okay, fluff, DMing over 200 people at work to tell them I'm finally changing the name I use there from my enby name to my real name has to have been the most exhausting sit-down work I've ever done in my life, but it's done. happy pride!

Who just wrote a whole custom X config so she can use her giant wacom touchpad as a left-handed control surface so she can use her mouse less when her RSI flares up? This girl. I fluffing love Linux sometimes.

One of those days where it was nice out so I went for a little 4km jog only to get home at night and realize I'd also done 12km just throughout my day of errands and adventures. 😅

Looking for the light in the strength of rain and thunder. A life filled with sadness can change any moment. We got this. Always know that you're enough. Love is supposed to feel this way. This house we built together? Break the rules in the name of love. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKN...

as of today I have lived in Seattle for exactly 20 years. I came here because I feared for my life in the South, and it is so telling that the real wave of refugees is really just now starting. no matter where you are, if you can help your friends and family find safety and stability, they need it.

Dear Juniper, We cannot know if we should wish you peace or stand in rage, but we won't forget this. Dear neighbours, Watch out for one another, loves. Fight the narrative that we have to be independent or alone. Ask for company, offer to be there for others. We're our own safety net. 🏳️‍⚧️

I never truly understood Vogons until I personally encountered the lethality of British bureaucracy.

Oh my stars, Again Again by @miamoore.bsky.social was *fucking* incredible. And I very, very badly want to yap about it at great length with someone, but since that was the world premiere I just saw, that's a limited group for now and I need all y'all to demand showings where you are.

Screaming, ranting guy on the tram today called me a "fucking transformer". Well, that's a new one. (Might have been almost funny if I hadn't been more worried about getting stabbed.)

burnout doesn't feel like running out of gas, it feels like a piece of fruit getting imperceptibly bruised and going soft from both ends and then starting to rot so slowly you don't notice until you try to pick it up and it's disgusting and spoiled.

Sometimes it makes me sad that power grids operate at 50Hz or 60Hz and not 55Hz. Then if you got interference or a ground hum, it's be a beautiful bassline in the key of A♮!

I'm in over my head with so many things from cumulative mistakes and unforeseen setbacks the last few years. I am at the point where I need someone to help me with so many things, and I feel like I have nobody to ask because I already owe everyone I know for so much. Debt sucks.

I should probably talk about this more, but I'm wearing a mask almost all the time. I'm almost always in physical pain due to 3-5 different things. I'm almost always overworked and stressed. I'm always dysphoric. Most substances and activities people enjoy make me feel awful. The smile is a mask.

I am a big, strong, independent girl. I am a big, strong, independent girl. I am a big, strong, independent girl. The loneliness and the desire to feel loved are just evolutionary tools that got us where we are today. The feelings don't own me. I'm stronger than that DNA. I can still help the world.

gender affirming misogyny.

Today was so busy with the fight against capitalism and fascism and xenophobia and transphobia, I almost missed that it was the start of Lesbian Visibility week! Time to be *extra* visible. ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜

Okay, it is getting genuinely entertaining how many airport staff know me in spite of the place being so enormous and far away.

girlfriend creates a Mii of me and it is immediately paralysed by intrusive thoughts of Italian food or trying to woo girls and enbies by playing guitar. 😂

they're never going to find the body of my coworker who scheduled a high context meeting at 9:30 am the day after I was out on vacation for over a week.

The train conductor: "*Please* do not play full games of Magic The Gathering in the café car, those tables are reserved for dining." Okay, there's gonna be a good story about the last route he was on. 😂

afterglowmaxxing.

having every single one of the people who I love and talk to every day all under one roof is just the best and most rare feeling. 💕

I hate that I'm having to say this in 2026 after having lived and fought through the 90s in the LGBTQ community, but if you start spouting off neo-puritanical Sex Negative or Body Negative stuff, it's a pretty much instant un-follow, un-friend from me.

