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geekingthething.bsky.social
Els and scary, but not as scary as a potential fascist cabinet
@geekingthething.bsky.social
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Queer nonbinary trans human | they/them | makes sql server and powerbi go brrrrrr | hoarder of books | me/cfs
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I was at a weaving workshop and it was SO AMAZING! Very cool. Less physically intense than I expected.
White nonbinary person with a blue shirt, sits in front of a wooden loom and moves a wooden ship between the threads. They have a piece of fabric of green and yellow already made.
November 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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#TransOnTrains
Selfie of a white nonbinary person with short dark hair, purple glasses, big black headphones and a black coat. Behind their head you see the blue headrest of the trainseat. Sadly they still have a visible cold sore. They look tired but content.
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Klimaatmars!
Selfie of a white nonbinary person with a black jacket, a black and white keffiyeh around their neck, purple glasses, and a red beanie with a fnv (union) logo. In the background you see the sun coming trough the clouds, and people standing on the grass behind them.
October 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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We're on our way to Berlin! #TransOnTrains Tomorrow I'll speak with @sqlclause.no at @datamoshpit.bsky.social 🤘 (tickets are free!) and this weekend I'll teach with my partner at @karada-house.de (tickets are sliding scale) 😎😍
Selfie in the train of two white humans. On the left is a man with a grey cap, glasses, and a stubble beard, with a grey sweater vest. He's sitting next to the window. On the right is a nonbinary person with short dark hair, purple glasses, and a black shirt. They're both smirking at the camera.
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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V good meme. Reposting with alt text :
Screenshot of what seems to be tumblr: meadovv change your name and gender at least twice a year for security reasons goodzillo using a gender manager so I don't have to memorize what gender I'm currently using for which accounts horriblehottakes "Man" and "Woman" are commonly used genders. To make yourself more secure, try to come up with a unique gender that only you know.
October 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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In a few days it's @datasaturdaynl.bsky.social time! (you can still get tickets, hope to see you all there!) so I am doing some last minute prep to my talk on gender. I decided to add a bit on politics and the current situation. This is my slide:
Black background, with white letters: Queer rights, politics and the world TL;DR: aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Recently I bought tshirt-yarn to create a bathmat. You could pick the main color, but not the precise shade, since the yarn is made from rest-material. I picked green. And the color turned out to be identical to my couch 😂
A photo of the side of a couch in a dark green velvet. A big spool of tshirtyarn lays on top of the side, with a strand falling down, and it's the exact same dark green. Behind it you see the ochre yellow wall.
September 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Oh man, apparently Hugh Laurie and Michelle Gomez will be in/on the audiobook too. And then Gomez' wiki page says:

That's not how this works. Either you are pro trans rights, or you work for the main terf. You have to pick one.
In August 2025, it was announced that Gomez would be voicing Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions, a production of Audible and J.K. Rowling's Pottermore.[14] This was met with controversy, due to Rowling's advocacy against transgender rights and her financial donations to anti-trans causes, with criticism centering on the financial support that taking part in the audiobook would give to Rowling. In response, Gomez stated that "I stand with trans people, and I support trans rights - fully and without hesitation" and linked a donation page for Callen-Lorde Community Health Center.[15][16][17]
September 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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So I open the book to look inside, and IT SEEMS SIGNED?!

Can't easily find how the author's autograph looks like, but if it was an ex libris thing, it would usually be more readable.

I'm amused ^^
First page of the book, with title and author and a big scribble in blue pen that seems like an autograph of the author, but it's unreadable.
September 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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There's a free library at the train station I pass through when going to work, and last week I grabbed this one:
Photo of the book Filosoof in de bajes (philosopher in jail) by Rein Gerritsen. The cover is a photo of a white man with dark hair that's turning gray, wearing winter clothes, looking up slightly, in front of a brick wall. It looks like an prison yard.
September 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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They're going to take my data. AAAAAHHHHHH!
Photo of a blue banner with the following text "nmcb The Netherlands ME/CFS Cohort and Biobank Consortium" and a qr code to their website
September 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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First day of the #MagicalReadathon. This is my TBR:
Photo of 4 books, standing side by side, so you just see the spines: katabasis by rf Kuang, water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao, being seen by Elsa Sjunneson, and daughter of witches by Patricia c wrede.
September 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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And, as always, checked the Staff Recs, and they like people I like! Look @stephanieburgis.bsky.social and @rblemberg.bsky.social

