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My HRT package was seized.

I'm trans and my anti-androgen ran out a week ago and today my new package arrived. But when I opened it it was empty and there was a note from border control. Fuck them for taking my essential life saving medicine. This has made me feel so bad and terrible, I don't want to turn back into a man. I've been crying a lot. I thought it finally arrived but they only deceived me which made me feel even worse.

Luckily I'm still on estrogen as well, but it's starting to run out as well. I really need to only use services from inside the EU but the one I usually use is out of stock. I found another one, but they only use credit cards which I don't have. Hopefully I can convince my parents or some friends to pay it for me and me paying it back to them.

"Memes" aren't a thing that exist anymore. People don't get attached to some specific formulation of words because they are memorable/funny/interesting. These words are just repeated by content mills because recommendation systems have latched on to them as important keywords, and the cycle repeats itself. Nobody actually really cared about the fake "orange cat" concept, it was just perpetuated by a bunch of funny cat videos having the words "orange cat" in it and is now part of social media SEO. Now every post about some colour of cat has to include the words "orange cat".

The internet is dead, and Mark Zuckerberg killed it.

Western leftist blog post -> We need Solidarity

The institution that brought down the Russian-backed regime in Poland wasn't a campaigning group like the ones we have in the anglosphere (and I'm sorry, Marxist-Leninists, but most of what you do in the anglosphere falls into this category). It wasn't a vanguard party, and it wasn't a militant group. It was Solidarnośc, an independent trade union, and there are important structural reasons for why a union was able to do this when nobody else could.

Hmm interesting. Let me look up Solidarnosc. From Wikipedia of all sources:

[Solidarnosc] ”), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.[1] Subsequently, it was the first independent trade union in a Warsaw Pact country to be recognised by the state.

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) transferred around $2 million yearly in cash to Solidarity from 1982 onwards, for a total of $10 million over five years.

Like clockwork lmao

Sometimes Bad People(TM) (like Voldemort) do Good Things(TM) (like instituting long term broad-spectrum nationwide policies to raise the standard of living realtively equitably)

Is this the Chat of Iran?

There is no escaping the toxic behavior on Reddit. Not even on gardening subs

Or I am the toxicity.

Content content content content content I swear to god if I hear that word one more time I'm going ballistic. 90% of the time, people use the word to mean "videos" or "posts." Is "youtuber" a slur now? God I'd rather hear slurs than "content creator" another fucking time. Why tf does everyone talk like they're suits in a stock meeting?

Wolves have returned to The Netherlands (and Belgium) and it is a shitshow lol. People are panicking, farmers are angry. But dogs, for example, make far more victims in humans and cattle than wolves do. There hasn't even been a wolven attack on a human yet but some parties want to kill them. There is absolutely no wilderness in this country at all because farmers took every single inch possible.

At least Belgium has some rooms with Wallonia existing.

I don't know if I can quite put my finger on it as a generalization, but there's this way some people on the western internet talk about products, maybe more of a USian thing and extends to political thinking too, where it's like they have no sense of bargaining or negotiating in them; they view it like you're supposed to just take things as they are and deal with them without complaint. Maybe it's a side effect of rugged individualism? And of having a business culture where prices are kind of just set by major corporations and you deal with it?

Like some of these people will go to great lengths to defend the corporate side of things and talk like you're odd if you don't immediately cave to the terms a corporation has set out for you. It's so weird. I know there isn't really a haggling culture in the US, like there is in some countries, but the degree some of these people go to in the opposite direction baffles me.

The IOF exterminated a crowd of children who were praying for the Almighty to forgive the settlers.

Ever since they gave Al Qaeda it's new Zelensky coded look, I've been wondering if we're going to see more terrorists and pro western military leaders adopt the appearance. My mind brings me images of a Zelenskified Bin Laden or Pinochet. Sadly I can't make mock ups of this myself because I suck at photoshop, and I also have a soul, so I can't make it with AI. But I can imagine them pulling this off again. Any ideas on who the next green hero is going to be?

I finally finished Invincible. I feel....empty, great comic though

Pixelfed is broken! I need to ask any admin of every Mastodon/*key instance to defederate.

There's a lot of new houses being built in my city, with some entire neighborhoods being built. It's very exciting, until I realise that I and a lot of other people can't afford it and a lot of those new houses will go to rich people from outside the city and expats. And people from this city can't find a home and have to move to smaller cities with less opportunities.

Finally found a movie theatre playing Nezha 2. It's in the neighboring country but the drive isn't too bad. So my wife and i have decided we are going to see it this week.

My native flowers are growing steadily on my balcony. I have seen some bumblebees and random critters already. I was also gifted a climbing rose this weekend and in a burst of insanity I an deciding to give it a try. On a city balcony. We'll see.

Apart from that things seems a bit quiet political wise. There is a general strike next monday though and I'm not allowed to work that day lol.

This image is perfection, nice one!

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Been caught up with school work recently, stressing a lot too out of fear of not getting into the university I want. But on the bright side, food here is cheap and tasty so I can't complain.