#spiro meme

[transmemesfortransqueens]

When the spiro side effects kick in

[fowlblue]

Because I have brainrot about my own fic near 24/7, have some concept art for Spiro in Consequences, since he goes through… a lot of stuff. Mullet Jon for the win!

[kii-chan-reloaded]

I explained how spironolactone worked to a trans man friend last night and he made this about 4 seconds later

[slaket-and-sprash]

Trans femme bekfest

[festivalinhell]

There needs to be a dating site that matches trans women on spiro with trans men that have piss kinks. This is important. For science.

[wheeljackgaming]

Is this anything

[quinttyz]

Spiros: The Wandering Ghost

New TESV oc I made on the switch 🤲. Idk if I’ll ever get access to my current playthrough in my laptop bc it broke down 🫠 so this will do hehe

Anyways this is Spiros!! A dark elf who often gets teased for almost looking like a snow elf hahaauhw. She has history with Teldryn Sero! Basically he saved her from an arranged marriage (literally killed her groom while on a mercenary mission) without even knowing it. Spiros wanted to follow him but knew she wasn’t skilled at ALL to hold a fight on her own. She decided to hire him as a mercenary.

But… no money….

She set out for Skyrim, leaving Solstheim behind (seeing that it was hard to earn any gold there). Well the events at Helgen happened,,lmao,,

So now she is stuck at Skyrim with Faendal, her new bestie in tow (who was under the impression that he was just going to escort her to Whiterun..why tf is he risking his life in bleakfalls barrow?!? )

They are 2 impoverished elves trying to make it 🤝 Spiros on going back to Solstheim and hiring Teldryn while Faendal saving money for him and Camilla 🥹🤲

[osmiabee]

Hi. I'm a biologist of colour with PCOS. There is significant amount of error and misinformation here.

Hirsutism is NOT a diagnostic criterion for PCOS - let alone the most important one - it's one of many indicative symptoms which can include adult acne, infertility, "male pattern" excess hair growth and "male pattern" balding - There are not considered diagnostic criteria as these are secondary symptoms that occur due to excess testosterone.

The diagnostic criteria are all direct symptoms: you need 2/3 for official diagnosis: Irregular periods (self-reported), Visible cysts on ovaries (via ultrasound), and Excess "above range" Testosterone (via blood test),

When you test for what is considered a "healthy range" you have to exclude people who are unhealthy and exhibiting symptoms, as they will skew the data. Worst case scenario this can lead to people NOT getting the diagnosis and treatment they need because they are considered "normal" even while exhibiting secondary symptoms.

The 97.5th percentile is a common statistical tool that excludes the extremes of the data to set a realistic average range. When someone comes in with symptoms of a disease (in the example above, men with osteoporosis) and you test them and find their hormones are different to 95-97.5% of a healthy, asymptomatic population, you can then point at that hormone as a potential cause of disease and correct it.

I cannot describe to you how important it is to exclude people with the "makes too much testosterone" disorder, while testing a baseline population to get an idea of the "normal/healthy" levels of testosterone.

Because PCOS is so common (2-10% of the population depending on your statistical model) that bar/threshold for testosterone in women is set high. Likely because even while trying to exclude people exhibiting PCOS symptoms (including excess hair) so many people with underlying PCOS (and high androgens) are largely asymptomatic (half of cases accourding to the NHS), and either live their whole lives unaware or do not get tested until they have significant fertility or secondary health problems later down the line.

In my own case when I got my results back I was the third woman that *day* that my doctor had to call to say "sorry, your androgen results were quite high but technically within the normal range," likely because that 97.5 percentile bar they're using as a baseline is skewed by the fact that a huge proportion of women have PCOS, and even while exc they can't exclude us all from the baseline based on diagnosis, family history, and secondary symptoms obvious to doctors (like hirsutism) alone!

These are all tools made to inform individualised medicine: despite my "normal range" androgens I am currently taking Spironolactone (a testosterone reducing drug - commonly used in HRT) to combat the effects of PCOS because my "in range" hormones were still clearly too much for my individual body, and caused symptoms that made me unhealthy (anaemic and in severe pain due to periods + painful acne) and put me at risk of things like diabetes and heart disease later down the line.

This isn't about just arbitrarily excluding women with "too much" hair. But about setting a useful baseline for XX-female high-androgen disorders.

BECAUSE BEING ABLE TO ACCURATELY DIAGNOSE PCOS IS A GOOD THING.

