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Chibi is boss. Bring her her coffee. Bring her her squeaky ball. Type up her homework. Bossy. Bossy. Boss dog.

Was recently asked by someone to print this one. It’s a 4x5 negative, so technically, I could dust off the massive LF enlarger in the basement, mix up some chemicals, and do a real print.

But my life is upside down right now, and chemistry seems a mean feat. I’ll probably have a lab do the printing for me.

If I carry forward with analogue photography after this downsizing, I’ll need to consider renting proper studio and lab space. I don’t want share living space with my hobbies anymore.

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if nothing else in my remaining life, i want to see progesterone offered as a common medication to transfem patients.

i want to see cis male doctors stop thinking the only possible reason for trans girls to take HRT is to be attractive to men.

i want to see the bones of the endos who refuse to prescribe it becuase "well theres no studies that say it makes your tits bigger" ground to dust at my feet and then i shall keel over satisfied.

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Small reminder that using a VPN
(Virtual Private Network) is only a transfer of trust. You should trust your VPN service company more than you trust your ISP (Internet Service Provider).

Small reminder that Meta (Facebook) is a company you should never trust.

Every day where I wake up and I’m not moved to my new apartment in the city feels regressive.

I am ready to be gone.

Only, I’m not _actually_ ready, because I still have 10-20 boxes to pack and furniture to be moved to the basement staging area. 🙄

And a car to be packed with wine, keys to be obtained, art to manage, ... _things_.

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pink! eye contact! really cute earrings! 

It's Monday; I'm bringing the pink today. 💖

Acceptable photos of me from Japan. I bought the Lesley Evers Strawberry coat for the trip. Now I own it in 3 different colors. 😂

Latest Pocket nightly has an experimental feature I’ve wanted for years: swipe-to-highlight. 🥰 It trades high-granularity text selection for convenience and speed.

I demoed this feature at a hackathon during my first month at _eight years ago_.

Now, it might actually ship. 😂

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Working on job applications on Saturday :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

Incidentally, do I know anyone here who works at GitLab? 👀

Okay. Fine. Time to stop stalling and go to . There will be tacos and Lesley Evers.

As a rule, I don’t do a lot of photo touch up. I’ll crop, correct geometry (like I would with bellows), and clean sensor dust. Beyond that, I try to do the art in camera.

I made an exception for this image, which is a proper image stitch. That invalidates it as part of my portfolio, but makes for a good “what I did in Japan” photo in the vacation slide show.

It was pretty cold out there, on the frozen surf! I’m impressed that the Leica gave me no grief about the weather.

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I get a lot of grief from some people about my low contrast photos.

This 🍭 is for them.

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did anyone have "small bunny with smokey eyes munching on a grape while sitting inside a squash" on their bingo card for today?

#bunny #rabbit

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The Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl is TOMORROW. Starts 1 PM at East Bay Booksellers near Rockridge BART. It's simple: 1) we eat chocolate. 2) we visit indie bookstores and buy books. 3) ends with a nice reading.

Rain is supposed to stop by noon tomorrow!!!

DEETS: eventbrite.com/e/bookstore-and

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Decided to take a step into adulthood and hire movers. Apparently, I’m not built for lugging boxes of books around anymore. 🥲

Things you forgot you photographed because the wind chill imparted memory loss.

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This Saturday! The Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl happens in Rockridge (Oakland/Berkeley) from 1 PM to around 4 PM. Eat chocolate! Celebrate indie bookstores! Check out this beautiful map designed by Dorian Katz 😻

Crawl schedule:

1:00 PM East Bay Booksellers (and Chocolate Dragon)
1:30 PM Pegasus Books on College Ave.
2:00 PM Xocolate & Confections
2:45 PM Dark Carnival Books/Escapist Comics (and Afikomen)
(optional stop at Casa de Chocolate or Humphrey Slocombe)
3:30 PM Mrs. Dalloways

Don’t even get me started on books: there’s a storage unit in Arizona packed full of them from when I moved to Illinois for law school in _2005_.

It’s going to be the same thing alll over again, here. 🙄

I’m taking art books, folklore (my personal jam), and whatever unread fiction I have lying around.

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