nicole @nicole@myna.social
- Pronouns
- she/her/cthulhu fhtagen
- Favorite Anime
- Gunbuster
- Favorite Fairy Tale
- Vasilisa the Beautiful
- Thing I Can Cook Better Than You
- Popovers
🏳️⚧️ Proudly Trans
🌉 Bay Area
Product-Engineering Manager for a software product portfolio; former iOS dev; attorney (CA/IL); large-format photographer; marriage ministress; cinema nut; weeb; lifelong weird girl.
Lover of myths, legends, fairy tales, fantasies, and folklore; 6502 assembly aspirer; book hoarder; gaming nostalgist; gore-adverse, torture-adverse feminist horror film fan; food worshipper; Slack poet; ace-demi-recipro-crier; a total and complete mess.
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Joined Nov 2022
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When I was a kid, my dad got fired from his job as a road worker for theft.
I refused to believe he could do such a thing, but when I got home…
The signs were all there.
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I won’t lie, I feel some pride whenever I come in to the #mozilla office. 🥰
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we have started a #Fringe rewatch and oh hey HELLO there’s my crush on Anna Torv still going strong I see
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The obvious solution to AI-generated student essays is AI-generated instructor feedback.
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We need feet on the ground tonight! If you have people in Melbourne who can help out please send them this poster.
We can't allow these fascists to harass and attack queer artists and scar children who will be there for a show.
If you cant be there in person boost for someone who can.
UPDATE POSTED BELOW
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Meeting new people is wild when you're #trans. It's a weird game of mental roulette where you smile at each other while wondering if the other person is literally thinking about the methods they want to use to murder you, or feel excited that they've spotted a mythical being they want to befriend, or if they even notice or care that you're trans at all. And probably some other options, too.
Violent 1970’s Japanese Action Cinema
I’ve slowly been working my way through the Lone Wolf and Cub film series on the #Criterion Channel.
It’s a sequence of six low-budget samurai #movies produced between 1972 and 1974, based on the manga of the same name.
The conceit: wandering ronin assassin-for-hire pushing along a wooden baby carriage with his infant son.
I can’t believe I’ve never been made to see them before; I’ve barely even heard of them.
They’re _wonderful_.
They’re shoestring kinetic vignettes clocking in at around 80 minutes each, adhering to a simple narrative structure that feels like it was plucked straight from oral storytelling; it’s raw, gonzo, violent, lurid storytelling at its unapologetic best.
It’s been a minute since I’ve seen anything so comfortable with its own limitations, and so earnest in its telling.
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Entering the US public domain in 2023: Fritz Lang's silent film science-fiction classic *Metropolis*.
More info behind window 6 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2023/ #PDin2023 #film #metropolis
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Here's our STATEMENT on the #JCPA being removed from the #NDAA. Now it's time for Dems to deliver on their promise to rein in #BigTech. #AICOA and #OAMA are the only tech bills left standing. Schumer is out of excuses. Put them up for a vote! https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-12-07-new-the-jcpa-has-been-removed-from-the-ndaa-thats-good-but-now-its-time-to-move-aicoa-and-oama
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You are not being lazy you are just practicing for when the forest comes to reclaim your bones.
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Proposal to stop referring to covid in the past tense and climate change in the future tense.
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A quick thing — can you please boost?
I'm looking for an an artist to commission a character design piece for noncommercial public use. Since this piece would depict an agender character, I would love if a trans or nonbinary artist could be the one I commission!
If you know of anyone who has commissions open that seems a good fit for this, please let me know!
Trans and transitioning
Hit up my local laser lady today for some more of that focused light candy.
I explained to her, as we were doing a second pass over my upper lip, “I look forward to my sessions here; I’m not allowed to cry at work.”
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If I want to be a #SwordLesbian, I will. If I want long glittery nails, I will. If I want them short, I will. If I want to be a tomboy, I will, if I want to be #femme, I will. If I want to be a hacker or an activist or passing or clocky or #queer AF or stealth or valley girl or punk or delicate or emo, or if I want to invoke the goddess #Inanna and reinvent myself as a glorious #trans priestess, I fucking will, and every one of them will be me.
Zooming out, I once again had to remind someone that entropy is real, software decays, and you will burn calories just to maintain what you already have; if you want more, you either need to give something up, or lace up your running shoes.
At the personal level, it’s been a very busy day at work, and, now that it’s finally over, I can start on the workday tasks with which I had intended to begin it with.
Red Queen Theory—“it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place”—rules everything around me.
- Pronouns
- she/her/cthulhu fhtagen
- Favorite Anime
- Gunbuster
- Favorite Fairy Tale
- Vasilisa the Beautiful
- Thing I Can Cook Better Than You
- Popovers
🏳️⚧️ Proudly Trans
🌉 Bay Area
Product-Engineering Manager for a software product portfolio; former iOS dev; attorney (CA/IL); large-format photographer; marriage ministress; cinema nut; weeb; lifelong weird girl.
Lover of myths, legends, fairy tales, fantasies, and folklore; 6502 assembly aspirer; book hoarder; gaming nostalgist; gore-adverse, torture-adverse feminist horror film fan; food worshipper; Slack poet; ace-demi-recipro-crier; a total and complete mess.
🍶::🍷::🍺::🍹::🍸
Joined Nov 2022