The linked study above that was immediately dismissed as weird and racist, looked at the symptoms of a diverse group of american women with PCOS, and found preliminary data that the areas of skin that respond to high androgen levels (due to PCOS) differ depending on race. (for example - African Americans commonly developed facial hirsutism under their chins, while hispanic individuals were more likely to develop it on their arms and legs).

STUDIES LIKE THIS ARE GOOD, ACTUALLY, BECAUSE IF WE ONLY HAVE DATA FOR WHITE PEOPLE, POC WILL BE UNDERDIAGNOSED.

These kinds of studies are important, because it tells dermatologists where to look for secondary symptoms of PCOS in their patients, which is important because 92% of people with PCOS have symptoms affecting their skin, and 1 in 4 undiagnosed people are referred for PCOS diagnosis by a dermatologist.

IN CONCLUSION: This isn't about defining "woman" or "normal female" or setting "arbitrary" "spider eating" statistical rules for what is an acceptable testosterone range. It's about creating an accurate model for disease, which despite potentially affecting 1/10 people with uteruses, is massively underresearched and underdiagnosed. Because of medical misogyny. And racism to boot.

It's true that huge swathes of medical practice are rooted in misogyny and racism, and uphold a gender and sex binary that is, in reality, far more flexible and complicated than historic tests would allow for, but this post is inaccurate and relies on borderline deliberate misinterpretation of the medical data to make that point.

I forget why, but I was on the Wikipedia page for polycystic ovarian syndrome, and I started researching hirsutism in women, and I learned the following things in this order:

there's a diagnostic criteria used to evaluate how hairy a woman is

This is important because being too hairy is a diagnostic criteria of most disorders that cause hyperandrogenism

Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism can be diagnosed by...measuring how hairy you are (this is the main and most important diagnostic criterion for PCOS)

Disorders that cause hyperandrogenism are important because they are correlated with obesity, infertility, and...being too hairy?

I think to myself, wait, what is a normal range for testosterone in women? I find this article...which set reference ranges for "normal" testosterone levels in women...EXCLUDING WOMEN WITH PCOS?

Quote: "Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is another notable condition in genetic (XX) females, which is characterized by excessive ovarian production of androgens. This condition is included for comparison with DSD, as the affected females with PCOS are genetic and phenotypic females. The elevated levels of testosterone in these females can lead to hyperandrogenism, a clinical disorder characterized variably by hirsutism, acne, male-pattern balding, metabolic disturbances, impaired ovulation and infertility. PCOS is a common condition, affecting 7%-10% of premenopausal women."

So: the study claims to demonstrate a clear distinction between the normal range of hormone levels in "Healthy" men and "healthy" women...with "healthy" being defined in the study as...having hormones within the "normal" range.......................

So I researched what the clinically established "normal" range for testosterone in women is

THERE ISN'T ONE????

Quote from the above article: "Several different approaches have been used to define endocrine disorders. The statistical approach establishes the lower and the upper limits of hormone concentrations solely on the basis of the statistical distribution of hormone levels in a healthy reference population. As an illustration, hypo- and hypercalcemia have been defined on the basis of the statistical distribution of serum calcium concentrations. Using this approach, androgen deficiency could be defined as the occurrence of serum testosterone levels that are below the 97.5th percentile of testosterone levels in healthy population of young men. A second approach is to use a threshold hormone concentration below or above which there is high risk of developing adverse health outcomes. This approach has been used to define osteoporosis and hypercholesterolemia. However, we do not know with certainty the thresholds of testosterone levels which are associated with adverse health outcomes."

What the fuck?

What the fuck?

It's batshit crazy to make a diagnostic criteria for medical disorders by placing arbitrary cutoffs within 2-5% of either end of a statistical distribution. What the actual fuck?

"The results came back, you have Statistical Outlier Disease." "What treatments are available?" "Well, first, we recommend dietary change. You should probably stop eating so many spiders."

Another article which attempted to do this

Quote: "Subjects with signs of hirsutism or with a personal history of diabetes or hypertension, or a family history of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) were excluded."

"We're going to figure out the typical range of testosterone levels that occur in women! First, we're going to exclude all the women that are too hairy from the study. I am very good at science."

