idk, i’m vegan and i think it’d be perfectly ethical to eat centi-billionaires 🤷

for myself, if i can recover passwords etc, i delete the account to lower the possibility of that data being used to train ai, and to lower the numbers of registered accounts they have.

i think stakeholders are more likely to see accounts being deleted as worse than an inactive account, because people can always come back to an inactive account.

so many websites are eager to keep users by making it difficult to delete accounts, or by adding a 14 day wait before they’ll delete an account, etc., so that alone makes me think they want even inactive accounts for usage statistics or to steal data from.

he would have been 97 or so if he were alive today, it really brings home how recent it was.

the civil rights movement happened within my parents’ lifetimes, but it’s so often spoken about as though it were ages ago & completely out of living memory (to both minimise it & pretend that society’s totally different now 💔)

seconded, they’re so good! they always get off the baked-on stuff that i’m never bothered to scrub off with a scourer

i suspect the cider will not, in fact, ferment in peace… i’m trying to figure out the way it’ll somehow end up attacking misabel, lol!

optimism & hope are skills to practice, and they do get easier over time!

on a bad day, i’m optimistic out of sheer spite because i know being pessimistic only helps my enemies & not me, but it’s also a lot easier to practice optimism when regularly meeting with groups of like-minded people.

if you don’t have any groups nearby you (or online) like zine makers / queer sheds / leftist book clubs / privacy activists / maker spaces / community supported agriculture / whatever it is that floats your boat, you might be surprised by how many people are willing to sign up if you get the ball rolling! 💪

huh, i wasn’t expecting the spying thing to be genuine. poor misabel 😔

we’ve got the best of both worlds!

ladhar mhór - big toe

ordóg na coise - thumb of the feet

so that’d be ladhrag mhòr or òrdag-coise in gàidhlig, not too drastic a difference there! :)

irish uses ladhar to mean toe 😌

but also méar choise, meaning finger of the feet 😔

i had to deal with something similar at work & they initially said that they couldn’t provide a work phone, it wasn’t in their budget

so i started using an old non-smartphone that i found buried in a drawer & said i’d lost my smartphone

they provided a work phone p soon afterwards. it might work for you if you have an older phone lying around somewhere? 🤞

even misabel’s dog needs to unwind, the poor bean 🥲💔

we can have a little hate, as a treat! i’d say not “giving yourself over to hatred” is pretty vital, though.

the more we build communities together, the fewer chances fascism has to convert people. it’s a lot harder to convince you (universal you, not you specifically) that immigrants/trans people/disabled people/whomever are terrible, if you’re in community with people like that & have first-hand experience to tell you when someone’s just being a wanker whipping up fear

“destroy fascism” is still a priority of course, no tolerant society should ever tolerate fascism. i do think the main priority should be to build better communities/systems/societies first & foremost, so that we have safety nets in place asap, tho

(i hope this doesn’t come across as argumentative, my intention is more to add on to your point!)

it’s a phonetic (and maybe playful?) spelling of no more

the majority of videos that i see are just people talking about their hobbies & current events, but content with tags like #brainrot etc is certainly there for folks to find too

that’s a beautiful tabby kangaroo! 🤩

you must have a hell of a voice to be able to do all of these! fair play, break a leg & i hope you enjoy the party 🥳

for double reference points, you can go by temba wide-arm 😎

“please don’t scare me as i am very small and scared of everything”

i love misabel, she’s these emojis as a person:

🥺 👉👈

if she wants to, but doesn’t feel safe to, then her decision not to start yet is still valid. there’s also no rush, early twenties is so young & she has decades & decades of her life ahead of her, where her circumstances could change dramatically & she might then feel completely safe to start hormones.

safety is often a factor when trans people choose not to medically transition, or to detransition.

it sucks & of course ideally, we’d all live in a place where these decisions can be freely made without having to consider safety, but ultimately it’s each trans person’s decision to make for themselves, because no one can guarantee safety.

if she chooses to socially transition & never to do anything else, that’s perfectly valid. a lot of trans people choose this route, and it’ll be immensely helpful for her to have a supportive friend like you around.

if she chooses to medically transition as well, on her own timeline that she’s comfortable with, it’ll be immensely helpful for her to have a supportive friend like you around.

basically, you’re already doing what you can by being there for her, whatever happens 🫶