Our kid got their legal gender change approved!
this post was submitted on 01 May 2026
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\o/ send them a big trans cake from us!
Apparently I'm retroactively Canadian, if I can find the paperwork. eh !?
Mark Carney has the politics of a 50-something central banker, but bill C-3 was a good thing his government did!
It looks like my Canadian ancestors were born shortly before their town was incorporated, so we're having a hell of a time chasing down the documents.
Just heard that Alecto the Ninth is likely happening next year! eeeeeeeeeeee
I got white ink in my memorial tattoo and I think it actually looks great?
I'm grateful for all the queer people, kinky people, and women who taught me things about intimacy that the tech bro on Twitter never seems to have learned. OJST webcomic is still around too.
Nagoski's Come as You Are is quite good! She put in just enough "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" to keep her trade publisher happy, but broadly it is a model of human sexuality which is more complete than any of the pop and folk theories I have seen and more relevant to people I know. Pop psychology may be mostly bullshit and fraud but this specific book is useful.
in April I got to visit one group of friends trading thoughts on things we make with our hands, then another group to talk about the profession I trained for but can't practice. The wannabe Malcolm Gladwells and David Brookses on Twitter and Substack and YouTube will never have either experience, because they don't have any hard-acquired skill and knowledge that a community with the same hard-won skill and knowledge will respect them for. Communities that do things in the material world which visibly succeed or fail also have less drama than social media and communities where everything is subjective
Some of my berries and herbs are starting to sprout.
There's a change.org petition that's getting some decent traction to force the Laurelhurst neighborhood in Seattle to stop blocking the neighboring children's hospital from making full use of their helipads. You know, the ones that are only used to handle medivacs when a kid is facing a life-and-death emergency and minutes could make the difference.
I mean, I don't have high hopes for an online petition but honestly these days I'm just glad to learn about a problem in the context of literally anything being done to solve it.
The rich fuckers are apparently inclined to acknowledge this as ridiculous, at least in part. Here's hoping that this doesn't stall out and at least some Americans get to report at least one unambiguous public policy win in 2026
how the fuck is NIMBYing medical helicopters even legal
For something more low-key, I bought a controller and got into Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers a couple weeks ago. Pretty damn tough kart racer, but oh so much fun.
Many thanks for starting the thread!
My kids discovered Homestar Runner over the weekend and my eldest demanded that we write an email to Strong Bad right now. We asked the most natural question: "What's your favorite pokemon?"
The email address is still alive!
Also finished Robert Brockway's new novel "I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200." 5/5 stars. Hug your kids and brace yourself for some real emotional extremes. Probably should do those things separately, because while the book is about lonely kids coping with the horrors, it's not really for them. Also, you might cry. Served with good politics and graphic puppet murder.
A guy I know because he invented a mechanism and I built an alternative implementation of the same behavior out of Lego and put on youtube, cited my thing in his doctoral thesis and will be defending on Monday, and I can watch that online. Can’t wait.