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  1. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I'll donate the ones I told you about at some point

    I'll donate the ones I told you about at some point

    4 votes

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  3. Comment on Does anyone play older versions of Minecraft? in ~games

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    You should visit blocky-Poland again soon!

    You should visit blocky-Poland again soon!

    3 votes

  4. Comment on What’s something you’re putting up with? in ~talk

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    The latest gen is allegedly gender neutral, but it'll probably take decades until you see those on airports because probably nobody will bother to upgrade until a whole ass-renovation happens

    The latest gen is allegedly gender neutral, but it'll probably take decades until you see those on airports because probably nobody will bother to upgrade until a whole ass-renovation happens

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor' in ~food

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    –Enby-thagoras

    I also have a really strong aversion to most beans

    –Enby-thagoras

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Looking for surreal horror/mindbending in ~books

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    I've wanted to read this for a long time now, but with all the back-and-forthing with the footnotes and such it sounds extremely annoying/difficult to properly read this on an ebook reader. And...

    I've wanted to read this for a long time now, but with all the back-and-forthing with the footnotes and such it sounds extremely annoying/difficult to properly read this on an ebook reader. And due to orthopaedic health reasons and stuff, this is the only format I can read books in...

    Is it really as bad as I've heard?

  7. Comment on Does anyone play older versions of Minecraft? in ~games

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    I used to exclusively play on outdated versions for a few years. I was one of the people who hated the 1.9 combat update (and to this day, I still haven't familiarised myself with the new pvp...

    I used to exclusively play on outdated versions for a few years. I was one of the people who hated the 1.9 combat update (and to this day, I still haven't familiarised myself with the new pvp system), and I was playing exclusively on vanilla 1.8.9 or modded 1.7.10 all the way until 1.18 released. 1.18 is the update that "convinced me" to start playing modern versions again, because for me the caves & cliffs update finally skewed the balance in favour of modern versions.

    However, do ensure to at least try the new versions, just in case. They're not nostalgia-inducing, sure, and they might completely new to you, but you might enjoy them more than you expect

    4 votes

  8. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

  9. Comment on Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) in ~lgbt

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    Similarly, this is a big reason why I'm absolutely proud to be visibly trans.

    Similarly, this is a big reason why I'm absolutely proud to be visibly trans.

    10 votes

  10. Comment on Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) in ~lgbt

  11. Comment on Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) in ~lgbt

    TaylorSwiftsPickles
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    I feel like things on the internet make these things seem a lot more common than they actually are. I come from and live in some relatively *-phobic, conservative-leaning countries, and even then...

    I meant about exposing oneself to bigotry, discrimination, or even just misunderstandings...

    I feel like things on the internet make these things seem a lot more common than they actually are. I come from and live in some relatively *-phobic, conservative-leaning countries, and even then I've not really been exposed to bigotry, discrimination, violence, etc. due to being visibly trans. Everyone's been treating me like a normal person, and at worst might just stare at me a bit but mind their own business. I feel like - at least in my own lived experiences - aside from a very small minority of people, the majority of people don't really give all that much a fuck.

    I just can't "emotionnaly" understand how they could have such a strong affinity... it doesn't compute (to me). but, as I said, full understanding isn't required. I don't need to understand why you'd rather use one particular set of pronouns to know to use that set when the need comes up.

    But yeah, I completely agree that full understanding isn't (or shouldn't be) required; it's basic decency after all.

    5 votes

  12. Comment on An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control. in ~enviro

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    [noise] The situation is dire, man. It was even found in Tildetown during the previous season of the Tildes Minecraft server (2024-2025)!as an armour stand sculpture made by yours truly As...

    The golden oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) is a close cousin of the grey oyster

    The mushroom is now found across the world. It's spreading in Switzerland, and has been found in Italy, Hungary, Serbia and Germany. There are reports of the golden oyster growing in the south of the UK too.

    [noise]
    The situation is dire, man. It was even found in Tildetown during the previous season of the Tildes Minecraft server (2024-2025)!as an armour stand sculpture made by yours truly
    As tildes's mushroom girl (or "fun gal", if you will), I couldn't help but get super excited at the mention of my favourite genus of mushrooms in an unsuspecting post.
    [/noise]

    10 votes

  13. Comment on Olympic committee announces a broad ban on transgender athletes and athletes with differences in sex development in Women’s events (gifted link) in ~lgbt

    TaylorSwiftsPickles
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    As a certifiedTM intersex trans woman, I find this perspective very misinformed - what pain did I expose myself to, really? My transition itself has been nothing but joy. My mind is at peace, and...
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    I do struggle to understand why trans people expose themselves to so much pain instead of just going with their asigned gender, i trully wouldn't care myself, but understanding isn't required for love.

    As a certifiedTM intersex trans woman, I find this perspective very misinformed - what pain did I expose myself to, really?

