of the era, like the Minolta I took on my train trip, render as expected within the film mask. The image is designed to sit within the frame.
The lomomatic, I'm beginning to realize, might be intentionally engineered to have its images spill out into the frames. I like it, but I can also see other photographers not being too crazy about it.
#heylomography #filmphotography #monochrome
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Andi is an RN from Oregon — she and her wife are buying a house in #Comox and she'll be working in #Nanaimo at NRGH!
Andi is the 5th HC worker in 72 hours to pass through the Nanaimo Healthcare Infusion (I think we're past 40 American healthcare workers moving to the Island?)
I just love how so many pieces of the puzzle are fitting together to win us more nurses and doctors — Island Health, their recruiters, HealthMatch BC, the BCCNM, the Ministry, so many make this happen.
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.Jeremy Busby (The Intercept)
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Re-collecting our past - La Banquise
Introduction to "Le roman de nos origines" from La Banquise No. 2 (1983).libcom.org
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Don’t End TPS for Our Immigrant Neighbors - CounterPunch.org
This February, a panel of conservative federal judges ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can move forward with terminating TemporaryJordan Liz (CounterPunch.org)
No Declaration, No War: Congress Must Stop the Iran Strikes
People Power United condemns Trump's unauthorized bombing of Iran, demands Congress invoke the War Powers Act, and calls on Americans to defend the rule of law.Laurie Woodward Garcia (People Power United: America's Voice for Progress & Actions)
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Embaixador do Irã diz que país mantém defesa ‘firme e poderosa’
Em coletiva, Abdollah Nekounam valorizou posição brasileira no conflito, criticou EUA e Israel, e disse que Trump ‘se acha o rei do mundo’Lucas Pordeus León (Opera Mundi)
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🤔 it's also likely that under Pete "DUI hire" Hegseth, the US military doesn't know the strategy or what they are doing over there
this is definitely a "shoot first, make up a justification later" administration
how to send dragons - for cheap !
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Stealing Student Dreams to Give Billionaires a Tax Break - CounterPunch.org
President Trump has declared that he has “won affordability.” In his State of the Union speech, he even bragged that he’s bringing costs “way down onSatra D. Taylor (CounterPunch.org)
No US Ground War in Iran, Flags Oil Risk: Michael Allen
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Scenes from an afternoon walk in the sunshine, just because.
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Oh, there were sheep too! They were very diligently paying me no attention whatsoever, which seems fair enough really.
Finally Friend (& friend) would like to introduce you to their favourite fabulous fuzzy tree. I cannot walk by without pausing to admire it.
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so clever to attack iran and create the next generation of foreign terrorists so that the burden of destroying the US doesn't fall solely on the overworked domestic terrorists known as ICE.
there is not enough grass on all this planet to blunt my rage and frustration at this administration...
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Mendacious Rationales: The Lies Behind Operation Lion’s Roar - CounterPunch.org
Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so chronologicallyBinoy Kampmark (CounterPunch.org)
#Trump on Monday pushed back against mounting criticism that he hasn’t done enough to explain why it was necessary to start a #war with #Iran now or to articulate his vision for an endgame to the escalating conflict.
The frustration is coming not just from the political left but also from his MAGA base, as the conflict expands, #energy #prices surge, & the #death toll in the #Middle East rises in a war that the admin suggests may only be in the opening stages.
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“Morris notes that support for attacking Iran has held fairly steady for months and remains so after the strikes, with 34% in favor of them and 44% opposed.
This is incredibly low support for a foreign war, Morris writes, and support for military action tends to be highest at the start of a war. Trump's attack on Iran scorns the will of the people and their constitutional right to decide whether they want to pay for a war with their money and their lives. That disdain for democratic government reveals that Trump's military adventure against Iran is also, fundamentally, an attack on the United States of America.”
