Notices by rachael laura arbor :tranarchy_punk_nonbinary: (rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol)

i hope my seattle pals are okay

if you are in seattle can you tell me youre safe

throw bricks at transphobes

things that go away on fem hrt:

• rough skin
• like 30-60% of your body hair
• the ability to lift boxes painlessly

things that do NOT go away on fem hrt:

• the unsuppressible need at the beach to dig a really big hole

im really awesome :3

and i hope my friends all know they are too. thats the most important thing to me- you knowing youre so wonderful and creating an environment where you feel safe to be you

hey if i havent been clear about it, im still job hunting too. im a fullstack software developer with a decade of experience, and am eager to start a role that is, in order of preference, remote, seattle, or minneapolis. most of my experience is in php/js, with six of those years also heavily involving project management and mentoring. but i am very flexible on what the role is; i am a fast learner, i will take entry level in any tech stack if it keeps me housed.

if you are in a position to give me a referral or recommendation within your company and want to help me out, DM me further info. i can then then apply online or pass along a resume.

thank you

#getFediHired #seattle #minneapolis

i just cant shake the idea that ive done something unforgivably cruel, when i know for a fact i didnt

me when i get in my car:

ugh the radio turned on automatically before bluetooth connected

oh it's actually a good song... ill take my time getting some audio picked out

song ends ok bt time

car bt audio stutters horribly unless the bt has been connected for like 30-70 seconds first

who thought this was okay to manufacture

this is why i take my bt speaker on car trips lately. sometimes i am just too pissed about this

oh and!!!

bt connects

starts autoplaying whatever i listened to last, but in that awful unbuffered way

no, car, i did not want youtube on my car speakers and never will. i have pre-downloaded music and podcasts. stop this.

:tranarchy_a_transgender: MUTUAL AID - $0/2200 :tranarchy_punk_nonbinary:

hello! my name is rachael. i am a nonbinary trans woman and i live with my spouse and two dogs (pictured). we're in a US state that is very hostile to trans people (indiana) and i cannot find work. i was fired some time ago for being trans, and unemployment ran out months ago. i have been intensively job hunting all this time, but no one is willing to hire a trans person.

unfortunately, we have bills to pay, including rent, and i have some left over from last month too because i couldnt get the funds. i want to keep working on my job search so i can use a job's income to keep us from being homeless and eventually move out to Seattle. so we need help to be safe until that happens.

we need $2200 to get through this month. i know, it's a lot. but anything you could do to help us i would be so incredibly thankful for and you would be helping to keep to trans people off the streets.

my venmo: https://venmo.com/u/rachaelspooky

for other payment platforms, send it to @vantablack , they have several payment options in their bio.

i would also love to hear about any remote software jobs where you may be able to put a word in for me. i dont care what language or tools or anything; i have a decade of fullstack experience and i also have several years' experience in a senior role, managing projects and mentoring junior employees.

thank you. so much.

$0/2200

#mutualAid #mutualAidMonday #seattle #getFediHired #transCrowdfund

help my best friend @vantablack get food and medicine! please :) she really needs a break after the last few weeks of difficult bullshit

https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/114056299540575928

🎵
rough surf on the coast, wish i could have spent the whole day alone

two days til my 4th hrt anniversary, yall.

youre stronger than you think.

im so glad to be me.

i say that a lot these days. i wonder when that switch flipped from despondency at the thought of another day.

hey everyone! i need to do a proper mutual aid post later today, but im currently $50 overdrawn. and need gas money to drive some paxlovid to my sister. could anyone help me out?

https://venmo.com/u/rachaelspooky

$0/70

#MutualAid

hey. so. our instance is known for promoting mutual aid posts. we're proud of that and think it's wonderful how fedi can be so supportive of each other.

however.

please do not tag a bunch of us specifically, either in identical posts or one big post, asking for us to promote your mutual aid post. it puts us in the very unpleasant position of having to try to figure out whether or not youre a spambot, when we would really prefer to stick to our values of helping and implicitly trusting those in need.

i dread the eventual day we're wrong about someone in this way and end up suspending them when they truly need help. we will always happily boost from the #MutualAid tag; reaching out individually pretty much guarantees no response. and other instances will likely err on the side of spambot without hesitation, cutting you off from help.

basically, we want to help you as much as we can. we assume good faith from all of you. but when you mimic a spambot, youll be mistaken for a spambot and ignored.

absolutely bawling because i looked at my dog and Dog Is Perfect

reminder that no fuckin pigs are allowed on our instance. i have no suspicion of any users, but i just feel like telling all you cops and the other agencies to go fuck yourselves

@vantablack aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAa

congratuations im so proud of you and the dedication is just. i dont have that emoji on my keyboard but. oh ill copy paste it 🥹🥹🥹 im so happy i can be such a good friend and you are just as wonderful

"legal name" is such a poorly defined concept in the US. what i got today was a judge's order for other agencies to update their record of my name. i have to tell several different parts of the government about the name change myself. i have to personally tell social security, the county i was born in, the dmv, and the passport fascists if i want any of those places to consider my name changed. theres no proper centralizing of it and no communication between departments.

so im rachael "legally", but that doesnt mean shit if i dont tell anyone. lmao