uspol, techpol, violence
I probably would have a less conflicted view of current corporate politics if I hadn’t been personally threatened with violence by one of the people repeatedly held up as someone who got fired for “advocating diversity”. pretty damn hard for me to feel like they were unfairly terminated after that but if I talk about it the problem is clearly me and I should be the one fired instead.
uspol, techpol
My political positions:
It is completely unacceptable to perform or promote violence, harassment, doxxing, or attempting to harm people because of who they are. Defensive actions are justified to the extent that they are necessary to prevent harm and no more.
The justice system of the United States has a few good ideas and a lot of terrible implementation.
Markets solve free resource allocation problems well and work increasingly poorly when “nothing” is not a competitor.
politics, negative
Colleagues I more agree with than don’t have attempted to deal with an appalling, escalating wave of destructive political behavior at work by making the situation ludicrously worse. I can shout from the rooftops why they’re undermining themselves and empowering people with really unpleasant views by their own behavior but I am absolutely certain I would be called an alt-right Nazi for expressing that I think they made an error, and then they’d try to kick me out of the company
ambivalent sexuality musings
Stuff that @indi is working in makes me realize that I am gender-specific in my sexual attraction and I feel awkward about this. not just because judging other people’s gender performances feels not okay, but because there’s no direct mapping from gender identity to the thing I’m into. I know both trans and cis people of various genders who “have” it and more who don’t.
It feels gender-y and it’s tagged gender-y in my mind but it’s not an Earth gender? I dunno
substance use
Last night, lying in bed, fairly high, I decided I needed neither art skills nor a good excuse to use the good sketching app on my phone (and my good stylus) and apparently made an entire shitty modern art gallery. It’s glorious.
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Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.