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Transgender community, please please please do NOT use this product! It will kill you if used, please do not use it whatsoever.

Wanted to share this information here, and hopefully you all can share it more broadly. Fair warning, it's very dark:

With many states cracking down on transgender healthcare and attempting to strip away trans people's right to their medicine, there's a lot of people looking for ways to get their hormones. And unfortunately scammers and much worse are trying to exploit that.

You may have seen ads for a product called I Can't Believe It's Not Estrogen, marketed as basically a natural herbal hormone replacement.

It is not. It's a substance called ashwagandha, which increases production of the body's original hormones, NOT those brought on by HRT. As in, if you're transfeminine, this will massively ramp up your body's testosterone production. It will do the inverse for transmasculine people, of course, but it's being marketed toward transfemmes at the moment.

It will also just outright kill you. The dose involved will cause serotonin syndrome in as little as a month if you're taking it daily like the ads recommend. That's lethal.

The ads for this product use an Al-generated image of a trans woman as their "founder", and link back to a Twitter account that used to be called "Trans Are Traitors". The business address is even faked, as it's for the Iceland Phallological Museum.

It's a honeypot, meant to get the names and addresses and financial information of transgender women, damage their transition process, and ultimately literally poison them.

Do not buy them, and warn anyone who you think might. DIY HRT is much safer if you're in a place where you can't get it from a medical professional."

“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

And sure, you can dismiss these people as lazy, as stupid, as being elderly and so who cares. But from my 17 years of experience, I can tell you that technical instinct and ability varies widely across the entire adult spectrum. And I can also tell you that people have different strengths, and that just because someone isn't good with computers doesn't mean they aren't smart as hell.

And I can also say, again, that it really doesn't matter.

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past