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Avatar: Smiling anime-style blonde girl winking, with a bright blue eye, wearing a blue hooded cap and jacket over a white top and black skirt, on a plain light background.
yesterday I was in crisis.
today, this girl gave a peaceful bliss that I desperately needed. I could stay with her the whole day.
Me: sends my mom a selfie of how I looked for a concert.
Mom: You look so pretty. 🤩 You take after me. 😃
Me: Why do you think that is?
Mom: Maybe because we're related?
Me: Maybe because I'm your daughter.
Mom: 😃🥰😍😘
These are the things that mean the world to me.
i'd rather just be me than try to be who everyone else wanted me to be.
transitioning honestly changed my life in a good way. i finally made peace with that girl inside me, the one i kept pushing down for so long because of all the stuff i was taught growing up under patriarchy, misogyny, and rigid religious beliefs that framed femininity as shameful and inferior, something that needed to be hidden. but finding myself... it's been kind of amazing. i feel real happiness now, real support, and i actually get to live as myself and experience the girlhood i never thought i'd have.
transitioning didn't magically fix everything, but it made life feel worth it, like something i actually want to keep going for.
i'm trans. i'm here. and i wouldn't change this part of me.
happy trans day of visibility to all my trans fam 🏳️⚧️
#TDOV #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #TransJoy #TransIsBeautiful #ProtectTransLives #VisibilityMatters
The FTC said OkCupid and Match shared nearly 3 million user photos with Clarifai in 2014, along with location and demographic data, without telling users or offering an opt-out. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court, includes no financial penalty and no admission of wrongdoing. It would permanently bar OkCupid and Match from misrepresenting how they collect, use, share, delete, or protect personal data and privacy controls.
Me, casually walking out of Ulta after my brow wax and tint. A big truck carrying heavy equipment passes by on the street. The male driver turns his head to look at me while I wait to cross. He smiles at me...
"A strange guy would never just look and very visibly smile at me for no reason," I thought...
"Wait... Did I just pass?!" :anidab_left:
Today, I fulfilled one of my childhood dreams I didn't know I had, or rather, I had forgotten about. Last weekend, through therapy, I connected with my younger self, and at the end, I gave her a rag doll, and she became incredibly happy with it.
After that, I thought that I had always wanted a rag doll, yet since I was socialized as a boy, I wasn't allowed to have one. Well, today I am an adult woman with adult money, and proceeded to get myself one.
She has arrived today.
When I took her out of the box, I immediately felt goosebumps all over, and I felt such incredible joy I had not felt with any other gift, or anything I had bought for myself. I immediately hugged her, and some tears rolled down my cheeks.
So, there she is! I am so happy right now. 
#transJoy #trans #lgbtqia #mentalHealth #mentaltherapy #strawberryshortcake
just had to fire my psychiatrist before we even really got started.
found out he misgendered me during a call with my psychologist. when she corrected him, he didn't apologize. he got defensive and said he "never talked about pronouns" with me, like that somehow makes it ok?? also, I clearly stated to him during our first appointment that I am a trans woman, and have gender dysphoria.
that's not a miscommunication. thats a provider who isn't safe for trans patients. and im not gonna spend my limited energy educating someone who should already know better.
finding affirming mental healthcare is hard enough. we shouldn't also have to fight just to be seen correctly by the people that are supposed to help us.
This is my church
This is where I heal my hurts
It's a natural grace
Of watching young life shape
It's in minor keys
Solutions and remedies
Enemies becoming friends
When bitterness ends
This is my church
Seattle Humane
on a brighter note, today is my first anniversary of changing my legal sex to female on my birth certificate 🎉🎊
my kitty cat broke her tail... 😢
Sam Bent reports the White House app v47.0.1 requests 26 Android permissions, including precise location, biometric authentication, storage changes, startup, overlay, and Wi-Fi access, and embeds 3 trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core. The piece also says the app includes an ICE tip line link and a "Text the President" feature that prefills "Greatest President Ever!" while collecting contact details. More broadly, the article compares permissions and trackers across U.S. government apps including FEMA, myFBI Dashboard, IRS2Go, and CBP Mobile Passport Control and argues many functions could be delivered via the web instead of mobile apps.
https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
Apple macOS Privacy & Security settings may not reflect real access to protected folders, according to a demonstration by The Eclectic Light Company using a notarized test app called Insent. The author shows an app can regain access to Documents through Open and Save Panel intent even after the Files & Folders toggle is turned off, with testing on macOS Tahoe 26.4 and suspected impact from macOS 13.5 onward. The reported workaround is to reset TCC for the app and restart, although the author later noted MACL persistence may mean access is not fully cleared.
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/10/why-you-cant-trust-privacy-security/
I had some mixed feelings today when I went to the cat shelter. Since my surgery, I have been staying at home most days, so I skipped makeup. Today, since I was going out, I put on some makeup to look not so pale.
There were very few cats for adoption, so I had plenty of time to socialize with them. Three of them were super cute and adorable, and all of them were adopted by the end of my shift. A fourth cat, which was really shy and did not want to come out and play, was also adopted, which I am so happy about since those cats take the longest to be adopted.
However, for some reason, I was misgendered much more frequently than at other times; most days I am not misgendered at all. I have long hair, wear earrings, had makeup on, and I wear a trans-flag-colored lanyard. I know that most people who did that were more focused on the cats than me. Yet, by the end of my shift, I began to feel dysphoric, and all I wanted was to go home.
My wife cheered me up a little, yet I am exhausted.
Apple-related court testimony cited by 404 Media says the FBI recovered incoming Signal message content from an iPhone's internal notification storage after the app had been removed. The report says only incoming notifications were captured, not outgoing messages, and no public technical details confirm exactly how the data was extracted. Signal offers a setting to hide message text in notifications, and the article indicates it was apparently not enabled in this case.
Cybrkyd's post looks beyond Apple and asks whether age verification is starting to move into the operating system layer. It points to a merged systemd change and Flatpak discussions as signs that Linux components are beginning to account for age checks, potentially in response to regulatory pressure. The article is framed as analysis and open questions, especially around how age could be verified on self administered systems where the user is also root.
https://cybrkyd.com/post/age-verification-on-systemd-and-flatpak/
Fairlinked's "BrowserGate" report alleges that LinkedIn, owned by Microsoft, scans visitors' browsers for installed extensions and tools without disclosure, including competitor sales products and job-search add-ons. The report says the results are sent to LinkedIn and third parties, potentially exposing sensitive traits and revealing which companies use rival products. It also claims the scan list grew from about 461 products in 2024 to more than 6,000 by February 2026, and that the activity is not described in LinkedIn's privacy policy.
2026: The year I became CTO of a startup.
#CTOLife #StartupJourney #LeadershipLessons #CareerMilestone
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