Profile for gintoxicating

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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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Recent public posts

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I convinced myself this year I’m incapable and incompetent. I thought I was literally just… permanently broken. Something fundamental about me had stopped functioning. I can’t express in words how complete a failure I felt, and that it was my fault completely for being broken.

This week has been a lot of vindication. My org still hasn’t listened to me whatsoever but have fucked up all other options and are slowly realizing everything I said was fucking right.

It’s a group of men so they won’t ever admit that though and it’ll be my fault for not convincing them.

But hell, men gonna men amirite

For the decade of time I lead software projects (management and/or team lead) my low water mark was 3 women on my team of 6-7 folks. My current org has 3 women on a team of nearly 30. I’ve had staff come to my team, hell to my COMPANY, to work on my teams.

I was not asked or consulted about my replacement I just showed up to at 8:30 am meeting my first day back, that lasted 10 minutes. “there have been some changes”

I took a mental health leave from work after being assaulted, when I got back they had removed me from leadership and replaced me with 3 people who are doing a far worse job. I also found out the replacement lead is struggling psychologically and wants to take mental health leave but is worried about her career.

Apple image AI really leans into emphasizing what it perceives as my gender and I find it unusable. It’s kinda unimpressive overall anyway, but its output feels like a fucking transphobic meme designed to antagonize trans women.

At least the cis ppl get uncanny valley selfies, as a treat 🙄

my therapist asked me yesterday if I was putting together my own sorta reverse-harem and i said:

"no, i just have to keep a few different boys around because they're useful for different things

"sometimes i need a boy who can fix things around the house, sometimes i need a boy who can stand around quietly and look good... heck sometimes i need a boy that's really a girl and hasn't figured it out yet!!"

in the way that therapists do, she just looked at me and waited.

MTF HRT question
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any mtf on hrt found they need to supplement their testosterone?

my levels are astoundingly low and I think it’s impacting my mood

I’m on monotherapy (weekly EV injection, sometimes I remember to take prog), nonop, so there aren’t many variables to tweak

(boosts ok!)