Abt switch

The Abt switch is a kind of railway switch used on funiculars (inclined cable railways) that doesn’t have any moving parts. It allows two cars to pass each other going uphill/downhill while sharing the same tracks. While most train switches rely on physically moving a section of track so the train goes one way or the other, the abt switch doesn’t move at all. Instead each carriage has a grooved wheel which makes it turn left or right at a junction by sticking to the track on one side.

Image sources

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funicular_to_Horseshoe_Curve_viewing_area_(8999490400).jpg#mw-jump-to-license

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funicular_layouts_(2_rails).svg#mw-jump-to-license

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heidelberg_funicular_wheelset.jpg#mw-jump-to-license

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  • SwitchyandWitchy [she/her]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Took my E dose! I missed my small dose last week because I just started split dosing and I’m not used to the schedule yet. Fortunately I also went up in dose at the same time and just kept doing my usual dose on Sundays and the extra I need on Thursday. Journaling has helped me recognize my emotions so much better and I noticed an end of week decline in my mental health leading up to today that I now recognize from from before I started split dosing. Plugging my regimen into the HRT levels simulator my levels should be falling quite a bit leading up to my dose when I don’t split dose, so this is all adding up in my head. It also makes me regret not pushing for a higher dose earlier, since it took me about 1.5 years of HRT to get to an effective dose, but I’m here now and that’s what actually matters.

  • meler [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been housing stressed lately but I do actually have some gender shit to share.

    internalized transphobia but in the sense that I realized I was operating under some and am deciding not to

    I was going on one of my walks (best stress relief there is) and I realized that I’m pretty sure the part of me that feels agender/nonbinary or whatever is actually me feeling like I don’t deserve to call myself fully a girl. Feeling like I’m not allowed to be a girl without an asterisk. So I’ve been calling my dysphoric half agender. I’m going to stop doing that.

    Gender is kind of bullshit and I’m kind of of the opinion that things would be better for everyone if it didn’t exist at all and we just expressed ourselves however the hell we wanted, but while it exists, I’m just a girl. And I need to get better at letting myself say that without any other qualifiers. Because they aren’t me.

  • meler [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago
    weird writing style dysphoria nonsense that is fake and nonsense but feels real for some reason

    Sometimes I’m jealous of the posting style of some of the girls in this mega because they read so cute. And meanwhile my writing feels like man speak

  • meler [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago
    ranting and rambling. some all caps expletives

    Why the FUCK do I have to prove I’m profitable to ANYONE do be able to fucking live somewhere? And why the FUCK are they allowed to just say no? I can’t fathom the cruel lack of humanity one has to have to be a landlord. I just want this stress to be over. I can’t take it anymore.

  • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago
    doom, transphobia, brief dysphoria talk, climate. Misanthropy.

    Stressed about the future. Shit is looking real bad for us. I want to not be genocided and oppressed for my next few decades before we all die and I’m clearly not going to get it. Going to be treated as subhuman forever just because I had the gall to get crippled with this.

    Genuinely this whole situation never stops sucking shit.

    -dysphoria and my body being ruined
    -fascism targeting me solely because of this
    -climate change prolly ending civilization within my lifetime

    Anyone who has kids clearly has a better life then I do because I would never inflict this on a kid.

    I resent and hate most of humanity tbh. Fuck them. Most people dgaf about truth and that is the root cause of all of my pain. They do not “try their best”. They are evil. If people cared about what is true I would not be oppressed. Climate change would not be on the trajectory it is. But they do not. It has been clear to me for a long time and I do not know how to move on.

    If you don’t agree with me on the climate change stuff being so bad idrc, I don’t plan on blackpilling anyone with it. It is compounding to the other stress because I very much believe these are the best years on earth and clearly (gestures broadly) they are being spent doing this shit to us. Remove that from the equation if you want it really doesn’t change much. The vast majority does not care if their beliefs are true and people believing false shit is why we are oppressed.

    People are hateful, ignorant pieces of shit who have and continue to ruin my life.