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Header for gintoxicating: A (fake) picture of a dictionary entry for "autism". It says: a disability where you are surrounded by illogical people who refuse to listen to you and repeatedly create overwhelming situations for you to navigate.
Avatar for gintoxicating: a white girl with pink hair, head tilted to her left, wearing a tshirt (this is my og profile pic from before I was a girl lol)
Display name
Ginny Mae 🩵
Username
@gintoxicating@transister.social
Role
admin

About gintoxicating

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pronouns
she/her
wwwebsite
https://maive.dev/
signal
ginny.42
discord
gintoxicating
ListenBrainz
https://listenbrainz.org/user/gintoxicating/

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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Following
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Recent public posts

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im setting up a fediverse server specifically for autistic folks to info dump their special interests. but i keep changing my mind about what software i should use.

it needs to allow fairly long posts and i think formatting is important, so stock masto is out.

im thinking glitchsoc or lemmy. i like how comment threads work on lemmy, but lemmy doesn't interact with other fedi software smoothly. and the authors are transphobic little bitches

#tech

*guy asks to talk online later and mentions some random app*

"oh! so it's instant messages, ok, I get that! does it work more like icq or more like AIM. dont worry i had both haha!"

*man doesnt flee and that's on him*

when picking a username consider you may have to share it in real life, with your out loud words, to another adult human being.

"my discord username ? I'm gintoxicating. intoxicating with a g. at the front. uhh i,,, have a high opinion of myself online. nice to meet you too, danglingballs#6969"

hi I’m Ginny! #introduction

I spent my first decades as a generic white boy in tech, then a year ago I signed up for my first mastodon account and discovered I am a girl!

I post about tech, trans life, post selfies, and openly talk about mental illness and pain (cw'ed)

I’m a single parent w/ a 9 yo daughter, working as a software engineer in Seattle. I also write fiction (ya and speculative) and am generally very dorky.

btw you can be a girl if you want to be, inquire within!

#trans #tech

 two mastodon posts by me, ginny! first post: "gonna make my own damn search engine and if your website plays a fucking video in the lower right corner *you can't be in it*" (191 boosts, 579 favorites) second post: "*all trans folks have PTSD!* my brother in christ, most of us haven't gotten to the POST part of that initialism" (91 boosts, 294 favorites)
three social media posts by me, ginny! first post: " “you don't HAVE to go back to tech!” that's a good note, good note. i will keep that in mind, as i go back to the only thing anyone has ever paid me or valued me for" (14 boosts, 66 favorites) second post: "unpopular opinion: algorithms were never the problem. the corporations are. lauding things for a lack of algorithms, rather than a lack of capitalism, is just an echo of corporate PR. if there was no “algorithm”, everything would be equivalently shitty, in novel ways" (62 boosts, 130 favorites) third post: "the most intelligent people i know will instantly and often gleefully admit they don’t know something (maybe if you push they’ll give a hypothesis loaded with caveats) in stark contrast we have “artificial intelligence”" (20 boosts, 76 favorites)
two social media posts by me, ginny! first post: "didnt love the sequel but hoping this brings back the charm and quirky nostalgia of the original" with a picture attached of a movie poster called "NEW FOLDER(3)" "from the creator of "NEW FOLDER" and "NEW FOLDER(2)"" (23 boosts, 51 favorites) second post: "amab: allegedly male at birth" (69 boosts, 174 favorites)
two social media posts by me, ginny! first post: a meme i made where it's drew carey from whose line is it anyway. he is saying "Welcome to women's clothing, where sizes are made up and the numbers don't matter" (67 boosts, 140 favorites) second post: "My first ever mastodon post turned out to be the most important thing I've ever written." The attached post says "I'm a guy who always thought and assumed he was cis. i've always been drawn to the feminine and wished i was a gril, but i'm not sure that means I AM a girl or how to figure that out. I haven't shared that with anyone, so I'm using this outlet for now."
supportive landlord????
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randomly messaging strangers out of the blue slandering a victim doesn’t work the same with people who aren’t terminally online.

anyway my landlord thinks y’all are nuts and asks people to stop emailing him :ac_laughter:

losing community is especially hard for trans folks, because it's the only place I was seen as me.

in real life, i know the reason i will get acknowledged as a woman is because of (appreciated!) active effort, not because they can actually see me as one.

for my family, i know *this* me is a thin layer atop decades of a me that I struggle not to detest.

when meeting new people, not experiencing the pause. ~10 seconds of silence when meeting someone new while they try to understand what i am.