You’re exactly as trans as I am. It’s how you feel inside about yourself, and that feeling exists whether the rest of the world acknowledges it or not. Fuck closets, the scariest person to come out to is yourself.

Consider, an abuser will use any means or method within their power to inflict fear on their victims. It’s one of two languages they tend to speak; Intimidation or Flattery.

This woman was refusing to play his game, so he used the most effective means within his ability to hurt her; hacking her car. The obvious solution is to not associate with abusive people, but in the event that it’s already happened or otherwise unavoidable, the second solution is to remove their tools and create distance.

This represents an abuser being given tools to harass or even try to kill a victim by a company that prioritizes marketability and convenience over safety. If Tesla had been more thorough, this man wouldn’t have total control over this woman’s car.

Sounds a lot like how things are going over here, too. You have my sympathies. Thank you so much for explaining that, I appreciate it.

What factors do you feel are the predominant drivers of independent sentiment on the left? I know Brexit and rejoining the EU are close to the top, but what makes the right want to stay with the union?

Ah, the Willendorf Venus. The original Thicc Ass Goddess.

Friend, I hate to be the one to tell you this. But we REALLY got the whitewashed version of the history books in school.

Flip the book and read it from their perspective, especially the firsthand sources, and it makes so much more sense. In a truly, truly awful way.

If we’re lucky, he might outlast two cabbages.

Yankee here. If you have the time, I’d like to know a little bit more on what’s actually been happening over there. Honestly, with everything going on, it’s been hard to keep up. It’s been a lot of noise and very little information.

Imagine getting thrown into the oubliette for growing Girl Scout Cookies next to the roses.

Actually, yeah. This much is true. On my way out of religion, I had a friend offer to Sherpa for my first trip. I’m glad I took her up on it. She was compassionate, thoughtful, and very experienced. Definitely reacquainted me with some things I thought I’d buried, and I finally got to put them to bed for good.

I wouldn’t recommend it for everybody, obviously. But for an extremely confusing and distressing period in my life, it probably saved me years and years of emotional agony.

You sure? I think it has something to do with the mind-boggling amount of ecological and economic damage it has done to our world.

Much better, meds have been a huge help.

based.

It sounds like you’ve found a lifelong happy place. That’s a good thing. Keep it close, and keep doing it. And hey, if you post a 30 second snip of your music here, I’d listen to it.

First rule of bandcamp, is you don’t talk about bandcamp.

Same. Honestly, once you’ve taken a step back and can treat it like any other mythology, it really feels less… I dunno, I guess “heavy” is a word that works here.

Please keep making things. Art for art’s sake is a noble calling. Posting it is just icing on the cake, it’s the act of creation and the feeling you get from it that really matters. So don’t stop doing it.

Artist here. I don’t draw because I’m good at it. Or because other people are better at it than me.

I do it because I like it. A lot.

It makes me happy to be able to take something from my own brain and make it real enough that others can see it. I don’t want to make a career out of it or anything. But being able to draw things for my friends for Christmas or birthdays is something that makes them happy. Drawing my own assets for games I’m programming, or sketching dumb stickers for friend group in-jokes on Discord is satisfying.

Please keep drawing. Please keep making music. You don’t have to make anybody happy other than yourself. It’s as normal an expression of humanity as dancing or singing.

🫂

And a second shoutout to the Hindu invention of the concept of 0.