(in the ABC in The Hague 😊)
Photo of the cover of Wooing the Witch Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, with a Staff Choice note. A photo of the cover of The Unbalancing by R B Lemberg, with a Staff Choice note on it.
August 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Cloud and Isabelle will be living in my big wooden cupboard with a glass window for the time being. Skelebara and Dragonfruit will live at/around my couch and then move on the top of the cupboard or in my bedroom (where I still have to install much stuffie shelving)
August 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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One of the things I wanted to do when in the US was go to a Build-A-Bear with my girlfriend 🐻❤️

Success! The rainbow bear (called Cloud) is wearing his tourist hoodie again, but spend all worldcon in my walker, wearing his 'my weekend is all booked' shirt. It's important to wear proper attire!
A build a bear squishnallow style plush ie on a green couch. It's a dragonfruit dragon, with the fitting coloring of intense pink, green, and white with black dots. A photo of 3 build a bear stuffies sitting on a dark green coach. The stuffie on the right is Isabelle from animal crossing in her coral shirt. On the left is a rainbow bear, wearing a grey hoodie with the golden gate bridge and the text "San fransisco" on it. He's holding a plush book with the title "teddy tales". On their laps is a small black capybara with their ribs and some other bones in white (skelebara!). Some build a bear assecoiries: a blue shirt with a picture of a stack of books and the text "my weekend is fully booked", a black shirt with a white skeleton ribcage and some colorful candy, and a phone for a stuffie to hold.
August 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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I never get tired of this view.
Photo of a brown and green cozy chair, in front of a corner of big brown bookcases, filled with books of many colors and sizes. On the chair is a sleeping tabby cat with a white belly and legs, looking very comfy.
July 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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I bought the cutest crocheted thingie today at a market!
It's a small crocheted "plant hanger" with leaves and strawberries and flowers. It hangs on the handle of a window.
July 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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It's tricky, mostly because you have to go back into the stitch two rows below the one you're at, and i find that harder to see/guess. But did some rows! Will switch color and do some more later this week!
Small bit of crochet (12cm to 3cm) in a pink-ish yarn, with the stitch as shared above. The piece is on a green background, and you see a bit of the white hand.
June 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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With alt text
Twitter/X screenshot from Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la While everyone is looking at Iran, 25 Gazans were slaughtered by the IDF while waiting for food. The IDF admitted to killing them. They no longer bother to deny it because no one cares. 6:20 am 21 Jun 25 137K Views
June 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I love @mrsiwhiteley.bsky.social

#SQLBITS
Photo of Simon presenting (white cis man, black shirt, white shorts) , in front of a huge screen with the huge text "data engineering is dead"
June 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Well fuck. Multiple day conferences are intense for everyone. My disabled self causes some extra challenges. Ya'll know I yelled about genderneutral toilets, which they provided. However, both yesterday and today I ran into this:
photo of red tiled walls with a sign "gender neutral toilets", with a space where usually a door would be, but it's closed of by a white metal gate.
June 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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SUCCES!
Crappy photo with lots of shadows, with the two pins i ordered (better description in the photo of the post i quoted, sorry!)
June 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I forgot my pronoun pins, and I really want some at the event I'm going to. So I ordered some to get delivered to my hotel tomorrow. I do hope they saved more info on me than they show here... 🤔 I mean, it's technically correct?
Screenshot of my order confirmation of two pins with they/them pronouns. One has rainbow stripes with letters in black, the other is white with gold letters, and both are round. The information where the order is sent to just says: Els, London, United Kingdom
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Here we GO! I'm a trans on a train again today, off to #SQLbits #TransOnTrains
Selfie of a white nonbinary person with glasses. They have a black cap and big earcovering headphones on their had, and are wearing a band tshirt from Textures with blue/green flowers and birds and a sickle moon. The wall behind them has horizontal stripes in many colors. They're smiling/smirking in the camera.
June 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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I think I found the shirt to wear to @datamoshpit.bsky.social this october... #SQLfamily
Shirt from the band Meshuggah with a steampunky robot lady on it. Lots of grey/silver metal, cogs, pipes, with some yellow details.
June 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM