orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

I'm listening to Human Tetris. They sound like if Bernard Sumner was the lead singer for the Cure. So they're not wildly original, but dark, jangly guitars are a good look, so...

And now cis people are all like, "They're stealing all our tomboys! They're stealing our butches!"

First of all, we weren't yours, second if you wouldn't consider Griffin or Daniel Radcliffe butch or super masculine, why are you calling my ass that when my gender presentation is the same sort of dorky hipster dad deal?

The thing about "tomboy" as a term for me to identify with is, I was a deeply nerdy, bookish child who would have probably been beaten up and called a girl if I had been a cis boy, because I didn't like sports and was quiet.

Literally the only reason I was considered a tomboy was because cis adults did not know how to parse "child with F gender marker who hates wearing skirts"

On the same level, and what brought up the initial conversation: stuff like chest binders or funnels that allow you to piss standing up, which have branding decidedly aimed at cis women.

Like shops that emblazon everything with "TOMBOY" all over, meanwhile you're 35, look like Griffin McElroy, and are NOT a rambunctious little scamp -- you just want your tits covered.

@melissasage @ben No Homo Tactical Cock Ring for STRAIGHT & VERY CIS Men

To old white people around here I exist in a quantum state between "tiny milquetoast nerd" and "ambiguously ethnic queer that is going to rob and kill you"

I don't like baseball, but I like going to baseball games because I enjoy sitting outside with my friends, eating hotdogs, and forcing old white men to leave in a huff because they don't want to sit next to us.

Newspaper: "Why are trans people boycotting 'Adam'? Is it because they've never heard of this small indie film, because it has mediocre reviews, because the premise is transphobic, or because word got out that the trans extras were misgendered, underpaid, and lied to about the movie they were making? On the one hand, there are many reasons to not see this movie -- on the other hand, the director is trans and he says everything is fine. In fact, he compares criticism of the movie to Gamergate."

Bein' shown Facebook ads for "Adam", because I like musical theatre (I don't (Adam isn't even musical theater (just say it's because I'm gay)))

I can't become an admin because I don't give a shit about whether people use emacs or vim.

Disqualified.

Hot take: identity verification processes that ask about which roads are closest to your house are biased against people who don't own cars and/or have a sense of direction

@melissasage Well, you know, having FAITH is more important than performing good works in this sinful earthly realm (throws money at the most vile people possible, showers in kidnapped children's blood)

But for real for real for real, Jewish history has a lot of stories about the arrogant, deluded dictator who accuses Jews of being disloyal to him, and all of them are pretty dark

@plsburydoughboy @Stephen_Stone@snouts.online Which is wild when I think back to how often I saw job posts from them in 2016 - 2017? They must have had a real problem with retention...hm...I wonder why.

But for real.

I went to two public events Tumblr hosted back when I was actively looking for work.

One was in a studio space that felt kind of tight, and the other was in an entirely different building, in a room that didn't take up the whole floor.

I have probably incidentally met a significant percentage of the Tumblr workforce.

I've been to Tumblr's offices in New York for Meetup events where nerds talk about Android and the like. I always thought it was a little strange they were hosted inside a walk-in closet, but that's Manhattan real estate for you.