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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 9h

confession: i only transitioned because i was heading towards 40 and if i hadn't, i'd have had to start posting on facebook

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 10h

explains why semicolons have always been my favourite punctuation...

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Ingrid @winterreisende.bsky.social · 10h

Semicolon use or its absence correlates with the author's attitude towards trans women

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 10h

WERE THEY CHASERS? ancient philosophy edition

Plato: you'd think yes but actually tons of hang-ups

Aristotle: sleeps with trans girls who all think he's an egg but is in fact just genuinely curious about what hrt is like

Socrates: irrelevant because who'd fuck him anyway

Pythagoras: hell yes

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 10h

we're not sure he said this though, all we have is Aquinas' rebuttal to a 12th-century Latin translation of a lost text by Averroes which drew on an alleged Arabic summary of the lost περι τρανσσεξυαλιων

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 10h

'Socrates distinguished the true transexual from the AGP through dialogue, Plato held one must approach the Form of gender, Heraclitus that gender flows into gender to create gender; Democritus called him a fucking tenderqueer. But one can truly observe that trannies spontaneously generate from mud'

Sloppy beheaded enjoyer (queervoid of the haunted episteme era) @cisgirl.space · 11h

Yes but Laura I need to know what aristotle's opinions on the term transsexual vs transgender were

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 13h

(heavenly sound, clouds part and a ray of light shines on my face)

me: i need cunty lil wooly skirts and tight jumpers for autumn

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 13h

people get sad about the library of alexandria but tbh lots of what was lost was more or less online discourse

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tranna karenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 15h

i went to clock and ordered a big clock and they just gave me a picture of you

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 1d

Clock was a Swedish state-owned competitor to McDonalds run by SARA, a spinoff of the Swedish "System Bolgat" the state alcohol monopoly which branched out into fast food

Their Big Clock was a copy of the Big Mac, but eventually competition with kebabs drove them outta business

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 15h

i wonder if it was pronounced 'slock'. my wife knew a guy in sweden who was called 'slark' because his parents named him for clark gable and thought a c- was always an s- in english

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 15h

i will be happy if i am remembered as a moderately hot pair of tits

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 16h

it's fun being an opinionated transsexual on the internet but i would never want to do it so much that other people, or i myself, began to take me seriously

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 17h

boss is very keen that i use chatgpt to search for things so to keep him happy i tried it and in the end the best i can say about it is if you use it for simple queries it can almost function kind of like a search engine now that normal search engine results are full of chatgpt-generated slop

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Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 18h

Posting this short article until morale improves.

WILL GERMAN REUNIFICATION HURT TRANSSEXUAL RIGHTS?
Now that East and West Germany are being united into one country, the laws concerning transsexuals and sex change operations are being re-evaluated. East Germany scores higher on transsexual rights than West Germany, but East Germany's more humane laws may not prevail in the new reunited country. As it stands now in East Germany, men and women 18 years and older have been able to receive govern-ment-sponsored sex reassignment surgery, get married and adopt children. According to Professor Goerlich of East Germany, who spoke at a meeting on the subject in Hamburg, in two cases a transsexual mother gained custody of her adopted children after a divorce. Goerlich plans to fight to retain these more liberal laws in the future Germany.

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 18h

I've been places where it's anyone's guess. hoover bags vs daleks?

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 18h

what even are those supposed to be? different popsicles?

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 20h

damn need to hear this

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 21h

i know, i know what you'll say: 'laura, by the time they let you retire at 85, climate change will have turned italy into an inhospitable wasteland fought over by the fascist New Salò Republic and various high fashion brands turned warlord-governed cartels'. quiet. let a girl dream

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 22h

idk what's up but i'm beginning to dream i might make it to old age. retirment. a place, maybe back in italy with mountains and sea and wine and fresh fruit. looking into the distance with someone i love. somehow today that seems like a real possibility. i'm sorry i'll get back to doomposting soon

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 23h

going back in time to visit my mad horny early teenage self and saying '*be* the naked woman dozily looking for a bra you hope to see in the windows of whatever house you are passing'

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 23h

priest: laudamus te, domine

god: yeah look at u little fags down there with ur gayass robes and ur poncy lil church prancing around singing. u should be singing *queerie* eleison. lol

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 1d

me: enough of the dumb stereotypes and anyway i'm not really that italian-american

also me: did i tell yous guys about the time jonny vitali and the stuzzichini brothers tried to ice my granddad 'cause he didn't wanna how you say, pagare il pizzo and they sent in five hoods with heaters to the shop

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 1d

hot hot women in your area are eating peanut butter out of the jar for the hell of it

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 1d

i would probably start by pulling away quietly but visibly enough for her to notice and move if she doesn't do so soon? if it were me I'd probably also get off and move carriages or wait for the next train

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Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social · 1d

womanichest breastiny

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