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Etiquette Tip: Whenever anyone tells you that they fought in a war, make sure to ask which side they fought on.

I wonder what it would be like to write a program with actual users.

Italians are the French equivalent of French people.

If you're reading a technical blog and the background is pink or purple, the author is trans. I have never observed an exception to this rule.

At the extremes, politics and pornography become one in the same.

The only way I ever want to set a time on my microwave is by entering it with the digit buttons and pressing start. Whoever decided that this would not be the default behavior should be forced to give Donald Trump a bath.

Hey, you know that YA trans novel "Luna" ? Apparently the title of the Chinese translation is 她是我哥哥 = she is my brother... Ick.

Did you know that when you're an adult you can just eat croutons with no salad and no one can stop you.

Unix trivia: dd is short for "dick destroyer."

Why do they make vegan bologna and more importantly why did I buy it?

Fuck telephones. Fuck websites that force me give my phone number. Fuck two-factor authentication. Fuck people who call unexpectedly. Fuck businesses that make me have an panic attack whenever I need to get any good or services.

Bertrand Russel rocks.

About me: 🎓💻 🎨📚 😶🧠 🏳️‍🌈⚧️🚺 ✊🌹 🐧💾 🥦

In many traditional cultures, gender dysphoric people have a special spiritual role. Does anyone know of a good tradition in the modern West of transgender spirituality?

Even if my boobs are the size of golf balls, I’m still so glad they’re there.

Trans women are adult human females.

“TERF” is not a slur—it’s not even an insult. It’s a compliment. If I wanted to insult transphobes who claim to be “feminists,” I’d just call them what, in practice, they are: conservatives.

Fuck J.K. Rowling

Maybe instead of sending people to prison, they should just force them to manually add text information to pdf scans of handwritten documents. I think that would be a stronger deterrent.

Fuck bugs

I notice that whenever I get emails from French people, they don’t put blank lines between paragraphs. Is this a cultural difference or am I just corresponding with people who aren’t good at typography?

When nazis call me a self-hating white, it’s like: Hey, me hating myself has nothing to do with being white.

Almost started an email to someone named “Kirill” with “Dear Krill.”

Translating « chienne » as “dogess” because you forgot the literal meaning of the word “bitch.”

Being trans can hurt, but at least it means that I have a million trans sisters out there with whom to share love and support.

I love when I look up a word used in an Academic paper and there’s no results except for the paper itself.

I had to install the Arial font on my computer because someone requested it, and now half of all websites look ugly D:

Does there exist a worse website than LinkedIn?

Bash is astonishingly bad for making ergonomic command line interfaces, which is one of the two or three things that I want a shell scripting language to be good for.

I recently had a teammate suggest porting our app to React so that we can sanitize inputs. For anyone non-technical, this is the equivalent of suggesting that we buy an elephant so we don’t have mow the lawn.

Discord has email notifications, but there’s no way to manually enable them. So to be alerted when I get a DM, I need to have a tab open using 150MB of RAM all the time. This is of course multiplied by all the other terrible web-based IRC-substitutes people insist on using.

Hey transmedicalists, if you’re really worried about trendy teens messing up their lives because they think they’re trans, maybe you shouldn’t also tell those people that to be trans, they have to seek medical treatment. Just a thought.

Does anyone one know how to measure your digit ratio correctly? Because I’ve tried it a bunch of times and I’ve gotten everything from a standard deviation below the male average to a standard deviation above the female average.

I wish I would just not care about this.

I am not male. My gender is not male, and neither is my sex. My body is not the same as a cis man’s body, and it’s simply inaccurate to describe it in the same terms.

Transphobes who are trans themselves are the worst kind, because they can hit where it hurts. Cis transphobes will say stupid stuff about chromosomes, but trans ones will remind you about the stuff that actually matters—like how there’s no surgery for shoulders or hands.

Saying “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” to justify doing business with companies that you know are evil is sort of like saying “life isn’t fair” to justify acting unfairly—the premise might be true, but the conclusion needn’t be.

All blog posts should be able to fit on a floppy disk.

I have no confidence in the quality of software with documentation that can’t be viewed without JavaScript.

What’s the point of colors other than black?

“You PC snowflakes need to calm down. When I said that women were inferior, I only meant on average, and only for stuff like Math, Science, Business, and pretty much everything else that I care about or that has any important impact on the world. Nothing to be offended about.”

Sigil magic is amazing and easy to start out with.

I’ve noticed a pattern where I go “hmm, this girl seems really cool. I wonder if she’s trans” and she always is.

When I’m around cis men, I feel like shit because it’s as if I’m still one of the guys.
When I’m around cis women, I feel like shit because I’ll never be as beautiful as them.
When I’m around other trans people, I feel like shit because they’re all better at being trans the me,
And the rest of the time, I feel like shit because I’m so lonely.

Roleplay ASMR is amazing for trans feels.

Photo IDs should be abolished.

It mildly annoys me to see the word “contree” in Old French texts and know that it ended up in English but not in modern French.

It feels great to know that your website works in dillo.

I will no longer use the phrase “testosterone poisoning” in public trans spaces. I’ve learned that starting T can be really nerve-wracking for our trans-masc brothers, and it’s not right for trans-femme people to make it harder on them just so we can express our own self-hatred.

Any person (or marketer) who puts “RE” in the subject line of a non-response email should be shot.

Not Always Right has a bunch of cute trans-positive stories.

You haven’t really used a computer until you’ve learned how to use the command line.

An interesting French word I recently learned about is « une garçonne », which originates from a novel and means something like “Tomboy.” It also refers to a 1920s fashion style, of which I’m a fan.

You should have a local copy of anything you put online. This microblog is just a folder full of timestamped markdown files that I upload to neocities/mastodon/whatever with scripts.

I haven’t gotten much out of HRT, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t developed cellulite.