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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
Looking at the default Excel templates and thinking to myself, "Wow, how nice. I wish I was the guy who got to make these for users"
I'm cool, yo 😎
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making all activities i do cool by adding the suffix '-punk'. when i have an afternoon nap, that's snoozepunk. when i eat cookies off my swollen, distended tummy, that's snackpunk. im hip now.
From 2000 to 2010 was an even more radical change, because I was a teenager living in hell. The life I live now would be practically unimaginable.
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Misgendering AMAB trans people
@AzureHusky important bit: male socialization happens to trans men because *being socialized is a continuous process through life*.
but somehow, as a trans woman, saying that a trans *man* who is *really a man* is acting like a *man* including in bad ways we associate specifically with *men*? is a really short one-way trip to being accused of being transphobic against trans men.
people wanna *talk* like, first of all, they know 'where you come from' re: gender, and second of all that 'where you come from' is more significant in predicting your behavior than where you *are* with respect to gender. I don''t honestly think they believe it; it's a misogynistic excuse to shit on trans women.
it's not like trans women are the only population of women who experience misogyny through the lens of being asserted to be men or man-like. this is a major component of misogyny against butch women and various racialized forms of misogyny including misogynoir
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Misgendering AMAB trans people
And again I'm not saying that AMAB trans people are immune to socialization ingraining them with shitty behaviours we associate with cis men
I'm saying that A) people seem to jump to that with AMAB trans people extremely quickly and B) framing discussions about their behaviour in this light makes the focus of the discussion the parts of them you assume are still "man at heart" rather than on addressing the behaviour.
2010 began with me thinking I was cis, blue hair, attending college in BK for a graphic design degree.
Now I work for a tech company writing docs.
I've restarted Divinity 2 3 times now. The first two times I was a lizard witch. Now I'm trying to be a dwarf rogue. I create these characters with absolutely no regard for what a good build would be. It's just a matter of, if I want to be a burly short man with an eyepatch and a knife, or a dinosaur that is healed by blood.
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Some of you may think freedom to modify software is useful only for techies. I'd like share the story of #scribus, a page layout software replacement to Adobe PageMaker and InDesign. This software only supported English and other Latin languages initially. Then a programmer from Oman, Fahad Amar Salim All Saidi added support for #Arabic with funding from Oman government. Along with Arabic, this change brought support for all Indian languages. #FreeSoftware
Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre were paired up in a series of films together, playing ambiguously gay criminals.
Sydney got immortalized as Kingpin and other large, conniving gangsters, based on his roles where he played a very large and intimidating gangster
Peter got immortalized as Igor, a role he never played, because it never existed in the first place
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808 good
Shredder is essentially running an afterschool program. One that gets children into trouble rather than out of trouble, but not all that different from sending your kid to do karate at the strip mall dojo.
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You remember him, in a famous photograph from Germany in 1936, where he refused to perform a Nazi salute. Then came the backlash for Twitter. A number of users joined a 24-hour boycott of Twitter from Nov. 6 noon. The numbers kept growing and soon some well-known names like AltNews Co-Founder Pratik Sinha, social activist Kavita Krishnan, journalist Shivam Vij and even popular musician Vishal Dadlani started moving to Mastodon.
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/exit-twitter-enter-mastodon-why-some-indians-are-switching-to-this-social-network
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the people who say life isn’t fair are the ones making it that way
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capitalism isn’t the root cause of *all* my problems, but it certainly gets in the way of all the solutions.
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What else do you call it than an attempt at cultural genocide when your people's highest literature is grabbed by the dominant world power, forced out of the context of your people's lives and experiences, and repurposed as a propaganda tool to violently attack your people?
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I actually DO think Christians have no right to the hebrew bible.
The wikipedia page on Igor (character) is fucking wild.
Everyone remembers Peter Lorre playing Dr. Frankenstein's hunchbacked lab assistant named Igor in one of the old Universal horror films, except none of that ever happened.
This character is just a misremembered amalgamation of horror tropes.
Tbh our society going to complete hell because of the vapid dildos from a garbagey 90s game show retaining their cultural currency against all odds? That tracks
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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
