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Ryan Clough :v_gqueer: :v_pan:

internet_ryan@lgbtqia.space

<p>Queer, non-binary, and still figuring out what those mean for me.</p><p>I&#39;m a tech-focused person most of the time, so if that&#39;s you too, definitely follow my tech-focused account: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@CiscoJunkie" class="u-url mention">@<span>CiscoJunkie</span></a></span></p><p>Profile pic is courtesy of my lovely wife <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Corgisaurus" class="u-url mention">@<span>Corgisaurus</span></a></span>. ❤️</p><p>(Header picture is Peaches, a pixie bob kitten, sitting at a bar and staring pensively out a window.)</p>

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    &quot;Living authentically&quot; ❌ A bit pretentious ❌ Therapy coded ❌ Implies masked interactions are inauthentic/fake &quot;Living with my whole ass&quot; ✅ Whimsical ✅ Resonates with The Youths™ ✅ You get to say the word &quot;ass&quot;

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    So, as someone transfem who happens to get a monthly cycle, @Autumn@lgbtqia.space reminded me this evening that &quot;you don&#39;t have the purge-capable hardware but you&#39;re running the firmware so your processor is still gonna send the signals even if they aren&#39;t actionable 🤷‍♀️&quot; So I&#39;m just calling this my monthly SEGFAULT from now on.

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    @heygarrett@social.lol Thank you! ☺️ I got a &quot;How long have you been growing your hair out‽&quot; from a few trans folks last week, and I think it finally clicked that…oh shit, I have properly long hair now. 😅 And honestly, I&#39;m loving it. 😁

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    Oh my goodness, I am no longer racking and cabling network gear and that means I CAN PAINT MY NAILS AGAIN! 🎉

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    Oh, and here are a few photos from the trip! (13/13)

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    Two years and one day ago, I was in an endocrinologist&#39;s office having an &quot;informed consent&quot; conversation. That afternoon, I picked up my prescription, and two years ago this morning, I started spironolactone and low-dose oral estrogen. I was terrified at the time, and my &quot;transition goals&quot; were very different than they ended up becoming. I wasn&#39;t interested in breast development, though I wasn&#39;t *necessarily* opposed to it — these days, I struggle to imagine a s...

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    Perspective: Telling a long-time acquaintance I&#39;m going to Nashville, and hearing him say &quot;Oh, I hear it&#39;s a really fun city!&quot; And then thinking &quot;I imagine *you&#39;d* have a lovely time.&quot; Thinking about how my wife is worried about my gender presentation on the construction site where I&#39;ll be working — being someone slightly fem in a very masc space like that. Being in a state with a poor track record around trans rights. Intellectually, know I&#39;ll be fine,...

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    Unexpectedly gender-affirming activity of the week: Getting some new work clothes, because I&#39;m going to Nashville during the summer and my body is *not* the right shape for my old ones anymore. 😆 I&#39;ll have to remember to post a &quot;fit check&quot; pic next week!

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    After about first or second grade, birthdays always felt weird to me, and that feeling intensified as I got older. It&#39;s not a day I picked. As an accidental pregnancy, in some ways it&#39;s not even a day *my parents* picked. I spent a long time not caring about myself enough to want to celebrate my birthday in any meaningful capacity. I decided to come out socially as non-binary two years ago today. It was one of the first major steps I took to choose myself, so this day has a lot more wei...

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    @PepperTheVixen@meow.social &quot;Trippin&#39; over Queers&quot; sounds like it could be an album name. 😆

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    @Haste@mastodon.social I very briefly considered working for Cisco towards the start of my career. In some capacity, I supposed I *did* work for Cisco at my very first job (outsourced tech support). Talking to their employees over the years, though, I heard very few positive things about management/leadership at the company. The environment sounds extremely competitive, in a very unhealthy way. (Like any big company, this likely varies a bit depending on where you are organizationally speaking....

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    Hanging curtains counts for at least three days of my &amp;quot;adulting&amp;quot; quota, right? 😅 Massive props to @Corgisaurus for finding the rail system and curtain color; I&amp;#39;m amazed at how good it looks in the space!

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    @damonology@lgbtqia.space You&#39;d rock it. 💯

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    #TDOV

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    @faithisleaping &gt; I don’t want to be resilient. I&#39;ve had to do a lot of unpacking at this one. I&#39;m close to someone who very much shares this sentiment, and I can certainly understand how much it hurts to hear things like &quot;You&#39;re so resilient!&quot; or &quot;You&#39;re so brave!&quot; or similar. Very often, the people saying these things frame those qualities are *innate*, which completely misses the point. I&#39;ve noticed that those of us who&#39;ve had to *be* resilien...

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    @faithisleaping@anarres.family Yeah, my next big self-hosting push is definitely going to require a proper NAS…which is why it&#39;s on hold for now. 😅

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    Back in January, I had an endocrinology consult to update my HRT regimen that went…less than great.¹ At the time, I scheduled a consultation with a different provider for three months out; that appointment happened today. The doc at my endo follow-up in January was *extremely* hesitant to change anything else about my regimen. The doc I saw today did a better job of listening to my concerns about the whole picture, and seemed to be much more &quot;in touch&quot; with the current research (very...

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    So, I wrote recently about how I&amp;#39;m dropping the &amp;quot;agender&amp;quot; label because it doesn&amp;#39;t fit me anymore. As part of that, I&amp;#39;m also looking for a new home for some of the agender Pride stuff I picked up over the last couple of years. I&amp;#39;m not looking for reimbursement for the items themselves. I&amp;#39;m happy to ship these wherever, if you can cover the cost of shipping from the Seattle metro area. I&amp;#39;ll put item descriptions in the alt text, b...

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    Okay, last bit of #TDOV seriousness for today, and then I&amp;#39;ll be back to shenanigans. My brother-in-law is a wonderful writer, and wrote what I&amp;#39;d consider an incredibly eloquent speech that he delivered last year. The full text and some accompanying images/links is only available on Substack at the moment, so I&amp;#39;ll put the text in a reply below for anyone who doesn&amp;#39;t want to click through. Speech: https://jamesosirisb.substack.com/p/visionaries-transgender-people-...