Anyway I got off topic but there are apparently race-specific diagnostic tools for "hirsutism." That's kinda weird on its own but when I looked more into this in relation to race I found this article that straight-up uses the term "mongoloid"

[horror-bee-ing]

Heeeeeey Spiro here 🗣️‼️‼️🔥

HAPPY BIRTHDAY I mean- HAPPY NEW YEAR

*Hands you a random meme*

Thank you! Also my birthday is next mouth lol

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Alright I'll say it

I hate the trans girl meme about programming

I hate it

If a genie gave me one wish I would unironically wish that stereotype/meme/joke had never been and could never be told

I despise it so much

When I first came out, it made me feel like garbage. All the internet trans girl stereotypes did, cause I fit exactly one of them (I do love stuffed animals; I used to have a ton and the only reason I don't now is cause I try to own as few things as possible).

I don't program, I'm terrible at technology. I never bought The Skirt or The Socks. I've never owned catgirl headphones. Spiro never made me crave pickles. Doing my shot is a chore more than some special activity. I fuckin hated it. It's alienating. It felt like I had nothing in common with the community I was apparently now a part of. There were times when I felt like I was doing it wrong.

Once I had been out for a while and met more IRL queers, it occured to me I never met anyone who fit that stereotype. And boy howdy that made me feel so much better.

This isn't bashing internet trans girl culture (ok it is a little bit). It's more that sometimes perpetuating stereotypes and presenting them as how a culture or group "is" can make people feel like they're not really meant to be part of a group.

Food for thought.

[yamada-ryo]

eating pickles is a tranfem meme bc the most common anti androgen is spironolactone, which js a diuretic, which means you piss away a lot of your salt, which means you crave salty foods such as, for example, pickles.

I know of the spiro piss thing but I have never once seen anything in relation to pickles

[transmemesfortransqueens]

[starlightandetherealshadows]

IF Development Update (it is a silly goofy world and i must obey its rules) (7/6/23)

So you know that outline I told y'all about...

It's looking very "fuck it, we ball" for Contra Spem Spiro now that I've started writing. I cannot be contained I fear, not even in my own mind..

On another note, I've decided to affectionately call the main group of alien invasion survivors:

The Lonely Loser Survivor's Club.

did C come up with the name? Yes.

In a world where their phones were working and all of them were in a groupchat, C would make this the groupchat name, make the icon a spongebob meme, and be immediately kicked out by V.

C gets added back to the groupchat by A, only because C called A immediately after getting kicked out the chat and whined to A about "make V be nice to me! I'm a fucking delight! I was a pleasure to have in class!"

A is the one that sends music links everyday and they actually have playlist compiled with songs that remind them of their close friends (and MC gets their own, super special playlist, if A is being romanced)

C sends Tik Toks, of course. And Buzzfeed Tasty videos.

X picks fights with Siri. X also discovers emojis and sends at least 5 with every text they send. They don't fit with the tone of the texts either.

X: "Hit a pedestrian with my spaceship today. 🤣🥳🧌🩴🗿"

A: "you hit a who with your what?"

X: This is not a verbal conversation, A. You can reread my message to clarify your confusion. 🧋🪚💯"

This was a surprise for everyone, but Z is the person with the best memes. The comedic timing, the quality of the memes, the way they can convey so much with one gif...their talent should be studied.

Z is also the only person who won't get blocked on sight by V for spamming the groupchat with messages. (Not that Z would ever do that, but V has to let everyone else know that they're on thin ice just by existing)

Okay that's enough of me indulging in an AU where they get to have "normal" lives with things like cell service *wistful sigh*

I've done more work on character developments, alien lore, and i've gotten about 500 words of the prologue on paper (hoping to get to 1000 by the end of the night, but again, we ball and I'm going with the flow.)

Me putting my characters through the most gut-wrenching, traumatic situations while listening to Taylor Swift and the Hamilton soundtrack:

That's all the updates I have for today! Thank you again for all your asks, questions, and support! I'm sending you all so much love!

I'll see how many more asks I can answer before bed, but if I didn't get to yours today, I will tomorrow. ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

All my love,

Cheye (she/her)

[nityarawal]

6/4/2024

Bleedin' Hearts

Morning Songs 

Celebratin' Mothers' Day

All Day Every Day

Someone Turned

Mothers Day

Into The Daily One

Bittersweet Rememberance

Whose Celebratin'

A Mamma Today

Pickin' Flowers

Makin' Her Coffee

Whose Celebratin'

Mothers' Today

Is It You

Or Is It 

Another Lady

Today

With You

Is It Mom

Or Is It A Robot

An Actress

A Clone

A Meme

Someone You Once

Knew

Elon Is Convinced

This Is Simulation

Heartbreakin'

Cloning In Real Time

What's His Team

Done

With Neuralink

Editing His Laughter

In And Out

Filtered Through Screens

And AI

But Do Our Bleeding

Hearts Bleed

For The Moms'

