I’m all of the above (gay, bi, trans, gnome)

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    39 minutes ago

    I work with a bunch of huge trumpers, two of whom are (married even) lesbians. They both have somehow arrived at the mental state where they think Republicans are pro-gay and Democrats are anti-gay. If you’re expecting these people to see reason, you’re going to be disappointed.

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      2 hours ago

      Isn’t that what Peter Thiel consumes to try and stay young?

      Oh, KDE … I read that as “kid” by accident

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    4 hours ago

    Irony. In GTK4 there literally are only two genders: Dark Mode and Light Mode.

    Earlier GNOME was much more accepting of alternative window styles.

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      GTK4 accepts just as many aternative styles as before, you are mixing up GTK4 and members of the GNOME team. The anti-theme drama happened when some GNOME devs (and a bunch of other libadwaita users) made an open letter that asked that people do not distribute their apps with a preinstalled theme. The first versions of the letter were lunatic, sure, but it is just a request. ZorinOS ignores that request and they’re doing just fine.

      If you put a theme in ~/.config/gtk4/gtk.css, most apps will load it. Note that libadwaita, the widget kit used by GNOME and a lot of other GTK4 apps (but not all of them), no longer considers that changing a CSS class is a breaking change. For this reason, your theme may break when libadwaita updates. Which is a reasonable thing.

      Also you need to restart the app for the theme to apply, which wasn’t the case before.

      Sorry for the rant, this one annoys me because all the specialized medias fell for it. It’s a case of a very easily demonstrable fact that gets drowned in stupid Twitter/Phoronix drama.

      https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1598493 this a well known theme for libadwaita. I don’t know if there are others, I would guess so.

      https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135&ord=latest and here are a ton of themes for non-libadwaita GTK4 apps. They might break libadwaita apps, I haven’t tried any.

      And now my computer is all pink and yellow again because I made a theme to reassure myself that I wasn’t insane. I do that every few years to make sure I’m not delusional and everyone online is wrong but me.

    • HouseWolf@pawb.social
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      41 minutes ago

      I’ve heard both straight and gay people say they wouldn’t date a bisexual because they don’t trust them not to sleep with someone else of another gender…

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      5 hours ago

      It has been my experience that a lot of people don’t believe bisexual people even exist. It’s weird.

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          5 hours ago

          Careful with that line of thought; it also implies that everyone is a little bit straight.

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              The point I’m raising is that it’s dangerously close to telling a lesbian that they “just haven’t had the right dick yet”, etc.

              I don’t mean to rebuke, either. I made the exact same comment about everyone being a little bit gay when I came out back in high school, and was immediately met with the same response I gave.

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                While I take your point, the concept of telling a lesbian that they “just haven’t had the right dick yet” is almost always used as a slant to imply that they’d actually be happier if they were straight, not if they were bi/pan. It’s more saying “you’re wrong” rather than saying “you might enjoy something else in addition”.

                Being bisexual myself, I find monosexuality to be pretty weird and struggle to understand it. I tend to put people who identify as either straight or gay in the same camp - as just not being open-minded enough to explore what feels like the natural state to me; that all people are potential sexual candidates. While it’s a pretty blunt instrument, I tend to think of the Kinsey Scale as being normally distributed - that true 100% straight and 100% gay people probably exist but are extreme minorities.

                Again, that’s just my opinion, and it’s not one I’d ever levy at a person derogatorily. I just think as a species we haven’t yet come to the point of thoroughly and completely deconstructing the social and biological frameworks we’ve constructed around sexuality.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m straight up envious. Not to the point of hatred, but I’m a little peeved that they get to order from the whole menu.

  • BillyClark@piefed.social
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    I’m all of the above

    It says “Someone you know is gay,” but I think it would be extremely presumptuous of me to say that I know you. It also says, “someone you love,” but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one.