My #transgem for the week came on halloween night. It was my first halloween since I started identifying as a trans _woman_ (vs thinking of myself as trans enby last year) and the first one where I was comfortable going out in a dress. I decided to lean into being trans and wore a suffragette […]

Today is the first time I’ve actually cross-dressed for Halloween at work! (It’s the first Halloween since I’ve truly identified as a woman so my boy-mode is technically cross dressing :blobbee_flag_trans: ) #transjoke #transgender

My #transgem is late ... again. I spent last weekend out of town and spent several wonderful hours with a lovely trans friend who I hadn't met in person yet. We had a great time getting coffee and thrift shopping and just generally being (trans) women out on the town. She also gives the _best_ […]

My #transgem for the week was at the Met Museum in NYC this weekend. I was wearing a really cute outfit in orange and brown fall colors (vaguely “dark academia” style?) and felt pretty great, if overly warm (it was 80 deg in NYC this weekend!). A woman came up to me: “Excuse me, I just wanted […]

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My #transgem for this #transgendereuphoriamonday happened just this morning... I started crying in the shower. Tears of joy. I got to spend all day yesterday as me, interacting with all kinds of people in a strange environment (LA Comic Con) and never once did I feel out of place or viewed as […]

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My #transgem for the week was spending the day as my glamorous self (in a dress, heels, and makeup) with my long-time friend M. He hadn’t really “met” Olympia before, but he treated me as if it were any ordinary outing. It was nice to not feel judged and just be me. Thanks M.! #transjoy #gem […]

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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Forgot my #transgem yesterday. Last Thursday I looked down and saw a girl again. She was there for a fleeting moment and I smiled uncontrollably. And later she was back, but briefly! I told my friends on discord that “Sadly y’all missed her as she couldn’t stay long.” I was informed that […]

I was in my early 40s before anyone told me that “if you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.” So I did. But no one was very told me I’d need an advanced degree in topology to understand how women’s clothing works! #transjoy #transjoke #transmath #girlmath #math

If you don’t believe me that we as a civilization are losing the knowledge of how to center things, here’s an illustration: regression from macOS 10.10 to 10.14

```rust impl<T> Drop for Itchy<T> where T: Boob { fn drop(&mut self) { todo!(); } } ``` #transmeh #rust #trans

It’s nearly the end of the day and I haven’t posted my #transgem This last weekend I came out to four more people who I’ve known for a while. All of them were kind and understanding and happy for me. I’m itching to come publicly out but at the same time not ready emotionally. Maybe in 3-4 […]

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One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

I realized I never did a #transgem , probably because my personal life is a mess at the moment. I’ll end up better off long term, but short term – ugh. I did have a moment of #transjoy this past week that’s worth sharing. A good friend of mine told me I’d be an “elder” trans woman well before I […]

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Other examples of crafts which are treated with contempt: * Loom knitting - marketed to kids * Hook-knitting (aka "knooking") - also marketed to kids * Machine-knitting - low-end machines marketed to kids * Macrame when it is called "friendship bracelets" (only done by kids) but not when it is […]

Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

One crucial front in the war against fascism will be the right to photograph police. The cops have always hated that right and they and their various lickspittles will push back at it at every turn.

My #transgem for last week was getting to be Olympia (instead of [deprecated-name]) for nearly the entire week while at an opera festival. On Thursday night, for the first time ever, I looked down at myself and saw a woman. Not the usual semi-dysphoric version of “not a man but also not a […]

Yeah, I was the guy at Costco today with a cart full of Midol and chocolate. I haven’t mentioned this in a while. A couple years ago I found out how many lives of people who menstruate are interrupted every month because they can’t afford hygiene products. I now work with a service club to […]

My #transgem for the week is switching to injections, finally getting a higher dose than the menopausal levels Planned Parenthood stated me on. I felt pretty damned good this weekend (physically if not emotionally, but that’s a different issue). Relatedly, I posted a photo of my injection […]

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no you don't get it, attacking trans people will reduce the price of eggs; the harder it is for people to access information about LGBTQ+, the less people will know they are trans, meaning we will have more Eggs, causing a surplus, and driving prices down. it's basic economics people

My #transgem this week was girl brunch with my sister and then thrift shopping with her. She convinced me to try on things I probably wouldn’t have otherwise and I bought several skirts and dresses! She’s only known “Olympia” for a few days but she’s already embraced me as a sister. Thanks Sis! […]

transfems will literally spend years thinking "damn i wonder what itd be like as a girl, i wish i was a girl"

A woman I know just had an orchiectomy on Monday, and another had a consult with the same surgeon for the same procedure, and, of course, everyone in the community up here is so happy and excited for both of them. It seems like such a counter intutive reaction, though. "Yay! I'm getting my […]

My #transgem for the week is finally gaining the confidence and courage to post some selfies on discord. The community was wonderfully supportive and I’m already feeling more confident in my #trans self. Thank you all (you know who you are) #transjoy #gem

New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.

Side note, in base ten, ten is 10, in base twelve, twelve is 10. In sexagesimal, sixty would be 10. Those of you who know (or vaguely recall learning binary [base two] from school) will also know that two is represented as 10. Now you see how this works, here is a joke for you.

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There should be Trans Summer Camp where folks who have been out as trans for a while can teach and mentor those who haven't. I'd probably end up taking some of the "how to fem" courses because I never did learn that, but I could teach a whole semester on How To Be Trans And Terminally Online.

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Apologies to Ms Roan. #opera #Wagner #diewalkure #gravy