not-NOT-a-g?rl whomst Hardware @mxsparks@vulpine.club

[Janet voice] I’m not a sir 🙂
[Bad Janet voice, sotto voce] ... ya ding dong 😛

and two-thirds of the way through, finally found my community ​

thank you all so much, for being you and being here — here’s to many more decades together

- learned to run a nucular reactor
- met DrSparks for the first time
- learned to drive submarines
- accepted that i was bi, shortly before it became legal
- four strategic detergent patrols
— swim call in the bahamas
— surfaced OOD at night
— [redacted] without getting us run over
- taught people to authenticate teh Nucular Launch Codes
- got the fuck out of the navy right on schedule, without being fired or having a psychiatric emergency
- adopted the sparksCattes
- changed jobs and sub-disciplines & was running my own engineering projects within 3 years
- got my ADHD and depression medicated
- learned how to feel very bad without it turning into self-loathing
- learned to stop yelling at people
- got married to DrSparks
- learned that i didn’t have to be a man if i didn’t want to
- learned that i didn’t want to
- found the first great therapist and second good psychiatrist i’ve ever had
- weathered the ensuing Year Of Conflict in our marriage and came out of it stronger than before
- earned a master’s degree from a very difficult program, changing jobs, subdisciplines, names, and genders in the process
- made ​ and aminonbinary.com
- confronted some deep-seated traumas
- finally landed the job i had wanted all along
- am still fucking here ✊

Naked Animus (2020): Two rival attorneys fall hard and fast for the contents of each other’s briefs. Rated NC-17.

it’s a beautiful monument in the valley, and you are a horrible crow

bought peppermint tea because it’s finally autumn in Texas, accidentally picked up some that was labeled as a “dietary supplement” and uh, these instructions are pretty out there:

- steep 10-15 minutes
- squeeze the tea bag
- drink 3-4 cups a day

i can hear them fucking through the thin hotel walls
i hear babies crying, i hear laughter, i hear sirens
red and blue lights flashing through the thin hotel drapes
... and fortunately that’s where the resemblance ends

impressed by the strong showing made by awk, guess it’s the next one I learn...

only the following programming languages exist:

LB: I feel vaguely and surprisingly threatened by how narrow the margin was on this one 😞

I’m barely a mouthful for even a juvenile excavator, but I kept my distance anyway.

On my morning walk I came across a pack of hungry excavators feeding on the carcass of a shopping mall. Looks like it should be enough to last them through the winter. #faunaofcupertino