@kfadams.bsky.social
Parent | Wife | PhD | Oregonian | Trans | Computer Scientist | Systems | Early 40s. TL a mess of tech, science, politics, defense, humor, trans stuff, and games. I’m awkward AF. she/her. Posts not endorsed or representative of my employer(s).
Here we go again.
Reminder that the CEO of Nike routinely tries to rig Oregon's gubernatorial elections to get Republicans elected.
Being trans forces you to self-actualise in a way many people just don't. Once you've interrogated something so fundamental in yourself as your sex and gender, you start seeing yourself and your relationship to the world differently, and embracing yourself becomes much easier
when I was attempting to be a cis dude, even when I was legit jacked, I never truly cared how I looked.
I knew I should have been proud or confident but I just… didn’t. I also honestly thought joy wasn’t an emotion I got to experience.
Now I can feel attractive, joyous, and love and receive love.
Yeah, outside of just noodling the best I’ve gotten is TikTok folks sharing their settings.
Not that I ever have willingly gone to one but definitely not now.
Weird! Awfully pretty for all that still.
Oh! Violin for a decade here!
Still have my IRL ones…
And I still play bass.
And noodle on synths.
And paint Warhammer.
And have the god damn IKEA shark.
And witchy tattoos.
I’m…. I’m basically a walking meme.
…. I played drums (badly) in my deepest repression years.
I personally was a competitive runner in the past, and have personally known professional level athletes in running, cycling, and swimming.
So I do have a glimmer of understanding of the level of work they put out.
A decent friend of mine actually administers professional and Olympic level sports for a few different areas (spoilers: he wildly disagrees with takes like yours based on professional experience and scientific research)
Being trans and winning a couple events, apparently.
Let’s take it a step further: the problem is that Lia Thomas won at something.
Not even professionally.
Just at a collegiate level.
Even though theres tons of evidence that a high performing cis woman is every equal to a high performing trans one we can never be allowed to win.
My latest interviews at a megacorp were somewhat heartening in the amount of healthy AI skepticism I was seeing.
Might be too little, too late but it’s something.
On purely the website quality and layout, it’s also frankly pretty bad.
Worse than most off the shelf templates that also only take a few hours for a non-expert to set up.
Oh I look forward to them learning firsthand about model collapse, and the rest of us paying the cost.
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Took this a couple days ago while being all up in my feels and anxiety.
This is just how I get to look now? On a kinda schlubby day?
Even if I’m clocky I actually *like* how I look now. I actually care about my body.
I realize we say it all the time, but transition is fucking amazing.
looking super cute there! 💜😍
In other news, water found to make things wet.
Drove a 79 ranchero as my first car… truck… thing.
Was a world class POS. 7 MPG, overly soft suspension, terrible acceleration.
Admittedly we just used it as a farm truck and my parents let me borrow it to go to/from school.
Skirts and dresses all the way?
