New doofer! Dedicated terminal monitor.

It's just a monitor with a 1920x720 resolution, but I've got my terminal fullscreened on it.

So useful.

BEHOLD. The Donald Trump Interpersonal Relations Flowchart. I will not be taking questions.

These people go off about transing kids. They say "well my kid thinks they're Optimus Prime". But no. That's not it at all. But you're actually closer than you think.

It's not about forcing a child to be trans, just like it's not about forcing a kid to be Optimus Prime. It's about letting them explore that as a part of their identity, and see what sticks. Chances are they don't think they're a giant robot for very long. But things that are plausible - they can take longer to process.

You know what most kids who are allowed and supported in exploration of their gender turn out to be? Cis. But wouldn't you rather that your kid got the chance to try to figure it out for themselves? What harm is really done by calling them by their chosen pronouns - until they change them, or they don't?

The answer is none. Cis kids will eventually decide that they're cis. Trans kids won't, and that's the point at which you know that you can start thinking about how to take them through the process - a process from which they can walk it back at any time.

Nobody is doing surgery on kids. Hell, most ADULTS have to wait years and years before they can get permission from multiple mental health authorities to control their own body. Puberty blockers, too, are very rare. But they are also entirely reversible when you stop taking them. Which the child, teen, adult can choose to do at any time.

Trans people are not a threat to you.

Democrats are simply not doing enough to combat Trump. And don't sit there and say this is Kamala Harris' fault, that's racist, oversimplified bullshit. She tried, you let her down.

Anyway. One thing that did make me laugh was the naming of this bill.

Mark Pocan introduces "ELON MUSK Act" to try to stop Musk’s government-destroying rampage

remembering this image today for two reasons

1. that time I met arnie, that was pretty cool
2. once upon a time you could wear a dogecoin hoodie because it was a big joke instead of a tacit endorsement of literal fascism

Well.

So I work at FetLife now. Senior DevOps stuff.

If you don't mind, I'll just be screaming uncontrollably in a thoroughly undignified manner.

Obviously there's a ton more going on but I can speak with conviction about what's happening in my own back yard - a friend pointed out recently that if Trump really wants to rout all queer folks from the systems of the Federal government, God help him when he tries it with tech.

There are plenty of 'quite good' people in tech. The few absolutely stellar engineers I know? The ones who quietly keep things together and at a level where 'quite good' can do the rest?

All queer.

All of them.

Delilah Bon, the artist behind DEAD MEN DON'T RAPE and WITCHES, in a very different tone this time.

Don't mind me, just over here doing the Ugly Cry.

Your best wishes, please. A senior DevOps position has opened up at FetLife and I just had my first interview. Well, I say my first interview, it was arranged as a 'screening call' but they told me there are no further interviews. So either

• They fucked up the event text
• They really hated me

or

• They've already decided they want me

The interview went - from my perspective, anyway - really well. I don't let myself get excited about things like this as I don't take getting let down well unless I keep it down to start with. The fact that I'm losing my mind should serve as an indicator of how well I thought it went.

Fingers crossed!