    My transition itself has been nothing but joy. My mind is at peace, and my body and face finally mostly align with what my brain was expecting to always see in any reflection or picture of myself, and every day I change for the better. My mental health has improved sharply. I'm just myself and I do whatever I like without having to put on an act. My partner loves me just the same. My work environment fully accepts me, and my boss is really happy with my work. My women colleagues ask me for advice for "girl stuff". My friends like me just the same and our relationships have gotten a lot better, and I even met some new and super amazing friends (girls and enbies, you know who you are) whom I feel like I've known for forever. Strangers consistently gender me correctly, almost always, and nobody has ever given a fuck about me being trans, in any meaningful way. My government recognises me fully as a woman and has deleted any mention of the opposite. Hell, I even get cyclical symptoms without even having an uterus, and if anyone wants to debate this as "delusional", come do come talk to me when, say, I have horrible stomach cramps, my legs feel painful as fuck, and I'm sobbing at random meaningless things for a few days every ~26 days without me tracking it in any way at all until I realise month after month "shit, so THIS is why I've been feeling like that".

    All my conscious life - since was around 2 or 3 - I've been a woman in every way other than presentation, whether I accepted it or not. I was acutely aware of this as a 3 year old kid, before I even knew being trans was a thing. I was always expecting to see a girl as my reflection even when I knew my parents seemingly gave birth to a boy. All my life, I did not have a masculine gender identity at all. All my life - but especially as puberty started when I was in elementary school - I lived through intense, debilitating gender dysphoria without my consent. It's not something I ever chose. It's not something I ever desired. I never consciously made any choice or decision. It was completely outside my own control and no amount of "trying" ever fixed it. I tried for years - decades - to convince myself I don't need to transition; to convince myself to at least survive like that, if not live; to convince myself to live an unsuspecting life and take 0 risks; to not potentially ruin anything and just secretly suffer without ever desiring to suffer. It did not work in the slightest, and at the end it only made things worse for me. I could've transitioned, say, 11 years ago, and things might've been even better.
    At school and at summer camp, I was "bullied" (lol) about "walking like a woman". Outside, 10-15 years before I even actually accepted myself and started transitioning, I was semi-regularly getting gendered as a woman. My own parents, until I came out to them, thought I was a closeted flamboyant gay man or some shit all my life. Everyone I'd ever pseudonymously met on the internet always "clocked me" as a woman, even when visual hints (e.g. me playing a male character on a game) said otherwise. Every person I'd ever dated told me I was "a very weird guy that was somehow very unlike every other guy they'd met" and "a lot more similar to their girl/women friends".

    I no longer feel like my brain and body are two separate entities; I'm no longer dissociated 24/7; I no longer feel like a Lovecraftian horror walking in a world it does not belong; I finally have a sense of self; my own mother finally sees life in my eyes; I mostly no longer feel the urge to vomit every time I see myself naked; I mostly no longer feel this dreadful sense of body horror about my entire existence; I no longer feel the shame I used to feel 24/7 about perceived as a man; I no longer feel detached from the people I care about; I no longer feel like my life is just a waiting lobby for death; I no longer feel the 1000 HP of physical and mental damage every time someone refers to me using masculine-coded grammar because they didn't know better; I no longer feel like my brain is underclocked and barely functioning; I no longer have to be an actor all the time and put on an act for my whole life, and so on.

    But see the difference. Nowhere above did I actually expose myself to any form of pain, consciously. Nowhere above did I make a choice to feel pain. A pain was always there, regardless of whether I would actually transition or not. Transition - something completely inevitable for me - was a sort of healing from all of this; not a source of pain or suffering, but in fact the opposite.

    @DefinitelyNotAFae and @sparksbet - as always, I genuinely thank you for all your contributions to this thread. I don't check tildes almost at all anymore but two are amazing and I adore you both.

    12 votes

  14. Comment on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie From Stephen Colbert and his son in development at Warner Bros in ~movies

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    Last I checked, they did not have the rights to adapt the Silmarillion (or any book other than the 4 (or technically 7, as LotR is really 6 books inside 3 volumes) already adapted by PJ, for that...

    Last I checked, they did not have the rights to adapt the Silmarillion (or any book other than the 4 (or technically 7, as LotR is really 6 books inside 3 volumes) already adapted by PJ, for that matter), and they likely never will until they hit the public domain. There's not too much available material left to adapt, for better or worse.

    13 votes

  15. Comment on US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US in ~enviro

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    hey some of us would love to be in the position of the cat

    hey some of us would love to be in the position of the cat

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Venture underground to discover the new sulfur cube and the sulfur caves in Minecraft in ~games

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    I'm excited; this has been announced almost at the perfect time to solve some of the "inconveniences" I've had while trying to build Poland on the tildes MC server.

    I'm excited; this has been announced almost at the perfect time to solve some of the "inconveniences" I've had while trying to build Poland on the tildes MC server.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on "People are turning themselves into lab rats" – the injectable peptides craze sweeping the US in ~health

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    I actually only learned this because I randomly watched this video after not touching youtube for months, and then did a quick google search to figure out whether it's actually true. And decided...

    I actually only learned this because I randomly watched this video after not touching youtube for months, and then did a quick google search to figure out whether it's actually true. And decided to post a text source so nobody has to sit through the video

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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  20. Comment on "People are turning themselves into lab rats" – the injectable peptides craze sweeping the US in ~health

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    12 votes