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!!

taylor swift's british accent is going to haunt me in my sleep. send tweet

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

as an indie bookseller, can confirm!

just received a whopping $4.84 from a class action settlement. i promise not to let it go to my head

some people heard "'I' is a proper noun" and really took that to heart

If you like pina coladas And taking cabs in the rain We were driving in silence Across Pont Champlain

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

trans privilege is lowering my hormone dose so my body heat lowers and summer is more bearable. cis people could never

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 😭

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?

we are so lucky to live at the same time as chappell roan

this week i had a doctor literally check that my organs are in the right place. what a weird life i lead

why does rupaul never blink

after transitioning for years, getting called "big dawg" by a random guy on the street will still give me big gender euphoria

my oral surgeon's intake form better buckle the hell up

weird time in the world to be working through major trauma

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 🙃

i keep shaving my face and the hair just keeps growing back. what is this sorcery

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.

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?

my brand of autism is getting high and reading about the inner workings of telephony systems and their histories

feeling personally attacked by these questions

teetering on the precipice

a lovely lil article that in many ways mirrors how i too used puzzles to help me recover cognitive function after my TBI

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!!

I have a flag for that

transness is emergence

is a literal child calling this ravens/colts game?

tbh i tried to get people to call me boy names and they somehow never did 😤 we got there in the end though

cis people will really put their childhood scouting projects on their resumes, but not list their pronouns

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)

so are neurotypical people just going about their lives without thinking about the social contract, or

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

i ate a big sandwich and immediately feel the need to sleep. between this and grief, rip to my productivity

if grief online shopping is a thing, i'm definitely doing it. my remaining dog is being pampered and so am i

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!!

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.

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