Notices by Sasha Göbbels 🐿️ (sashag@chaosfem.tw)

@faithisleaping That summarizes things so well. I had ideas and plans. But in hindsight it felt like I was moved through life instead of doing so because I really want to.

And the final kick-off to start to transition was, that I looked into the bathroom mirror one morning and thought: "I don't want to get old(er) like this!" No ideation of any kind here, just that I was not looking forward to it.

I can not imagine how hard it must be to know exactly what you want and plan to not do it or be open about it. (🖤)

@GuerillaGrue As someone who wholeheartedly hates any form of competition: thank you!

"Comparison is the death of joy." (Mark Twain)

@GuerillaGrue "No progress without competition" is one of the worst management strategies I know. Whenever I work with teams (which is my job) I make sure, they can work without competition.

I once saw a job posting for an engineering manager and they quoted the credo of their CTO, which was "the best team wins". Thank you, I'm out.

This would require I first muster the courage to hook up with someone 🥺

Aurora was indeed on the shortlist for a second chosen name. Because I love Latin sounding names.

But I decided for Victoria 🥹

Ohai Nürnberg, long time no see 🤭

We will be hiring a new senior engineer soon. Job post is not yet out, but I thought, some people might be interested. My goal explicitly is to hire from underrepresented groups. And that's not working well with posting on hacker news.

The tech stack mainly is JS (React in FE, node in BE), mongodb and Google Cloud.

Excuse me! This is not German. That's Burp German or Bavarian 🥳

Dear queer cis friends and colleagues, please consider the fascist situation for your trans coworkers in Florida before proposing it as a location for a meeting.

This also is allyship. Thank you.

I watched one (ONE!) video by Sabine Hossenfelder on YouTube and now I get recommendations for her videos. 🤢

Here's a comparison of December 2021 to April 2024 😏
/cc @doppelgrau

Here's a quote to start the day:

"If I could live my life again, I would make the same mistakes. Just a bit earlier, so I have longer to enjoy them." (Marlene Dietrich)

🚨This is not a drill!
The cat has flatulence! 😩
🚨This is not a drill!

Deutschsprachige "Comedians". Mir fällt gerade keiner ein, der keine sexistischen, ableistischen, rassistischen oder homophoben Witze macht. Gemein ist ihnen, dass es fast alles Männer sind.

Mario Barth, Felix Lobrecht, Dieter Nuhr… hab ich noch wen vergessen?

Ach, eine Frau ist tatsächlich auch dabei. Die schlägt an Gehässigkeit und Rechtslastigkeit aber tatsächlich alle. Lisa Eckhart.

Why, yes certainly all of my plushies have names.

The unicorn is called Agatha, my sleep sheep is called Mathilde.

The small blåhaj is Hajdi and the big one Blåbara.

🤷♀️

This was me for something like 50 years of my life.

If you ever run out of space for packing for a journey, you might consider one of those!

Radio news report on a survey among German men. Around 50% feel discriminated by emancipation. These poor bois also think we do enough for equality. Reportedly these results match those in other countries.

I can not imagine how fragile an ego must be to get to this bullshit of an opinion.

@siege Thank you for sharing this 💕

And how incredibly wrong your "newly ex-girlfriend" was!

A lot of femme presenting trans people report that they are not taken as serious anymore in their jobs or experience the same bad behavioral patterns as cis women, like being talked over or manpeating¹.

Have you noticed something like this? Because I didn't. This can mean several different things (or a combination of them).

I'm just to dull to notice. Or I've only been working in exceptionally great places and teams (which I definitely do now). Or that I'm not I'm not perceived as feminine.

¹) Manpeating is when a woman makes a proposal in a meeting and is not taken serious. Then a man repeats her point and is heard and gets the credit for the great idea.