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Joni 🍓🏳️‍⚧️
@saanaito.bsky.social
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Mid-30s, she/her/fae/faer. 🏳‍⚧ Dabbles with Linux, photography, writing, gamedev (barely), and old computers. Neurodivergent. US resident, sadly.
Pfp by @sleeps-darkly.gay
(Minors please DNI.)
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Some selfies
Selfie of Joni as she holds the camera above her, at an angle. She is wearing a plaid/flannel top, blue and pink colors Mirror selfie with her face hidden. This photo also shows her blue denim jeans. Mirror selfie, with her back toward the mirror and the phone held over her shoulder, sort of. She sticks her butt out for emphasis (the jeans are somewhat loose fitting and hide her shape). A fabric belt with lesbian pride flag stripes is visible around her waist, hidden by the flannel. A “direct” (i.e., non-mirror) selfie, directly in front of her face. She gives a silly smile
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Extra masc looking here. Not dressed to go anywhere, just hanging around the house today while I work on projects.

Trying to learn to be okay with not looking feminine.
Joni taking a mirror selfie. She is wearing a black jacket with a collar, unzipped to show her green t-shirt with the Crest of Hyrule screen printed on it in yellow. The shirt is tucked into some light blue denim jeans. She is also wearing glasses, and her curly hair poofs out, long enough to line up with her jawline. Overall, she looks very mannish.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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So I rewatched the first four episodes of The Rising of the Shield Hero, and suffice it to say that I'm torn on the show (Season 2 quality drop aside, which is a distant memory for me).
Naofumi's character arc for this section is about him getting the short end of the stick in a series of events that had nothing to do with him as a person, and he responds by resorting to deeply unethical (or at least ethically questionable) methods in order to survive. The show seems to present this as a necessary evil (literally and figuratively), and tries to sell the viewer on the idea that Naofumi is being conspired against at every turn, and so the only logical response is for him to be a hardass to everyone he meets. It’s almost a “then let me be evil” sort of response, underscored by the fact that Naofumi resorts to purchasing a slave girl when presented with the option. Naofumi does start to scale back his hardass persona as he spends more time with Raphtalia, but he still attempts to utilize the slave pact/magic to force her to fight. When Raphtalia warms up to him, praising his name, it has many shades of Stockholm Syndrome (which is alluded to in episode 4, where some people accuse Naofumi of forcing her to claim that he’s nice to her and that she follows him of her own free will; her words are true, but there are undertones of her sticking with him because he was water in a desert). There’s also the fact that Raphtalia physically ages up rather quickly, as if the show is trying to quickly switch to making her more mature so that it can give romantic undertones to the relationship later. Raphtalia was a small and very young child in episode 2, and by the end of episode 4, she has physically matured into at least an older teenager, if not a newly-christened adult. Naofumi is established as in his 20s and in college in the first episode, so there’s definitely an age gap here. It’s true that the both of them were dealt a bad hand in life (at least in the world of Melromarc) and they are bonding in part over their efforts to help each other overcome those hardships, but even these first four episodes give off enough undertones to give me the ick. Japan is notoriously conservative, and given the recent wave of discoveries related to pe******ia in the United States’ conservative political party in 2025, that topic has been weighing on my mind (gravely). If anyone else reading this has seen the show: am I reading too much into this? Is the show just trying to be wholesome by using dark topics to tell a heartwarming story that will make audiences cry? (Because god, I still cried so much on this short rewatch.) Or am I potentially onto something and Shield Hero might be a symptom of a problematic writer/premise/culture?
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Three disks arrived today from a donor! Now I have a monstrosity set up to (hopefully) get the data safely migrated into the NAS, get the larger disks installed in said NAS, and hopefully get our desktops back to normal!
A bunch of hard drives sitting outside of a tower PC case, with assorted plastic keeping some of them off the hardwood floor. More disks are mounted inside the case.
November 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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He doesn’t know 🥹
A black cat with the most clueless expression, standing behind a clothes hamper
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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… but it looks like Calibre’s output to the .lit format is perfectly acceptable for this old software!
The iPAQ again, showing the cover art for the book Magica Riot, by Kara Buchanan. The copyright page for the Magica Riot ebook, rendered on the iPAQ. The text is sharp on the old screen, despite its poor brightness level. Check out https://www.magicariot.com if you want to read a book about magical girls who play in a band, with a transgender protagonist as their newest member!
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Fiddling with ways to read ebooks on my old Pocket PC/Windows Mobile handhelds. Microsoft Reader was actually bundled in the ROM of this iPAQ, so I wanted to try that.

