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I break things and write detailed reports. Rapid Prototyper. Maker. Apprentice Knifemaker. Sometimes I try to help explain social situations to dudes.

Trans rights are human rights and Black lives matter.

I love you.
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God I'm so sick of how "Activist" is used to un-person trans people.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Oh that's lovely! I will have to check that out.
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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iโ€™m not crying youโ€™re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how heโ€™s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Service Outage

xkcd.com/3170/
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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My friends and I were featured in Wired magazine today! (cc @tacticoolgf.bsky.social @picatinnyrailed.bsky.social @inrange.tv etc etc)

www.wired.com/story/the-ha...
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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In this week's Tell-It Report:

Feds indict 2 men for plot to invade a Haitian island, kill the men and enslave women & children to fulfill their sex fantasies
Aide for GOP rep indicted for staging an attack by "violent leftists"
Ohio cop acquitted in shooting Ta'Kia Young
Feds Indict Two White Men in Plot to Enslave Women, Children on Haitian Island
Federal prosecutors say that two men from North Texas conspired to invade the island and kill all the men.
dlvr.it
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I don't understand the question...
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It's weird how aggressive some folks can be when you decline alcohol. Like they need you to justify why you aren't drinking.

Please don't be that person.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole

don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Changed my life my friend. Thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Nah; that part came more recently when I joined a company as a Sr Test Engineer, became Lead in 5 months, and then Director around a year later, and in under 3 years took the "bottleneck" in the process to the ISO Auditor's "strength of the company" -- and that's down to my team doing quality work.
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I hope you get to spend time on boats anyway!

I would like to spend more time on boats as well but life hasn't really been conducive to that.
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I got into management through many years of volunteer work which hones my leadership and empathy.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I fell into Test Engineering by accident. A friend at GE Appliances told me to apply to their SWQA team and all the things that frustrated previous managers turned out to be strengths for this sort of role.

It allows me to combine my wide & deep knowledge of how things work and my love for details.
Whatโ€™s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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you should always treat larger Signal chats with people you donโ€™t know well and trust as inherently not-secure
November 23, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM