I ordered a custom-sized Star Wars costume for a birthday party thing next in LA next Thursday, but I’m starting to doubt it will arrive on time, so I ordered a backup.
I’ll wear it if I have to, but I’d much prefer something I can stack layers under: the venue’s lake adjacent; it’s going to be cold
Plus, even with tights, that’s going to be a very short hemline on 6,1” me. Like, _mini_.
Beautiful drunk women
Last night, @pauline and I got together for the first time since October, when we had shared a bottle of wine in anticipation of our forthcoming FFS operations.
Four months without seeing my transition sister was really, really hard. I basically vomited non sequiter snippets of all of the conversations I’d been saving for her in one slurry, blurry run-on sentence.
Also, there was this wonderfully hideous cocktail with Fernet and banana liqueur.
The anti-trans crusade at the New York Times is so sudden and so intense that it seems almost certain to stem from a personal agenda. So, whose agenda is it? At XTra, I tried to find out: https://xtramagazine.com/power/what-went-wrong-at-the-new-york-times-246409
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."
Nothing beside remains.
Cannot recommend these roles more! Folks this is a great opportunity to serve the government and do good!
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RT @konklone
The FTC has started a new Office of Technology! Now they're hiring technologists to power their investigations: https://www.ftc.gov/technologists
* Remote work possible.
* Pay is amazing by non-tech-sector standards (up to $176K).
* Blessedly simple application process.
Get in there!
https://twitter.com/konklone/status/1627041138313162752
today in US healthcare weirdness: a medication I last filled when I was still at Google had run out. I went to refill it, and was told by the pharmacist that my current insurance doesn't cover it, so it'll be $1800. Also, there's no generic.
Did some googling: found a coupon that lowers the cost to $800. Not great, but definitely better than $1800.
Then saw a link to the manufacturer's site. Through Walgreens and some independent pharmacies, I can get the prescription filled for $65.
#Trans and other #queer people often need very different self-defence tactics to cishets.
This is a super useful zine that outlines tactics, advice and practices to respond to threats against you: https://www.silversprocket.net/2021/09/13/a-self-defense-study-guide-for-trans-women-and-gender-non-conforming-nonbinary-amab-folks/
In the words of @pauline, “[W]e all torment ourselves with cats that are ourselves.”
Poor tormented Chibi.
The United Artists Movie Theater in #berkeley has finally closed. The last film I saw there was the Green Knight.
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https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/02/12/regal-ua-berkeley-closure-history-memories-legacy
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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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