So, the passenger had to be able to swipe their card _themselves_, holding on to the card the whole time.

Why does this matter? MetroCard, like all card-based AFC systems, stores the card value _on the card_. This means that every swipe is actually a complete read-verify-write cycle.

i, personally, am looking forward to "no, we can't just fund social programs because they're necessary :( we have so much debt to repay from the previous administration's unfunded tax cuts :("

I can't emphasize how much this is a monumental accomplishment for me. Starting journals and never finishing them weighed on my psyche. It made me think I was a bad person because I was a serious giver-up.

Fuck that. Fuck going fast. Fuck productivity culture.

I am going to take my goddamn time.

I notice that I want to discount it in a few ways:

- I wrote pages on some days, and not at all for months at a time.
- Some pages have tables or notes and not text
- Some pages are filled with miserable anxiety scribbling and nothing else
- My handwriting is too big

Fuck that, I did something

I got a couple photos of you! So cool to see you there

It's so cool to see prosthetics at cons! I hope it feels so good to be out and about with a snout

Those ear piercings are SO cool, too

Especially the story about the migratory bird people...

Hang upside down from a tree? Eat some tamarind?

anyway hope all my tf critters had a nice Feast of the Transfiguration today! may you never lose sight of how real love is, even now

Thank you for the pleasant sense memory :)

oh, to touch your own body and feel that it's become soft and harmless and adorable... this is so beautiful...