Indi Latrani @indi@awoo.space

This whole project is intimidating and exhilarating and I'm glad I'm all inspired by it and stuff because OMG using physical media is scary.

Iiiiii don't wanna work
I just wanna paint on my drum all day

https://awoo.space/media/8HEMU9Hiz8jV7dliyl0
https://awoo.space/media/VoWWj7sD3QWP9CPTmfc

Uuugh I can't even do the "wear dark colors to hide curves" thing even

WTB water-cooled chest binder or something, PST. >.<

Yaaaay, today I have to choose between avoiding overheating and avoiding chest dysphoria. 💩💩💩

Hey postfurries, I think someone at NASA is on to us. ;)

http://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2017/07/titan-moon-vinyl-cyanide-membranes-life-space-science
https://awoo.space/media/X72wQ7CJzsPQALNjENk

Wow. Lots of folks way into tentacles. Not that surprising. I mean, me too. ;)

Wait why I am I doing tech career discourse here, that's not what Mastodon is for! Subject change time!

What is your favorite fantasy genital configuration? Include sketches and color swatches if necessary. ;)

This is not bagging on front-end devs at all, this is lamenting:

1) the ability for something like React to allow folks to Lego something together without really knowing what's going on underneath, and

2) The above making companies think they can back-fill front-end positions with other devs because 'it's so easy!'

"I'm trying to get these two things (a translated string, and then a link, forming a sentence together) to display side-by-side, I'm using flexbox but [other dev] thought there might be a better way?"

..Yes, yes there is. :| :| :|

I was very polite in the chat, so now I have to snark here. ^.^:

MFW when I, a UX designer, have to explain inline vs. block elements to a front-end dev who's been here for over a year. :| :| :|

Which is basically how I feel about the linked site when it comes to gender stuff in general.

If ONLY I'd run across this when first having gender feelings, rather than so much way-binarist trans stuff, way-too-much-of-both genderfuck stuff, and way-too-nebulous neutrois stuff.

Dunno if it would've gotten things rolling any faster, but having resources and symbols and not feeling like the only one is a Very Important Thing.

There's so much awesome stuff here; it also includes the oldest example I can find of the Gender Diamond diagram which I came up with independently like 10 years later, thinking I was being terribly original, and also this is what got me reading Bone Dance, a novel that hits on so many of my personal meaning buttons that it's baffling and frustrating that I didn't read it until 2013 or so.

Speaking of the Necker Cube and gender stuff, I want ti highlight what's the oldest attested example of this online, now only available via the internet archive (CW for frank discussion of slurs, and also outdated terminology, because it's from 1996):

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508025838/http://www.chaparraltree.com:80/raq/

Oh gods my boss found out and forwarded the email to the rest of the team, people are congratulating me, uuuuugh. >.<

(To be clear, I did not ASK for this, I helped write a thing and my boss at the time was a very "is this good for the company" type who was really gung-ho about folks getting patents)

Ugh, gross, there is now officially a software patent with my name on it.

Who should I donate money to as penance?

Oh good now is the point in the System-Shock-alike when I have to go to the crew quarters and everything gets EVEN MORE terrible.

I'm good for tonight now I think. c.c;