Reddit is making some funny moves here that I reckon will backfire - forcing antiwork to reopen considering it's likely a community with strong feelings about strikes and action. They've also forced piracy to reopen, which I reckon might backfire on them too.

Oh snap, i didn't think about it from that perspective! Instagram is still the place where sharing my work gets the most reach, I hadn't thought about what this app might mean for that.

I'm finding mlem on ios real good - yesterday's update fixed a lot of timeline bugs, and it's nice to see improvements happening so quickly!

Absolutely - and I think there's huge benefit in beehaw being that example, especially as we see big migrations onto lemmy and the wider fediverse.

There are some real great practical suggestions here already, which is wonderful! I'll add that so much of how we feel about ourselves can really be influenced by how other people see and treat us, and we shouldn't underestimate that. It's so good that you've got good, supportive friends - asking them to gender you as femme as much as they can can really help and really shift how we think of ourselves, too.

Something that really helped me, too, that took me far too long to learn, was getting comfortable with just playing - with clothes, make-up, hair, anything gendered. We can take it all so seriously, because it's important to us, but that meant whenever I did something to my appearance and it didn't turn out exactly how I imagined I felt real stink about it. Actually thinking to myself "I'm just having a play with this and it doesn't matter if it doesn't turn out right" made a huge difference, and made it way easier for me to keep experimenting!

Am I right in thinking that once you've searched (or subscribed?) to a community on another instance it'll show up in the 'all' feed for everyone else, too? It's a good way to help your wider instance discover other communities!

You're so welcome! Truly - you've got all the time in the world to figure it out, and cis women have years and years of getting to play with how they look - you deserve that play, too!

Does the share sheet not work for you? I can see it on this post, and it seems to work as expected!

Multiple shortcuts, I imagine - the one in this screenshot looks like “dg” to search DuckDuckGo.

I think fermentation speed can depend on your yeast and conditions - yeast will work more slowly at lower temps (and then again at much higher temps).

Your approach (juice) is much like apple wine - you could google for some recipes pretty easily! I'm just about to bottle a batch of apple and fejoia wine which is tasting pretty good!

I second this! I'm really proud of who I am - I work in a rainbow community org and am really proud of the work I do, too. I've been out for a decade or so and two years ago I barely thought about being trans any more - it's just a part of who I am. But the big increase in anti-trans rhetoric (here in Aotearoa - significant but still not close to what's happening in the states) mean that I have to be more mindful and more aware of it, not in the least because my role means I do lots of work in the areas that have some of the biggest negative attention - healthcare, schools, bathrooms and changing rooms.

It'll be interesting to see how this and ig interface, and how this will play out in the fediverse. Imagine a future where instagram users could follow pixelfed accounts!

Aotearoa in general is pretty good - keep an eye on what happens here in the next six months ago. We're seeing the same rise in anti-trans disinformation that everywhere else is, unfortunately, and we have an election in October - some parties have already made gender an election issue.

I remain optimistic - I know the opposition is an absolutely tiny minority - and we're pretty good in terms of general inclusion and access to healthcare, but it'll be an interesting few months!

Thanks so much for sharing this - this was such a good, well-written read. I find personal narratives like this so useful - for me, they're a tangible reminder of the work we're needing to do, and I find them so motivating. I'm in Aotearoa, so any international travel basically necessates long haul flights, which is something I find it so hard to reconcile with my desire to travel - this has prompted some really useful reflection on my end.

I'm not too sure, actually - last time I popped by was at the beginning of summer and it was a lot of veg!

It's absolutely wild the mess opposition parties are drawing this into - the evidence is incredibly clear on the disparity faced by Māori and Pasifika in our healthcare system, and if there's one group I'd trust to make decisions around this it's clinicians and the people doing the work, rather than politicians in an election cycle.

I’m really keen to hear from the admins/mods of this instance on this - I feel like the community has expressed a pretty clear feeling here and I’d love to see that reflected in how this community operates

I really enjoyed the Mario maker race - it's always thrilling! Excited to catch up on blindfolded botw too!

Kia ora! So keen to help test!

This is so interesting - especially the part about how beneficial genetic adaptations in this period are linked to diseases now. What a fascinating avenue of research for therapeutic applications!