Jean @tinybirds@toot.cat
I like playing with string, watching birds, and generally puttering about my house in Portland, Oregon.
~let us rescue ourselves together with all beings~🏳️🌈
Joined Apr 2022
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Hey there folks!
I've just moved my account to a new username. I hope it's not too obnoxious, but I figured better sooner than later.
Since posts don't come over, I'll repost my #introduction once more, this time with CamelCase for accessibility
I live in #PDX with my partner, our #dogs, and our (my) #cats. For money, I do #TechnicalWriting, and spend the rest of my time doing #FiberArts, #VideoGames, #reading, and #Zen #Buddhist stuff, such as sitting down & looking at a wall.
Loves: em-dashes, hair color
Loathes: terfs, cops
Other #interests include
#coffee
#FountainPens
#piercing
#tattoo
#gardening
#napping
Me, probably, after I give my hairdresser twenty different and conflicting requests fueled by boredom and too much time on the internet.
The postal gods loved me today! Guess I know what I’m doing with my evening! #FiberArts #spinning #xp
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Pocket friends! Who are the writers, activists, and scholars you like to read/listen to about diet culture and fatphobia (especially as it relates to the food and eating aspect)? #boostsAppreciated
Holy shit Sandman is so good
My new-to-me spinning wheel, a Schacht Matchless. 💖 💖 💖
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what all cis people need to know:
"cis" is not an acronym. it should not be capitalized like "CIS". it is a Latin prefix meaning "on this side of", like cislunar space, cisalpine Gaul, or cis isomers in chemistry.
please i'm begging you. tell a friend. yours, a trans pedant
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Introspective question for my fellow neurodivergent people:
How much of your struggle with non-literal language is innate and how much of it comes from being taught to distrust others' implicit meanings?
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when finallyfantasy bunnyboys get angry they should thump their lil feets on the ground
boost if you agree
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I have decided to begin using formal and familiar pronouns.
My formal pronouns are they/them, and these are the pronouns I ask everyone to use unless otherwise invited.
While many folks know my familiar pronouns (I've been going by them for a while after all), please try not to use them. Right now, I will only be sharing my familiar pronouns with folks I regularly talk with one-on-one -- folks I can call on the phone or chat with on Discord or something.
Read more:
https://jessmahler.com/jess-pronouns-or-formality-has-its-place/
I am but a humble technical writer, but as far as I can tell, "we don't need QA, the devs can just do it" doesn't actually work.
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In case you didn't know, I maintain a list of space opera novels by cisgender women, non-binary, and trans authors!
There are hundreds of books to read, and the list is not complete (use the form to suggest missing works)!
Share the resource :) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iquc1jI4wIQbm9W9K4g6I_NqkA2cVx9MMx7CrED8BfY/edit#gid=2144433176
When you spend three days researching 4-shaft table looms and then in the last hour say "screw it" and buy a floor loom instead.
I ordered a Leclerc Compact, 24" weaving width, 4-shaft with room for four more later. And now the waiting begins.
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Whenever someone uses the word "lazy", what they actually mean is "doing other things than what I want you to do". It's the peak of control-freak culture.
Is there any thing better than a work meeting that gets cancelled and just vanishes from your calendar?
Current status: editing docs in anger. #xp #techwriting
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NO ONE would survive the apocalypse without a community, No one survived without one until sometime in the middle of the last century.
I like playing with string, watching birds, and generally puttering about my house in Portland, Oregon.
~let us rescue ourselves together with all beings~🏳️🌈
Joined Apr 2022
