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libberding.bsky.social
Social worker. Educator. Human to Winnie. Crafter. Designer. Chaos and pedantry. Queer, nonbinary, polyamorous. They/them. Pittsburgh. My views are my own and my free time is not my work life.
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Life is bad. But sometimes your cat walks by carrying her toy in her mouth & going "mrrrbrrmbrrrrr" & that is good.

You know what, the new phone has slightly larger text by default and I am old enough that that makes a difference... Fuck 🧓

New phone who dis? I switched to a different brand of Android and now I have to remember how I set everything up. I am #TooOldForThisShit.

Today's gender is this raccoon mural found on Pittsburgh's South side.

This is how to be an ally to the trans community. Also, this isn't just an ex NFL player, he's the first punter ever inducted into the hall of fame.

Somehow I have cracked at least four eggs and I dunno what the implications of that are. #iykyk

Me, crocheting during therapy: "Don't you dare make the proud dad face!" My therapist: "Too late, the moment you said you went to the symphony, it was on."

Hello, I am back from yet another 2-hour supervisory meeting. In which I finally grew the balls to ask: "Am I being overly communicative?" The answer: No. She likes knowing when things are going on. Take that, anxiety!

Walking the dog. Like I do every day. She pooped. Like she does every day. I picked it up with a little baggie. Like I do every day. But today, instead of waiting to toss the bag of fresh, steaming dogshit in a trash can at home, I left it on the hood of a double-parked Cybertruck. Where it belongs.

From a federal court decision blocking Trump's anti-trans healthcare order: "The Court cannot fathom discrimination more direct than the plain pronouncement of a policy resting on the premise that the group to which the policy is directed does not exist."

It feels silly to be so excited to survive an evening out on my own.

Okay but why do we have to repeatedly use the g slur in this program to describe a piece of music? I'd like to speak to the program notes coordinator at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra pls. Can we not call it *Roma-inspired*?

Okay, question time: Are subway layout maps INSIDE each trolley/train car an accessibility thing? Me? I say yes. God, with my levels of anxiety, I would have had an absolute meltdown if my life had had to rely on figuring out public transit without context. I may have questions for PRT.

Wow how much do I hate this?

okay but can someone please explain to me why no one has challenged anything elon musk, an unelected person, has done? like he only has the authority that is granted to him. just hit him in the head with a crowba-

Fuck y'all, we're still going to do trans joy. Live shamed and die empty.

I frickin LOVE my job. 🥰

Today at the courthouse, my 20 month old client was running back and forth between me and foster dad in the hallways so I'd crouch down in a wide squat and she'd LAUNCH herself into my chest and I'd give her a big hug and pick her up. Actually a pretty fun workout, 10/10 🤣

Sitting with a 20 month old at the courthouse with her iPad playing Miss Rachel: Me: "Oh, it's a lion! What does a lion say?" 20 month old, looking up at me with disdain for interrupting her stories: "Hi."

Who's with me?

To be fair, we didn't start differentiating education until like, the 90s, so... The fact that every person's needs and strengths and goals are different is still Wild West territory.

Imagine a society where they inspect a baby’s genitals at birth and assign them lifelong social and reproductive roles that are communally and legally reinforced without regard to the individual’s wants or needs

Things I said out loud in my office just now: "Oh, it's only Thursday."

The void is multi-dimensional.

i am begging cis people to understand this

Tired: You are loved. Wired: You are hated by losers for the same reasons you are loved by winners.

I am Uncomfortable™ with the number of followers I'm getting today. What did I do?

Hi the ⚪ libs being fake outraged about the Gulf of 'Murrica being labeled on google maps and declaring on social media, "I deleted google maps over this!": Where's your performative rage when my trans siblings are literally running for their lives?

Completely unbothered.

Listen, things are fucked, but that doesn’t mean your accomplishments don’t matter. Wrote a book? Got accepted to a program? Recorded a song? One year sober? Whatever it is, share it. Maybe your joy will bring someone else a bit of joy, and we all need that.

I'ma need all my white friends to lean in here real quick and listen real close: The term "Black excellence" is not up for white interpretation.

The face of someone who just threw themselves down the basement steps with such force and went so silent that I actually got up to make sure she was okay, just in time to hear her gallop up and chirp like nothing was wrong.

More of this, America.

She speaks truth.

Anyone else only wanna tune in to the Superbowl for Kendrick Lamar's DJT version of Not Like Us?

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

Sorry if it's cringe or virtue signaling or whatever but unqualified and unconditional love and support to every trans person on earth. You will win and I will help you.

YO YO YO YO ACLU FINALLY FILED A CLASS ACTION SUIT FOR GENDER X PASSPORTS. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Guess who got a mild gentle talking to about taking care of themselves during their supervisory meeting today 🤣🙃

Hey Pittsburgh, talk to me about your mechanics who don't suck. Looking for South Hills, not sketchy, not going to gouge me. Queer owned/run or at least friendly a bonus!

I feel like I will truly reach enlightenment once I consistently realize and remember and act upon the fact that I can take the smelly garbage out of my kitchen and down to the bin in the garage literally anytime. NOT JUST SUNDAY NIGHT. 🤯

I have miscalculated my desire to do 6/8 home visits every other week. I do not wish to drive this much. I crossed the county 6 times yesterday. I crossed the Liberty Bridge alone SIX TIMES TODAY. Why. But also that means I only have two next week and it's a paperwork week. I'm so tired.

"They can't take away who you are." I know you mean well, but you need to understand something right now: Yes the fuck they can. Little verbal affirmations aren't gonna cut it. Food. Shelter. Employment. Defense. Legal fees. Immigration. People will need your material help with all of that.

Oh, ew. This hurts my arts administrator heart. 😬

Coming to realize that as you literally grew up on the internet, you were probably groomed a number of times and that you were probably about a hair's breath away from being labor trafficked on the farm is a lot for one day.

I need a Silkwood shower after this training. 🙃

Hi, how many crises can we possibly have before 10:00 a.m.? Ironically I'm talking about work, not everything else.