And The Children

Ladies First

Mothers' Honor

#4BillionMothersStrong 

Or Do Our Bleeding

Hearts

Get Raked Over

Once Again

Like Britney Not

Wantin' To See Sam

Suffer

She Almost Took Him

Back

7000 Secret Service

Men

Wish They Were Yogis

Will They Be Going

To Slaughter

With Their Master

#Trumpleberry

Boys' Sacrificed 

Military Lied

And You're 

Telling Me We're Stuck

With Trump Defense

And Bush For Life

'Cuz They Liked

Trans

And Mary Kay Letourneau

How Long Will We Be

Playthings

Of Jewish Men

John Schmitz

And His Legacy

Of Bush Republicans 

9/11 In House Terrorism 

A Good Samaritan

Saw The City

Stoke Their Own 

Fires

Trespassing On

Federal Lands

Do You Really Think

That's Mothering

Gay Herding

Gay Sodomising

Anti-Semetic Lies

For Gay Lawyering

At America First Legal

Mackey Mouse Courts

Air Force Twitter Purchase

At Hands Of

Alex Spiro

Ashby Sorrenson

And Grant Funk

Trustee Scammers

I'm Feeling Proud

Of The Moms'

That Keep Their Voice

Pressure From

Queen

Pressure From Ice

Vanilla Ice

Deja

Is His Need

More Important 

Than Mine

Heard A Graphic

Groupie Narritive

Serving Vain Rockstars

And I Thought

What's In It For

The Ladies

You Got To Be Pretty

For A Moment

Take A Picture

But Whose Got Your

Back

In The Long Run

I Want To

I Need To

I Don't Appreciate 

Way Boys' Stole

Our Homes

I Want To

I Need To

I Don't Appreciate

Way Boys' Stole

Our Kids

I Want To

I Need To

Sing And Write

You Shouldn't Have

Encouraged Me

If It Would Be

My Demise

If Love Is Love

Than Why Do You Kill

If Love Is Love

Why Are You Ashamed

Of Yourselves

If Love Is Love

Then What's There

To Hide

Let The Children

Sing Their Truth

With Every Alibi

If Love Is Love

Then What's There

To Hide

What's This Pride

You Talk Of

In Silencings

Killing Our People

Raping Kids

If Love Is Love

Than Why Oppress

The Little Birds

Want Mamma

Just Like Me

We Can Only Guess

Merci

Peace,

Nitya Nella Davigo Azam Moezzi Huntley Rawal 

[eldiariohispano]

Elon Musk amenaza con demanda a Threads, nuevo rival de Twitter

Twitter amenazó con demandar a Meta solo unas horas después de que la empresa matriz de la red social Instagram lanzara Threads, una aplicación con la que espera desplazar a la plataforma propiedad de Elon Musk. En una carta dirigida al director ejecutivo de Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, publicada el jueves por Semafor, el abogado de Musk, Alex Spiro, acusó a la compañía de «apropiación indebida ilegal de los secretos comerciales de Twitter y otra propiedad intelectual». El documento acusa a Meta de contratar a decenas de exempleados de la empresa de Musk que «tenían y siguen teniendo acceso a los secretos comerciales de Twitter y otra información altamente confidencial». Threads es el mayor desafío que ha enfrentado a la fecha Twitter, la empresa de Musk que ha visto surgir una serie de competidores potenciales, aunque ninguno con suficiente poder para desafiar a la que se constituyó en una de las plataformas de redes sociales más grandes del mundo. Threads contra Twitter: ¿jaque al rey? El último movimiento de Zuckerberg contra Musk aumentó aún más la rivalidad entre los dos multimillonarios, que incluso hace unos días acordaron encontrarse para un combate cuerpo a cuerpo en una jaula. Y en su primer tuit en más de una década, Zuckerberg publicó un meme de Spiderman señalando a otro Spiderman en una aparente referencia a las similitudes entre Threads y Twitter. Threads se lanzó en las tiendas de apps de Apple y Android en 100 países la tarde del miércoles, y los primeros co Read the full article

[tybaltia]

so to explain the joke: i am a demigirl, and have recently suffered the consequences of needing to walk down the stairs to grab our channel locks to open the pickle jar, due to the fact that i could not open the pickle jar, because i tightened it at the height of my grip strength, and now have significantly less grip strength. while this is partially due to the estradiol and spiro, it is also due to me no longer rubbing moms neck to get out of chores. lol. i observed this occurrence, and, thinking it was comedic, created a meme that i could share with the world. tee hee hee