A bisexual nonbinary poster of memes and other things • They/Any

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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • Most stuff on here doesn’t have to be content warned. The warning is for assuming the gender of the viewer not for the target audience for the meme. For example, a meme saying “you are a girl” needs a CW while a comic about a girl saying how much she loves being a girl doesn’t. The posts needing those warnings are fairly rare.

    I don’t think I’ve seen anything that would need the other CW posted here to begin with.

    I’m also not a very active moderator. I’m only checking here about once a day and I’m usually more concerned with comments since that has historically been where the issues have been. This community doesn’t have a lot of activity and has largely been supplanted by others on this server.






  • From description of the Great Old One pact:

    The Great Old One might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your magic from it

    Patrons can have whatever motivation or lack of motivation the DM wants. I personally like there being some kind of RPing effect. Maybe some task you have to complete, punishment for acting against your patron, slowly eroding sanity. But none of that is necessary.

















  • It’s very much not okay. In general, imposing labels on people is a bad thing. Doesn’t matter how much better someone thinks they know, people get to explore their identities in their own way and at their own pace.

    When I see someone imposing the egg or trans label I generally point them to the egg prime directive here.

    When someone is just told they are trans, that opens ground for denial; it activates defense mechanisms built by internalized transphobia, and it has a high probability of pushing them further into the closet, if not making them outright transphobic. Even when it doesn’t, it leaves ground for their own subconscious to reject their dysphoria, claiming that they were just manipulated or deceived. The much more effective strategy is to talk about your own experiences with dysphoria so that they see the common grounds and come to their own conclusion about their gender. The code doesn’t forbid helping them to explore their gender; it forbids assigning a gender to them. Or, to put it more succinctly, you cannot be told what the Matrix is; you can only be shown.

    As to why some people don’t follow that. Either they don’t know better, in which case educating them should fix it, or they are simply [epithet of your choice here]. Any community of sufficient size will have bad actors in it.













  • My go to with all projects like this is if it worth it if ends up it’s just you doing it for yourself. 99% of these projects attract no one but their creators.

    So if you want to make a wiki for your own reference or to be able to link to in relevant conversation or for whatever reason you want to for yourself, and accept that no one else may not contribute or even care, go for it. If you just want this to exist but not put in the effort, you are probably better off seeing if someone else is doing something similar.




  • Running through Google translate and reading the article

    An experimental team from Anhui has worked for more than ten hours and is trying to reproduce the results. They updated the latest progress tens of minutes ago. The results will come out in about three days. Perhaps soon, we will be able to witness the gold content of room temperature superconductivity.

    It seems they are in the middle of replicating the results. Not that they have already completed replicated the results.

    The actual article title is:

    The first room-temperature and atmospheric-pressure superconductor has sparked global enthusiasm, and tens of thousands of people are watching the progress of the Chinese team’s reappearance

    when I translated it.