@jasmine That's because this series describes abnormal political process. This stuff is outside the normal process. It's not supposed to have an effect. Unfortunately, its effect never goes to zero, but most of the time, that effect is relatively close to zero.But once every century or so, the pre-spice mass pre-fascist nihilism gets popular, and that's when everything Innuendo speaks about becomes very relevant until the fascists get defeated again at the end of the next world war.

@jasmine Or nonconforming another arbitrary label system that the fascists hold dear. Closure-seeking brains hate ambiguity in general, not just gender ambiguity.A fascist particularly hates what a führer tells them to hate, though. Look up authoritarian aggression.

There's an old saying in northern Europe that “it's like choosing between plague and cholera”, still often used when faced with only bad choices. And as any know-it-all worth her salt should be quick to point out, if you have access to modern healthcare, you pick cholera.But if you don't? Over the years I thought about that a lot, and it always seemed obvious that while the more disprivileged can make things better for the more privileged, they're essentially blameless if they don't.From my imagined position of a white, cishet, neurotypical man, I felt like I would be wrong to blame them for not picking the cholera outbreak, the better one for me that's just as bad for them.I don't know to which degree this was based on selfishness. I was always quietly carrying this sad and desperate anger over being forced to live in denial of my neurodivergence and queerness.So it's a good question: What can you really demand from those who have already had cholera forced upon them?

@jasmine So now you understand why thalidomide was such a hit, until. :blobcatblush: @raritastic

Caelan Conrad said in a recent video that “and whatever you do, do not scream out of a car window at the small-town lesbian as you drive by her! Jesus!!” and good gods I felt that

@jasmine Which part of Sweden are you in? Would getting your prescriptions in Denmark (which is, strangely, a short bus ride away from Malmö) be an option for you?Also, the European Union has been working on a common electronic prescription system. Germany is known to be lagging behind, because ... reasons; Sweden is likely going to be an early adopter. At some point within a year, it might become feasible for you to get your HRT prescribed in, say, Spain, over telemedicine, and fulfilled in Sweden.

@jasmine You can apply another coat of clear nail polish atop the colourful one to protect it. I think there's even special hard-coat clear protective nail polish, but I'm not too sure how well it works. Also, many UV-hardening nail polishes should be somewhat harder-wearing than the customary acetone-based ones.

@jasmineI agree. A disproportionate amount of the burden of "fixing society" has always landed on those who are also the most oppressed by society.... Sucks.