clara "deprecated" sparks @mxsparks@vulpine.club

i suppose i’m “woman-identified” — but in the second-wave lesbian-feminist sense, not the “trans 101 as taught in 2019” sense

Updated my profile.

didn't find everything we were looking for today at IKEA, but on my way back to the car i ran across an early-teenage looking kid wearing a they/them pin, and got to compliment them on it in front of their (family?)

good for them

mmm, what'd you say?
mmm, that you only meant well?
well of course you did

mmm, what'd you say?
mmm, that it's all for the best?

i don't know where you're going
and i don't know why

but listen to your heart
before you tell him goodbye

concluding all my incident reports with "root cause: 'out of such crooked timber as humanity is made from, nothing quite straight can be built.'"

Intel Yellow No. 5 Aluminum Lake

me, getting out of the navy and becoming an engineer: i absolutely refuse to work on munitions

the united states department of commerce's bureau of industry and security, seven years later: we have reclassified the cell phone CPUs you work on because they are Too Powerful

but i do NOT miss the days [at a past job] when i wasn't out because i knew which officemate was a young-earth creationist and which boss was a huge misogynist to his ex

i miss the days when i didn't know which of my colleagues were antivaxers (and/or libertarians)

setting an auto-responder that says "It looks like your email contains a calendar invite. If this meeting has already started or is <4 hours from now, please Slack me to get my attention"

you, a libertarian: “am I being detained? am I free to go? so am I being detained? so am I free to go?”
me, totally not qualified as a range safety officer: “check fire, check fire! unload and show clear”

surgery consult and new tattoo booked for the same week in September, i am Excited