Erin Rose

I finally got a production Tangara! …couldn’t resist swapping in the aluminium back from my prototype unit, but it still feels special I love working on open source hardware with my friends 🧡

if I ever decide to write a talk for EMF camp or whatever it will likely be titled “you probably shouldn’t run a manufacturing operation out of your bedroom, here’s how”

computer touchers with “automation autism” have it so much easier than machinery touchers with automation autism, only one of these makes you want to build a factory production line in your bedroom…

#CANARYCORPS, the visual novel I've been working on with some friends, is now released! Go check it out! rattlegeist.itch.io/canary-corps

it’s amazing (read: depressing) how many otherwise decent cis allies have passively absorbed the whole “most trans women work in tech or at defence contractors earning 6 figures” trope..

In a better world medication prescriptions would include an extra month’s supply occasionally, to store as an “off-site backup” (if you do DIY HRT you should already be doing this, or at least communicating with friends about what you can share in an emergency)

filling the unused areas of my JLC solder paste stencils with patterns to use as nail stencils 💅 (commercial nail art stencils are basically the same thickness)

I think we should all start calling more workshops “engineeriums” again.. 💭 calling my bedroom an engineerium because it contains: - many machines and tools for engineering - an engineer you can come and look at like a fish in an aquarium

If you arent sure if a trans person you know needs $100, they almost certainly do. Theres like, 8 trans people on earth who *dont* need an extra $100.

This looks cool.. makes me more determined to help make the next Tangara case / physical iterations even better though :3 and the demand for functional / friendly offline music players will outstrip the stockpile of old apple hardware eventually www.crowdsupply.com/certain-thin...

“this feels problem-shaped” ❌ “this feels very kiki” ✅

they probably won’t mind if I borrow them for a little while, right? 🥰

this past ~month has taught me (once again) that having time / energy to do my silly little side projects is critical for my ability to feel like an actual person...

I’m actually excited about touching a computer again?? it’s been 25 years… (a silly little bricked DECT phone that runs android 4.3 I’m going to try and fix, and then do silly mods to)

slightly eccentric old women are so cool, I’m excited to be one someday

it’s Missile Locktober *shines my ranging laser at u*

oh you’re under an NDA? well I’m under a cosy weighted blanket

💭 spaceship named: Our Lady of Posting Through It

submissive? no no, subsurface-emissive, my boobs glow from within

Generally speaking I do need AI boosters to understand that I’ve lost my career and future plans entirely to AI-based cost cutting. so any time you’re talking about tech you have to understand people whose livelihoods were destroyed by a thing they didn’t choose to adopt they’re gonna be prickly lol

procrastinating doing proper research on FCC certification for Witch Staff because I think there’s a 50% chance the FCC no longer meaningfully exists by the time we’re at that stage..

Ah yes the two genders

messily eating a mango because I was too lazy to cut it up and in doing so reminding myself that a friend is getting bottom surgery soon..

an evil woman named Autodesk Fusion 360 is messaging me trying to extort me for £600 :(

ehehe, I have wanted one of these since I was 13 years old… :3

every year my dislike for Raspberry Pi grows deeper and more justified, even Apple doesn’t prevent RAM chip replacement like this.. (consumerrights.wiki/w/Raspberry_...) (forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.ph...)

weighted blankets are not enough, I need to sleep under at least 2G of acceleration, I must become the weighted blanket someone invent fusion torch ships for this purpose pls

neurotypical people who don’t remove their in-ear wireless headphones while talking out of laziness have unknowingly done so much for autistic people who wear them all the time for the noise cancelling.. thank you for your service 🫡

if you ever see me irl and I’m wearing a bra that’s NOT me, that’s my evil clone and she’s kinda annoying

I wonder if my pothos enjoys being wobbled by the 3d printer..

the t in tgirl stands for transistor

as a workshop safety officer you should be mindful in using environment-appropriate language: "awww did you have a little booboo?" ❎️ "awww did you have a little industrial accident?" ✅️

entropy would be a beautiful name for a woman

I've been informed Dyson have now recalled the toothbrush (less than 2 weeks after launch) ..because it wasn't waterproof.. lol

when you verify a friend’s signal safety number in person you have to give them a little kiss on the top of their head after, it won’t work properly if u don’t

nobody told me that intellectualizing yourself into a small steel cube to get through early transition has long term consequences?? wtf!