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huge dub, joined a meeting with a guy whom I worked closely with for a six month project back in ‘22 and he had *no idea* who I was until I referenced us working together

tomorrow i am going to sign a document in front of a notary affirming before god and everybody that i am transgender

"Every trans person that comes out knows living a lie is worse than death. This is why we come out, despite knowing it could kill us." 🔥🔥🔥

tomorrow is Béla Bartók's birthday fyi. set aside some time to listen to his string quartets, to really listen. very very worth your time, you will remember the day you put aside your other work to listen to the Bartok quartets.

10 years in and Gruvbox is still undefeated as a code editor theme. I use Nord for IntelliJ but only because the implementation is a bit more polished

Came out at work today. The other two female engineers then invited me to join the Women In Tech book club, and all I can say is that I’m glad I was working from home because I was ready to burst into tears

new Kind Of Guy discovered at work: Guy who shouts super loud in the conference room because the TV is far away from him

poem that my dear friend @arcanumb.bsky.social wrote & published this week ❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️

oh yeah this was way more fun

I know that by finding plugins or shelling out for Logic I could probably avoid this, but it's gonna be so much more fun to procedurally generate midi noise with my own Python scripts

I was looking forward to starting progesterone for a few months but all it seems to have done is given me depression .___.

I don't know if it's something you eventually get used to. But I still feel so much life when people gender me correctly, and I hope the pure relief I feel every time never goes away I don't worry anymore about passing or not. I live like myself, and I get treated like me. I'm grateful for that ❤️‍🩹

Getting ma’amed on the phone is still so weird even though I have been actively working towards this exact goal for several months

it is the editorial position of a major american newspaper, *maybe the major american newspaper*, that transgender people's lives do not matter in any meaningful way and that bad things that happen to them, while sad and unnecessary, are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things

Reading back through my journal it’s actually hilarious how immediately my mood improved once I got my HRT dosage right

four times in my life now I have received summonses for jury duty, and every single time an act of god has gotten me out of actually having to attend