👉@meena@glitch.social @meena@witches.town

this is my first #introductions, so, hi

i'm meena! this is my queer account. or rather, my (most of the time) non-technical account.

i'm a femme leaning enby; i speak Bosnian, German, and English, and i'm trying to learn فارسی.

i try to speak openly about my depression: https://blag.esotericsystems.at/articles/opensource-burnout/

i'm self-employed in tech, if you care about that, sometimes i say smart things over at @hirojin

my politics are mostly naïve, so, ask me in in 10 years

open

i just tasted beer ice cream!

because i understood free ice cream…

and,

i hated it.

i just read my latest blog post to my partner in the softest voice to put her to sleep: https://sealas.at/blog/2017-10/pgp-signed-git-commits-encrypt-verify-made-easy-possible/

a bunch of my former work colleagues started following me on twitter…

how surprised are they gonna be when all my ｃｏｎｔｅｎｔ turns out to be shitposts, and all their who-to-follow recommendations become trans folks/queers?

i'm going to die of burrito

(it was good)

"their hero is essentially the writer, but inside the story; adding nothing to it, and usually stinking the place up with their opinions." 🔥 https://stingingfly.org/2017/10/24/edit-lousy-writing/

another beautiful quote from that article: "My relationship with failure is by now very friendly and relaxed."

compare and contrast two pretty good takes:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/43akqp/the-problem-with-the-metoo-campaign https://medium.com/@quinnnorton/robert-scoble-and-me-9b14ee92fffb

dus ✈️ prg

irony is dead, and we're dancing on its grave (probably to the tune of joy division)

i'm starting to consider "this patreon thing" as part of my "silicon valley doesn't scale" thought cloud: https://blag.esotericsystems.at/articles/silicon-valley-does-not-scale/

back in 2014 i didn't have that kind of view, so i don't talk about the finance sector.

there's that thing where technologists love to claim their not political.
but in doing so, they effectively subscribe to their bosses' or VCs' or investors' poliitics.

i'm fairly certain the finance sector won't see the kind of disruption "blue collar" industries have.

watching Hellraiser for the first time in decades.

the æsthetic reminds me a bit of Star Trek (TNG)

willkommen in B… Bochum?!

look at this excellent #cat.

(this courtesy of watching 28 days later)

OH: "it's chemtrails. chemtrails are hope"

this was the best vampire movie i've seen in long time.

main learning from watching Get Out:

people around you not code switching?

GET OUT

let our exit be brightly lit by the bridges that we burn