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needlesandnilbogs · 2 hours

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oh no the horrors-

wait hang on. it’s past 9 pm. false alarm, i cannot trust the horrors

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needlesandnilbogs · 9 hours

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This old poster is still popular and I'd like to print notebooks with it but the art was feeling dated to me. so here!! just a lil spruced up for 2024!!!

#prev I’m pretty sure you’re one step away from killing me/Fia and the rest of the party #love u tho #I will get my [redacted] back who you did kill; justice for JWW or something

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needlesandnilbogs · 9 hours

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i know someone whose parent is concerned that they haven't given enough thought to the idea of going on hrt, that they may be rushing into it, and that their doctor might just throw medication at the problem.

i understand that this parent is largely coming at this from a place of love (and i get how clueless lots of parents are about lots of things)

but it makes me laugh: this idea that someone might rush headlong into hrt, even leaving aside how Long it takes to even get an appointment to see someone who can get you an appointment with an endocrinologist.

i live in a place where i'm lucky enough to have access to a very good gender clinic that is in-network, and to live in a state where getting on hrt is easy and doesn't even require going through a shrink first and getting diagnosed with Official Dysphoria. when i actually said out loud "i want to get on hrt," it took me three weeks. but it took me most of ten years to say that out loud to myself or anyone else.

i don't know a single trans person who's done Any transition, whether that's been hrt, surgeries, or even just pronouns or wardrobe or name who didn't Agonize over that for ages. not a single one.

and i just wish that every "concerned" cis person could actually understand that. i wish they could understand and accept that most if not all of the messages they've gotten about trans people, even from Good, Liberal sources has been poisoned by transphobic rhetoric from people who play concern in bad faith because to some people, there is never a right time to transition.

there is no "social contagion" of transness. nobody is forcibly transing kids' genders. you can't walk into a doctor's office cold and walk out with a prescription for hormones and an appointment for them to chop your dick off 20 minutes later.

in general, imagine how hard it is to get treatment from your doctor, and then multiply that difficulty by ten, and you'll be getting close to understanding the hoops that many of us are made to jump through to access life-saving care.

when i went on hrt—hell, when i said out loud that i wanted to go on hrt—it was like a switch had flipped. within a couple weeks of starting hrt, my therapist said that i was so much happier, and i could feel it. it hasn't been a magic cure that's instantly made me never be sad ever again, because that shit does not exist. it hasn't solved all my problems. it can't, because a lot of my problems are external: capitalism and transphobia to name two of the big ones.

but it's changed my life.

and yeah, i wish that i could've realized sooner that what i needed was hrt, but i'm here now.

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needlesandnilbogs · 10 hours

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ok related to the last poll because everybody had fun tags:

#swear word mixups and also like participles

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needlesandnilbogs · 10 hours

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The Northern Lights are happening right outside my door, and I am losing my entire mind. 😍🥰🌌

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needlesandnilbogs · 10 hours

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There is an enormous geomagnetic storm hitting the earth tonight. Aurora borealis is appearing at lower latitudes than usual. I am below the 45th parallel (northern hemisphere) and I took this photo in my backyard a few minutes ago. This is a 3 second exposure that is brighter than it appeared in real life, but the shapes and colors were clearly visible after waiting about 15 minutes for the aurora to brighten.

I cannot recommend enough that if you’re able to and the sky is clear, you go outside and look at the sky tonight! Look towards whichever pole is nearest (north or south) and watch for a few minutes! Look for pink or green glow, or long streaks. If it’s faint, try taking a picture with multiple seconds of exposure to confirm that you’re seeing aurora. Here’s another one I took earlier when I wasn’t sure if i was imagining a pink tinge to the sky:

It was SO cool to see the northern lights from my backyard. Absolutely worth running outside in my pajamas to try and spot it. Now’s your chance!

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needlesandnilbogs · 10 hours

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everyone within the forecasted areas go outside and look at the northern lights!!

if you have an iphone and you put it on night mode, change the ‘load time’ to ten seconds and you’ll get amazing pictures!! im sure androids and other phones have the same option as well

so so so so so cool

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needlesandnilbogs · 14 hours

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vampire who’s married to an archaeologist voice: my love, stop trying to carbon date me

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needlesandnilbogs · 17 hours

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Lemony Snicket's Advice on Writing a Nice Thank-You Note

1. Do not start with the thank you.

2. Start with any other sentence. If you first say, “Thank you for the nice sweater,” you can’t imagine what to write next. Say, “It was so wonderful to come home from school to find this nice sweater. Thank you for thinking of me on Arbor Day.”

3. Then you’re done.

I recommend learning how to write a very good thank-you note. A child who can write a nice thank-you note can turn into a cocaine dealer five years later and be remembered as the child who wrote nice thank-you notes.

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needlesandnilbogs · 17 hours

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Goyim: are you a zionist or antizionist jew

Jews: well actually i have a really complicated relationship with the religious and cultural values of-

Goyim: yeah but do i get to be antisemitic towards you or not

#the last line is slightly different but. yeah that's a conversation I've had this week #they're trying for sure but it's. maybe stressing me out a little too much

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needlesandnilbogs · 17 hours

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not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram

the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis

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needlesandnilbogs · 19 hours

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Please do not let debt collectors play in your face.

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needlesandnilbogs · 20 hours

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I don't think employers should be legally allowed to ask anyone to dress up for interviews. I should be able to walk in off the street in jeans, sneakers, and a T-shirt and interview for jobs because employers are supposed to be interviewing me and my skills, training, education, and experience, not the nicest clothes in my closet.

It's discriminatory towards poor people to ask otherwise.

It's also just fucking audacious to demand that the people you need to provide the labor to keep your workplace going put on a suit and dance around like a trained monkey before you've even hired them.

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needlesandnilbogs · 21 hours

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top surgery is short for topological surgery

#it doesn't change the number of holes in you in the end so yeah I see it #math

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needlesandnilbogs · 21 hours

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inside you there are two disjoint closed sets one is contained in an open set the other is contained in another, disjoint open set YOU ARE NORMAL

#me for real #math #math major things

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needlesandnilbogs · 21 hours