boiled egg

TIL

Yeah, I saw one post this morning but that’s about it

Ah that will do it - lots of the trans folks I know are there and sadly that’s how I’ve been hearing a lot about it

The Bay Area folks are unfortunately… as always.. ignoring the rest of the world

(Leadership more so than rank and file)

I have to update my optimism priors because holy shit

Mine is still unfortunately tons of AI slop

I have not yet seen this on LinkedIn so .. maybe I need to update my networks there.

(The situation is extremely fucked up. Fucking tech right and the silence is damning from so many tech leaders. Without doxxing myself it’s sad to see no tweets from my employer though googlers are speaking up)

People threatened to invade my home country for far less than

I’m in this picture and don’t like it

For this, but like.. if you’re doing this, why not do something that’s more than an AI generated 10 line rename, which breaks the build, and then not even fixing the build in the same PR?

This infuriates me to no end as it makes it harder for everyone else

On the other site today’s main character is a person who put up a PR (not even merged!) and used that as a way of saying “I now work at Google deep mind and folks from my country should aim bigger”

Like.. I get the sentiment, that type of story was very motivating for me in the past, and I fell …

we have been way too tolerant of cowards: we should be demanding that far more people in power who claim to be against the murderous evil of MAGA meet the standard currently being demonstrated by Jerome Fucking Powell

Do they also have the hard nuts in them

> you’ve been trying so hard, for years, NOT to face this gender conflict. Before matters got so intense, you worked hard and made a nice life – as a guy. Job? Family? You had a lot to lose. But the conflict didn’t go away – it never does

(Becky Allison)

> First, don’t wait. If you know you’re trans, get off your ass and do your transition. Hanging out in the wings, doing a half-and-half thing, will destroy you and the ones who love you. Face up to reality, that’s what we women do.

(Joan Roughgarden)

new set of quotes from "to my trans sisters" that are hitting tonight:

> 1. Prepare to clear out your life. You never know what will go away. I was lucky that most of what I lost was a marriage, a house, and a bunch of money, but even there, we had a pretty amicable divorce

(Jessica Mink)

Thank you! Ended up finding a name, I need to put it up here at some point 🙂

.. also, what the fuck, kindle cloud reader? WHY THE FUCK DOES YOUR COPY PASTE FUNCTIONALITY REQUIRE INTERNET (it spun forever while my train was in a tunnel and my hotspot drop)

> Our problem is fear. It’s not the hate out there, we think it’s hate; it’s fear. No one can help you but you, you need your own courage right now. No one else can give that to you. I’m not going to be a cheerleader. I suggest you avoid them.

(Amazon Eve)

> What other communities are important to you?
> What kind of work would you do if money were not an issue? Then why are you not doing that work? Do what you love and do it well. The money will come, and you will be happier.

(Andrea James)

> My therapist once told me, ‘There’s never a happy ending to an unhappy journey.’ Don’t get so focused on your transition goals and outcome that you defer other dreams. If you can transition, you can do almost anything else about which you feel that passionately.

(Andrea James)

Lots of quotes from today's reading of "To my trans sisters":

> Being trans does not make you special, it just makes you trans. ... When you’re undeniably great at something, being trans will be about as important to others as being left-handed.

(Jen Richards)

Will check these out, thank you!

good luck!

it does say "big bang expansion" after all

I will need to make my way over one of these days!

As a brown (hoping to be) girl, this.. speaks to me, will check it out, thank you!

That would be super helpful, if you’ll have someone who’s still suuuuper in the closet atm (will be a few months as things settle). Happy to wait though!

Appreciated it! Been mostly looking at healthcare and then finding a support group/new network but that will take time.

Thank you for the advice! (May as well out myself 😅)

Thankfully have insurance, it’s a bit gatekeep-y but I’m starting to navigate it

But what if I don’t know which book?

He’s trying to walk it back and like.. bro. You shat in your own bed. Least you can do is wallow in it now