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@ada@blahaj.zone

I'm an Australian woman, based in Meanjin / Brisbane, but in love with Argentina. In a previous life, I was a Trans activist, runner, and RollerDerby player. Now that we are all "post" covid, I feel like I'm still somehow finding my feet, and working out what I want to keep from my old life, and what I want to add to it! I have the feeling I will never get a final answer :)

I'm co-admin blahaj.zone and lemmy.blahaj.zone.

My photography can be found at @ada https://pixelfed.au/i/portfolio/Ada

I can also be found on matrix at ada:chat.blahaj.zone

Estoy aprendiendo español y a veces mi toots estará en mal español!

​:blahaj_zone:​ ​:Blobhaj_Ani_Hearts:​ ​:Blobhaj_Flag_Transgender:​ ​:Blobhaj_Flag_Transfemme:​

Banner image is a wide angle photo of Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, taken from La Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur

#Meanjin #Brisbane #Trans #transgender #RollerDerby #queer #español #espanol #BuenosAires #Argentina #runner #parkrun

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ada, to test
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Testing lemmy/sharkey/gup.pe integration. Please ignore

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ada, to running
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I did another bra free run this morning. I don't think I could do speedwork like this, but for the slow runs, I think I can make this work.

ada, (edited ) to random
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I've been meaning to do a "State of the Shark" post for a while, and go through and explain some of the history and important moments that blahaj.zone has been through. For those of you who have been here for a while, you know it got a bit rough at points, and I want to take the chance to explain some of what happened.

I joined the fediverse in April 2022, around 6 months before the big twitter exodus in November 2022.

I fell in love with what I perceived to be the freedom of instances to create safe spaces for trans folk that had been harassed on twitter (At the time, I didn't have an awareness of how that inclusion doesn't always extend to trans folk that don't have white privilege)

I was talking to a friend @supakaity (well, friend at the time. Now we're partners, together with @internutter) and she said that she was planning on spinning up a fediverse instance. Kaity would supply the technical skills, and I would bring my community building and development experience and be "front of house". We did some brain storming, and came up with several names centered on blåhaj, because we wanted the instance to be focused on trans and gender diverse folk, without being specifically restricted to trans users. And so, in late November 2022, blahaj.zone was born.

Initially, we tried Misskey, mostly because I hated the Mastodon interface and wanted something prettier. But Misskey has very little documentation in english, and not much usage outside of Japan. At the time, there weren't many Misskey forks, with FoundKey and Calckey being the main options.

We had a look at Calckey, and decided to go with it. It had a small but active development team, and several instances already running it. And so we went live with Calckey. Kaity, being Kaity, would listen to some of my frustrations around usability, and started to expand the feature set of Calckey. Many of these fixes got pushed back to Calckey main, but not all of them. Those that were not pushed up to Calckey stayed in use on blahaj.zone though, and eventually we named our little soft fork of Calckey "Hajkey" (pronounced Hi-Key).

Around this time, Calckey was starting to get traction, and we were starting to get users who would join, just to try out some of the features that Kaity was working on. And for a while, all was good.

But for reasons that don't belong in this post, we eventually fell out of step with the Calckey development team and decided to go our own way. When Calckey rebranded as Firefish, we formally parted ways.

But that left us a dilemma. We did not want to move to the Firefish software base, as it was moving in technical directions that we didn't want to go. And we couldn't stay on our version of Calckey/Hajkey, as some of the bugs were show stoppers. So we had to look at alternatives, and decided to rebase Hajkey off of Iceshrimp.

And then Kaity got in to a really bad accident. Concussion, broken jaw, and an injury to her arm that even now, still hasn't been resolved. So blahaj.zone entered limbo. We were partially rebased on ice-shrimp, but without the chance to fully integrate all of the Hajkey features, and with federation bugs and issues. The instance was up and running, but it was wounded, and the task of updating it seemed impossible, especially whilst recovering from a major accident.

And that's how we existed for many months...

Ultimately, we made the decision to rebase again, this time on Sharkey, but even then, the work of implementing all of the Hajkey specific changes was huge, and so, we made the decision to let Hajkey go, and move to vanilla Sharkey.

And here we are now, running Sharkey, and with the instance humming again! I've made Kaity promise to try and not end up creating a huge workload for herself by re-creating the Hajkey features as Hajkey, so our hope is that over time, we will add at least some of them to Sharkey itself. That way, every Sharkey update will not involve a day of code merging from Kaity.

As much as I miss some of our old features, I am so much happier to have blahaj.zone buzzing and alive again!

Thank you to everyone, and here's to a strong future!

