transister.social

After a bit less than 20 years, today is my last day working for Google.

Even though leaving is something I’m glad to do I’m still bad at change. For the past two decades my job has been the most stable part of my life through, like, everything: fertility and adoption struggles, an abusive marriage, my mom dying, a divorce, COVID, identifying/treating a congenital hormone imbalance[1], being assaulted……

Work gave me a second place that felt stable, where I could duck my head low and dig into something I know how to do really fucking well.

I could solve some other people’s problems, write a design doc with more memes than text, get my report promoted, help a coworker navigate a toxic manager…

Even when my life (and, later, my career) was cooked I could focus on helping and with that came the joy of seeing someone I care about succeed.

Maybe I’ll post some fun stories (right now I’m in a shit mood so “fun” probably would be sarcastic but I’ve worked there long enough that I do have actually fun stories too)

[1] iykyk, pun intended ofc

ive been reading your words in my head for a year and only now do i find out i should have been doing an accent

pre-hrt: oh no i have come to this restaurant so often they know who i am, i shall never return again

post-hrt: i hope Asa's working!

as a youtobologist I can quickly identify how old a video based on what company sponsors the video

I am currently working on a model to estimate the duration of our current NordVPN era, as well as documenting the transition from SquareSpace to PII removal services we saw in the early-to-mid ‘20s

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I can prove sexuality isn’t a choice: straight women still exist

my kid moved on to Minecraft and now i have nobody to play Roblox with and I might have to accept I’m collecting stupid digital pets for myself, actually

check out my new minimalist writing setup! all that’s left is to decide on a keyboard gimme a month

any of you train nerds know anything about the amtrak rail pass? seems kind of neat

⚠️ banger weekend ahead ⚠️

one day it will work

do any secure messaging apps support multi-account on iPhone? If it matters, I have multiple phone numbers.

From what I can tell, Signal and Element/Matrix do not.

Discord does, and it looks like maybe Telegram does?

lb: don’t read the replies

does anyone in a safer country wanna see if we like each other then get married and I can escape the US into your arms/civil jurisdiction

skillset: cute, trans friendly, my friends sometimes say I’m pathetic and I think as a compliment, strong people pleaser vibes from past relationships, high growth potential (boobs), wordplay

positive attributes: born to bottom but serves society as a top, doting parental energy, soft as a kitten but fierce as a traumatized queer, gay, honestly I smell really good, not a spider dressed as a woman, cute outfits and home decor

accomplishments: literally created a girl from the remnants of a broken man, one time I posted something funny online, is way better adjusted than you might assume (lots of therapy)

LinkedIn available upon request but fr folks on grindr find it easily enough (cute date idea: improving my infosec)

fuck it

new chair:)

oh hey, did i mention yet that the gaming chair company i placed an online order from asked me to tip their company

just two gals without hips

flirting by offering to show her my secure enclave 👉​👈​

it’s 2026 where’s all the fucked up betty boop porn

so wait only algorithmic feeds are available on big mastodon servers now? idk I’m not an algorithmphobe but this sucks.

trending is censored, recommended accounts builds a bland monoculture and encourages clout chasing and is censored, and I’m guessing followed hashtags are just tiny subsets of that corpo vibe

mastodon needs to stop trying to be a global corporate social media site. that’s bluesky. they won that battle stop trying and also be glad because that battle sucks.

fedi (and mastodon as part) has strength in that it is a community of communities

heaven forbid the cishet white people see a queer in their feed

https://mastodon.social/@staff/115849914607258480