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Mum used my preferred pronouns (when talking to my dad!) the other night, for the first time (it's been years). At first I was confused because it's they/ them pronouns, and she had just deadnamed me prior and I had corrected her (I'm she/they). And there's no way my dad understood it either. He struggles with my gender identity more than my mum I would say, but thinks a LOT less (about it and me in general at all). I'm the vantablack sheep of the family with whom no one can relate (nor tries to - except mum occasionally), for many more reasons than I can state. It would be easier if fate hadn't struck me down with no better recovery options than family, but for now, this is where I am broken down and stranded, trying to carve out some semblance of daily existence.
#ramble
#genderidentity
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#pronouns

My notes are #PlainText first, #Markdown second. They're highly portable between platforms, apps, and devices. #macos and #ios are my weapons of choice, but they'd look and work the same on #android and #Windows.

They aren't #Obsidian notes, or #Logseq / #iaWriter / #tangent / #TextEdit / #Nota / #AnyType / #Taio / #TaskPaper / #vsCode notes, though I can use any of those apps as a lens to view and work with them.

They're wild, and free. This is their theme song:
youtube.com/watch?v=iYFk_EsZ_D

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A #tangent:
Hello #fediverse! What is the best practice for me to request a better #AltText for this image. My German isn't good enough and I'd really like something to input to my translator other than the fact that it is a screenshot from Instagram.

I think I remember seeing somebody posting a tag and summoning a bot that read the text for them. I could also be the type of person to respond to such requests in the future.

@jon

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@ranimolla hmm. :)

I seldom actually enjoy eating out, these days. It seems the older we get, the better the results are at home, as it were.

I think the only thing I don't know how to make at this point, is bread, and sushi. Flatbread sure, sushi I've tried, with decent results.

Otherwise, yeah. Home cooking is far better.

#tangent. :)

also, nice avatar, did you make it?