transister.social

research study: autism may not be a male-dominated disorder, as it is equally prevalent in men and women

man: doubtful and struck by the results “because the sex difference in diagnostic rate is something that’s been pretty consistent across countries and cultures and even across different diagnostic criteria as they’ve changed over time.”

woman: not surprised by the results because other studies have shown indications of these patterns. and, this bit is unstated and my own guess, she probably thought "no fucking shit"

they didn't burn witches, they burned women

we expressed our love digitally, as was the style of the times

I spent most of yesterday dealing with customer service across a bunch of companies. To half of the companies, i am ginny. To the other half i am still my og legal name.

wildest thing happened! half of my experiences were horrendous and i was treated as a nuisance (at best), waste of time, and ignored…… while the other half I got apologized to a bunch and a discount or refund I didn’t even ask for!

happy women’s history month  

🏳️‍⚧️ally [citation needed]

actual and only slightly rephrased quotes from a thread about the new $600 macbook neo:

"lol these computers are toys they do not have enough ram!" a dude that thinks just because 8gb of ram can't run x86 windows bloat, it isn't good enough for apple silicone

"you can get a chromebook cheaper" a paper notebook won't spy on you, is about as functional, and isn't made of plastic and already falling apart. paper has way better battery life too.

"the new macbook neo sucks, apple hasn't crammed enough AI into their laptops like micrsoft has!!!!" statements by the same truly deranged pc user

boys are so silly and emotional over the stupidest shit

saw some folks doing their part to fight fascism by standing on an overpass with signs that say “honk for democracy”

I’m not gonna to be a bitch and point out how stupid this demonstration is, but i will point out the blatant cultural appropriation of horny people

"People often confuse endurance with resilience" - Competence Hangover is the certain kind of tiredness that women can’t quite name but feel every day.

proton mail won’t even let me post a feature request about something that caused me to accidentally leak my email address (pressing ANY of the three largest buttons on the screen)

i think the thing i hate most is when an app gives me  a lil avatar pic but it wont let me pick my own image,

joined a coworking space and its basically like going to a disney land world based on Severance

Movie Matinee Monday (microwave popcorn provided)

Occasional awkward awwwwkkward holiday party

instead of rides there’s a bunch of sad people

Parfait day

Ginny has a doctors appointment: “oh yeah I got a blood pressure monitor like you asked”

Doctor: “great what brand?”

Me: “omnomnom!! it has code autocomplete!”

watch the whole video but if you can’t start at 5:24 then watch the whole thing

https://youtu.be/XX2udJOFSg8?t=324

“Sure you’d give up the struggle in a heartbeat, but everything that makes you remarkable comes from the same place”

ginny is immature but hey she got grafana working sooooo

bad news: after the most recent update my iPhone is back trying to auto-capitalize nazi again and also tried to autocorrect the first part of this sentence to “bad jews”

proton forces you to have a calendar, which by default is integrated with zoom! you know, the company whose privacy policy is hahaha fuck you

lady at the grocery store intentionally getting my attention to call me sir than walk away is a new one

you can induce a hilarious level of anger in a bougie trendchaser simply by calling her (empty) $50 Stanley water bottle a sippy cup

co2 levels reach problematic levels