Astrid

Astrid

@astrid.place

23 year old software engineer | User #88,122 | Brighton resident | Doing tooling and social good stuff | Signal: astrid.580 | Discord: justsomedev | Mastodon: @astrid@treehouse.systems | 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

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Hey everyone, so my time with Vantage comes to an end at the end of this month. I feel so lucky to have worked on the stuff I did. I am looking for full time work. If anyone knows anyone, my DMs are open. People at Vantage are able to vouch for me and the services/experiences I can produce.

I really love the part of the trans community where people bang on your door, make you feel trapped in a corner, make you feel like you have to flee for your life as they are yelling for you, destroy your shit when you are gone, then evict you with 3 days notice post violating your PTSD.

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I loved coming back to someone coming in without asking pulling my clothes out of duffel bags and just assuming consent because I was silent. My medication and letters weren’t even in the room. Thinking about it makes me angry, and the expectation I would be over that in a day.

At least the town of Bromley is nice I guess, I will be back in Brighton tomorrow to handle moving into emergency accommodation hopefully

I really love the part of the trans community where people bang on your door, make you feel trapped in a corner, make you feel like you have to flee for your life as they are yelling for you, destroy your shit when you are gone, then evict you with 3 days notice post violating your PTSD.

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And you know what really sucks too, I just needed space. I just needed a week to collect how I wanted to deal with everything. But I couldn’t get such a thing. Everything happened so fast, I’m really not okay.

If you want to actually show concern for me, you wouldn’t destroy my stuff and make me feel at risk of harm. The council want me to speak to you, but I feel like I’m going to get killed if I do. I also have evidence that is timestamped from Signal that proves lies to the council.

I really love the part of the trans community where people bang on your door, make you feel trapped in a corner, make you feel like you have to flee for your life as they are yelling for you, destroy your shit when you are gone, then evict you with 3 days notice post violating your PTSD.

Then play nice to the council making it seem like I’m safe there even though they went in my room and destroyed shit, meaning the council believes I am safe there even though my stuff was destroyed and I left in fear. By the way, one of the destroyed things was the manual to a 9/11 memorial set.

I am currently effectively homeless bleeding grotesque amounts of money which I do not have. The council will help me Tuesday apparently, if they don’t I have quite the suicide plan. I can’t live in Brighton anymore, but I have to be in the UK rn because I’m bleeding too much cash.

I have to say I feel like 100x less safe in the UK than the US already. I'd go so far as to say depending on your state and healthcare, the US is safe for trans people. The UK is not. I landed just as the EHRC shit happened -_-

Do you know how many times people were transphobic to me in the US? ZERO. It has happened multiple times in the short time I've been in the UK.

Also sorry if I owe you a reply somewhere. With the exception of Discord/Twitter (SF reasons, but oh boy do I have a funny blog post about Glinner coming up)/Telegram/GitHub, I basically shut off from socials and prioritised my life. My life felt good for a while, its a bit worse now. Fuck you UK.

I am in NYC (have been since yesterday, also Jersey City but who’s counting)! The people of the states of NY and NJ are so so welcoming and lovely, so glad to be here

The New Yorkers who participated in Stonewall did not participate for this.

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tmw you change your Discord status to looking for work and a sugardaddy DMs you. Obviously not accepting his offer but 🤣

If the war is over we should fully withdraw at once. Trump has said the war is over and dad is not angry with you Mr Starmer. I know you said your dad was a toolmaker, well Trump has made you more of a took so I think that's true.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: “The UK, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, PM Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

I need to normalise sound and being outside of a tiny cube again, had a particularly bad mental health spiral, thanks Met Police

Sorry I've been quiet about certain things, lets say that I'm evaluating my legal options 😉 - blog post about overall culture soon, but not touching on grounds that fit into that

The cops were meant to take my DNA for the crime of committing a CSV file to Git, apparently its optional but the police seemed to see it as wanted for me (in case my crime spree of committing a CSV file that was already public was related to a unsolved murder or something I guess).

Mullvad getting their adverts pulled about VPN bans and all authoritarian it is, then getting their TfL advert pulled that links to it, is everything wrong with this country. Mullvad is a good VPN btw

Would it be considered unreasonable for me to start a gofundme rn considering there is so much other shit going on in the world?