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Ginny Mae 🩵
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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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A parent has to balance preventing bad stuff and when it’s time to sit back, watch their kid get hurt, and help them through the fallout.

This is an impossible balance to get right especially because that balance evolves over time. A baby you protect from almost everything and it’s hard to realize it’s time to let go and even harder to actually let go.

It’s not just protecting the kid, it’s self protection of myself; its been shown moms experience their children’s pain as if it were their own.

Also if y’all’s parents knew what the phrase ā€œfedi metaā€ meant they’d probably lock you in your room even if you are legally an adult 😶

When I was most of y’all’s age the big deal was we could get 3D pre-rendered toasters to fly across the screen if we didn’t type or move the mouse for 5 minutes ($29.99 plus tax and you had to go to a store to buy a boxed copy of the software on 3 1/4ā€ floppy)

Be careful opening google docs as it is an excellent way to accidentally dox yourself to the author and others, who can see the people opening the docs. Use private mode or make sure you are logged out of all your google accounts when opening one.

IMO posting it as a google doc response to a community where privacy is critical, in and of itself, is suspicious as fuck.

One time at work i said ā€œwhat’s the good word?ā€ to a coworker and he immediately said ā€œJesus Christ lord and saviorā€ and he didn’t seem religious and never mentioned religion before or again

I also found out he had a dead pan sort of humor

So like my white whale is finding out if he was serious or joking , also this was 20 years ago or so

Move pitch; a modern love story: two star crossed lovers are building a future together when comes the news : their fedi instances were defederating. Can love outlast to get their Romeo and Juliet ending, or will these two end tragically like one of those other shakespeares

Sometimes watching a fight or very active scene in a movie I lose track of what is happening but never care enough to figure it out so I just have a little dance/sing thing in my head until the plot starts happening again