Quinn 🌸🏳️⚧️
quinnmx@tech.lgbt
<p>Leeds Unitarian non-binary (aporagender :placa_apora:) non-monogamous sewing karaoke software engineer.</p><p>I created <a href="https://name.pn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">name.pn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and I am also the co-organizer of <a href="https://www.y-open.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">y-open.org.uk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Posts
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Post #1137628
Eyebrow plucking is so weird. I can look at myself and think my entire aesthetic is off - my face looks the wrong shape, my eyes look tired, my clothes don&#39;t fit properly... Then I pluck my eyebrows. And suddenly all those things look right again! Like some sort of magical eyebrow spell.
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Post #1137627
Victoria McCloud and Trans Legal Clinic are taking our case to the European Court of Human Rights and using an all-trans legal team. This is the same court that required the government to introduce the Gender Recognition Act a couple of decades ago and with the right funding there&#39;s a good chance this case will succeed (and yes, the UK is still subject to this court&#39;s jurisdiction). I gave them some money and if you have money to spare please consider doing so too: https://www.t...
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Post #1137625
Etymology TIL: all uses of the word &quot;check&quot; (check your work, check your coat, check items off a list, check please!) and even &quot;cheque&quot; originate by analogy to the chess situation, which originally gets its name from the Persian &quot;shah&quot; meaning &quot;king&quot;. The chess term is from c. 1300 (although it originally referred to the game itself) and the first other use (stoppage or restraint) is from the 1510s.
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Post #1137622
Just misheard a news story and now I&#39;m imagining a Christmas dinner with a giant bag of roast Takis as the centrepiece.
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Post #1137621
I can&#39;t believe it&#39;s taken me until this week to switch from Spotify to Qobuz. Like many people I switched for ethical reasons but the experience is so much better! Before switching to Qobuz, I genuinely thought my speakers were shit but it turns out that was Spotify&#39;s compression/clipping and my speakers are fine! And I hadn&#39;t realised how much I was craving music recommendations from actual people not algorithms. Qobuz doesn&#39;t make such a big deal out...