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johne

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Geek Dad, Software and Electrical Engineer.
First of His Generation, Breaker of Tools, Roaster of coffee, Maintainer of Many Bikes.
Neurodivergent.
Rage Against the Machine Learning.

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found this classic again

Screenshot of the tumblr post at https://www.tumblr.com/sailorbryant/149429272264/a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy-bad-news-our-boss. OP by a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy: Bad News: Our boss locked the keys inside the building. Good News: We didn't have to wait around for a locksmith. Bad News: My boss finds it very concerning that I know how to pick locks, and tried to unlock my Tragic Backstory™. I was too embarrassed to admit that the reason I learned was because, at thirteen, I figured that was the kind of skill that would impress cute girls. Good News: A cute girl saw me do it. Bad News: It was Maggie, and since she's already seen me fall out of several trees, cry because I saw a fawn that was just too damn small, and knows I can ride a unicycle, she'll never think I'm cool no matter what I do. It's too late. She knows. [End OP] Reblog reply by sailorbryant: There are million dollar blockbuster movies that were less entertaining than the rollercoaster this post just took me on.
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    johne ,
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    @alice @mek2600 This is great advice. Thanks. I thought for visualization the use of a see through lock is also helpful. https://www.adafruit.com/product/3804. If you disagree I’m curious why. I went to my first local lock-sport meetup recently and was trying to help some new people understand lock cylinder internals as the presentation given was only 2D. They were both able to open my see through lock pretty quickly.

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    Happy Caturday! To all the cats and cat-lovers of the Fediverse!

    @alice

    Kali the Calico cat getting vigorous head skritches!

    johne ,
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    @alice_watson @alice But if you approach the tummy do you get bit?

    johne ,
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    @alice @alice_watson Oh, I totally forgot one of my cats was like that, Camel. Shortened from Camelot, A stupid name my sister gave him.

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    johne ,
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    @mikey @alice I have fairly wide, but not extra long fingers. They claim this mouse is for medium and small sized hands, IIRC. It works great for me. I had another vertical mouse from another company but it had all sorts of issues. I will talk ergonomics for what feels like hours. Can I tell you about my tented, negative tilt, split keyboard? Custom desk mat to hold my wrist wrests in place and keep the mouse from sliding onto the floor. :-)

    johne ,
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    @alice twist my arm. Kinesis keyboard. i cut strips off an extra big mat and glued them back down at the end of the mat and near the front to hold bean bag wrist wrests l. My PT said palm wrests ate bad for me so i had to buy a different tenting kit for this keyboard.

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    johne ,
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    @alice I’m so sorry. I take it you don’t have the spoons to make them come back and fix what they broke? This is the kind of shit that got me to diy until I can’t. I’ve been maintaining the sprinkler system that came with our house for over 20 years. i’ve been trying to get the zone with 16 sprayers to work for three weeks. I know when i’m beat though and called a pro.

    johne ,
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    @alice and a moat with laser sharks!

    alice , (edited ) to random
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    Hey Internet Queerdos and Allies,

    It's :_gaysparkle: Pride :_gaysparkle: month, which means it's time to bring on the corporate rainbow washing!

    Before we get started, here's a content warning () for some swearing, dark topics, and a lot of :100_gay: If that's alright with you, then let's goooo!

    Okay, so it's been an interesting past year. The Cass report came out and helped roll back trans rights in some pretty serious ways, the conservative Right kept right on proving to be downright 💩 humans, there's at least one genocide threatening people's right to exist, and billionaires continued to exercise their (money-given) right to make everything worse for everyone but them. Rights have been a big topic lately.

    Oh, and I almost threw myself off a bridge several months back—but we'll get to that in a moment.

    Fuck. I need some rainbow-safe brain-bleach before we continue, so here are some good things that happened:

    I traded in my old gender for a shiny new one :v_trans: (technically I just binned the old one—it was pretty outdated). Speaking of dating, I started seeing a lovely enby (hi @catsalad!) from the infosec community. All the people I do safety checks with are still here, and Trump became an official felon 🎉

    Alright, that's a bit better. Now on to the actual point of this article: acceptance, community, and safety.

    Those three things are right up there with staying hydrated and memes when I think about what any queer person needs to thrive.

    Acceptance is a prerequisite for community. Our diversity of experience is just as important as our shared experience. Without being accepting of what makes us each unique and wonderful, our communities are fragile and prone to fracturing. You only have to look at those who try to define what a "real man" or "real woman" is to see how they draw circles around their in-group that get smaller and smaller until no one fits.

    Community breeds safety. You may snap a twig with your bare hands, but bind 'em together and you'll find a fagot much harder. Members of our community support each other—and that support becomes so much more important when our queer friends and family run up against the bigotry and horrors of this world. But we're not just one community; we're an alphabet soup of people who come together under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. Regardless of the specifics, we're the ones who weren't born with the default settings...and that's beautiful—that's worth protecting.

