I just hope the Barrel pulling out of their little oopsie-doodle makes you feel better about your hurricane relief being reduced to an Amazon link for umbrellas and a cat poster that says “HANG IN THERE!"

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The P in JPEG stands for photographic so I guess we shall pronounce it "jayfeg" based on that logic.

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Descriptive linguistic opinion: both the hard and soft G pronunciations are used, with the hard G being more common, but I like the soft G and use it myself.

I had a similar timeline. Joined Beehaw during the API migration, egg cracked September 2024. HRT November 2024.

It helps if you have interests

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To be fair, player characters at level 17+ are basically walking deities, regardless of class.

It definitely morphs and changes over time.

I used to never have any dysphoria from having a beard.

Later, the slight hair growth I got in between laser sessions made me feel hopeless.

Now, I don't love my facial hair but also feel sort of good at being more visibly trans when my facial hair is having its bad/intense days.

It's also common for folks to not have genital dysphoria for a long time, only developing it years into transition when everything else is dealt with.

I wonder if your brain is finally accepting that things will change and the impatience is manifesting as dysphoria.

I hope it gets better soon!

The law change will introduce a minimum age limit for using the devices at 15 years old, as well as placing a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) limit of 0.5 g/l on scooter drivers.

They also pointed out that other countries in Europe set the age between 12 and 16.

I have mixed feelings about this. When I was that age, I had a bike and used it as my main mode of transportation. Is a scooter significantly more dangerous? I suppose it must be, if kids are getting injured at the rates they are.

And kids can still operate non-motorized bikes, scooters, etc.

Free speech absolutism at work

I generally use queer.

It's often used in the names of university programs (e.g. queer studies), so I think it's been pretty well reclaimed.

It is also intuitively inclusive of romantic minorities, which gives me the sense it will continue to be inclusive as the aforementioned acronym continues to grow.

An aside, I'm also all for reclaiming the t-slur (I am trans) but I don't use it unless I am certain the people around me won't be hurt.

This was a very wordy article and I'm not sure I got anything out of it. It's in our best interests to act in long-term thinking but politics favors short-term thinking. Whatcha gonna do about it?

Finally some good news on this topic! Let's hope the courts listen to the science, here.