Max Tiu
@maximumtiu.com
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i've been struggling financially, but today i learned that i'm almost $7/hour away from a living wage for my area, which is so validating. no budget in the world can overcome that! i'm not Bad At This, the world is just expensive and on fire!!
16 days ago
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taylor swift's british accent is going to haunt me in my sleep. send tweet
5 months ago
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i'm no stranger to waking up in the middle of the night with anxiety or stress, but last night at 4am, i woke up...happy? jazzed? full of good thoughts? i never could have anticipated how much mental health relief i would gain by becoming a bookseller
6 months ago
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as an indie bookseller, can confirm!
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6 months ago
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just received a whopping $4.84 from a class action settlement. i promise not to let it go to my head
9 months ago
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some people heard "'I' is a proper noun" and really took that to heart
10 months ago
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Cameron Lauder
10 months ago
If you like pina coladas And taking cabs in the rain We were driving in silence Across Pont Champlain
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just bought my ticket to the SF Ruby conference in November--i'm excited to see some folks i haven't seen in ages!
sfruby.com
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San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025
Join us for the San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025: Building the Future with Ruby. November 19-20 at Fort Mason, San Francisco.
https://sfruby.com/
10 months ago
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trans privilege is lowering my hormone dose so my body heat lowers and summer is more bearable. cis people could never
11 months ago
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today i had a registered dietician tell me i'm "doing everything right"??? i have had a conflicted relationship with food for my entire life and definitely never could have expected to hear that π
about 1 year ago
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i wish there were a way to find people from previous social networks. like, whatever happened to the guy i lowkey flirted with on a livejournal community dedicated to cryptically posting song lyrics?
about 1 year ago
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we are so lucky to live at the same time as chappell roan
about 1 year ago
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this week i had a doctor literally check that my organs are in the right place. what a weird life i lead
about 1 year ago
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why does rupaul never blink
over 1 year ago
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after transitioning for years, getting called "big dawg" by a random guy on the street will still give me big gender euphoria
over 1 year ago
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my oral surgeon's intake form better buckle the hell up
over 1 year ago
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weird time in the world to be working through major trauma
over 1 year ago
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Julia Kaye, prettiest girl in the world
about 2 years ago
i miss when queer organizing groups would host dance nights outdoors to help mitigate the spread of covid i'd love to go to be able to hit up a pride event or two but everything has gone back inside because even progressive spaces tend to pretend the pandemic ended π
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i keep shaving my face and the hair just keeps growing back. what is this sorcery
about 2 years ago
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a bartender grabbed my arm to marvel at one of my tattoos and a drag king called me iconic. i'd call the evening a success.
about 2 years ago
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Julia Kaye, prettiest girl in the world
about 2 years ago
if you've already had covid a few times and currently don't mask in public knowing that studies have shown the chance for ending up with debilitating long covid symptoms is between 10-20% with each infection how many times do you plan on rolling those dice over the course of your life?
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my brand of autism is getting high and reading about the inner workings of telephony systems and their histories
about 2 years ago
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feeling personally attacked by these questions
over 2 years ago
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teetering on the precipice
over 2 years ago
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a lovely lil article that in many ways mirrors how i too used puzzles to help me recover cognitive function after my TBI
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Getting Myself Back, One Puzzle at a Time
After a devastating injury damaged his cognitive abilities, word games helped the author build new ways to shape his thoughts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/crosswords/cognitive-therapy-brain-injury-puzzles.html
over 2 years ago
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i lowkey wish i could get a 30 minute verbal or video gender essay from each of my friends on everyone's individual gender experiences. i love talking about and listening to others talk about gender!!
over 2 years ago
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Margareta
almost 3 years ago
I have a flag for that
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transness is emergence
over 2 years ago
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is a literal child calling this ravens/colts game?
over 2 years ago
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tbh i tried to get people to call me boy names and they somehow never did π€ we got there in the end though
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almost 3 years ago
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cis people will really put their childhood scouting projects on their resumes, but not list their pronouns
almost 3 years ago
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a SaaS product i'd actually pay real money for is something that keeps custom emoji sets in sync across multiple sets of tooling (Slack, Zoom, Confluence, etc)
almost 3 years ago
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so are neurotypical people just going about their lives without thinking about the social contract, or
almost 3 years ago
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being trans is great* because i get to witness the change in myself from absolutely hating my body and being a shell of a person to actually...loving my body?? what a powerful thing to make for oneself
almost 3 years ago
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i ate a big sandwich and immediately feel the need to sleep. between this and grief, rip to my productivity
almost 3 years ago
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if grief online shopping is a thing, i'm definitely doing it. my remaining dog is being pampered and so am i
almost 3 years ago
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after months of my insurance/pharmacy only filling two vials at a time, unwrapping today's haul felt like christmas morning. i don't have to go back for months!!
almost 3 years ago
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okay so i've been Going Through It lately and this is what i received when i ordered 3 individual lemons. the universe is telling me something.
almost 3 years ago
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maybe one of the most fascinating parts of transition is navigating how the difference in my gender impacts the context of how i relate to others, both internal and external to the relationship
almost 3 years ago
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