**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 08, 2019, 04:01

orthogonal to alive

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.

I'm in tech and it feels weird.

Joined Jul 2019

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Nov 08, 2019, 04:01

Nov 08, 2019, 04:01

melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

hmmm... sure, one candidate is a senescent fascist and a walking embodiment of everything evil that America has ever done. but if I vote for the other one then I will only be able to fill fifty-six swimming pools with hundred dollar bills, Scrooge McDuck style, and I have fifty-seven mansions.

**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 08, 2019, 03:11

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**Sid** @interneteh@sunbeam.city · Nov 08, 2019, 03:11

Nov 08, 2019, 03:11

Sid @interneteh@sunbeam.city

Bill Gates: quietly spends a lot of money building himself a solid brand as a cuddly entrepreneur turned philanthropist who is using his money to enrich the world

Also Bill Gates: (seeing mild mannered Liz Warren and screeching) "If you even think about touching my wealth, I'm lining up behind the fascist!!"

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 08, 2019, 01:52

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 08, 2019, 01:52

Nov 08, 2019, 01:52

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

It's really fucked up how MTV's Singled Out gave us both the anti-vax movement and trashy overcommercialized nerd culture

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 08, 2019, 01:50

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 08, 2019, 01:50

Nov 08, 2019, 01:50

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Chris Hardwick didn't really create Ready Player One or Funko Pops, but in a way, he did

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 22:01

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 22:01

Nov 07, 2019, 22:01

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

In 2015 and 2016, I was doing research studies on trauma to make money. I was traumatizing myself for science, because I was so broke. And that's not even rare for us, is it? We do these studies telling cis people about how they've fucked us over, because they don't listen otherwise. I feel so mad sometimes.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 21:59

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 21:59

Nov 07, 2019, 21:59

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

I have friends who've done sex work to make money to survive.

I used to go to a trans employment support group where another trans guy told me he sold plasma until he moved here, where it's illegal.

The only jobs they told us about at this group were, "re-traumatize yourself in front of cis people and tell them your story".

I participated in this project they told me about, where a grad student "helped" me tell my story to an audience. I had more writing experience than he did.

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**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 07, 2019, 17:50

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**Pandora** @pandora_parrot@beach.city · Nov 07, 2019, 17:50

Nov 07, 2019, 17:50

Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

politics, "team based politics"

I don't want people signaling their leftist cred by yelling "trans rights" in a crowd, (though I do appreciate that to some degree...)

I want people actually spending time working on educating their neighbors about trans issues, helping poor trans folks get housing, food, shelter, etc. Pushing against transphobic media that perpetuates negative and deadly stereotypes.

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**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 07, 2019, 20:30

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**professors tricias** @triz@radical.town · Nov 07, 2019, 20:30

Nov 07, 2019, 20:30

professors tricias @triz@radical.town

there's only two papal states that matter: on and off. and i'm gonna turn that old bitch off

**orthogonal to alive** · Oct 18, 2019, 16:30

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**Χίμαιρα corvids** @autistikai@computerfairi.es · Oct 18, 2019, 16:30

Oct 18, 2019, 16:30

Χίμαιρα corvids @autistikai@computerfairi.es

stop labelling people's moral failures as mental illnesses!

i don't understand why we have to tell you people this, but y'all. keep fuckin doing it. for some godforsaken reason. have we not been demonised enough?

**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 07, 2019, 20:08

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Nov 07, 2019, 20:08

Nov 07, 2019, 20:08

melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

anyway, reading about Churchill's antisemitism is a great time to revisit Aimé Césaire classic argument that Hitler's greatest sin, in the eyes of his white European contemporaries, was applying colonial logics to other Europeans.

http://www.rlwclarke.net/theory/SourcesPrimary/CesaireDiscourseonColonialism.pdf

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 19:51

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 19:51

Nov 07, 2019, 19:51

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

It pisses me off that I am 1) extremely lucky by trans standards and 2) that my story is not even that uncommon among people of my age and gender identity.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 19:47

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 19:47

Nov 07, 2019, 19:47

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Hi. I am a trans person in 2019. I spent a lot of time and effort helping out with grassroots community organizing alongside wealthier cis people for free, wound up homeless twice, lost housing once to a gentrifying landlord, ate dumpster-dived groceries, got boomers up my ass calling me lazy and a spendthrift when I was saving every penny from my shit gig economy job, then moved into tech because I needed to be in a field that would actually give me money to live.

**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 07, 2019, 17:28

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**Google** @Google@blobturtle.club · Nov 07, 2019, 17:28

Nov 07, 2019, 17:28

Google @Google@blobturtle.club

i want to grow a tongue so i can add data about what you taste like to my servers

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**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 07, 2019, 16:21

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**Shark Blackle** @SuricrasiaOnline@cybre.space · Nov 07, 2019, 16:21

Nov 07, 2019, 16:21

Shark Blackle @SuricrasiaOnline@cybre.space

jesus christ wolfram alpha, I'm sorry I asked

**orthogonal to alive** · Nov 07, 2019, 17:14

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**Shark Blackle** @SuricrasiaOnline@cybre.space · Nov 07, 2019, 17:14

Nov 07, 2019, 17:14

Shark Blackle @SuricrasiaOnline@cybre.space

it's amazing what you can glean from someone's avatar. for example, my avatar indications that I am An Orb

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 15:55

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 15:55

Nov 07, 2019, 15:55

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

transphobia, abuse

I hate that this happens all the time, but you never hear about it.

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 15:42

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Nov 07, 2019, 15:42

Nov 07, 2019, 15:42

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

transphobia, abuse

Hell, them forcing him to live in a squalid apartment and then attempting to evict him when he had no place to live? Also very relatable! Fuck the cis!

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