EEEEEEEE!!!! 34 DAYS! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

It was later transitioners whose simple existence not only broke through my deep seated repression, but showed me you could have a beautiful and wonderful life. Thank you all. Especially you, random trans-femme I saw in passing at Other World comics and games on December 22nd 2023.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

2AM. Drunk. The pizza window by the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. Nothing ever hit as good as that slice of greasy pepperoni.

Some nights you hold the ones you love and that is enough. Some nights, you hold the ones you love, and they help you through a scare that is far away, and that is enough. Some nights, you cannot hold the ones you love, but you knew if they could, they would be the there for you, and that is enough.

Later transitioners: as you make progress and spend more time as your true self do your pre-transition memories get _weird_? I don’t mean retconned, but like have a strange otherworldly quality? It started at about 18 months of HRT for me and has been getting more pointed since.

Today’s vague post.

I had a sense of relief in a couple hours. When the boobs started badly hurting a week or so later and my thought was “YAYY THEYRE GROWING!” was pretty pivotal.

Congrats to the kids who booed the business leaders telling them them have to embrace AI whether they want to or not. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/keep-telli...

Yeah that’s not what I read….

"Cave Johnson here, I asked those boys at the lab for some straight answers from our human sexuality tests, and well, they were very direct, but definitely not straight. Or boys anymore, in some cases. Unexpected results, but that just means more science!"

Moderately neurotic femme gay alt mom

I grew up around people like this. You’ll never change most of their minds and catering to them does nothing either. The few that do change their minds? Had nothing to do with catering to them. These dipshits have always existed and we should go back to ignoring and/or scorning them.

I mean are we talking when I actually figured it out? Or just like signs I kinda avoided thinking too hard about cause uh…. Kind of a big delta there.

2 years HRT today! Not a perfect timeline but hey, shows the progress.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Look, it had its issues but I non-ironically liked Titan AE.

This. I wish folks understood how utterly irreplaceable our capital R research is here. “Oh it’s a windfall for everyone else!” 1) nobody else can afford to take it on 2) scientists are people too and we don’t like having to randomly move either.

On the one hand I’m incredibly lucky: my marriage didn’t just survive my transition it’s thriving and evolving. On the other being a parent and working + limited childcare makes building and getting out in the community so fucking hard. Like… when is there time and space??

The victim was a 19 year old transgender woman. She was stabbed to death in the laundry room of her student apartment complex. Seattle police just released these pictures of the suspect. If you know who he is, you can call the tip line at 206-233-5000.

I know I’ve told the story many times but it was a quietly”out” visibly trans person who finally broke through to me. Never spoke to them, but just existing made it okay for me to admit I might bd trans and start down the path to transition.

This is *the* reason I'm furious with the panic merchants in our own community. I'm not telling them to lie, I'm telling them to stop doing unpaid psychic warfare on their own people.

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before everybody freaks out it appears this may have been edited further evidence in the quoted skeet of this quoted skeet 👇

What the ever loving fuck is wrong with these morons?

I now desperately want this to be a thing.

<nervous laughter> No idea what you’re talking about.

I know there’s a lot of snark about “voting harder” but guess what? It matters. Why do you think they’re so desperate to gerrymander the fuck out of everything? Cause your vote does, in fact, matter.

At this point, we should be designing/engineering with the lowest amount of tech or code possible to meet a goal. Instead, it feels like we are forcing the highest tech solutions into problems that do not require them. It's frankly embarrassing. Sometimes the right solution is the low tech one.

I’m reviewing a paper right now where it feels like half the cites are unreviewed pre-prints, and the other half are self cites. And it’s already cleared the first round. I am…. Concerned.

i'm currently in grad school and it's making me feel like the omega woman or something every time another student responds to my discussion posts it's vapid, generic crap sometimes professor feedback is the same vapid, generic crap here i am, actually trying, and for what

A lot of people don't understand how there can be left wing sovereign citizens, or why leftists and progressives can trust AI over attorneys. They don't believe me when I say it's happening more and more. But here's the thing.

My relationship with Mother’s Day is… weird. My mom died when I was 17. She’s been gone well over half my life. She was partially responsible for how repressed I was, discouraging me pursuing things that were girly. But, this was the 90s in rural, deep red, Oregon. Future MAGA strongholds.

Back on my DIY nonsense. Next comes lighting, surfaces, and wall mount storage.

Estrogen, try it. (2019 vs 2026. Started HRT in 2024)

I miss my job in labs, but I am so glad I got the fuck out. My layoff was a blessing in disguise.

Yeah, so company death takes many forms. Take a look at the shambling zombie known as IBM. Their revenue is growing, even. Sure they still exist but uh…. Not exactly a thriving company or one anybody considers terribly influential.

I hate to be a “back in my day” parent but this idea that having kids have to physically write their essays is uh…. Not crazy to me? AI making it too easy to make shit up? Okay, written exams in class. Points for discussions. written pop quizzes

The children of revolutionary generations don't need to emulate their parents' heroism. It's Good, Actually when your country isn't facing the kinds of existential crisis that calls forth great statesmen; it's a sign of success when interchangeable managers & bureaucrats can keep the lights on.

Bought with my own money? Garbage: version 2.0 Also early teen me had a huge crush on Shirley Manson

They want to disenfranchise people. Cause they want passports to be required to vote.

There’s an upside to all this: Republicans are going to turn a number of solid red districts purple. In other words, “vote harder” just might work

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! (For an audience of one. But you’re welcome to join the excitement if you want.)

Manager ICs are often terrible at both in my experience. They’re distinct skill sets and talents.

🧵on AI use in software dev environments. Let me preface this by saying that I am not an AI fan, doubly so for creative works given the very real dangers of misinformation, theft of copyrighted materials, and more. I’m focused here on my impressions using an agentic AI for software engineering