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
Picard S3E05 Spoilers
Though, this episode was what prompted me to explain the “fridging” trope to @pauline.
It’s been nine weeks since #FFS.
Depending on the day, and the swelling, I’ve looked like a dozen different people. Some of them were cute; some, I wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley; all of them: me.
I think I’m very Zoom-passable (until I open my mouth). The real-world is a very different, wildly mixed bag.
I’ll celebrate the Zoom win: that’s 95% of my presence.
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Just learned today (from @golmac 's excellent Gold Machine blog) that acclaimed #Infocom Implementor, and creator of #Bubsy, Mike Berlyn passed away last month.
He was a true titan of game development. The ending of #Infidel - so controversial at the time - was one of the major milestones in bringing in-depth characterization to computer games. Rest in peace, and my condolences to his family. #adventuregames #interactivefiction
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Nobody has to be on Twitter. Fuck that.
But my business!
No. What you’re telling me is that you have no risk management plan. That your business plan (or lack thereof) has a single point of failure.
So you don’t have to be on Twitter.
You played Capitalism poorly, and you landed on Chance, and you drew “Go Directly to Elon Jail.”
This is a shitty fucking game. I want it to die in a fire.
But please fucking admit YOUR choices are why you are on Twitter. It’s not beyond your control.
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people keep doing this thing where i’m driving the ambulance with lights and sirens and a patient in the back but they don’t stop, they just keep driving and nearly hit my ambulance, which is a giant truck with lights and sirens and a fucking patient being being rushed to the ER
don’t be those people! pull to the right and stop!
no matter what you’re doing i guarantee my trip is more important
that’s why they give me lights and sirens!
Picard S3E05 Spoilers
Now that @pauline is back from Japan, we’re working our way through #Picard.
It’s pretty clumsy in a lot of ways, especially the first few episodes, where it’s a self-congratulatory good ‘ol boys roadtrip. The pair’s bitter musings over Beverly’s abandonment of Picard landed like the sexist trope it was, and disappointed me terribly.
But last night we we were both in near-tears with the 5th episode and the unexpected resolution of STTNG’s Ro Laren storyline.
🥺😭🥺😭
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Judge slams Fox News for false election claims as Dominion wins key ruling
Judge rules Fox statements false; jury will decide on "actual malice" and damages.
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There need to be more gay moms in anime.
Or just in general
Looking back over the old code was a trip: there were areas that trigged the itch to go back and refine, revise, and refactor, but also broad swathes of really well-factored, well-structured, well-documented code that sung to me out over the years.
Just wrapped up a 4 hour pair programming session with @bass_rock: I helped him hot-wire an Objective-C library I wrote in 2018 to run in our new Swift codebase.
It was exhausting (I could barely form coherent sentences by the end), but also the most fun I’ve had with anything programming related in years.
Very few of my iOS contributions at Mozilla/Pocket ever made it into users’ hands; I’m proud that one of the few things that did was worth fighting for to preserve a little bit longer.
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The Borg queen on #StarTrek implies the existence of a middle class of Borg, the Borgeoisie
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I'm fixing another laserdisc player, and you'll never guess what common part I just had to buy a replacement for!
hint: IT'S ALWAYS FUCKING BELTS
Selfie. Eye contact. Mad colors.
I spent February sleeping off my FFS, and I’ve been glued to my desk all month trying to help my iOS engineers put their best feet forward.
Today, I brought some of my favorite colors to work with me.
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This week on #StainedGlassWoman is a bit of a departure--it's an article that isn't for #trans people!
One thing I see a lot of in our circles is people getting tired of doing Trans 101 over and over again for well-meaning but clueless friends, family members, and coworkers.
"What Does All This Trans Stuff Mean?" is written as a hand-off guide to explain the basics of being trans to someone with zero experience.
So drop in, and grab something to save you some work!
https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/what-does-all-this-trans-stuff-mean
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Surely I'm not the first person to suffer from an earworm in which the opening line of Venus in Furs is replaced by "tiny, tiny, tiny books of leather"
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A group of Interactive Fiction critics are working to start an online magazine of IF theory and criticism. We're looking for a few editors to pitch in.
We will publish great analysis for non-academic audiences. We are an inclusive team that welcomes inquiries from members of underrepresented groups.
Expertise with choice IF would be especially helpful, though this is not a requirement.
A not-for-profit labor of love.
PM me for details.
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Trans Selfie; Eye Contact; Cameras Lie
Cameras lie. If I have a studio light and time, I can usually coax mine to lie in my favor. Of course, the splotchy-faced, blue-bearded selfie I sent out to close friends this morning is enough to make me doubt myself when I say that. Doubt. I’ll have mine with cookies, please.
Anyway, here’s a good lie my camera told me earlier this week.
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- 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
