Proto Himbo European

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Both USAian and Canadian (this justifies my silly username)

Antifascist. Pro-people. Love me some music. Sometimes I make it. Love photos. Sometimes I take them. Love my kid. Always & forever.

Academic who likes academia as a friend.

I'm sure my employers disagree with much of what I post.

he/him or whatever, as long as it's not directly, personally insulting

Alt-text: Gimme a minute after I post before reminding me.

I sometimes obscure my employers (to protect me, not them)

When you see a man who's brokenPick him up and carry him
When you see a woman who's brokenPut her all into your arms
b/c we don't know where we come fromwe don't know what we are
and youyou're no one
and youyou're falling
and youyou're traveling... at the speed of light

Regular reminder (for me as well as others): Understanding how systems work--computer systems, social systems, political systems, physical systems, whatever--does not increase your morality, your value as a human, or your importance.

#subtoot #vaguepost

@CatsWhoCode Oh, that's awesome. I do not currently (knock on wood) need anything more extreme than some light-prescription glasses for my eyes, but they are clearly getting worse every year since I turned about 50.

I attended a school for the deaf and blind for half of high school (in the USA), and remember a couple of low-sighted or fully blind friends. One of them was very cute and taught me tricks for signing flirty things to each other in dark movie theaters. One or two had other physical disabilities so serious that they are probably dead, now. I don't feel I have much connection to that world any longer, but I guess I have sympathy, and feel it is worthwhile (if sometimes tedious) to at least provide alt-text for photos.

@CatsWhoCode OK, you are clearly more cborgy; it's not a competition! [cries softly in imposter syndrome]. I have glasses now (because old eyes), shoe inserts (because plantar fascitis), daily chemicals (because brain not programmed for capitalism or cultural social norms), legs reshaped through aggressive casts and braces as a child (because birth defects), and hearing aids since I was young (because genetics or something).

I also think of my laptop and phone as prosthetics in many ways, so I think of most humans as being at least a little bit cyborg.

But seriously, pretty amazing that you have all that cool hardware. I don't aspire to it, but if I were to need it, I'd want it to be awesome, super-powered, and brightly colored.

@lizzard Maybe it's beautiful as it is and doesn't need coloring.
I'm afraid of coloring this... #mastoart #inkart #drawing
@quietmarc Maybe you use -y when you perceive them as more masculine and -ie when you perceive them as more feminine. OK, maybe not, but that would be fun.
@Gargron How is my cat in your house?
He is a beautiful furball :)

#ScribesAndMakers 3/28: Does your day job (past or present) influence your creativity?

I feel kind of impostery responding to this due to my utter lack of written fiction in the past couple of years, but here goes: I am an academic psychologist with research activities/expertise (such as it is) principally in sexual offense and psychometrics/data analysis. I also have strong interests in some social/cognitive psychology areas, especially group effects and prejudice/discrimination. All of those influence my half-baked, constantly-on-the-back-burner WIPs because I study people for a living and I write about people (when I write about anything not intended for students or a scientific audience). Not that I've ever had my fiction published; all my pubs are in academic journals and books.

Additionally, one of the back-burner WIPs I might never finish is a slightly zany story about being an academic swimming in the political and structural soup of chronically-underfunded US universities, often a bizarre experience and (IMO) wildly different from most (USAmerican) people's ideas about academia.

So yes.

@cwebber IDK if I'm usually missing the context of your posts because fediverse something, or if they come like this without context, but I hope the pattern continues.
@CatsWhoCode Hey, me too!