assistant fox keeper @somekindofcrow@awoo.space

@anthracite Yaaaaay~

Hey friends so who is going to Norwescon?

I will be bringing a somewhat portable tea setup and a pile of decent puerh (also some cacao black tea) so if you want tea hit me up.

Oh yay I found out about a furry dating site after it shut down!

@Sparrow Like I should be out at work for that reason? But yeah there are so many red flags there I don't even want to touch it with a 20 foot pole. :3

Just spent 4 hours solving puzzles on a work night WHY DID I DO THAT.

@rjl20@oulipo.social I am in favor of your Mastodon installation but I must say that a fifth glyph is in url of thing about your Mastodon dominion: https://oulipo.social/about/mor[BADTHING]

@Sparrow hahaha we are like that and the students are literally going to be rioting if we don't fix it

oh god

I don't know if it's the estrogen or the fact that my stress level is at about 130% tolerance or maybe some domestic terrorist may have burned down the local mosque *again* or something else I'm missing entirely but I am at a new level of rage right now and wow do I not keep my opinions to myself at this stage.

I read that as ritual cuddling.

@literorrery yeeeep

@mawr You're welcome~

@mawr But like if it's a place that already has a specific "talk to these people if something bad happened" thing then it makes sense.

@mawr I am not sure if it's covered elsewhere or what the context even is so ignore this if it's not applicable: I see all the "don't be an asshole" things here (and spelled out clearly too!) but no "this is what to do if someone's an asshole (to you)".

So this car was parked next to mine at a drugstore. When I first saw it I was like omg I want that license plate. Then I saw the frame and that want turned to desire and then it turned to need.

I am so incredibly jealous of the person who has this plate.

https://awoo.space/media/Dxd6lDiEM0rcxfliFg0

Update: Decided to see how she's doing. Her Facebook profile was updated two days ago with a picture of her husband making her dinner. All is well, I guess.

Years ago, someone I knew checked herself into the psych ward because she was at the point where she needed someone to make sure she's okay. She sent out (via AIM) a call for things to read. I gave her my copy of Flight Vol. 1. She eventually left the hospital. I don't know where she is now but I know she's doing well.

Kazu Kibuishi is doing a signing here in a month and I am kind of sad, but also kind of glad, that I don't have a copy of Flight for him to sign anymore.

So anyway, I know how this place treats women. I don't want to know how it treats trans women.

Incidentally we have a trans candidate interviewing and I've scheduled a time where I get to say "so you're a grown man and you get to make your own decisions but I need to tell you why I'm not out here".

Those will be fun times.

Okay I'm done ranting now maybe I'll actually go to bed or something.

Despite how much the admin doesn't want to admit it they aren't listening to women and women don't talk to them about problems because they know it's useless. And when the women quit after 2 years they "oh she must have quit because of her baby" or "she is Southern so it was hard for her to adjust to the culture" or "she got offered a better job elsewhere".

But hey guess what I've talked to all of them and they just don't want to work for a pile of white dudes.

I mean it's not like it's "there's literally a dude circulating memos about why women and/or colored folks are terrible" bad, but it's at "the administration refuses to acknowledge that they need to make policy changes because things are going great look at these cis white men" bad.

This is especially terrible because we're in an industry that's like 70% women.

I pull the "as a person of color" card out very rarely (like at most once a year) because honestly I have so much fucking privilege relative to the spectrum of people (esp trans people) of color.

So I only use it if there's some ridiculous fuckery happening and I need to remind people that no I will not be party to your racist bullshit.

So anyway I did it like twice or maybe three times this week at work I've lost count.