Job interviews on psychedelics are fun hey?

I tease. I’m glad someone’s joy of being themselves helped you find freedom to be yourself.

I grew up in a small town. Didn’t get exposed to other trans folks until my late 30s.

Joy is contagious :) And played a large role in my egg cracking. Also took a little help from some fungal friends.

Reminds me of this song. Carbon based lifeforms. World of sleepers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu2eAI7viFw

Let go of my defense mechanisms and cracked my egg on mushrooms.

Imagine getting out of bed and realizing you’re a forty year old trans woman, who absolutely hates her entire wardrobe. And in a world that stigmatizes gender non-conformity.

But my partner was very supportive, and I spent the next few months replacing my wardrobe. Started on HRT. And life got better.

Scary. Still scared. But now I know I can love and be myself. And communication and understanding between my partner and I is much better too.

Happy HRT birthday! Love your name btw :)

Someday we will all be food for microbes and plants.

Edit: I actually find this comforting. It wasn’t sarcasm. Plants and microbes are our greater family. Knowing the molecules in my body will feed them when I’m no longer aware brings me a sense of peace and connection.

A friend of mine used to name his infected with viruses

US politics isn’t the real world. If anything it’s more of an echo chamber than Lemmy. Because the working class really isn’t represented at all and it’s just the oligarchs arguing with each other from the center and the far right.

And surprise, you are outside the capitalist bubble. On a federated platform now hearing the actual opinions of working-class people, not the opinions of Democrats. Or their echoes from your liberal countrymen.

And leftist argue so much we have jokes about it, and how we can’t get anything done in spite of the fact that solidarity is one of our guiding principles. I am a far leftist. I’m anti authoritarian to my core. There are also authoritarian leftists, people who get called tankies around here a lot. Apologists for Stalin and Mao.

Just because you’ve been living in a propaganda bubble, ie an echo chamber your whole life, that does not make things outside that bubble an echo chamber.