nicole @nicole@myna.social

I went to San Diego Comic-Con this year, and while I didn’t cosplay, I did theme my outfit.

I failed to get my Supergirl WoT comic signed, though—ten years of SDCC and I still couldn’t follow all the hoops and queues. Oh well, super hopeful for the movie next year!

Pauline hauled me out to Ezra Furman at the Great American Music Hall last night. The Ophelias opened. Both were tremendous shows. Afterwards, a brisk stroll through the saddest artery of the Tenderloin ending at the edges of the Transgender District.

No fainting this time!

Fainting at a Nine Inch Nails concert wasn’t on my 2025 Bingo card. 🤣 I blame the red and blue, three-dimensional death beam they fired into our eyes. @pauline and Aaron did a marvelous job of guiding my on-again-off-again consciousness from the arena. All in all, still a really fun night. 🥰

Pauline held a small dinner party, and somehow managed to fit me on the guest list. I love a good home-cooked tagine. 🥰

Got called in last minute on Friday for an art museum assist by @pauline. It was my third visit to the Ruth Asawa exhibit at the SF Museum of Modern Art, and I still found myself enthralled for hours by the artist’s mastery of space and vision.

I feel slightly dumber for having read this.

In no way is she a good dog, but I still love her visits.

I have a birthday visitor today!!

Had a nice art day yesterday with some queers at the SF Museum of Modern Art.

#pocket used to have its office in San Francisco on Sansome St., near the Montgomery Street BART station. It evaporated during Covid like so many good things.

#pocket 2024. This photo was from the Pocket Team Week last year. It was the first and only gathering of the Pocket Tiger Team, and the last time an entire Pocket team would gather.

#pocket 2022. I took this photo at the end of Mozilla All-Hands. I’d never been the Hawaii before, and the long walks on the beach with coworkers and friends felt practically surreal.

#pocket 2016. I took this photo at my first team week. As a daily user, joining Pocket was a dream for me. I’d always wanted to work on something I actually used, and the product sat at that intersection of web client and news utility that I was already extremely invested in.

Finally photographing again. 🥰

I tapped out my annual #transdayofvisiblity work post while standing on a street corner in the rain. It was exceptionally easy this year: all my thoughts are right at the surface.

Heritage Auctions has a lot of anime art up for sale, including this amazing layout cel from my fave, Gunbuster!

https://comics.ha.com/itm/animation-art/production-cel/gunbuster-please-there-s-enough-time-for-love-noriko-key-master-production-cel-setup-gainax-1989/a/7401-16189.s

Unfortunately, … I already bought … this cel … at auction … years ago?

I’m starting to think the whole cel economy is fake. 🥹

My vibe this week. ☺️

Not bad for a girl who grew up with the NES. Party time! 💃

At seven, she’s officially a senior citizen. 🙀

It’s been almost a year since I moved to San Francisco, leaving behind a house full of stuff in the East Bay.

No more. It took most every weekend in January and February, but the house is finally empty and ready for the gardeners, painters, cleaners, stagers, and realtors to do their thing.

All that’s left for me is figuring out what to do with the dozen boxes of overflow squatting in my apartment.