A lot's been said about imposter syndrome and how valid it is, and the gods know I've experienced my fair share of impostor syndrome over stuff I can do, but I'm currently, despite lacking any reasonable qualifications, applying for tech director of a school because the HS principal thinks I should and nothing more, so I'm gonna call these thoughts reasonably valid
Since it's something on my mind right now, I'd like to give a shoutout to my high school Spanish teacher, Señora Smith. When I started high school, I did not want to take Spanish. I thought it was dumb and I'd never need it anyways. But, Sra. Smith managed to not just instill in me an interest in Spanish, though she did do that, but also a love of languages in general, that would expand into an interest in linguistics as a whole.
If you've got the time to spare, I'm pretty sure there are no downsides to fucking with these sorts of spammers, so definitely go and have some fun doing that. It can lead you down some fun roads.
The best part is that I didn't send the passport to "the guy wanting to give me money". I put it in the form that the supposed HSBC sent me, then the original email address sent it back to me angry and accusing me of trying to scam him out of his money. The whole thing was just a real fun time, honestly.
Whilst I wait to see, as a fun fact for you, I once had one of these idiots threaten to call the Metropolitan Police on me. This was after, among other things, I sent him "my passport", quote-unquote, which was just Jorgi Costava's fake passport from Papers, Please. Man, that was a heck of a ride.
Asking for financial aid
So thanks to my family's insurance fucking us over to the tune of 6 grand, and rent seekers magically losing our checks to them, we're about $7k in the hole.
If you could help us out a little to ease the financial blow, that would be great. I personally want to hang the insurance company who suddenly decided that we owe them money over something that they should have been covering.
Link to my son's ko-fi is here: http://ko-fi.com/theshywoof
"why does man print gimme gimme gimme at 00:30"
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030#405874
@auravulpes how do you do fellow genders?
winter storm, tx...pol?
In case you're curious how Texas' grid is holding up this time around, it seems to be doing much better. ERCOT's reporting plenty of extra overhead and I haven't been hit with any rolling blackouts, so I don't doubt it. Power went out for a little bit, presumably a downed line or something, but it came back on within, like, 30 minutes. So, yeah. Doing better than it was this time last year.
PSA Pronouns
Remember that pronouns and gender are two separate things that, usually aligned, don't have to be aligned to each other. You could be masc-alined and use feminine-aligned pronouns, and vice versa.
Let's try not to police how we use our own pronouns. Our choice of pronouns are a decision that's ours and ours alone to make.
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)