starless @starless@pixie.town

Today, I made a chocolate orange antoccino to match the chocolate orange Milano cookies I had. It turned out really well, though maybe it's too close to how the cookies taste to be the best pairing. 😅

1. Make espresso in aeropress
2. Add some baking cocoa powder to espresso, maybe 3/4 teaspoon?
3. Add five drops of orange essential oil, add a little sugar if you want
4. Whip espresso, chocolate, and oil together with frothing wand
5. Steam milk in columnator thingie and add that to cup
6. Drink!

Today, I logged into a social media account I haven't used for a while, now. Mostly local folks I know, not so relevant during the pandemic.

I learned a couple things:

1. Holy shit, it is full of reposts.

2. My chunk of the community there is super wholesome and I'd totally forgot.

A friend (larger person, big beard) asked about where to find a sundress in their size. There are forty six replies with info like 'torrid is where I get mine' and suggesting cuts that work well with larger shoulders. No single person is posting a gazillion things, and there's offers from plus size transfemme folks to go shopping together.

It was really nice to see and reminded me that there's good local folks. At the same time, it's still big corpo media.

My relationship with social media is maybe necessarily complex. I love people and I love communities, and social media gives folks the opportunity to be super wholesome like this. But, it's also a corporate engine that people pour compassion into and revenue for a third party comes out.

Anyways, I have a vanilla latte making rice crispy noises, so I should get back to that.

Good morning, I hope your day goes well! 💙

Hi hello.

My boss is concerned about my performance because I took 2 days of time off two weeks ago when I got sick. I'm pretty sure he's trying to fire me over it.

I had a fever and was sleeping 12+ hours/day, and opted to take half days that week because it was a release week and we hadn't done validation testing for a while, and I really didn't want to release without that.

I know this is bullshit, I've been trying to get transferred off his team for years.

Anyways, the last other femme developer who worked in our repo quit. I now work with 30 men, until they fire me for getting sick.

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I made shakshuka for breakfast today and had an egg and the tomato sauce sandwiched in a sesame bagel. It was awesome, if a little messy. Like meatball sub vibes, but no meat, and for breakfast. A+, will eat again.