Profile for gintoxicating

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Ginny Mae 🩵
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@gintoxicating@transister.social
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About gintoxicating

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Bio

i post for attention and affection (it's a youngest child thing): memes, tech rambles, newly acquired domain names, and short irreverent nonsense i think is funny. ymmv.

seattle based. single parent. self-unemployed after >20 years in big tech

created 1st mastodon account: 2022-12-22
found out i was a girl: 2022-12-22
(former was causal to the latter)

i don’t use ai in my writing because it capitalizes words, and also because writing is the fun part for me (you do you!)

ask me about my banger domain names!

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Recent public posts

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if I ever stop talking to you or get super quiet, it’s usually because I somehow found out you were very pretty and now get too nervous when I try to think of something to say to interact with you

this happens…. a lot (I’d ask how y’all are so cute but I know the answer)

reminds me of a therapy session from a few weeks after I started HRT, which was a few months after I realized I was trans despite a lack of ‘conventional signs’:

“even as a cis guy I would have loved not to smell like that gross boy smell, you don’t even need to be trans to benefit”

therapist: stares

“same with hair removal! I would have started doing both when I was cis, it’s just better! you don’t need to shave to look good”

therapist: slightly tilts head

“all im saying is you don’t have to be trans to benefit from HRT and stuff, there are so many benefits even for cis men……”

therapist: eyes get really big, head is now almost perfectly horizontal

“……. ohhhhhhh”

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/users/melon_knees/statuses/111280840644005347

Willy Wonka gets a lot of shit for basically employing "slave labor" with the oompa loompas. This is a reasonable, but naive and entirely incorrect conclusion.

Pause the film and read the long contract in the movie version of Willy Wonka. It starts with a red herring - an accident indemnity clause, how capitalist of him!!

After that, in much smaller print, it enrolls the children in a labor union for their natural lifespan.

Willy Wonka is a communist and criticism of how he runs his factory is capitalist nonsense.

even aside from the transphobia, socializing in a cishet space sucked ass (bad).

there's a certain misery that comes with meeting a new cis person... it happens during the few seconds while they kinda dumbly mentally process my existence into something understandable :knife_girl:

do cis people think they’re being slick with their transphobia?

yesterday i went to see some friends perform. after the show I was talking with a group of 3 of them, and this other guy i know comes over. he says hi to two mutual friends, introduces himself to the third person he didn’t know, and entirely ignored me for ~5 minutes.

also, notably, my cis ally friends said nothing while i stood there awkwardly, watching a grown man avoid making eye contact with the tranny with an almost panicked intensity

Hi I’m Ginny and a new server means new #introduction post!

I spent the first decades of my life as a generic white boy in tech. A few months ago I signed up for my first fedi account and quickly discovered I was a girl! What!!

If you like quirky, confused girl memes and posts about the inscrutable behavior of cis folks ~ you should probably follow me.

I also post about all the stereotypical girl stuff: videogames, linux distros (fedora ofc), transgender stuff, programming, reading, writing, being actually autistic, and shoes. I like shoes a lot.

While I haven’t done anything shareable recently, I write fiction and also the occasional trans101 post for cis folks. “You seem to be running your own custom build of crazy, maybe you should write about that” ~ a former writing instructor

I’ve made a lot of friends on fedi and want to keep making more! If you ever want to chat, need shoe advice/pictures, or just need some one to listen <3. My contact stuff is on my profile :). I’m kinda shy and don’t always know what to say but I continue to try :P

I’m a single trans parent of an 8 year old girl (the source of my most popular post ever), and continue to work as a software engineer in the Seattle area. More deets on my pronouns.cc page or personal website: fr.wtf

secret: i like head pats and being flirted with

#trans #parent #programming #transgender #cute #shoes #shoes #shoes

we should all get one of those presidential sashes in Barbie i think

but you put whatever,,, your job, your name or nickname, insta handle, a picture of your pet turtle :agoogleturtle:

everyone gets to pick what their sash says :blobcatscience: ,,,

mine would say something bitchin'
like

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ginny

Fedi is basically a forum except you can only read the posts in chronological order, then sometimes when you click into a thread you only see a third of the posts.

People making the design decisions cannot be using this like normal (ie, trans) people do.