Foreign Function Interface plaza!

Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/1112ht4Z7U (Grand Teton)
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"vos billets doivent être compostés et validés" j'ai essayé de composter mon téléphone l'écran est cassé :(

So, for absolute clarity:

Yes, switching to decentralized, independent alternatives is important. Long-term. I'm not against it.

No, I'm not stupid, ignorant, or a sellout just because I haven't left yet. I simply have other priorities and real hurdles, for fuck's sake.

No, I won't let people who have never been in my situation tell me how to distribute my art.

And yes, I'm afraid of AI. But I'm even more afraid of a community that leaves me hanging while I'm fighting against the wall.

If you want to boycott Bandcamp – go ahead. That's your right. But please, please stop punishing us artists for still being there. Why not just ask us what we need? Offer help instead of accusations. Support us in other ways (buy directly from us, share our links, send us Faircamp tutorials, offer to help us with deployment). That would be real activism. Not this mindless shouting.

come to emacs weve got a buffer for scritches

time to do my own “cheatsheet” for doomemacs ig, since so much IDE and nav stuff is so tedious to find

left the new linux setup in sleep mode yesterday before sleep to see how it fared

well, hit the keyboard accidentally this morning and was greeted by my login screen like 3 seconds after, fully responsive

i think its working well

yeaaaa ill learn gentoo some other way

time to bring back nixos on this computer, at least 90% of my core config and dotfiles are already nixos-prepared

current gentoo progress: how the fuck do i boot with an encrypted disk and encrypted swap why does no documentation work or make sense

in other words i’ve spent a couple hours writing a database migration tool/lib in janet and now i can use it for myself

finally made a power button i can reach right from my desk instead of having to dig under tons of cables

all it took was trying to install gentoo

new desktop linux hostname: adenosine
cuz i swear i keep reviving its linux install every so often

ok guix being anti-nonfree at the cost of OS breakage is frustrating enough for me to skip it entirely

time to try something else (gentoo)

welp, the gui Does Not Like to load without nonfree drivers (black screen and cursor)

github doesn't support ipv6, but judging by their uptime they're at least doing their best to also not support ipv4

heatwave lasting, too bored to play videogames, time for retrying guix setup

It's not the goose's fault it needs 6 tons of platinum, 3 gigaliters of water, and 4 tw of energy to make one 150g pyrite egg

The goose still has value

DIY HRT is less accessible for transmasculine people due to testosterone being a controlled substance in many places. You may need to get your hands dirty and obtain it outside standard medical channels.

For injection, the options are slow-release testosterone undecanoate every 8 - 10 weeks (also known as testosterone bessins or Nebido), testosteron enanthate, and testosterone cypionate, best administered weekly.

Testosterone gel also exists; it's not something I have experience with, but it is the easiest to make from powder.

Online resources for using DIY testosterone

I've seen people complain about a lack of clear information on dosing for DIY T. It's easy to learn from training documents for medical practitioners and DIY guides.

Fransgenre DIY HRT brochures (French and English downloads): https://partagenre.fransgenre.fr/ressources/brochure-ths-en-diy
Covers dosages for T enanthate and cypionate.

For much more detail on dosing T, you want resources aimed at medical practitioners. This one has helped me in the past:

Prescription de THS à base de testostérone (FR only): https://partagenre.fransgenre.fr/ressources/formation-ths-module-3-partie-b-testo

I'm afraid I don't have an English language equivalent, but I'll actively search for one when it comes to future updates for this post, and I'd be happy to translate bits for anyone who needs it.

The diyhrt.info transmasc guide: https://diyhrt.info/transmasc/
Includes dosing and bloodwork for multiple forms and concentrations of gel and injectable T.

Their calculations for dosing at different concentrations can be particularly helpful if you're obtaining T from resources aimed at bodybuilders, as most trans guys will want to be on lower dosages than those used for muscular hypertrophy.

Self-injection

Intramuscular injection is ideal. If you're using testosterone undecanoate, you could easily be injecting 4ml at a time, so do yourself a favour and divide it between two muscles.
Here's an excellent how-to video for IM thigh injections:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RInnhgYwal4

You can buy injection supplies in most places from Amazon or Aliexpress, or - for a wider variety of good quality equipment (although you may have to wait longer while they source it) - specialists such as www.medical-hygiene.com

I use 2ml or 3ml syringes with at 25G 13mm (orange from most brands) needle. You may need longer tips if you have a larger body.

When it comes to sharps disposable, to avoid awkward conversations at pharmacies, you may wish to use needle exchange services, which provide non-judgemental access to clean injecting equipment and safe sharps disposal for anyone who injects anything for any reason.

UK needle exchanges: https://www.exchangesupplies.org/articles/article/How_to_find_a_needle_exchange_providing_free_injecting_equipment_near_you_in_the_UK

France needle exchange by poste : https://www.safe.asso.fr/index.php/rdr-a-distance

Blood tests

Blood tests can be ordered privately from most labs if you pony up the cash. This applies in France, and I believe in the UK and most other EU countries - I'd appreciate feedback from people with experience of doing this in different parts of the world.
In France, this will cost around 40€ for the testosterone and estradiol level tests.

Ideally, get tested six weeks after changing dosage, and three or four times a year once at a stable dose. Tests should be taken close before your dose, to test the minimal T levels in your system.
You're looking for total T levels of between 10.5 and 40 nmol/L, while estradiol should be 200pmol/L or less.

Obtaining Testosterone

In a lot of places, you would have to be comfortable with breaking the law. Of course, doing these things isn't illegal in places where T isn't controlled. For the purposes of this mini guide, I will assume that you live in Bulgaria, where you are allowed to buy anabolic steroids.

Phone a friend:
In much of Europe, prescription T enanthate is supplied in single-use snap-top glass vials that contain more than most trans guys will need, and many would be happy to share.

Online shopping:
Testosterone's popularity with gym goers and its variable regulation from country to country means that there are plenty of online shopping options, such as https://roidbazaar.to/, https://www.napsgear.org/ or the various sites listed at https://steroidwiki.com/sources/ at https://diyhrt.info/transmasc/sources/ and in discussions at https://www.reddit.com/r/steroids/ - read reviews of vendors and be aware of your local laws.

Steroid homebrew: https://steroidwiki.com/articles/steroids-profiles/198-ultimate-steroid-homebrewing-guide.html

#HRT #testosterone #DIY_HRT #TransDIY #TransmascDIY

We have a D1 Mini permanently connected to one of the 12v USB socket aboard, so that our sailboat broadcasts an open wifi signal called "Immortality".

Anyone sailing by or anchoring near us can connect to it, and upon connecting, it automatically opens a single web page with Clare Harner's poem by the same name.

I am not there,
I do not sleep—

Non-standard Smal

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