Trans Rights Are Essential 🏳️‍⚧️

Eeeee I got to hypnotise another first timer today and it went super well. I will never get tired of seeing genuine amazement on people's faces after coming out of trance.

Whew, I went out with friends last night for the first time in ages and stayed up waaaaaay past my bedtime. I want to just sleep all day but I have so much scheduled. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Whooo! Now I have the whole set.

I managed to do a little photography on campus this week. Everything is blooming and this is one of my favorites that I took.

Yeah, this really feels like how I got this way.

Aaaand I have just bought 2 more Vive Ultimate Trackers and prescription lens inserts for my new VR headset. I don't think there's anything else I can add at this point. :⁠-⁠P

Gah, I really want to drop someone into trance just so I can hear the inevitable happy noises. I know it's only been since Saturday but apparently I'm absolutely rabbid for hypno stuff lately.

I love that after all this time, 12 years since the last one, people still remember the 6 years of FCN fondly. There was a lot of stress and strife in the planning and the "making it happen" parts, but the lasting impact makes me look back and know every late night and tired morning was worth it. 😊

Time to go do the super stressful job to make the money so I can buy the things that help me cope with the stress... Guh, I need to take some more time off. Maybe I'll schedule my whole upcoming birthday week off.

I went to an event in VRC last night with around 20 people. It was the first time I joined anything larger than a small group. It felt like a lot, but socially anxious me did pretty darn well. It was pretty good fun and I look forward to doing it again.

I want to thank @candicemakes.bsky.social for the lovely hypnosis session we had today. even if some of it was lost but... i feel thats not a bad thing. can't wait to be able to do another at some point

Been there, especially with LED projects x3

Panda got a new toy.

Technically, it's a tuna salad.

Wheee. I have written a new hypnotic induction; hopefully I can test it out in VRC tonight. ^⁠_⁠^ On that subject, I'm looking for more friends to hang out with in VRC, hit me up if you spend time there. Same username.

I was sitting in my back yard last night and I found myself wondering if my tree could support a tire swing...

Geez... I ordered one training clicker and suddenly Amazon thinks I own a dog. 😏

I got this lovely piece of art from @kbooki.bsky.social of me and @bunnyfrilly.bsky.social who's a frequent hypnosis subject of mine. I've spent the last couple of months helping make sure she feels the tug of little space strongly on her Disney World trip; Kbooki translated it to art fabulously!

What an incredibly restorative weekend. Some great time hanging with my husband, some seriously fun hypno shenanigans, and even got to do some cooking. This is the most relaxed I've been in ages. Good times.

After collecting more data this last week, nope still definitely a switch. 🫠

Sometimes a simple sandwich done with really good ingredients is the best meal.

I took this picture as a reference for an art piece that a friend is working on; given what I do it feels more than a little suggestive now that I look at it. 😉

Shout out to @summervixen.bsky.social for being a phenomenal hypnotist. She does an amazing session.

I did a loooooong session with my favorite hypnosis subject last night, paying off multiple months of work I had been doing with her. Doing a single session with someone is great and all, but wow there is something very special about building something for someone over hours and hours of trance.

My biggest gripe with AI is how it pushes people further from one another. Using a cold dead machine that simulates creativity instead of engaging in actual creativity devalues the human experience. Machine learning has applications, but not like how companies are trying to force it into everything.

Telegram is insane to think people want an AI compose button in a chat client. Like, at that point why are you even talking to people if you're just going to have a machine do it for you?

Recently, I had my first ever hypnosis session with @candicemakes.bsky.social . Wasn't sure how well I'd take to it, but was able to at least go into trance easy enough. I got to be made into a cuddly Wah plush. It was such a warm feeling. Thank you Candice~

Wheee new tablet for book reading.

Those network upgrades really paid off *animenosebleed*

Me: "I'm going to spend less time doing hypnosis sessions." Also me: *spends all of my free time the last two days hypnotising friends.*

And now I begin to go down the 10gb Ethernet rabbit hole.

Nik and I made nachos last night. Carnitas, jalapeno salsa, mozzarella, scallion crema.

This will probably only make sense to a very few people, but the last two months have been me scrambling to make sure my work place passed a security assessment to get an ATO letter. Last night we got confirmation that it had been issued. Funding secured for another 3 years. 😮‍💨

new @gitlab.com socks 🦊🧦

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

I made dan dan noodles for dinner.

The New York style Halal cart place near my office makes a hell of a shawarma over rice.

I got a fun new little toy for the work bench. This should make my copper working a lot easier.

I'm feeling a little extra panda today. ^⁠_⁠^

I just saw a commercial for Lowe's using "Roll Out" by Ludacris as music. The only lyric that came up other than "Roll out" was "What you got in that room?" I'm in disbelief that some ad exec thought "yeah, that song would be perfect to sling lumber."

The bagels from Bo's in downtown Ann Arbor are out of this world. 🤤

Hambien: the only prosciutto flavored sleep aid.

I'm just a digital plumber.

I got to hypnotise a first timer today; I'm always nervous not knowing how hard it's going to be to drop someone, but it went incredibly well.

Thanks to Michigan doing car registration fees by the original msrp I just had to pay 520 bucks to renew a 10 year old BMW for 2 years. One more hidden cost of maintaining an older luxury car.

I ran into our cleaning person at the office this morning and made sure to tell her what an excellent job she does maintaining our office. The people that keep a place running are incredibly important and deserve the respect of folks in leadership.

Huh, I think I have accidentally become a hypno-kink pleasure dom. Whoops.

"llms are good for some things, like writing tests!" NO THEY'RE NOT I hate hate hate reviewing PRs with AI-generated tests humans know better than to write these