I have too much testosterone I need to take estrogen sign me up :)
Your absence drives me into a state of disarray. My heart aches with longing at the thought of you. I know I’ll be giddy when I hear from you next, that my chest will be surging with a kaleidoscope of butterflies, always flying upward. Your words ooze through my mind like a sweet nectar with no origin and no end. I am entranced with a mystical rhapsody at the thought of our Loving. It is for this Love that the dervishes swirl. It is an inner sanctum to our universe, decorated with divine words which are startling and unutterable.
Legit I am in love with my friend
I talked to my friend for 11 hours on the phone this week and I still miss them when I havnt heard back in a day!!! Help!!!!!!
Tell that to your dad who I turned into my bitch last night
I have committed myself to Loving my friend and she has done the same to me. My friend is the spark to my soul. She breaths life into me with every word that drips from her mouth. I adore my friend. I long after my friend. I fantasize of living in a cozy little cottage with my friend. My heart is disarmed when she draws near. My breath is caught in my stomach when I get a glimpse of her face. My dear friend you will always hold a special piece of me within you.
March Bluesky Protocol updates:
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2293
Mostly they’re working on labels, we’ve got labels in Nostr but we don’t seem to use them as extensively as they do over in bluesky. They’re also getting ready to open up and release Ozone, their moderation labeling tool. I know most folks here aren’t keen on composable moderation, but I think a moderation system you can choose with alternatives is probably closer to what normies are looking for. The nostr model of using your network and web of trust works once you’ve GOT a network, but it’s not great for new users.
The good part about being able to choose your moderation system on bluesky, is you can choose a minimalist one that only removes CSAM (Child sexual abuse material) which is illegal to have. With that option, and your own PDS they only real choke point is the GDS server which they’ve still not got a model for federating.
On a different point, I had a conversation with some of the bluesky folks at the Princeton Social Media Protocols Workshop ( https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/ ) about lightning and bluesky. It seems like it’s pretty straightforward to add lightning wallet addresses to bluesky profiles, they’ve got a more constrained schema system, so we’d need to publish a schema and validator for it, but with that, it should be easy to do something like Nostr Wallet Connect on bluesky. Maybe do it like npub.cash so it just works?
I love your consistent position on the need for opt-in content moderation. It can take a real toll for some folks mental health to see hateful stuff on their social feeds everyday. Social media can be a place where the bounds of free speech can be tested… and it can be a quiet respite from a challenging world. It’s the users choice in the end.
Even Elon Musk has realized what is going on at Bluesky: https://fxtwitter.com/elonmusk/status/1767273166374633895
Platforms with moderation policies aren’t inherently bad. Good for business really.
Unfortunately a lot of people who claim to be libertarian (cough Ben Shapiro) ruin the stew.
My little attempt at disconnecting from my phone over the weekends with the implementation of more limited devices 
I love you AHOHNI 
I worry about state supported, civilian acts of terrorism. Sort of like how the KKK was subtly/implicitly endorsed by local police departments back in the day.
That being said my plan consists of possibly moving to Wisconsin or Minnesota where I’ll be close to the border. I’ll wait to see how things pan out but at the same time have all my documents in order to seek asylum.
YOOOO queer platonic relationship works in this case too! I didn’t realize it was such an ambiguous umbrella term. Now I feel happy.
There’s this girl I know and I have unspecified feelings for them. I am not sexually attracted to them. I am aesthetically attracted to them. I don’t want it to be labeled as a romantic relationship. It’s hard to describe but I am attracted to the idea of frolicking around on hills of green, laced by a crisp morning dew. I am attracted to the idea of having tea with them and getting high. I am attracted to the idea of writing letters to them if our distance apart ever expands. I am attracted to the idea of working out disagreements and having a certain mutual cherishment.
I think that romantic relationships as a label is more about wanting to be perceived as others in a certain way more than anything else.
I am starting to not believe in romantic relationships. And I have a lovely nesting partner whom I care for very dearly. We settled on “queer platonic friendship” a while ago but we do things that could be considered “romantic” but I don’t know if that justifies the label. Not because I don’t hold them in very high regard, but because western romantic relationships carry a certain possessive root that I find to be antithetical to my beliefs.
I got so many looks when I wore my skirt to the nearby cafe. I guess that means I will have to wear it more until people stop staring.