I went to a board game convention a month ago, it was the first time I've girlmoded for something major. They put their own signs over the bathroom signs explaining that both were gender neutral and the only difference was urinals vs stalls. That made it soooo much easier on me and I was very glad

What I love about AI images like this is that it looks like there's so much detail and you could spend forever taking a closer look and then when you try there's nothing there

The community isn't something that fucking belongs to you.

Ok, I'm going to step up to the plate here. I'm an experienced butt stuffer. There are two main safety concerns -- having your body move things further in than you can retrieve, and unsafe materials giving you ass cancer.

You've probably heard the adage, without a base, without a trace. In essence, your pelvic floor muscles will move objects around without you being aware or being able to stop it, and it can make things very difficult to retrieve. Your rectum is actually split into two by a muscle known as the inner band, which technically isn't a sphincter but is in practicality. When we squeeze stuff out, we're compressing the bottom half, squeezing the band and loosening the anus to push stuff out. If something untethered or without a base makes it's way into the upper half, you're not just going to be able to squeeze it out like when you shit, it's in the wrong place for that. You're in for an anxious fishing trip or wait, or a very embarrassing er trip. And this movement isn't something that happens by accident, your rectum actively moves stuff back up if it's not expelled.

Second, material safety. In the US, it's perfectly legal to sell toys that aren't body safe. I don't recommend plastic for anal use at all. Silicone is safe, but it has to be platinum cure or medical grade. These use platinum as part of the silicone curing process and is incredibly resistant to breaking down, which tin cure silicone will do. So, even a silicone egg with a tether might not be safe for butt use.

Ultimately, I honestly don't think vibrating butt toys are all that great. I highly recommend getting a "big" (large as you can fit) squishy plug like a square peg egg plug or a topped toys gape keeper and doing kegel exercises with it in. That's been far better for prostate stimulation in my experience.

It's actually really fucking cool, for ones like this they cast them in concrete sections, seal the ends, float them out, and sink them into place! Practical engineering made a video about

I would be uncomfy with people making that big a deal out of it but very very happy for them

There's a few factors working together to cause it. There's really two main ones: pressure to have sex and romantic connection, and an inability to be able to make those connections.

There's tons and tons of pressure out there about being in a relationship and having sex. In modern day, a good example is Andrew Tate and the like, directly linking your self worth to having sex. Back when I was a male teenager during the days of rage comics and advice animals, it was memes about the friend zone. The core idea is the same, being alone is something to be ashamed and upset about. Being rejected is something that reflects badly upon you as a person. Young men are constantly being bombarded with messaging about how being a man revolves around sex and romance, and lacking these things makes you less of a man. In addition, so much media portrays sex both as this amazing thing on a pedestal and as something that's not just commonplace but as something that everyone's expected to be doing.

So young men are believing that everyone except them are all in relationships and/or fucking all the time, and believing that them not doing those things makes worth less as a human being.

The other problem is actually making romantic or otherwise meaningful connections. So much more socializing is online these days, and there are a lot fewer women on the internet than men. It's difficult to make organic connections with single women online, as random social media is by far mostly male and more direct closer friend groups tend to be made of single men and people in relationships (this is very arbitrary and circumstancial, it's just what I've noticed). So, your odds of finding a single and compatible friend of a friend of a friend online aren't great, and dating apps are complete trash for pretty much anything other than gay hookups. So, there's not really a way for many young men to find romantic partners. Straight up hookups are easier, especially if your standards aren't too high, but it's an area a lot of young men aren't socially comfortable with because it's not something they've done a lot of, which makes everything much harder.

In the end, if there wasn't so much pressure to be dating and having sex, then the difficulty of doing so in the modern day wouldn't matter so much.

Personally, I've basically only had sex with men, because it's so much more straightforward and the dating pool isn't crazy lopsided. Though that's at an end now too, because I've transitioned too much to be appealing to gay men anymore and haven't transitioned nearly enough to be appealing to straight men or gay women.

No I'm transitioning into my mom

Real talk though that was something I had to work through. Accepting that to the majority of people I'm going to look strange/odd/offputting and realizing that that's really not what's important. As long as I like what I look like, it doesn't matter what others think.

Ngl I can't even think of anything that only costs a dollar nowadays

That's why I chose blahaj zone as my instance. It's nice not having to justify my existence

I'm sure this comments section is going to be thoroughly hinged

It's a good tone indicator

Personally, I don't think his shitty views necessarily translate into .ml moderation policy and action, which to me would be the problem that defederation is meant to solve.

That said, I wouldn't mind defed-ing from them in general, as most of my unpleasant interactions in the fediverse have been with .ml users.

Ultimately, I'll back Ada on what she thinks and decides. She's very level headed and strict with other instances as far as blahaj zones mission statement is concerned, and I trust her completely.

You should have rolling log files of limited size and limited quantity. The issue isn't that it's a text file, it's that they're not following pretty standard logging procedures to prevent this kind of thing and make logs more useful.

Essentially, when your log file reaches a configured size, it should create a new one and start writing into that, deleting the oldest if there are more log files than your configured limit.

This prevents runaway logging like this, and also lets you store more logging info than you can easily open and go through in one document. If you want to store 20 gb of logs, having all of that in one file will make it difficult to go through. 10 2 gb log files is much easier. That's not so much a consumer issue, but that's the jist of it.

Super socially awkward and anxious in middle school and high school and was also bullied a ton. Girls would ask me out as a joke, and there's no good response. If you say yes you're a dumbass for thinking they're actually interested in you, if you say no you're gay and should kill yourself. Combined with being an impressionable teen with incredibly negative self esteem on reddit at a time where something along the lines of all men are rapists was a common sentiment, it really honestly fucked me up. I still am not comfortable with romance and intimacy with women to be honest.

Hey, it's polite and a response. Pretty good in my book

Haven't killed myself yet so that's something

It's shades of gray. A company that rents out millions of houses is millions times worse than your aunt. Your aunt is still contributing to unaffordable housing and keeping 2-3 families from permanent housing. How bad she is is up for debate and I for one don't care to debate that. Being upset about people like your aunt is pointless when we should be insanely angry about corporate mass homeownership.

Is it normal for teenagers discovering sexuality to improvise sex toys? Absolutely. Cucumbers are generally a convenient shape and size. When I was a young male teenager, I used hotel shampoo bottles. (Almost got one stuck inside me, no idea what I would have done.) When the time comes to have that talk, mention sex toys and that if they want to experiment, they should use objects that are meant to be used that way and that you won't judge them for it. I'd probably also mention that you won't open packages addressed to them and leave it at that.