just feeling happy that you exist today

Watching SG1 s10e7, and a jaffa uses one of the team's radios to talk with Daniel Jackson and then to deliver orders to his subordinate, and it made me wonder why the goa'uld never gave the jaffa handheld communicators. It seems like all messages are delivered by word of mouth except for ship to ship communication, and the communication balls which are apparently only used by the goa'uld themselves. Given how useful it would be for coordinating troops I'm surprised they don't have them. I wonder why the showrunners never thought to give them something like a goa'uld radio.

I started hormones around 9 months ago and a few months ago felt like I couldn't stand my job for one more second and quit. I've been applying to jobs in my field, and I'm getting interviews consistently. Every single time so far I've eventually gotten this horrible feeling like I don't want anything to do with the company or the people who work at them. This has resulted in me... lets say not bringing my A game to the interviews because frankly I don't even want these jobs, so I haven't gotten any offers.

Idk what to do at this point other than keep trying and hoping someone decides to give me a chance. I've thought about changing careers, but I'm in my 30s so it feels a little late. Part of me can't imagine staying in my field anymore, the people are just so gate keepy and elitist, but I also can't imagine anything else being better...

What were y'alls experience after hormones? Did you change careers, stay? Did things work out?

I haven't noticed much so far but today I had some ketchup for the first time in a while and it tasted amazing, like just normal ketchup was so good I could eat it by itself. I really hope my tastes on more things change. I've heard some people start liking coffee. I hope I get that because I always loved the smell but hated the taste.

Think of it as a radical body modification. Suppose someone wasn't really a fan of having hair at all and wanted to just not. Most of the scientific research on hair loss has been about stopping or reversing it, but in all that research have we learned whether we could cause it to happen on purpose? I don't mean conventional hair removal, and I don't mean laser or electrolysis which both have significant limitations and wouldn't be feasible for total hair loss on the entire body.

I mean like a vaccine for hair, an injection someone could take that would cause their immune system to attack all their hair follicles in the same way we see in alopecia universalis, so they have literally no hair at all anywhere on their body permanently. It feels like it should be possible, especially now with the increasing use of mRNA vaccines.

I found a fun website where you can generate a custom pride flag! It has lots of gender/sexuality options and you can even do custom colors. Mine is transfeminine as the primary, with aromantic and bi-lesbian (which I had to do custom).

https://www.teamultima.org/flag/

I myself experience sexual attraction to both masculine and feminine people, leaning strongly toward feminine, but I have a hard time imagining myself being with a binary man. It feels a bit awkward to identify as a bi woman sometimes because my sexual attraction for men just kind of exists, yet I don't feel entirely comfortable identifying as a lesbian for the same reason. I just learned about the bi-lesbian flag/identity and it feels more right to me because I don't want to erase by bisexuality, even if I never choose to act on my sexual attraction to men. Curious what others think.