Lily 🏳️‍⚧️

literally just mid conversation, only didn’t commit because 1) public space and 2) that would’ve been one hell of a shock for mid conversation*

*I have done this to people before but only mid conversation about _having voice trained_

had to consciously stop myself from slipping into girl voice in conversation with a colleague earlier which was a wild experience - that’s not happened before, but I guess it’s a good thing that I went to use it without thinking about doing it

And now I’ve finished Gravity Falls, I can work through the film backlog whilst I paint my nails. TV Glow first, naturally.

the only problem is that I’ve been building up my YouTube watch later because I usually watch that whilst playing low effort video games and now its got 110 videos in and most are over 30 minutes

I haven’t seen any gravity falls since it came out ten years ago (I think it was probably one of the last new shows we watched on Disney before ‘outgrowing’ it)* but decided to go back recently and hell yeah it holds up.

*and I think we got out at the right time lmao

took a few hours away from the internet this evening, played some video games and finished off Gravity Falls - would recommend, highly needed on today of all days

a screenshot of HTTP logs - there's a request to robots.txt immediately followed by one to / - both were 404s

running a server for more than five seconds in 2025 be like

(also this is my goddamn laptop over tailscale funnel - how did something find this ffs)

break again

break

who needs to be able to recall useful information when you could recall useless pub quiz facts and XKCDs?

reading bottle blondes and in chapter three I’m imagining XKCD 2502 ‘Average Familiarity’ but it’s the average person only knows gender is a performance and maslow’s hierarchy of needs, of course*

*the chapter doesn’t mention Maslow but this is a bit from work it’s fine

this (still) happens to me *way* more than I care to admit

could I have picked a less cursed test thread? of course, but where's the fun in that?

screenshot of a thread. there are replies, but they're in reverse order, including the indentation, which is largest at the top and shrinks as you go down.

what if we broke things in new and interesting ways?

(to be clear, this is my code returning everything in reverse order - it *probably shouldn't* break bluesky to do this, but getPostThreadV2 is still beta so it's whatever idc)

referenced a dril tweet* to my mum and brother earlier and neither of them got it and I’m a little disappointed, but at least they got to be in today’s lucky 10,000.

*the corn cob one

would be nice to know what sky news’ source is for this but at least it’s an outlet more reliable than the Birmingham Mail

(unrelated but everything Reach PLC own is blocked on networks I control due to them being bottom feeding scumbags pumping out utterly false drivel)

YouGov (or a/n other polling group) should poll under 18s to ascertain what the percentage that know what a VPN is, just for a giggle.

(it’ll be high)

Calling the UK a circus would be an insult to circuses at this point (also, lmao)

Guess my employer’s webpage about connecting to the VPN is adult content now.

in order:
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
- A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
- WYFFH 1, How to Fly
- Looking for Alaska
- The Paradox Paradox
- WYFFH 2, All the Way*
- RCBG*
- Bottle Blondes (current)

Need to start using Popsky to track films and books I think.

if you fudge the maths a bit*, I’ve read 7 books so far this year - hoping to average one a month, which I should with 4 Dorley books

*include WYFFH 2 and RCBG even though they aren’t complete.

currently reading bottle blondes, then catching up on RCBG, then hopefully we’ll be close to WYFFH 26, *then* Dorley

(at this rate I’m still going to be reading Dorley at Christmas)

now past 12^2 - square numbers are boring imo but I’m running out of close powers of two, and I’m not Matt Parker to be able to come out with fun reasons why a number is nice lmao

2^8 sure, and I *should* do 2^9, but then it starts getting real tenuous.

missed a camel case rename lmao - at least it’s an easy fix

gdi getRepostedBy is broken

Chart showing a surge in searches for VPN over the past day or so

Google searches for VPN after the UK government's online censorship bill comes into effect.

I still have to be careful, for I am cursed to be a chronic yapper when around the correct people (which for better or worse, my team are) but at least most of my vague comments about the state of the NHS, GRCs, etc make sense now

getting supportive messages after I told them in a meeting nearly ended me and there were not enough teams heart emojis to express gratitude, and it’s nearly ending me now again writing about it

it’s nice knowing I’ve got that lot, even if the execs suck (but what can you do in the UK lol)

but also not having to be so careful around my colleagues anymore is refreshing and it’s nice to be able to actually acknowledge the thing they’ve noticed I’ve not been telling them and they’ve all taken it *so* well

WYFFH keeps winning though because it keeps triggering ‘oh god I need to actually *do* things to transition’ thoughts and I’ve been having a moment recently spurred on by coming out at work so imma research laser places and maybe do some clothes shopping tomorrow

I am absolutely seething still and it is midnight.