celeste

joined 9 months ago
[–] celeste@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago

The journey we go on to learn more about ourselves isn't always simple and straightforward.

There were very brief moments in my past when I wondered if I might not be cis, but with consideration decided I would be upset if I was called a man. I realized, "oh! that must be what trans people experience all the time! that sucks!"

so we can take these times when we weren't sure of ourselves, and use our memories from then to embolden our allyship. I'm glad you've decided to go that route. there are so many lgbt people being hurt by religion right now, and if you can unambiguously accept them and love them for who they are (not in spite of), you might help someone keep going when they might otherwise opt not to.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

This is a case where being dishonest would've been better for everyone

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I hope they were lying about what was in there

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Okay, cool. I was hoping it was an opinion thing, but the "Mod" next to your name made me concerned this was more of an official opinion and you wanted to discourage the posting of articles like this one. Thank you for the clarification!

(Btw, I can't see the red shield on my instance, but it's clear when I go to the original url. I'll have to see if federating that is an upcoming thing for mbin, or if I'm just missing it somehow.)

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 2 days ago (6 children)

First off, is this the perspective of Uplifting News as a community? I posted an article from an lgbt oriented news site on this community before, and got a similar question. You're a mod, so if you think we shouldn't post articles from queer news sites, could you let us know that?

I'm queer, so I read queer news all the time, and sometimes there's something that cheers me up a bit on those sites instead of depressing me, so I'll be like "i should share this with that uplifting news group!" If it's going to be a debate every time we post from lgbtnation, pink news, transvitae, etc, then let us know. They are always going to autofill with headlines about the group they are writing news about and for.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 12 points 2 days ago

defeats the purpose of pride to hide it. i wonder what organizers plan to do?

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 5 points 3 days ago

This article's about how citrus changes gut bacteria in a way that helps prevent depression, so maybe there are other less burning ways to alter the Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in your system.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 8 points 3 days ago

Neat! I hope they get to do further trials. I'm wondering about possible other explanations, like greater citrus availability in places with more sunny days, or whatever.

it'd be cool to find out for sure this is true.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's one of those kinds of deaths that just makes the local paper unless they take out a lot of people with them.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7847085/ article discussing 21 fatal heart attacks while driving during a period of time in china

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23343022/ article discussing the results of the Finnish Road Accident Investigation Teams (RAITs) on fMVAs in Finland during 2008-2009. 11% of these were because of "disease attack."

Severe injuries may mask the role of an initial disease attack.

These articles make it seem like unless there's careful investigation after the fact, it's very difficult to know for sure if illness caused the accident.

So it probably is a daily occurance, depending on how many fatal accidents happen in your country. (and depending on a million other factors, most likely)

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 0 points 3 days ago

https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/kazakhstan-xinjiang-the-border-of-tears/

The methodology was interesting, so I was curious about a translation of the initial article

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Incredibly impressive work on the team's part. I hope the kid has a long and healthy life.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 3 points 5 days ago

I wonder if the old tenant is, like, still alive

 

Yotor and his countrymen are among 260 people, most of them human-trafficking victims, who were sent from Myanmar to Thailand last week as a multinational crackdown on scam centers along the border between the two countries gathers pace.

For years, according to the United Nations, criminal gangs have trafficked hundreds of thousands of people to scam compounds across Southeast Asia, including along the Thai-Myanmar frontier, where victims have been forced to work in illegal online operations.

 

Sorta looking for inspiration, but I mostly like to see cool/weird websites.

 
 

Since November 2023, when Russia’s Supreme Court designated the non-existent “international LGBT social movement” as an “extremist organization,” police departments across the country have executed a full-scale crackdown on the queer community. Officers have raided clubs and parties and placed LGBTQ+ people under surveillance while bigots harass queer community members and try to expose them to employers and parents. Wherever the authorities go, they collect evidence that facilitates monitoring, from video footage and business records to fingerprints and even mouth swabs. Meduza special correspondent Lilia Yapparova has learned that Russian officials are also discussing overhauling the country’s data-collection practices to create a single electronic registry for monitoring LGBTQ+ individuals — a database that would make blackmailing and persecuting queer people vastly easier.

 

Gay Gen-Z New York City Council member Chi Ossé has successfully done something that has failed in past attempts — ending the longtime practices of having apartment-seekers pay expensive brokers’ fees… and he did it, in part, by using social media videos.

 
 

My poor cat scratched his head by accident and won't leave the cut alone, so it's cone time. Unfortunately, every cone we've tried had been incredibly disruptive to his life. The newest one is at least lighter and he eats okay wearing it, but he's still miserable.

I'm willing to even make one if someone has a pattern they've used. I tried a hat, but he gets it off right away. I clip his claws shorter already, and it's not quite enough to keep him from reinjuring himself.

Any suggestions? He has allergies, so this is going to be an occasional problem.

 
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Primer is a music podcast about translation and illumination. In its first season, music writer Yosuke Kitazawa (PBS SoCal, Light in the Attic) joins Christian Dueñas to explore Japanese City Pop.

Primer invites both newcomers and crate diggers alike to find their next favorite album and learn more about the music they already love.

 
 
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