Drífa Jónsdóttir @[email protected]

New art from @knucklebone commemorating GRS and FFS!

I'm having a GRS and FFS on Tuesday, 23 July 2019.

I won't be posting explicit photos, but I will talk about my experiences. That will, perforce, include graphic descriptions of anatomy. I will CW all of this appropriately.

If this isn't something you want to read, or if you are underage and it would be illegal for me to send these descriptions to you either in US/VA or your jurisdiction, please either unfollow me or refrain from opening these CW'd messages.

One thing I really hate about my culture is its fetishization of competition. We create needless competition in business, sports, politics, etc. Why? It is destructive, it creates more losers than winners, and it wastes resources that could be better used to solve our collective problems. Proponents claim it spurs innovation and achievement. Bullshit: it spurs cheating and gaming the system. Competition of *ideas* is better served by *cooperation* to study them.

I should probably pin Britt's ref sheet.

If you're trans, remember: the point of changing your appearance and presentation is to feel better living in your own skin. Anyone who gives you grief for not meeting some arbitrary standard is welcome to go shag a cactus.

Why do so many industry-led efforts request feedback on documents in the form of entries in an Excel spreadsheet? Excel is rubbish at this: neither mouse gestures nor keyboard commands work as per usual to edit a paragraph of text in a cell. And the automatic row height feature often gets it wrong, leaving whitespace.

These forms use no computation or automated processing and contain no numbers. So why on earth am I forced to use this shitty software for this?!?

To praise someone for the good they do by donating some fraction of their billions is to ignore the good we would have done—in matters of our choosing, not matters one person chose for us—had that money not been taken from us.

I wonder how Americans would react if all advertising vanished tomorrow. I suspect most of us would be unsettled: we’re so used to being wheedled and manipulated that the silence would be deafening.

Bring it on, says I.

Good morning!

My early morning walks often take me past a petrol station with those obnoxious tv screens built into the pumps. The experience of passing them as they exuberantly tout consumerism to an empty forecourt is one of capitalism’s eerier sights.

Note to self: the kettle boils faster when you switch it on.

Just got to the last episode of season 2. Of 8 episodes in the season, I’ve seen all 8.

I guess I’ve seen a *lot* of Columbo.

I picked a rain-free 5-minute interval to dash out to the postbox in. Woo!

It gets better: The surgeon's PA—a lovely, lovely person—tried to bill $75k for her time on top of the charges I've already mentioned. The insurance company said, "ah, no" to that.

For those of you keeping track at home, that's $290k billed so far for a surgery another surgeon was willing to do for $21k in cash. Insurance price inflation ratio: 13.8x (and probably climbing).

We're under severe thunderstorm warning here. Just had a nearby lightning strike and it's pouring buckets. Gotta love Southern weather. :)

The sound of furry social media today is that of thousands of animals jostling to piss on the same grave. And given the shitbag in said grave, I'm quite happy about that.

Receptionist in my electrologist’s building wasn’t sure of my pronouns and defaulted to ‘they’. Hey, I’ll take it. :)

Electric face stabby within the hour. Cant wait for this to be over so I can shave; facial dysphoria sucks.

The gig economy has found its slaves to train DLNNs: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614194/venezuela-crisis-platform-work-trains-self-driving-car-ai-data/

'It is about f---ing time': Women break into top ranks of 2020 campaigns
(via POLITICO for iOS) https://politi.co/2zisg96

For those of you keeping score at home, it’s worth noting that the total claims submitted to the insurance is already 10x the cash price. That’s how badly medical bills are padded in the US insurance system.