First episode of the new season of Black Mirror hits a lot harder when you’ve had a partner go through (and currently deals with) traumatic brain injury. Oof.

A local business that holds a significant national anti-queer legacy is shuttering its doors at the end of March. I’ll take small wins when I can get them.

With the way things are trending, Monday’s going to be a complete shitshow.

Called out my supervisor to my department director over five months of incompetence. Not the first time, but severity has increased. Wish me luck. I just want to be able to do a great job for the district I love.

I need to learn more about the west marches format of RPGs. Backed the new Shadowdark West Reaches set in anticipation of building a local group. I wonder if all of the different therapists I’m pulling into therapeutic gming would be co-gms and have it be skill focused adventuring.

I’ll be performing speed weddings, and we’ll have tons of resources available for trans folks. Most importantly, we’ll have a lot of people who want you to know you’re wanted, loved, and every bit a part of this community as anyone else.

Tomorrow is going to be B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Transpective: Best I've fuckin' got at the moment tumbleweird.org/best-ive-fuckin-got-at-the-moment/ By: Cara Nokes Narrated by @raewittevo.bsky.social raewittevo.com Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona #transrightsarehumanrights #transisbeautiful #transpride #WeWillNotBeErased

I don’t think I’ve started blasting out my little queer-friendly gaming convention. If you’re somewhere around eastern Washington, you should totally check us out 💚 We cater to the socially anxious, neurodiverse, and introverted, and we have lots of games :) tabletop.events/conventions/...

First day of teaching zine design to a bunch of high school students. At one point they were all silent and working independently. That’s probably a pretty decent sign.

Launched www.tcqueer.com today! :)

Part of why folks doing social improvement work burn out is that their friends tell them “I want to do something” when they mean “I want to feel better.” If you aren’t already active, actually knowing what you want is essential. Going to your friends, signing on, then disappearing hurts a lot.

In our continuing Zine Month coverage, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social curated a list of crowdfunding projects by trans game designers

@revolushanel.bsky.social YOU HAVE A PLACE CALLED THE HAUNTED GAME CAFE?! www.hauntedgamecafe.com (love you, miss all of you, give folks hugs ❤️)

It’s cool if the bad supervisor lets the new guy hop into production databases and make a bunch of undocumented adjustments without communicating it to the rest of the team actually building the application right?

We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...

Building a repository of LGBTQ+ resources for Tri-Cities folks. Our queer friends are having to answer the same questions for folks repeatedly. This will give them a tool to point people toward vetted, reliable sources of information, safety, and community without taking more of their energy.

Louisiana has 6.14 police officers for every 1,000 people, vs Washington's 1.36 per 1,000. And yet, we're actually *safer*, with a violent crime rate that is better than average. We don't need more police, we need more social services. app.leg.wa.gov/committeesch...

Some friends are starting a grass roots fundraising collection to purchase wool socks for houseless folks in the Tri-Cities. If you’re interested and in a place to contribute, you can cash app them at $Tricitiesdistro. Please use the comment “gift 🧦”

Third Space Project: Aub's Lounge: Gourmet Banana Bread & Plan B Poetry tumbleweird.org/aubs-lounge-gourmet-banana-bread/ By: @brendan-tag.bsky.social Narrated by: @justinfife.bsky.social #poetry #poetrycommunity #thirdspace #tricitieswa #bananabread

I’ll be teaching zine creation and publishing starting Friday the 21st 💚 if anyone knows of distros I can hit up for bundles, lemme know!

There’s light snow on the ground, and tonight I get to warm up with cribbage, beer, soup, and a cheese toastie at Blackthorne. Anyone who needs a little solace between raging is welcome to join and commiserate 💚

CRM has launched for our community outreach department. Yesterday I met with the two people responsible for teaching and creating a better learning environment for all of PSD’s visually impaired students. They had some fantastic, and immediately functional ideas that I’m currently scoping out.

Called in sick for a mental health day. Sending emails to representatives, dropping off some board games to a cold shelter, running a therapeutic GM session, spending some money at queer owned businesses. Probably start developing some free rpg utilities for remote gaming. Little bits.

For my therapeutic GM groups, the skill that gets mentioned the most for clients is conflict resolution in social settings; i.e. where the solution isn’t punching someone in the face. I’m plotting out a Shadowdark mega dungeon that’s nothing but a big gala in a palace.

I played Ginkgopolis for the first time on Saturday. I played it three times that day and have two bga games going now. Hands down, one of the best designs I’ve played.

I’m meeting with staff at Phoenix High School (an alternative school for kiddos that do better with project-based learning than a traditional format) to develop a 6-week zine publishing curriculum. I’m gonna make so many bigots mad at me, lol

I filled out form opposing HB-1038 and have already heard back that my state senator Perry Dozier agrees that this is a bad bill and will not support it if it makes it through to the state senate. Write to your government people.

The future of knowledge work is decision work. People who think AI will make knowledge work obsolete forget that every decision of substance has tradeoffs.

Congratulations to Attorney General Nick Brown on winning a court order blocking the president's unlawful attempt to rescind birthright citizenship while their case continues. Story via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The best burgers in #washington state (from the best food truck), and I get to tell their story. Listen at tumbleweird.org/third-space-... #thirdspaces

Starting up a second therapeutic RPG group tonight. This will be the first one I’ve run in-person as opposed to running remotely. It’ll be run using Homebrew World, I might switch the next one to Shadowdark

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” -Kahlil Gibran

I love building microapps. I’m hoping to release one every week or two at work to help other departments reduce waste. First one is a CRM for our community outreach director. PSD is operating with about a $5.5M deficit this year; I’d love to take a chunk out of that.