Alana @alana_is_tooting@lgbt.io

Just putting it out there that any selfies I post that are boostable are 100% okay to boost. It's not an expectation by any means. Just a blanket permission.

#introductions (v3??)
#reintroductions

Hi! I'm Alana and I've been here for a bit.

Things I generally toot about:

- feels (gender and otherwise, way too much, honestly)
- being a parent
- #blacklivesmatter
- software dev (java, python, et al)
- cuteness (kitties, borbs, anything really)
- shitpostery

#StarTrek
I have enjoyed it since I was a kid. Embarrassingly, I am the owner of a Star Trek quilt that my mom made me when I was a teenager.

#FriendsOfDeSoto
Speaking of being embarrassed of being a Star Trek fan, I am also a listener of The Greatest Generation. I'm a little behind at the moment.

#DoctorWho
Classic and Revived. My Dad grew up watching it since the 60s and I enjoyed it growing up, too.

#OldMaps
I have a fascination with old maps and seeing how places and old routes have changed over time.

#WebComics
This is kind of in my profile, but not totally. I used to draw a webcomic. It sucked. I couldn't draw people well so I based it all off of my friend's name sounding kind of like "Toe" and made all the characters body parts and based off of my friends. I suppose this means my fursona is a nose.

I'm sure no one really cares about this and it's really only funny to me most of the time, but I have a bot that toots out randomly-generated sentences. It's not really a markov bot. It uses some code I wrote in Java a long long time ago, whose claim to fame is getting someone kicked out of a poetry reading once for being entirely too vulgar. It's at @sentencemaker

Like it's just been barely four weeks. Surely it doesn't work this quickly.

Don't know if growing boobs or just gaining weight. These things aren't mutually exclusive I guess. They just look ever so slightly fuller.

It looks rather ominous outside and I made a poor decision to leave the umbrella in the car

May have to filter my deadname. Glad it's not terribly common. Sorry to those of you who have really common deadnames.

okay this was an awful idea and now it's worse

cool cool cool

I might have to not shave for a few days to let it heal up tbh

really not looking forward to that at all

So today I carefully wet-shaved (instead of the normal dry shaving) with the Braun using some "beard lube" (terrible name I know) left over from the egg days. It's not as close in a few places as I normally like, but some of it is still kinda nice and smooth even after a few hours.

Then I slathered on wayy more moisturiser than I've gotten used to using and did my normal face routine afterward. So far it's not quite as itchy so maybe this is what I'll go with for a bit.

It's, uh, probably time to buy a new head for the shaver. I bought the thing about five years ago when my facial hair picking got real bad and I needed to shave multiple times a day to stop myself (ah yes one of my biggest egg-times manifestations of dysphoria). And I've never replaced the head in that time. It's surprising it hasn't just completely mangled my face by now tbh.

It's very on-brand for Alana for her to solicit advice and then have no spoons to answer once the advice pours in.

It's all good and I promise I'll answer soon <3

So my aggressive means of shaving (as in I do a lot of passes with the Braun because fuck hair) is apparently not compatible with the softening of my neck skin and I've had a rash for about a week now. What do?

And now having gotten some of the details, apparently there was lots of fake concern for her and my kid's safety and a generous helping of deadnaming and misgendering. Thanks dude.

well I'm going to try and let it run overnight. again. since I already tried that once and the server killed my session (and thus the builder process) to preserve resources.

And I'm probably only going to get about 3 hours of sleep at this point.

Why yes, I am up at 2am trying to tweak various things on a server to get this ridiculous 3rd-party software to rebuild a model so that people can have their precious reports. It keeps crashing because this vendor can't be bothered to maybe consider that memory doesn't just magically appear out of nowhere and that maybe we can't afford fancy servers with infinite RAM.

ah lovely my transphobic brother-in-law is being an asshole to my partner (his sister) again because she posted some pro-trans stuff and then he softblocked her on insta and snap. god what a shit.

the beauty of only running windows 10 in a VM:

when it decides that just shutting down isn't an option, I can just save the machine state and shutdown later.