From Letters from an American: February 28, 2026, Mar 1, 2026
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Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation
First up, Medea Benjamin joins the show to debunk a whole lotta US propaganda about Cuba. Having just returned from the island nation, Medea explains the terroristic domino effect that the US fuel blockade is having on the Cuban people, how the US we…Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
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War on Iran - CounterPunch.org
The Illogic of War The Trump administration reportedly cannot understand why Iran is refusing to accede to US demands that it halt uranium enrichment,Mel Gurtov (CounterPunch.org)
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My condolences.
The billionaires who own Bluesky have no interest in "improvements".
It's a data gathering exercise for Surveillance Capitalism.
Best of luck.
Suggestion: this initiative won't last long, so keep your resume in play.
'The bank arrived, represented by counsel and armed with an affidavit from a bank officer seeking to defend the indefensible ...
'[Justice] Hammerschlag demanded that Westpac chief executive Anthony Miller appear in court at the next hearing three days later ...
'Over the weekend, Westpac moved quickly. The bank’s solicitors told Hammerschlag that they had successfully taken steps to remove Vinall’s adverse payment history from credit registers. Miller was excused from appearing in court.
'I regard the refusal of the bank to fix the problem as legally unjustifiable and short on commercial morality ...
'… not taking steps to erase the recorded event was unconscionable'.
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‘Unconscionable’: Westpac lashed by judge after dispute over $44.11
A Sydney woman who fell $44.11 short on her mortgage has successfully sued the bank to remove adverse credit information about her from a reporting agency.Kishor Napier-Raman (The Sydney Morning Herald)
This is just one of FOUR American healthcare professional who have passed through our Nanaimo Infusion project and are moving to Vancouver Island! 🎉
So many people make this happen — the Island Health team, our Discord mods, local helpers, HealthMatchBC, and so many more.
WE DON'T STOP UNTIL WE HAVE THEM ALL. 🙂
So Canadians are stealing the docs and they’re stealing the nurses..
It’s a win-win for both parties
Jackie
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And really, setting that aside, turning being a woman into a cult of motherhood is not a great thing. Many women have non reproductive relationships, and many born-female women don't have the normal bodily functions that other women do. It's kind of narrow to gatekeep them, for something they literally cannot change. And much of these women would jump at the opportunity to change it in a heartbeat, myself included.
And really, I would say I was born aligned with the societal "female" box in a neural/psychological way (in the same way I was born with ADHD, I would say), but I need a little bit of help to have my body follow suit. I think people need to really understand. This isn't a choice. This isn't something I can change. I can't act like I'm different than what I am. And there is a lot of grief surrounding certain parts of my body that I feel that is very fucking rude for people to point out. Very fucking rude.
And one last addendum, the changes I am seeing while I transition are themselves biological changes. They are the same exact characteristics I would exhibit if my SRY gene was knocked out, down to the cellular level. The cells in my body can't tell the difference between this estrogen and endogenous estrogen.
Jackie
in reply to Jackie • • •I'm legit doing my best here.
I'm trying to do what I need to do for myself.
And people who rub in the limitations, the people who go off about how I'll never truly get it or whatever, can go shove it.
Because it's not my fault I don't have those things. If it were something I could change, I FUCKIN WOULD. It KILLS me that there are some things I can't fix. But so help me god I would fix it if given the opportunity.
What I CAN do, what I DO have control over, is better than nothing. I can adapt how I present. I can medically transition, and change a lot of the aspects of my sex in the process. I can try my best to nurture female friendships. Etc.
Jackie
in reply to Jackie • • •I would urge all the cisgender women to put themselves in my shoes. Imagine that your personality, your mind was the same as it is now, but you were born as a boy and forced to fulfill that role.
What would you do?
Jackie
in reply to Jackie • • •It is a very superficial and insulting reading to assume that I am not going through things that other women go through.
I might not be able to understand some very specific things, but there are many things that I understand very very well and are in fact unavoidable.
And there is suffering that I go through, that you will never be able to understand.