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Seven years of finally being alive.

Well, tens of millions of Americans are going hungry and tens of millions of Americans are losing their health care, but it's all been worth it to ensure transgender citizens can't get passports.

Just bought a 2 year supply of syringes and needles for the same price as I normally pay for 2 months from my pharmacy from . . . a veterinary supplier. Same *exact* brand and SKU. Healthcare is where good logic goes to die.

It's good luck if the spotify station at the café plays Jamiroquai out of left field.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

Nothing breaks the immersion of a story for me quite like a character struggling with internalized CompHet. I'll believe in magic and aliens, and I know it's a lived experience for some gals, but feeling guilt about liking beautiful women? Unfathomable!

okay, Commander T'Ana might be my new favourite Trek character ever. 😽

The discourse around voting in local elections in Seattle is sometimes depressing and sometimes amazing. Today is the latter thanks to this out-of-context gem:

raving after your twenties: dancing for 7 hours and then walking home across town because the trains don't go that late is indistinguishable from spraining both ankles. 😂

Say what you will about their prices and leadership, but Insomniac throw amazing events. Finally some real fucking bass! 😍

I think my new favourite thing ever is still doing sleep calls with long distance partners even when they or I have other partners over. What could possibly make a date better than more girls? :3

"the purpose of life is to discover your gift. the work of life is to develop it. the meaning of life is to give your gift away." - D Viscott, 1993

The second movement of Thomas Adès's Mazurkas is basically black midi on a real piano, holy fluff. And the third movement is just so . . . augh!

It's really cruel that evolution didn't make crying a replacement for sleep, if my brain is so convinced it should do one when I need the other.

You know you've made an impact at your job when during the orientation for the yearly big in-person meeting they have a whole safety segment about not participating in the office tradition you and a coworker invented 7 years ago. 😂

Had my first lucid nightmare last night. And lemme say, it was kinda cool going unhinged back at the nightmare people once I figured it out. >:3

"It's about ten sixty-fourths of an inch." oh my stars, the lengths Americans will go to just to avoid saying 4mm. 🤦

Me: works to the point of exhaustion during the week. Also Me: spends the whole weekend being super physicaly and socially active. Also Also Me: "why the fluff am I so tired?!"

Many of you have heard the story about the time I met a woman so distractingly beautiful, I accidentally cut off one of my fingers . . . I'm seeing her tonight for the first time in 9 years. Wish me luck. XD

Watching a genius-level person with no formal background just joyfully and naturally discover a line cliche progression-based counterpoint and play with it has to be one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life. Theory doesn't create music, it just lets us vibe about it afterwards.

As we spiral into fascism that wants people like me and mine to suffer, the 1st hand anxiety gets ever worse, but the 2nd hand anxiety for those I love is what really hits eats every day. I'm working harder than ever to use my privilege to help those who I can, but the emotional exhaustion . . .

I got a new bed and mattress! . . . and I am now realizing that the last time I physically lifted this mattress and these bedframe parts was eight years back -well over one(1) HRT ago. 😅 Plz send strong women to my location.

This Rave - at least a quarter therian / furry - at least half GNC / trans - working DDR and IIDX rigs adjacent to dancefloor - several full gothic lolita 'fits - most of the lineup have appeared on mainstream rhythm games - drums *and* bass

Work overtime all week. Exhausted. Get really excited for weekend. Realize I'm lonely and unmotivayed. Work more to try and pass the time. Still exhausted.

Up at midnight getting paid to do infosec work while listening to a beautiful loved one play dark techno. It isn't the cyberpunk future we imagined, but it's at least a lot comfier. And I have honey tea. And CBG. 😌

my toxic relationship trait is my crippling inability to be the first one to hit the "end call" button when saying goodnight to a loved one on discord. 🥹

today one of the coolest dykes in the neighbourhood said I look like a goth powerfuff girl and my life is 1% more complete.

I really want to do a Clair Obscur cosplay just so that I 1) have an excuse to get a really pretty sword 2) get to hum the music nonstop for a weekend

I am personally offended that this security training course uses a fox as the attacker. Even if it's somewhat fair. XD

the sudden realization that trauma is essentially a mechanic in hardcore games and that this is probably why my interest in gaming tapered off ~9 years ago . . .

"I never tasted honey so sweet as your love your tenderness knocked me off my feet I fell in love with the sweet taste of blood from a stone it's torture masquerading as bliss the feeling has gone left me so far from home and I'm feeling alone" Yeah, we still don't deserve Above & Beyond.

be the blossom that refuses to fade because others think your time is up.

seek not for those we love to forgive us, but for them to understand us well enough that they no longer need do so.

Holy fluff, the new Dana Terrace show is *wild*. I'ma need the rest of the season like right meow.

Okay, I give up, I'm never catching up on my work emails.

Some of the best advice I ever heard about playing an instrument: leave one where you can see it. Instruments are things of beauty and will attract you to playing them and practice will never be a chore. (my new acoustic bass is *amazing*.)

In the last 369 days I've spent 89 of them in Canada over the course of 8 visits. first: just wow. I hadn't added it up before. second: the perspective this has given me on the fall of the US is just crushing. I don't want to give up on my loved ones here, but I increasingly want *out*.

okay, search engines are useless at keyword negation and making this tricky to answer: are there any GOOD digital picture frames that don't require WiFi or an app and just load via SD or USB? this has to be a thing, right?

In the past six weeks I have traveled more than ever in my life in order to see people who I love or with whom I want to connect more deeply. I am exhausted but fulfilled in a way that I didn't know I could be. If you love someone or something, take the leap. We're all better for our connections.

My career at this point mostly involves my jumping into disasters and simultaneously playing firefighter and kindergarten teacher and grumpy historian.

Let the light shine the way to your future.

At my favourite spot in the airport, drinking my favourite coffee, watching the sunrise while I wait to go see someone who makes me feel more loved than younger me would have ever thought possible. Sometimes while we worry about what could go wrong, we forget to dream about what could go right. 💜

whenever I feel adrift I think "more bookshelves in the house would fix me" and this is probably not addressing the root cause of what's going on but is also probably True

"If I'd fall with all the strength I held inside, I wouldn't be out here, alone tonight."

"Shine on. Don't you ever let nobody hide your light. Keep shining." I love DnB.

I can't believe that of the dozens of people who recommended Linux Mint to me over the years, not a one mentioned it can't be major-version upgraded in place via package management. Ugh.

I miss living in a city with a real hip hop and R&B station where the DJs don't mix, they cut and BLEND.

First time back in the south in a decade. Got some weird looks at the airport, but at the festival a lady wearing a huge cross called me 'girlie'. So either I pass better than I thought or there are some good Christians left. Either way, I'm happy.

Gals. For the love of kale and lattes, PLEASE make sure you're getting enough calcium. Osteoporosis is no joke.