    So what about the bridge? Well, like so many people who identify as LGBTQ+, I had a lot of trauma growing up. Trauma that I continue to collect and box up like newly caught Pokémon. There are a lot of sources of that trauma for me: tech-industry layoffs, an abusive partner, neuro-divergence, as well as non-conforming gender and sexuality in a world whose motto might as well be "Of the Default, by the Default, and for the Default".

    This all came together one day after a fight with my spouse that left me in a very dark place. I didn't feel safe, I didn't feel like I really belonged to any community, and I didn't feel accepted by those closest to me.

    As I stood on the bridge, I got a notification on my phone...then another. It was enough to snap me out of it for a second, and I checked my messages through the tears. Thinking back I honestly don't remember who they were from or what they said, but I do remember that they were from Mastodon, from a couple people who just happened to reach out at the exact right moment. I'll skip the rest of the details, because some of you have already heard this story and they're not really important to this article.

    The important part is that I made it home in one piece because someone reached out. Someone who didn't even know how much I needed them to.

    That little tie to the queer community was all it took to ground me in the moment and save my life.

    Since then I've been keeping an eye out for others that might need grounding and doing my best to make sure they feel accepted. I've been welcoming as many new people into the community as I can, and I've been trying my best to be a safe space for anyone who needs it.

    So, wrapping this up, I want to ask you to do the same. Not just today, but every day—as often as you can. Sometimes all it takes is showing a little kindness and compassion to make a big difference in someone's life.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check in on some people and tell them how glad I am that they're here.

    —Alice Watson 💜

    johne ,
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    @alice @catsalad 🫂

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    johne ,
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    @alice @interlibraryprone that is a hilarious username!

    alice , to random
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    When you're trying to whisper something funny to your friend, but can't stop laughing long enough to get the words out.

    #Caturday #MyCatIsAnAlien

    johne ,
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    @alice psst, did you know one of my toe beans isn’t pink?

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    johne ,
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    @alice the othet cat has so made you fear the CIA that there are no photosof them?

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    johne ,
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    @alice ☕️

    alice , to random
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    Here, have half a minute of adorable bleps and toe-beans.

    #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Blep #Beans

    Kali the Calico cleaning her adorable face.

    johne ,
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    @alice cleanest fur evar.

    alice , (edited ) to random
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    I threw all my nsfw OC stuff in a gallery so it's more convenient for y'all 😉

    One catch—if you click the link, then you're socially obligated to reply here with the most adorable picture you can find :blobcatpuffyblush:

    To ensure plausible deniability for others, please post cute pics even if you didn't click the link :neocat_boop_happy:

    Wow :sparkles_trans: so much plausible deniability!

    Update 2024-06-17 added:

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    https://drive.proton.me/urls/5T95R4XMK4#SocOvsNTlNb1

    Tips are super-cool :floofHeart:
    https://buymeacoffee.com/alice.watson

    johne ,
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    @alice almost forgot. Steve Albini recently dying got me to this as his care giver worked with him.

    catsalad , to random
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    apt install "*" --force-yes

    johne ,
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    @alice @dee @catsalad “This is a linux system. I know this.”

    alice , (edited ) to random
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    "Hey, totally unrelated, and if this is too personal then please just ignore me, lol. What exactly was your experience like, figuring out that you're nonbinary, and roughly when did that happen?
    " —Someone I know on Matrix

    I responded in chat, but figured my answers might be of broader interest to people who are enby(or Alice)-curious 😋 So here it goes...

    ⚠️ CW for some slurs and gender stereotyping ⚠️

    The short of it is that a couple years ago my kid expressed to me that they weren't sure if they were their assigned gender. To be supportive, I started learning everything I could about being trans. Eventually, they decided that they were okay with their birth gender (at least for now, and maybe forever), but I realized I wasn't okay with mine.

    I've always been :_gaysparkle: queer™ :_gaysparkle:, and I've always sort of skirted gender norms (leaning more heavily one way or another as I grew up), but I was raised in a time (the 80s/90s) and environment (latchkey kid with no [living] LGBT+ family members) where transgender people weren't really "a thing". There were "cross-dressers", and "trannies", and several other slurs, but it all got reduced to a "fetish" or "sickness" at the end.

    I didn't feel like I had any sort of (relevant) fetish, and I didn't think I was sick, so it must be "something else".

    Basically, I didn't have the vocabulary to express that I was nonbinary, or to know it was even an option not to be my assigned gender.

