Protip for Tumblr Android App users

The app is such a piece of shit that if you enable WiFi, it crams every fucking GIF and video through the UI, slowing it down to the point of being unusable.

In their infinite wisdom, they didn’t give you a way to turn preloading of GIFs and videos off…except if you disable WiFi and use the phone’s 3G connection instead.

So if you want to actually use the fucking app, make sure it’s *not* over WiFi, and it won’t try to play 15 videos at once.

I DESIGN SOFTWARE AND THIS WOULDN’T EVEN PASS QUALITY ASSURANCE!
muffinsthefemboy: Something I threw together for work at my little, more supportive job. My mom even allowed it for once. It was freeing to try something new. Every now and again a boy wants to feel what it’s like to wear a dress. And as far as gender identity goes, I have a wide variety to the more girly side. It’s up to you how masculine, androgynous, or “trappy” you want to look. I will say skirts are very very comfortable and fun to twirl side to side. I’m very fortunate to have such a nice little job that gives me opportunity and encouragement to be myself at least one day a week. While it lasts anyway. Support and acceptance can be distressingly rare and fleeting. And so it must be cherished and appreciated even if it doesn’t last as long as you would want or need. But part of that teaches you to love and be yourself and not to depend on others for your self esteem. Also, trying a new hairstyle. I’m doing what I can with it for now, but hopefully it’ll be really awesome when it grows out more.

muffinsthefemboy:

Something I threw together for work at my little, more supportive job. My mom even allowed it for once. It was freeing to try something new. Every now and again a boy wants to feel what it’s like to wear a dress. And as far as gender identity goes, I have a wide variety to the more girly side. It’s up to you how masculine, androgynous, or “trappy” you want to look. I will say skirts are very very comfortable and fun to twirl side to side. I’m very fortunate to have such a nice little job that gives me opportunity and encouragement to be myself at least one day a week. While it lasts anyway. Support and acceptance can be distressingly rare and fleeting. And so it must be cherished and appreciated even if it doesn’t last as long as you would want or need. But part of that teaches you to love and be yourself and not to depend on others for your self esteem. Also, trying a new hairstyle. I’m doing what I can with it for now, but hopefully it’ll be really awesome when it grows out more.

Reblogged from rhirhiblogging

What would be our first (and last) reaction to a USSR first strike if social media and a mature Internet had existed during the Cold War?

6117Ch is a alternative history and speculative fiction by KatsuKitty that explores the themes of state surveillance, libertarian corporatocracy, and the tyranny of technological convenience. I will publish the text as a series here in the coming months.

My unusual experience, and a new theory on transgender identity

As someone who is transgender, I suffer from dysphoria. Dysphoria, put simply, is the persistent discomfort related to one’s secondary sex characteristics. 

I have found it difficult to answer the question of whether or not I am male as designated by birth, or if I should actually be identifying as female. So instead what I do is address the dysphoria *first* and worry about what to identify as after that. Does anyone else do this? 

There are things I desire about my body that are overtly female. Things like breasts, hips, a rounder bum. HRT can help me achieve these things and really boost my confidence ten-fold. It would be a very positive choice and I consider it every day.

But does it make me *female*? I’m not sure if I would call myself female or not. Or if it matters. I know these are the right body features for me, the right clothes for me, the right presentation for me. And when it comes to passing, I would want to pass for *me* and not to simply erase my trans-ness or dodge harassment. I remain unsure if I would want to pass as female; I know I love to look cute and good as a feminine male.

I feel as a male who likes girl clothes and wants a body with girl features, but I could probably even be happy as a woman. To me it seems as if I don’t really care either way whether or not I am male or female; I just start by relieving the dysphoria and go from there, keeping in mind that “male” and “female” should be more flexible definitions. Wherever this leads me, it leads me, even if it ultimately makes me a boy with breasts and hips. I feel as if I could live as either a male or as a female, as long as I can retain the ability to be “feminine”, to do whatever it takes to just feel confident and *me*.

To other trans people, does this mirror your experience? What has led to your decision to adopt the pronouns/image of the opposite sex, and why do you feel it important to “pass”?