Okay, purely from the meme I feel this!! Like there’s the quote “science, when sufficiently advanced, will be indistinguishable from magic”. As a kid I thought I would get to experience that! Then I tried to be an engineer and it wasn’t that at all. So I became an artist and it felt close. Then I realized I was trans. Transition has given me more moments where I feel magical than everything else. I’ve become the witch I always wanted to be!!!

EDIT: I should add I have not played Disco Elysium, but I know it is highly acclaimed. It’s on my list.

Remember to always pick the lesser of two weevils!

The token cis gay guy in my AFK friend group 😆

Damn, how did you unlock that particle trail for your bricks! Did I miss a DLC release or something???

Oooh, I sure can help with that.

Hi all!

I go by Arkhive and I use they/she pronouns. I'm non-binary trans, but I lean femme. I am a bit of your cliche techy, linux installing, trans girl, and I'm entirely okay with that. I do a bit of writing on many topics, but lately the buzzwords "techno-anarchism", "solarpunk", "trans-humanism" and "urbanism" have been ricocheting around my mind, but that's a bit too hand wavy for this post.

For no reason other than I maybe have your attention I'm going to suggest the books:

• Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler
• Glitch Feminism, by Legacy Russell
• The Free People's Village, by Sim Kern And I would happily discuss them with anyone.

Feel free to ask me about moderation, or really anything. I've got a lot of interests and will happily gush about any of them. I have some formal visual arts education, so constructive critique is something I'm very used to and welcome. Finally, I'm a self proclaimed archivist, which is part of the reason I wanted to make this post happen, creating a bit of a paper trail of us mods, and offer a space to field questions, comments, and concerns.

Especially now with the crazy tech being put into harvesting equipment. These guys can basically field strip a near fully autonomous combine harvester and put it back together with little more than a socket set and good ol’ grit. Not to mention they are definitely doing soil testing all the time and 100% know what should be planted where and when to maintain soil health.

I watched a piece about machine vision being used to identify pests that harvesting equipment then shoots with lasers rather than just full coverage pesticide spraying. These folks are honestly near the leading edge of some wild tech, because they are actually putting it to clear, effective, use rather than generating 13.5 fingered images of their favorite cartoon character in the nude like so many other AI enjoyers.

If I had a nickel for every time I went through puberty, I’d have 2 nickels. That’s not much, buts it’s interesting it happened twice.

30 is hurtling at me like a train, so may as well say my bit while I still qualify.

Learn to swallow your ego, and pride, and “seniority”. There’s plenty of people younger than you that are wildly intelligent and truly want to make the world a better place. Let those people take up space. Let young organizers spread their wings. Put your desires to be important aside and help empower the next generation. Feeling valued by the broader society and being allowed to be important can help young people participate and learn to socialize, especially with some of their formative years being ravaged by social media and Covid.

Also some other language like “woman attracted to other men” just shows you aren’t conceptualizing this person as a woman. Like grammatical parallelism be damned. She was a woman attracted to men. That’s it.