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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonehetpeak rule
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    6 days ago

    The totally cishet male fantasy of a woman who loves you no matter your gender expression

    My favorite example

    I’d like to commend comedian Allison Devery, who married friend and head of their sketch comedy YouTube channel Door Monster Kyle C. Sullivan* in January 2019. They stayed together after Kyle came out to her in late 2022 (see R*ddit comment answering when/how the egg cracked) and they even moved to the Northeast from Texas, presumably seeking a more accepting environment. Kyle publicly came out this January with a Doctor Who reference (edit: in September on the livestream channel) to reassure people the content is still by the nerdy person they love (although it’s been more solo and long-form over the past few years because of their friends’ distance and occupation). For less than a year of apparent transitioning, she sounds confident with her new voice and looks stunning, presumably helped by the loving spouse.

    * I hope that’s not her(?) dead name; information is hard to come by especially that there’s also crossdressing male actor and YouTube comedian L. Kyle Sullivan. A secondary channel is called Kyle Devery (renamed from Door Monster Studio sometime this year) but that might just be a combination of both hosts’ names. I haven’t seen conclusive evidence and “Kyle Sullivan” is not unique anyway so best just call her “Kyle [of Door Monster fame]”.
    (She might have changed her surname but since she hasn’t corrected wiki entries etc., I’d guess she wouldn’t be offended by me referring to her (especially her pre-transition self) by full name: one of her social profiles** even still starts with “VFX boy”. Similarly, I haven’t seen any official pronoun post so I’m using “she/her” to refer to her throughout her life, as default for a trans woman. However, I’d probably use “he/him” for all the male characters she has played in 2008-2025, although the long-running Kyleverse series’ self-inserts are debatable.)

    ** It’s the Xitter profile, which I’m not surprised she wouldn’t touch: Kylecorp (with a logo clearly parodying “𝕏” but with a K) is the ultimate villain in the sci-fi episodes of Kyleverse.

    Imagine how it must feel to have the love of your life go beyond the expectations of partnership/marriage and accept you as a different kind of person from who you both assumed to have been on your wedding day − especially in a place where acceptance is not the norm. And accomodate the needs you now have, including confidentiality if applicable!

    Unfortunately for gender-questioning folks, bi/pan people are a minority of potential partners and openly seeking them might get misinterpreted as soliciting polygamy. (Nothing wrong with consensual polygamy but also nothing wrong with rejecting it.)






  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMazel rule
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    9 days ago

    Mazel means “cuddle boy” in Czech.

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    Well, it’s gramatically masculine but I don’t think it’s exclusive to men: the word was used to describe “Mademoiselle Giselle” in Václav Neckář’s song of the same name so it’s a generic masculinum like some professions. Maybe “cuddler” would be more correct?
    BTW, most of the rhyming words that end with -zel are verbs in first/third person singular masculine (yes, subject gender matters with verbs), past tense, imperfective aspect, class 4, type sází. This language is fucking insane.


  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBoo rule
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    9 days ago

    Typical analog wall clocks can run down to about 0.4 volts. The battery will rot sooner than that though… Also, many batteries get trashed because the device cannot use them fully and shuts down when they’re at about 1.4 V… an example is anything with 2×1.5V cells, no boost converter, and a white LED. It’s a waste to put fresh batteries in a typical ticking wall clock unless it’s hard to reach. In fact, using recently “depleted” batteries from devices that don’t run below 1.2 V will force you to replace them about bianually (clock size and battery type affect which meaning of the word) and avoid them getting too old and corroding.


  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFem-Shen Rule
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    6 days ago

    Not gonna lie, still looking quite masculine (hairstyle perhaps?) Most trans women IRL end up passing better than this.

    Edit: Nothing against people who aim for an androgynous or non-binary look or just want to crossdress, but if exploiting the supposed “femininity → Patreon popularity” correlation is the goal, he could have gone even further and still stay realistic. And of course, it’s a good idea to spread the word of the great transformation powers IRL transition offers.
    Do I need to remind you that how this character looks is fictional? The comic is playing with hypotheticals, so I have no ethical concerns about criticizing the style (like you’re allowed to say a movie costume does not represent a role as well as it could) even though I find it disgusting to look for “flaws” in an actual human’s sincere representation of their identity.

    Edit: as I guessed, they could go more feminine − and did: https://feddit.org/post/32195286


  • Remember that SpaceX’s own Hyperloop test track was partially dismantled to make room for… a railway. (A freight line branch because it is in the US but a train track nonetheless.) It was later fully removed, most of the land is now parking spots. Not that parking spots were all that needed (a cycle path would serve the community better but it’s the US), pedestrians were complaining they couldn’t cross the street with the adjacent tube that was too short to be useful and probably no longer could hold vacuum anyway after lack of maintenance and corrosion. Unlike the railway, the expensive tube never transported anything (with only one working airlock, test vehicles exited where they entered).






  • Czech restaurants often advertise as “Wi-Fi free” and not only do they take no measures to block 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz signals from outside, they have a Wi-Fi network of their own!

    (It’s a common language error, they translate Wi-Fi zdarma (“Wi-Fi for free”) literally, not caring about different preposition/word order rules in English)




  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    28 days ago

    By “inside first” I mean this Regex:

    b"<(sampletag\d+)>([^<]*?)</\\1>"
    # ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ capture tag opening
    #                 ^^^^^^^^ capture content, make sure no children
    #                         ^^^^^^ detect tag closing
    

    (part of a Python script; b because I’m parsing a mmapped binary file with NUL bytes that would ruin strings)

    Yes, it only works for bottom-level XML tags, I’d need to remove each level with a Regex replace and re-run it to detect parent nodes. Presumably, the middle part could be improved to also detect tags as long as they don’t contain tags of the same type inside. Fortunately, the specific schema and the limited data I needed (strings) allowed me to just go over bottom-level elements.

    I’d use an XML library but it’s not a valid XML file, it’s part of a raw image of a damaged drive with XML files. Very cursed. It worked in a pinch but you shouldn’t ever parse XML/HTML with Regex if you can avoid it with libraries like BeautifulSoup. By the way, some have used Regex to parse HTML, see Chad Scraper meme.




  • Does not help in some languages. In Czech, only soft adjective jobs are gender-neutral, the most well-known being krejčí (taylor). Yes, enbys sometimes use this kind of surname in particular but I think they prefer foreign-originated ones, which go better with most available neutral first names.