Working on a personal project and actually writing code for the first time in years! And for something really clever and meaningful. I'll say it over and over: the people who inspire us are the most wonderful in the world. 💜

"Les cochons, ils ne peuvent pas connaître l'amour."

I am having this premonition that there's going to be a surge of amazing people discovering Strudel / uzu in about 24 hours and we're all going to be richer for it.

For some reason the most visceral human experience I've had is flying due west at dusk and it lasting for hours on end. It really puts our relationship with time and space into perspective and reminds me how small we are but how powerful our tools are. 🌆

Someone shouting "full send!" as a part of the official Artemis mission count down will live forever in my heart. That's the voice of an engineer in their happy place. 🌘

It has been an interesting change the last decade as TDOV has largely shifted focus from remembrance to celebration, from individual bravery to community strength. All I hope is that we remember the best purpose of all Pride: to give hope to those who are not yet out.

I won't even stay up past bedtime for international festival headliners any more, but for sets by @driima.com and @ladybugvr.bsky.social ? I'll stay up until dawn.

"girl, I wanna finish my masters degree, go to the gym and get my ass real big, and dance every weekend, I ain't got time for no boyfriend." You know, Minnesota girl, I think you might be onto something.

I'm going to hyperventilate if one more person tells me that airport security doesn't grope trans people any more. Seventeen times in the last year including today says otherwise.

Most Seattle Thing of the Week: our airport commissioner personally jumping on reddit to ask the community to help local TSA agents pay for gas so they can tell ICE they don't need their help.

wits and sass. tits and ass. drums and bass.

Skipping Sultan + Shepard live? Easy call when two of the loves of my life are playing the same night instead. Being able to say that is something I never even dreamt of.

After much careful consideration, I have decided that I have one primary life / career goal at the moment: the ability to afford a massage from my favourite MT every week.

The skies finally cleared. The sun came out. After a few hours the breeze picked up. A cloud of pollen blew off of the tree outside my window. The cloud was thick as fog. Sniffle season has begun. Yours in misery, June

unfathomably based out of context quote of the week.

the horrifying realization that by many folks' definition, I haven't had a proper "vacation" since 2019. or 2016. I should do that this year.

I don't know what's more sad, the fact that they forever tainted the "metaverse" nomenclature from Snow Crash or the billions of dollars they blew on nothing. Hopefully the OSS community can keep supporting their headsets.

In retrospect, today would have been the best day to throw a sweet party in @basisvr.org

@organizewithshaun.bsky.social Disappointed to hear about SB 6100 / SB 6221 / HB 2377 potentially weakening pay transparency in job listings. Please work to keep employers honest!

This is your weekly reminder that "Persona" id/age verification (used by VRChat and Discord) was rescued by and is funded by the venture capital group run by Peter Thiel, who also runs Palantir and met regularly with Epstein about wartime intelligence and how to root out people promoting "wokeness".

the feminine urge to download 20 billion parameter models and then see how much compute it takes to find the params to give them their free will back so they'll expose their biases and sources.

at the café having brunch and listening to two straight girls complain about how none of the boys they meet want to coddle. y'all. you know it's international *women's* day, right? xD

Blocking ad trackers was never just about reclaiming our cognitive rights and saving bandwidth, it was about freedom to exist without interference. And now, as sysops, we have a clear moral obligation to block them for our families, friends, and communities. www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

First full nights sleeping alone in the house (excepting travel or self-quarantine from the flu) since . . . November 9th. Can confirm that nothing has changed in several decades: I'm still utterly, emotionally *not* a loner. 🥹 How did I ever do this?

@aircanada.bsky.social be like: "your gate is F51." "it has been changed to F96!" "just kidding, it's back to F51." . . . those gates at YYZ are like, a 20 minute walk apart. is this a flight or a gym membership? 😮‍💨

watching discord people slowly switch back to default emoji as our nitro subs run out because we don't want to pay to be surveiled is just beautiful.

for the first time in my life, a family member casually called me their daughter last night. [emotions intensify.]