Had my last voice lesson of the year before intubation temporarily makes me sound like 85-year-old Elza Soares. Relearning how to sing has been one of the joys of this whole transition thing and I recommend it to absolutely anyone in such circumstances. #LGBTQ #Trans teachers are pretty great about offering sliding-scale lessons if you need them.
Ah shit. Mimi Parker, RIP.
RT @lowtheband@twitter.com
Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but
She passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours. Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lowtheband/status/1589279380043608065
I've been through ICWA provisions a few times because of the work LawBox does for the Texas Children's Commission, and this year all their docs are prefaced with "Oh, btw, everything below could be imminently upended at any point."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/health/native-american-adoption-icwa.html
I love all you The Dream of the 90s Web is Alive people, truly I do—I mean, I am one of you, I have a website that's 27 years old and runs on Debian, a Makefile, and my anger at Emacs—but for that very reason I promise it is OK to try to think through what happens when a somewhat janky bit of software starts to be unable to depend on the goodwill of a self-selected user base. We've been here many times before, for both good and bad.
Latter-day Austro-Hungarian civil servant; THE WARM SOUTH, 2020 Northern Calfornia Book Award (https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781948072038/the-warm-south-a-novel.aspx); web developer; lapsed academic; bad at Zen; 🏳️⚧️