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Time for an #introductions

I'm a white cishet man, more or less living at the top of Privilege Mountain, trying to learn to dismantle and undermine that privilege.

Things I'm into:
• #roleplaying
• #linguistics
• #socialjustice
• #software
• #parenting
• #reading
• #videogames
• #kindposting
• #lego
• #comics
• #argyle

Things I'm (interested in?) learning about:
• #socialism
• #coops
• #urbanplanning
• And all the stuff above, naturally.

This is, of course, incomplete. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Uh. What do you do when the #introductions post you pinned to your profile is out of date? I guess you make a follow-up post with the correction, pin it and hope people notice?

Anyway, uh, in the above post, I describe myself as "cishet", but I figured out I'm actually pansomethingual? Only in the last, like, 8 months or so. I'm still a white cis man, so the thing about Privilege Mountain is still pretty accurate, though. But, yeah.

Good morning, bits and bytes.

I've said this before, but Just in case, I really want that when I die someone makes a markov bot of my posts on social media and just hooks it up to my normal account. Ebooks as memoriam.

We need to upgrade Austin's video card. The draw distance today is for shit.

Good morning, bits and bytes. 🌇

I'm like 3 episodes in on the new Netflix thing The Dragon Prince and I'm liking it so far. They had a little scene about how the rich boy's intentions didn't matter and the harm because of his actions still happened, which was nice. Also, Amaya is BAD. ASS.

Hey #RetroComputing nerds: I have an old Apple G4 Cube with some cosmetic damage. I have the power dealie, the sphere speakers and the display adapter it came with. Is there anyone that'd want this? Worth trying to sell/donate? Or should I just recycle it?

As of today, the 3yo is actually a 4yo! 🎂

We did the thing. Had some fun. The last puzzle was sort of anticlimactic. 🤷🏻‍♂️ And one puzzle we sort of didn't do. The hints came at such a pace that we knew what needed doing and were working on getting through it and the hint would pop up and flat give us the answer. So we got the answer, but… meh.

Doing a puzzle hunt with some friends today. DASH, if anyone else is doing it where they live.

At least I am if the other 2/5ths of my team shows up. 🕙

One thing I'm really going back and forth about is whether to tell my parents or brother? Like… I'm married and not really interested in altering the terms of that relationship. So it probably wouldn't matter to them? I'm sure they'd be supportive, but especially my mom might have a billion questions and I don't know if I really want to have that conversation? IDK. OTOH, there's, like, a thing about maybe it would be nice if they knew for some reason I can't think of?

Today in my work Slack, I came out as pan to a slew of supportive reaction emoji. I had high confidence of such support, but it didn't stop my heart rate from elevating and me pausing before hitting send. So the affirmation was really nice.

I also came out in two social Slack teams. One I was unsurprised but delighted when people were like, "Yay!" The other is a pretty straight friend group, so I was more unsure. Less affirmation and more questions, but not in a bad way? So yeah. Is #HappyGays reasonable?