heat pump update - the first place told me refrigerant would cost $500 and the place i ended up using charged me $11.
always get more than one quote. even if the first place is all "women owned, LGBTQ+ friendly" etc
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RE: https://social.edist.ro/users/silberfuchs/statuses/113879356363578362
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confession: when i was a tween, i used to scam people on this game called The Realm
my IRL friends and i were all scammers in this game. the game had no trade mechanics beyond giving an item, so you had to rely on trust.
my role in our scammer crew was essentially social engineering and i was quite good at it.
our scammind days ended when one friend, who never scammed and was always completely honest, was convinced by the rest of us to destroy his reputation as a "Middle Person" and scam some super rare item.
we took the super rare item and some other loot we scavenged and we held an auction. i was very good at auction scams. the trick in any auction scam is to sell some real stuff and then one fake thing. i would order the items for sale from least valuable to most valuable. so the value of each sale item would be higher than the last...
the second last item i sold was the super rare item my friend had scammed. the last item, which we didn't actually have, was one of the rarest items in the game.
we divvied up the sales according to the ratio we had agreed on in advance and we all retired from scamming. we had no need for money anymore.
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learning a lot about normies this week.
like damn, this is a group of people who are just ripe for scamming.
they will literally believe anything.
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drove over a banana peel and my car did not spin out i feel so lied to
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"can i afford it?"
if you can't remember the last time you had to choose between rent and food, then you can probably afford it.
if you're experiencing financial insecurity making it difficult for you to access stable shelter, food, water, medicine, or other basic needs: please don't. please post a mutual aid thread instead, if you can.
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"but wait, didnt America have a civil war over slavery?"
yeah, but they hardly changed anything after the war. black folks were not allowed to be self-actualized members of society. it took another HUNDRED years for this to change materially. there's two hundred years of racist momentum to undo. the more it gets undone, the more the most racist and oppressive people in America become terrified they might have to actually learn something new and (gasp!) work. difference has always terrified these people.
as always, history is his story and it's just for show.
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look at the date of the Proclamation of King George.
then look at the date of when America revolted from Britain.
now tell me with a straight face that America wasn't literally forged from racism.
and i do mean literally.
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"how can i contribute to signal?"
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007319831-How-can-I-contribute-to-Signal
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everyone is joining fediverse and signal -- great! amazing! thank you!
please remember: on these platforms, you are not the product. if you can afford to, you absolutely must donate money. these platforms cannot exist at scale without resources.
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you can tell kerninghan and ritchie were white cishet men because their first program was "hello world" and not "fuck you world"
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making plans for organizing with nova...
me: "this will happen"
them: "yes but we can't convince people that it isn't a false assumption"
me: "the cissies will never listen until it's too late"
sigh. why is this all so predictable.
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:3 on facebook messenger no longer autocompletes into a cute face emoji wtf
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calling bad people assholes is derogatory to assholes which are actually a really great body part
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email sent about hosting a two spirit panel for pride this year. i have scheduled a signal message to ask another local organizer about her experience working with a venue.
need to send a reminder to my friend about getting me contact details. going to reach out to my other friend about rainbow road stuff.
i will draft some motions for the next board meeting and send out the agenda. need to create materials for a policy template, agenda item policy, event hosting policy, and social media survey resources.
now that i have my birth certificate i also need to get on with my passport. forms, my nemesis, must be filled and printed. find a place for photos.
the heat pump seems to be working even better than before now. the technician said it is still low on freon but it can't be done with the temperature so low. in spring we will get a proper servicing.
at work i will be mucking about with CNI stuff today to solve a strange edge case in one system. hopefully this hail mary can prevent recurrence.
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people are all "oh anyone can join fedi" and sometimes even "im not tech savvy and im here on fedi"
... but like... at least in the area where i live, a lot of people struggle to use Instagram...
"i installed bluesky but i forget to check it" is the level of capability/commitment we are working with; and this is among people who are actively upset with Meta.
we have to make things simpler, especially for folks with neurodivergent minds.
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enough moping. back to work.
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it's very hard because i know what it felt like.
i know how it felt to be respected for what i do. i would make people think and they would realize i did that and they would respect me for it.
when i reflect without emotion, i am just happy that the desired outcome is reached. in the moment that it happens, it hurts.
it hurts even more when it's a woman who makes me feel this way, because she inevitably does it because she doesn't see me as a woman. she can sense that i want so called "male privilege."
i just want to be respected... i dont think it is unreasonable. everyone deserves this respect.
especially last night, when a woman i intentionally and explicitly gave my respect to for using exactly this kind of soft power to help our organization through a difficult situation made me feel awful for even trying to get my voice into a conversation that i literally have expertise in and which i warned people about for at least 6 months.
i have come to accept that men will not do this. last night taught me there's still more to accept.
i feel bad for even wanting this recognition, which i think must be an inherent patriarchal defense mechanism. the stereotype of trans women being arrogant and narcissistic likely stems from this. women aren't supposed to be recognized for these things. so says the gender binary.
ill just take notes. i will draft policy and let others make the motion and defend it. my voice doesn't matter and fretting over it is only sapping my energy.
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i have to accept that the sort of power i have always held will no longer be respected by the cistem.
35 years was a pretty good run, i think. the people i care about still respect me. i can coast off the momentum i gained before coming out.
acceptance will free us further.
so it shall be.
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calling them fascist orders instead of executive orders
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