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• Post #4050234

  I finally remember why the way I code now feels familiar: it’s how I did it in grade school/middle school/high school. I would futz around with stuff, and thought it was somewhere between scribbling and practice, but not really programming. Programming was for serious things, people got paid for it, maybe I could but that was always “someday” and not a path I was on. Professional programmers have big workstations and futuristic shit on their ginormous screens. Not me, I just had Turbo C++ or ue...

• Post #3080668

  I genuinely have no idea what is true about anything I haven’t directly witnessed anymore. Like I know for a fact that at 2003 the anti-war protest in Raleigh NC there were thousands of people against the invasion of Iraq, and almost no one in support – yet the local papers gave equal column inches and quotes to the pro-war counter protesters. Because I was there. But I don’t know if any of the horror stories about (for example) PRC, DPRK, USSR, or former East Germany are real. Did China conque...

• Post #3080667

  It’s pride month and I just want to stay home for the next 4 weeks. 🤷‍♀️ :defeated_akko:

• Post #3080666

  My life goal is to be the cat that nonchalantly wanders over the illegible tombstones of the people that tried to kill her and her sisters.

• Post #3080665

  I honestly want people to start saying “dress-up” instead of “drag”. Like: “the community pride event will end with a family-friendly dress-up show”. And: “RuPaul’s Dress-Up Contest”. Oh, is there a problem? I thought drag was just an art form, about performance and dressing up, right? So what’s wrong about using that word? … (I feel like 99% of the transfem frustration with the way “drag” is elevated to the Face Of Pride (every goddamn year!) would vanish if people just called it what it re...

• Post #3080664

  Bear in mind that I am writing this while a (cis) women’s employee group is having a regular lunch get-together. They are in the office doing networking, I am at home deliberately avoiding it. In my office of ~500 people, I am the only semi-out trans person. Not even trans fem, just trans at all. And “semi-out” because I stopped doing visibility events several years ago, am post-op, enough years on HRT that people say I am passing (…”passing”…as a real human being?) so I am kind of stealth. Peo...

• Post #2780400

  I am watching a movie with the late Nicholas Brendon where his character is an actor who was a lead in Roswell .

• Post #2780399

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waZ23IjGeEw I think estrogen could have saved her.