​:blahaj_is_fine:​ ​:BlahajSpin:​ ​:Blobhaj_Ani_Hophop:​ ​:Blobhaj_Heart_Trans:​ ​:Blobhaj_Thanks_Wow:​

ada, to random
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I have nearly 8,000 posts on this account, and somehow, I still don't have a "thing" that I post about. Maybe one day I'll find a theme, but today isn't that day :P

ada, to random
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Good morning fedi!

ada, to random
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It's a bad sign when everything tastes wrong isn't it?

ada, to random
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Is there a specific tag to follow for crowd funding requests for gender diverse folk?

ada, to random
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Do I have to give my Blåhaj back if I have no idea who Finnster is?

ada, to Birding
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The weekend is almost here! Hopefully tomorrow I'll actually get to parkrun without being sick, rained out or otherwise detoured.

I'm also desperately hoping to get out and do some birding. I don't know what or where, but it's been about a month since I pointed a lens at a bird, and that's just too damned long! :)

ada, to trans
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Here's something interesting for all of those trans fems out there that are worried about testosterone levels or that have been invalidated by family members and friends telling them that they only think they're trans because they "have low testosterone"

The red cross on that graph is my pre transition testosterone level vs the average values in cis men, by age.

As you can see, my T levels were HIGH! And yet here I am :)

ada, (edited ) to Health
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This is one of those things that I needlessly worry about. I have a low resting heart rate. Which, is a good thing, if it's related to fitness. But a bad sign if it's not related to fitness.

The issue is, I used to be super fit, and my resting heart rate reflected that. But now, nearly a decade later, and it's still low even when I'm unfit.

My heart is fine according to my doctor, but I can't find anything online that really explains or even talks about long term low resting heart rate that isn't tied to current fitness levels, and my doctor didn't really have anything to add either.

But in the gap left by the lack of explanation, I have found a way to fit anxiety :P

ada, to random
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Post from the tootnet.nl admin. Spam has been cleaned and registrations closed

RE: https://tootnet.nl/users/tootnet/statuses/111991821630512146

ada, to random
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The following instances are no longer producing spam and have upgraded to Mastodon v4.2.8, which stops new sign ups when admins go AFK.

I can't find admin comments for them, but they are probably safe to unblock

thoughtful.social
toot.quest
tambayan.us
social.phoenixradio1208.com
osten.social
pkm.social
mastodonters.nl
mentalhealth-masto.com

ada, to random
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teamhydra.social has cleaned up the spam and closed registrations. Can be removed from blocklists.

RE: https://teamhydra.social/users/JakeyPrime/statuses/111971613400184209

ada, to random
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Ok folk, help me out. Where is the option to keep content warnings when replying to a post with a content warning?

I appreciate the irony of a Sharkey admin asking this :P

ada, to random
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@supakaity and I encountered this fine fellow this evening.

ada, to tumblr
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Welcome to our new members coming over from Tumblr!

ada, to random
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Love to see it. The spam mostly never shows, and when it does, it's gone within moments. @supakaity, you are a genius :)

ada, to random
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What is the point of this achievement? Exactly what did I "achieve" to get it?

I don't think I will ever understand why the Misskey dev(s) thought achievements were something lacking from Misskey (and thus, its forks too)

ada, to random
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I'm definitely missing some of the little Hajkey modifications that we were running now that we're on Sharkey, but I can't tell you that I won't miss Kaity having to spend so much time trying to keep our Hajkey modifications running after merging in the changes from every patch, on top of moving from Calckey to Firefish to Iceshrimp. It was getting so unwieldy!

Now, we're on stock Sharkey, and I've got a tentative promise from Kaity that the only modifications she will make going forward are pushed to Sharkey, so that she doesn't end up maintaining a fork again. But we'll see how long she holds on to that plan :P

@supakaity

ada, to random
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Blahaj zone is now running Sharkey!

Let us never speak of Calckey or Firefish again!

ada, (edited ) to random
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Is there such a thing as a shared fediverse account that has a different person behind the account each week, that shows us photos and slice of life stuff in different parts of the world?

My home city has an account that gets a different driver from week to week, showing different slices of life in my city, but it occurs me to that it would work well at a global scale too!

Does such an account already exist?

Edit - Thank you to those suggesting groups, but I'm looking for something more curated than that. Not a group of people posting random photos from all over the world, but rather, one person at a time, showing their part of the world from their perspective.

ada, to Argentina
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Crying for you ...

ada, to random
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I hope you all like photos. @supakaity is entirely responsible for my newly revived obsession with photography and nature photography specifically. If you have any complaints with my recent wave of photo posts, you can blame her :P

ada, to random
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I went to pride over a month ago covering my top half with nothing more than two heart shaped nipple pasties.

This is what my boobs look like still!

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