Some days, you luck out with the weather. Beautiful morning to tour Fallingwater with my daughter.
#fallingwaterhouse #franklloydwright #photography
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There is no nice way to ask someone if they're trans. Just tell them they look good and move on.
I just caught myself when I thought I clocked someone. Then I stopped, took a breath, and moved on.
Just let her be.
Today marks 7 years since I first started screwing up my hormones. I'm always a little conflicted about mentioning this as some would view my transition as a "failure".
I started at 43. My skin changed first. (Still love that one) Next came some perceived mental changes. (More on that later.) Body shape changes followed over many years. Went from flat chested to the B/C cup that I'm at now. Hips and butt changed with fat distribution changes. Face changed but just from fat distribution changes. Didn't end up doing any hair removal. Didn't start in time to save my hairline. No surgeries.
I've said before how I really enjoyed the excitement of the first year. I think that was the mental changes that I felt were caused by the HRT. I do think not being on T helped to calm me down. That said, it took another 5 years or so to convince myself that I really did need to be on an antidepressant.
I'm still very proud of myself for embarking on this journey of self-discovery. I am who I am. Someday, I might actually figure out how I want to present to the rest of the world.
After all that, there's an "M" back on my license. I thought I checked the other box. I guess they just went off my original license that was still on file some 20-something years later.
I could've edited it. I could still go back and change it. I also thought it wouldn't bother me.
It does. I'm not an "M". Nor am I an "F". I'm me.
Sorry if that means that I don't fit into your neat little categories. You'll survive.
Fun fact: Steve Buscemi is one of the voices in one episode of the Star Wars: Visions series. I heard his voice and instantly knew it was him.
S3: E5 Yuko's Treasure
I'm an anxious person. This administration is not good for anxious people.
What can't I eat today?
Urgh.
Some day I might not be embarrassed by the President of the US. Today is not that day.
Oh, I hope Trump is squirming at the "Love" portion of this show. And the rainbow streamers...
Beautiful day for a walk around New Haven with my son. Saw some old books and got a hamburger at Louis Lunch.
Great weather today for a concert on the Guilford Town Green. This was my view from the trumpet section.
Now that was fun!
"The People's Joker" is on Tubi.
Kind of glad I stumbled across it tonight. It's a trip.
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@rabbit_fighter@mastodon.world Can you provide a description of the app features?
I ran into an old college friend this week. Someone I hadn't seen or talked to in over 20 years. We chatted almost like it was just yesterday that we saw each other.
I lived a lifetime between those times. Marriage, kids, divorce, HRT, two different states, 4 different cars, career changes...
My mind doesn't know what to think about that. Part of me still feels like I'm in college. Part of me still wants to be something different.
This is the part that my parents couldn't explain to me and I can't explain to my kids. We get older but there's always a part of us that feels like our youthful times were just yesterday.
I failed today. I let my anxiety win and didn't attend an event I had registered for. I even took a sick day from work because I just wanted to hide.
I wanted to wear my "Trans Lives Matter" pin today to this event. I don't know what scared me more. Going to the event with all those people or wearing a pin.
So I hid in the comfort of my apartment and my screens.
Guess I'll wear that pin tomorrow and every day after that. Because trans lives matter. Every single day of the year.
And I'm trans.
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@johnny it was never a kid's show. Which is why it was awesome when it first aired and I was already in high school.
Ok, there's still something cool about watching a big rocket launch.
Did bring back some space shuttle launch memories.
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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social So much winning...
#facepalm
It's Passover. Jews around the world will sit down and recall their exodus from slavery and into the promised land. Part of the Seder is recalling each of the 10 plagues.
Trump
Vance
Johnson
Hegseth
Miller
Noem
Bovino
Netanyahu
Putin
Orban
By next year, may we be free from these racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, fascist plagues to our people's freedom.
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@daisy When I first started in my industry, the use of "Master/Slave" to describe system topology was very popular. After much effort, the use of this terminology has been greatly reduced.
It takes people standing up and pointing out what's wrong while presenting alternatives. The "being an advocate" is a large part of the process.
Even when it doesn't directly affect you.
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@slothdude @daisy Primary? Main?
It's not all that hard to find alternatives.
Wanna see something fun? Go watch the Aterciopelados Tiny Desk Concert that was posted this week.
If you don't speak Spanish, you can turn on the auto-translation. It's worth it.
Boy, do I love sabotaging myself. Big presentation later today so I decided to crash my sugar this morning.
Ugh.
There's not enough space in the text boxes in dating app profiles to get the GOP nuts to ignore you.
"Elon Musk is my idol."
Bye!
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@CharlotteEowyn Don't feed the trolls.
I just saw myself in a mirror walking out of my therapist's office.
That wasn't good.
Love it when the company's response to every process improvement idea is:
"Wait for our new business software to come online."
Umm, I've heard that before.
Do better.