Mastodawn

So it's TDOV again apparently.

Which means it's five years that I've been out publicly.

There's about 1 or 2% of us in the population, so you probably know at least a couple others.

I tend to be more visible than other trans folks, in part because I can be. There's a lot of us who aren't as obvious or as loud about it.

A lot of us tend to be shockingly competent and capable, tho at least some of that is survivorship bias.

Most of us want to be able to live our lives in peace, tho there's some really loud assholes who have unreasonable objections to this.

Ultimately we're people, just like you - with our own hopes and fears and joys and challenges.

And if you ask me - I think we're pretty fucking awesome. Why don't you get to know us and find out why?

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Rabbit 1d ago

...and Pandora plays "Fearless" by Pink Floyd..

Rabbit 1d ago

Annnd I'm now completely out in my professional career.

Thank the gods that's over.

I'm feeling pretty damn visible today.

Rabbit 2d ago

I was led to believe that the future would be elite cyberpunk hackers owning large scale communication systems and spreading leftist and anti-establishment liberation messaging.

Instead it's all skiddies who use their reach to spread stupid cryptocurrency scam bullshit or ransomware companies.

Cyberpunk as a genre focused on capitalist hellscapes yet somehow underestimated the realities of advanced capitalism.

Rabbit 3d ago

I wish restaurants understood that the reason to have a vegetarian dish on your menu even if you don't cater to vegetarians is so that people can bring their friends with them to your restaurant. You're not losing the smaller vegetarian population, you're losing the larger "people who have vegetarian friends or family members" population.

Like FFS just add the token house salad would ya? We understand the deal.

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Rabbit 5d ago

To be honest I'm super amused that my own identity issues caused me to build an entire professional career around a mononym like I'm Cher or Prince or Flood or something.

I don't have nearly enough ego for backing that up, lol

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Rabbit 5d ago

I just realized it's TDOV in four days and I've got a real opportunity here..

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Rabbit 5d ago

Maybe I just need to work on copy like it's a product release or feature upgrade in LinkedIn speak.

"We here at Rabbit are excited to announce upcoming updates to our platform and terms of service!"

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Rabbit 5d ago

Hey, remember that person you reported to for a while a decade ago?

_They're super queer!._

How's that for a Linkedin update? lol

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Rabbit 5d ago

But holy crap that's kind of scary, you know? I mean. It's LinkedIn, it's not like it's actually very important. But what it represents is _retroactively_ coming out to everyone I've worked with, which is weird.