I was under the impression that I would have to jump through hoops or find some long-forgotten tools in order to make it work, but
An old iPAQ PDA, running Pocket PC 2002, running the Microsoft Reader app. The software shows a list of books.
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🥹🥹🥹🥹
A calico plays with a cat toy with her paws held in the most adorable pose
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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A moment of silence for the deceased
Four hard drives. Two Seagates, both 4 TB; a Western Digital, 4 TB; and a WD, 6 TB
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A 6 terabyte hard drive in a plastic frame
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This thing barely had a year of spinning time despite me owning it for about six years
An external hard drive
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Yeah this disk is done for
Terminal output. “Error reading block 1025 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while reading inode and block bitmaps. “/dev/sdt1: Unexpected Inconsistency; fun fsck manually”
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Strawberries are the best fruit 🍓
Screenshot of the game Celeste. There’s a floating strawberry in a building sticking out the side of the mountain.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Oooh are we doing the “mystery on a moving train” shindig? This might be fun
Paper Mario TTYD. There’s a penguin detective and some other characters standing around the kitchen on a luxury train
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Chapter 6, still got some momentum
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Switch remake. Chapter 6 title card: Three Days of Excess.
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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If I get any Christmas cash from the fam this year, I stg I’m using it to buy a bigger SSD
Trying to install Hades II on my Steam Deck, and there’s just barely enough free space on the internal storage; the microSD card, meanwhile, is too full for the game to fit.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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A relative gave me an early Christmas gift, Hades Two Nuts
Screenshot of an email from Steam, informing me that I received a gift copy of Hades II.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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#transgender #transrights
Handwritten text on an old Pocket PC screen. “Every trans person knows what it feels like to be denied essential healthcare.” “We would never hold cis people to the same standards that they hold us to.” “Because we know that road leads only to suffering.” “Trans rights!” Plus a very simple doodle of the transgender (⚧️) symbol, a raised fist, and a heart.
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Oh yeah, it’s cooked
Lots of errors on the filesystem. All of them so far are, “Inode number X has INDEX flag set on filesystem without htree support. Htree index cleared”
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I’m going to need an external hard drive too, for backing up stuff on the NAS. Any size of 1 TB or larger is fine, I just want something for handling critical files.

A 6 TB drive I had designated for the task is clearly dying
Error messages showing that a directory failed to delete (on the external hard drive), and I/O errors on the external hard drive. A terminal window showing e2fsck running on a hard drive, set to automatically fix any issues. The program reported that the file system contains known errors.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Testing my 4TB hard drives, and they’re not doing great. Two have finished Extended SMART tests; one of them failed.
Handwritten notes on hard drives and SMART data, using serial numbers as identifiers. Four of the drives have overheated in the past. Two are known to have bad sectors, one of them with over 56,000. That particular disk failed its test.
November 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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He screm
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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She said the line!
Vivian says to Mario, “Truth is, it took me a while to realize I was their sister … not their brother. Now their usual bullying feels heavier.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Starting chapter 4 now! I know that this is the one where Vivian eventually joins the team, so I’m excited!
Photo of the Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door’s title card for Chapter 4: For Pigs the Bell Tolls
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Joni standing in a bedroom, taking a mirror selfie. She is wearing a salmon/orange-ish colored dress.
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM