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vimlena.com They/She Bassist (@celebrityduis.com) Burgeoning Network Admin interested in web technologies, Rust, Bash, macOS, and *NIX. I like Star Trek.

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · May 29

have decided to start fundraising for bottom surgery which is something I've needed for basically as long as I can remember, shares would be appreciated 💞

www.gofundme.com/f/help-veia-...

Donate to Help Veia Achieve Their Lifelong Dream , organized by Veia Kurman

Hey, my name is Veia Kurman (they/she) and I am a trans woman raising funds for bo… Veia Kurman needs your support for Help Veia Achieve Their Lifelong Dream

www.gofundme.com

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 11h

it's so cool how plants make oxygen and use CO2. thanks, plants 👍

Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 16h

knocked this one out of the park

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 1d

Watching BBS: The Documentary (2005) about the history of Bulletin Board Systems, which were basically a the precursor to forums, chat rooms, instant messaging, and social media on the internet pre-World Wide Web
- stream: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- download: archive.org/details/BBS_...

A still from BBS: The Documentary (2005) featuring an older man in a cluttered basement holding an old Apple II computer that used to host a BBS and smiling.

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Celebrity DUI @celebrityduis.com · 1d

🎸 DUI NATION @ THE EMPTY BOTTLE IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS 🎸

Leona and Momo @ The Empty Bottle next to their flyer on the wall

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 1d

I'm both of them :3

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ari @toxicmetalexpo.bsky.social · 3d

it's national coming out day. I first came out as trans 10 years ago, and this monday I'm finally getting top surgery after fighting so hard for it. I'm still in need of financial assistance while I am recovering, please consider sharing or donating to my gofundme www.gofundme.com/f/help-ari-g...

Donate to Help Ari Access Gender Affirming Care: Top Surgery, organized by Ari Mulch

Hello everyone, I am Ari. Some of you may know me from my comic books, ca… Ari Mulch needs your support for Help Ari Access Gender Affirming Care: Top Surgery

www.gofundme.com

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 2d

wait so, were you drinking room-temp water up until this point?

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 3d

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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domi @domi.zip · 3d

2 days

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Lili @steelwithteeth.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO LOCALS! I, along with @bawwsadface.bsky.social will be selling at the ToughLuckCinema's screening of Cabin in the Woods in Logan square! Come for fun, festivities, and scares!

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 3d

very very overdue new blog post lol vimlena.com/posts/2025/1...

Life Update / Anthophorism

What I’ve been up to lately.

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 3d

was literally thinking this as I was watching it earlier but you phrased it better than I could at the time

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Deelightfully D'Evilysh-Seymour @deeboom.bsky.social · 3d

Zohran's video is very nice. But reserve a small, incredibly violent part of your heart for the real possibility that it's a bunch of hollow horseshit and he's invoking Sylvia and Marsha's names in vain.

He needs to be held to his word or all it proves is he's better at crowd-work than other dems

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 3d

idk how old you are or if this will resonate but once I hit my late 20s it was like this overnight lmao

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K8 📺 @k8nikles.bsky.social · 4d

watch my wife's new music vid! I did the ASCII stuff on it
youtu.be/jwAU7gJSSrI?...

Opal Voss - Blow me a Kiss (Official Video)

YouTube video by Opal Voss

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 3d

thinking about Her (Susan Kare) today and her icons

A photograph of Susan Kare from the 1980s. She is a white woman with voluminous curly brown hair who is lounging in a desk chair with her feet in the air and wearing blue jeans and a gray sweatshirt.

Some of the icons Kare designed while working with Apple in the 1980s, including: big heart, birthday cake, bomb, cat, dog, dogcow (a dog that also looks like a cow, fill, floppy, hand, love letter, paint, pink elephant, smiling computer, smiling valentine, spray, unhappy computer, and watch. They are a series of pixel icons that are extremely easy to understand visually and all have a unique and visionary style

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Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 3d

web.archive.org/web/20110604...

Screenshot of a webpage with pictures of Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie, archetypal hackers, and the following text:

Some people are confused over whether this word is appropriately ‘UNIX’ or ‘Unix’; both forms are common, and used interchangeably. Dennis Ritchie says that the ‘UNIX’ spelling originally happened in CACM's 1974 paper The UNIX Time-Sharing System because “we had a new typesetter and troff had just been invented and we were intoxicated by being able to produce small caps.” Later, dmr tried to get the spelling changed to ‘Unix’ in a couple of Bell Labs papers, on the grounds that the word is not acronymic. He failed, and eventually (his words) “wimped out” on the issue. So, while the trademark today is ‘UNIX’, both capitalizations are grounded in ancient usage; the Jargon File uses ‘Unix’ in deference to dmr's wishes.

Vim ☾ @vimlena.com · 3d

it's kinda funny how UNIX doesn't 1:1 stand for anything but people still capitalize it like a acronym/initialism because the dev team was just really into small cap typesetting at the time so spelling it like Uɴɪx eventually just became UNIX