Any European who praises Europe over the US is either ignoring of glorifying the facts that thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees die on their way to Europe every year due to criminal border policies and that probably millions are subjected to inhumane living conditions because they’re being forced to live in overcrowded encampments that lack basic necessities such as food and hygiene.

I really don’t care if Sunak experiences more or less racism here than he would in the US but I’m sure that people make racist comments about him in Europe as well.

You’re right and on top of that they are also often very racist. If you shit on the US while simultaneously praising Europe you’re basically admitting that you think imperialism and racism are cool and good.

I don’t think so, but I’m also not really interested in that

Before I got long covid I wished I could be at multiple places at once, now I just wish I could be at places 🥲

Been trying to go to trans support groups but every time I’m too tired to leave the house & meet people

I like a jeans, blouse sweater combo. Looks very fem with a cute fringe blouse. Winter dresses are also cool and you can have a lot of fun with patterned tights. Blouse + sweater also looks good on a skirt btw

The only way to make that a little bit less embarrassing would be to create safe pedestrian and bike infrastructure during that month.

That video made me cry

That would look so awesome

Your solutions offer little help to immunocompromised people who are often afraid to leave their house because covid could significantly worsen their disability or kill them. They also do not help us today to prevent more people from getting a disabling disease called long covid.

It just means phone is in sleep mode so you don’t get notifications.

So cute kitten puddle

The traa mega kind of gives me the same comfy/safe vibe as my bed which is a great revelation.

I think I was put on estromen as a baby but I’d like to get off it please

Burglaries during night are less common but not that rare. Night burglars are more often under influence of drugs and in general less experienced. Which means that a confrontation is more risky and should be avoided if possible.

National health agencies of different countries have different advices for mask use. The 3 hours comes from my own national health agency but I found an Australian agency that says 4 hours https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/environment/factsheets/Pages/face-mask.aspx

Most US sources I could find say that you can use them until they become dirty or moist, but that you can wear them several times (I would assume if you use them for short duration). Personally my masks become smelly and moist after a few hours so that’s when I throw them away.

How much money do you people spend on masking every day? Cheapest ffp2 masks I can buy are like 50 cents per piece so if I were to wear one every day I’d have to spend 15 euros a month which is pretty expensive. And that’s not taking into account that you’re supposed to change your mask every 3 hours. (I’m stuck at home a lot of the time which is why I don’t mask daily)

Yeah it is horrifying too. Frustrating is the first thing that comes to my mind because I’m close to that struggle which has desensitised me a bit on that particular issue.

It’s so frustrating how western institutions will break literally every tie with every Russian regardless of their involvement in the war and at the same tie refuse to break ties with Israeli institutions that are literally working on weapons and war tactics to commit genocide.

I think your experience is pretty unique on that front which makes it difficult to communicate when there might not not really a ‘label’ that perfectly describes it. Tbh genderfluid and binary trans women both seem like they could describe part of your identity so I don’t really see why you wouldn’t be able to use both. The genderfluid part kind of explains why your genderidentity could change like that in the past and the binary trans woman part describes how you currently identify and live your life.

It’s also possible that you were always transfemme, is it possible that you had very repressed feelings about your gender before you transitioned?

When I found out I was trans it kind of felt like I woke up from a dream because it was the first time that I really had some sense of my own identity. Before that I only looked at myself from a very material perspective never thought about if my body felt like it belonged to me or what I would like to look like. When I look back though I can pinpoint some moments where I felt really disconnected from my body but wasn’t able to identify that feeling yet.

Trauma makes everything difficult though in my experience because its effects contaminate most of your memories, thoughts and feelings which makes it difficult for me at least to understand when a feeling is caused by trauma and when it is related to being trans or something else.

Idk if my first comment came off as insensitive because obviously abuse isn’t cool and describing the effects of abuse as cool was a bit weird of me. So I’m sorry for framing it that way.

I suppose I find it intriguing that your environment can change your gender identity. But I think that some gender fluid people would also say that their environment changes the way they selfidentify so it’s probably not a super rare phenomenon and it would make sense for you to describe yourself as gender fluid or non binary with fluidity.