    But don't get me wrong, I've never identified particularly strongly with either extreme of traditional gender presentation. Looking back through the lens of what I know now, there were a lot of things I was dysphoric about (and several that still get to me), but at the time I just thought I was weird or that everyone else felt the same and no one mentioned it.

    So I didn't mention it either.

    Now that I'm older, better informed, and give even fewer fucks what other people think about how I express myself, it's surprising to me that it took so long to figure things out.

    So unlike some trans people who strongly associated with their non-assigned gender from an early age, and some nonbinary folk who collect genders like Pokémon, I'm the kind of enby who just gives a lot less importance to which gender I take my influences from—as long as I like the aesthetic or it makes me feel more "me", then we're all good.

    So I think I'm probably somewhere around a...um, Alice(?) when it comes to my gender expression 🙃

    It's still a work in progress, but as it stands now:

    • I hardly wear makeup 💄 (except nail polish 💅🏻)
    • Most of my clothes are marketed as being for women, but are pretty unisex —save for my cute socks and underwear 🧦👙
    • I like pinks and purples...a lot 💜
    • I like having muscle definition 💪🏻
    • I can't stand body hair 🪒
    • I like my tits, but I'm glad they're small 🧁🧁
    • I've had short hair for most of my adult life, but I'm having fun growing it out again like when I was a kid 👩🏻‍🦲👩🏻‍🦰
    • I dislike most sports, except of course for locksport 🔓 and Bloodsport (1998) 🩸

    It feels super-awkward listing off all the stereotypically gendered things about me that I can think of. The idea of a color or a haircut being "for boys" or "for girls" just seems weirdly restrictive and arbitrary.

    If you made it this far, neat! You get a cookie 🍪

    If you have any questions, feel free to ask me anything.

    If you have any comments or relevant experiences, please share.

    Thanks for reading 💕

    #Nonbinary #LGBTQ #Trans #AMA

    johne ,
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    @alice Thanks for this. We’re trying to raise our kiddo non-heteronormativitly. So far, all boy. But, what’s Bloodsport if not the movie?

    johne ,
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    @alice are you shipping the 🍪?

    alice , to random
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    So...I have a tall cupboard.

    In this cupboard, on the top shelf is a huge bag of steel-cut oatmeal.

    This morning I tried to access said oatmeal.

    The bag split.

    Now my whole kitchen has oatmeal.

    My pockets have oatmeal.

    My hair has oatmeal.

    My cats have oatmeal.

    Everything is oatmeal...

    There is no god.

    #Oatmeal #FML

    johne ,
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    @alice God is oatmeal. Also, you have pockets? Weirdo. 😛

    johne ,
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    @alice Do you have an opinion on cargo shorts?

    PariaSansPortefeuille , to palestine group French
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    « Les étudiants de la #Sorbonne occupent ce lundi la célèbre université parisienne pour dénoncer le #GénocideÀGaza. Après les campus de Sciences Po, du Havre et de Poitiers : un pôle de résistance et de solidarité se dessine. »

    https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Soutien-a-la-Palestine-apres-Science-Po-Paris-les-etudiants-de-la-Sorbonne-occupent-leur-campus
    #Palestine #Gaza #SolidaritéAvecLaPalestine #SolidaritéAvecGaza #polFR #MouvementÉtudiant #CampementsPourLaPalestine

    @palestine

    johne ,
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    @PariaSansPortefeuille @palestine Les gamins sont biens.

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    johne ,
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    @alice @WrenArcher those are neat! But imagine the egg if they were scaled up to a typical 6 inch cast iron pan.

    RadicalGraffiti , to random
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    Barricaded doors at the occupation of a campus administration building in California State Polytechnic University Humboldt.

    The occupation of Siemens Hall was established after a violent clash with campus and local police in Monday night. The students and community members occupying the building have stated that they have no plans to leave until campus leadership supports a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and divests from companies that support the Israeli military.

    Cal Poly Humboldt joins several college campuses across the U.S., including Columbia University in New York City, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California to occupy campus spaces in support of Palestine.

    johne ,
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    @RadicalGraffiti Just tell the cops there's one right wing nut job with an AR-15 inside. They'll leave you alone.

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    johne ,
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    @alice Oh, there's a new bagel place not far from me started by some actual Noo-Yawk patissiers I really want to try. And hi!

    johne ,
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    @alice They're not open until tomorrow. I kept bike riding past the building and couldn't find them. Turns out they don't have a sign for their unit yet.

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    Look at this adorable baby seal I found!

    #CatsOfMastodon #HeadPats

    White and black cat smiling while getting headpats.

    johne ,
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    @alice Looks like they were sniffing magic markers.

    johne ,
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    @alice There's a similar tuxedo stray I keep seeing in my security camera. If the black spot near its nose was a little further over they could unfortunately be named Hitler. I offered treats but too untrusting.

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