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Cake day: July 11th, 2025

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  • I was on hormones over a year without saying anything, coming in to work with face swollen up from laser hair removal, and just never said anything even when people started making subtle prompts that they’d like to know more about it.

    My coworkers were great but leadership had done another trans person wrong so I switched jobs. I didn’t present very feminine in the interview but used my chosen name and said I intended to socially transition after I started working there and if they didn’t want to deal with that they shouldn’t hire me. They sent me their offer so I quit the place with bad leadership and the rest was history




  • Even if we had to follow through with the threat of kicking them out, we’d be so much better off for it in the long run. Companies too big to regulate should be the same thing as companies too unaccountable to be allowed to operate, or we eventually find ourselves and democracy left in control of nothing at all. We are willingly giving our culture and power back over to feudal lords and that’s the core of why things seem to be going to shit







  • When I did it recently the hardware (w encrypted data) went through a checked bag inspection but it didn’t really affect anything else. I’m not sure that other countries’ security apparatus is going to threaten people to vacuum up their data like the usa, and in leaving the usa you typically don’t deal with usa customs inspection

    I took it with me directly to avoid paying for a big estate transfer service and import tax that would otherwise be assessed by default on a normal shipment