Aura @aura@computerfairi.es

Intro post! I'm Aura. I'm living in Brighton, UK. I work as a software engineer for a large company you've definitely heard of. I spent a number of years in Japan, and I'm still attempting to learn Japanese. I'm also a PhD in physics, but you wouldn't know that to talk to me.

This account is really about me expressing myself as someone finally coming to terms with their identity, but don't worry! That probably just means I'll be posting cute stuff. Light and airy.

I think this makes us friends now though.

This asshole flew at me once to see if I'd flinch. I did not (because I am gormless but it didn’t know that) and it had to veer off.

I should post about something else. Here’s another corvid. This time a rook that lives near me.

This was easy mode though. I was already pretty sure he’d do well. Family is going to be very challenging.

My poor friend had no idea what I was going to say. Goodness knows what went through his mind while I was struggling to get it out! When I did though, he aced it. Top marks. No notes.

I mean, it was a hell of a rush too! I was visibly shaking for ages afterwards. It felt like being a teenager and confessing my love to someone and finding out they’re into me too, but x1000000.

Looking back on this after a couple of days. I wonder what I looked like as I said it. I spent at least a minute wrestling with my own head and failing to say it before I could get it out *after* I had made the decision to do it. I guess that’s just what it was like for me to overcome decades of firewalling. I also wonder what it’ll be like the next time.

I am only mildly hungover.

Holy shit. I came out to my best friend, and he was awesome. I’m very, very lucky to have him. I had to get pretty drunk to pluck up the courage though. 🫠

They turned out ok! The greenish tint is reduced on the second coat.

Ok so the blue makes my fingers look I dipped them in a chemical toilet. Let’s see what a second coat does.

Yeah, I see the typo, but I guess editing is disabled.

Life got busy, but now the lkid’s birthday party is out of the way I can instead focus on more superficial things. I had purple nails for the last week, but the purple was so dark it looked black anyway, see? I have some blue to try next, which looks like it might come out a bit lighter. Or maybe I’ll just turn out goth again.

I don't know what triggered it, but I suddenly got nostalgic for time spent in a lab reverse engineering some janky command set of a microwave synthesiser over GPIB. GPIB itself is cool because each plug is also a socket, so you can daisy chain them. Then I got to thinking about the control pads of the Panasonic 3DO, since those were also daisy-chain-able.

Mood lifted by sudden requirement to buy some gifts at the Lego store.

Fuck. My mood is through the floor. Why can't I ever just fucking sleep? I'm my own worst enemy. I'd rather toot than just go to bed.

Spelt onomatopoeia correctly on my first try.

I’m out and about in Brighton with the little one. Pelicano made us a flat white and a babycino with a little artistic flair.

Pigeons are really interesting. Don’t come to me if you can’t handle crop milk facts.

My pigeon milk fact I dropped in a work channel somehow jumped the gap to real life and I could tell the people who knew because they couldn’t look at me.