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Learning Swedish! :)

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My mom got phished in an EXTREMELY refined scam that pretty much anyone could fall for-- basically her account was already pre-hacked and they spoofed the bank's number exactly, called her pretending there was fraud, and read back legitimate and fake transactions and personal info so she wouldn't suspect they weren't the bank. Then discouraged her from logging in claiming the account was locked so they could investigate the fraud-- all so she wouldnt catch them making massive purchases using her stolen info.

We have the same boss and when she told him what happened he recommended she call the bank directly, so she did and they managed to catch it in time before $20k of transactions went through. Very scary

I guess the lesson here is never ever answer your phone, I love that fraud is so rampant an entire form of mass communication is now useless

ANYONE can fall for phishing scams- my mom is extremely smart and we discuss common scams that target her age demographic and she still fell for this. If it happened to me I may have fallen for it too. Always be careful!

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 7

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Update #1: Figured out the two genders in my combined gender!!!!

Athenomasc: synonym to transmasculine, with a focus on always having been or always being male/masculine but having the wisdom, knowledge, and experiences gained from having spent time living as the "opposite gender."

Faesari: a gender identity where one feels most comfortable within the gender neutral spectrum, but still feels a strong attachment/connection to femininity.

Did not think that at this point in my life I'd still be discovering things about my gender nor going down the "super niche gender" route but, uh, here I am and I'm enjoying it.

Update #2: Going to start belly dance in the fall after I take care of some health things!

Found a place that's trans-friendly after a bit of internet sleuthing. Taking a step towards body confidence, confidence in general, and embracing all of myself.

Update #3: Started working with Hathor!

Apparently she's been watching for a while (since January) and decided that I'm ready for her to step in now. She maaaaay have hinted at me to actually look for a dance school to teach me but I was already interested on my own.

I had been told a few days before by Veritas that there was a goddess from the Egyptian pantheon that was waiting for me but she didn't reveal herself until after I decided to start dance and wouldn't even tell me her name herself. She came in at the end of a tarot reading with Zeus and told me to go look up the goddess associated with belly dance and there she was on the first link I clicked. (Fair warning: didn't read the full article, stopped when I got to her name.)

It just felt right. The night before she announced herself directly I had a dream about me and my person being out and about somewhere together and there was a woman there with golden hair that seemed to know both of us but we didn't know who she was. She gave us a fake name, "Louisi" or something that sounded like it at the time. [My person said the next morning "Like first name 'Louisi,' middle name 'Ana'?" 😂] When I started looking up Hathor, I realized that "Louisi" had the same face shape that Hathor has in a lot of carvings.

"Louisi" had a mole on her cheek too, just a random tidbit.

So, uh, yeah. Good things happening!

Reading The Left Hand of Darkness got me thinking....maybe I'm ambigender????

I mean, it's not the farthest stretch as a someone who already identifies as a nonbinary transman. And lately I have been feeling like "there's probably a more specific word for how I'm feeling but I don't know what it is."

The book uses the word ambisexual but ambigender fits the modern usage of - sexual vs. -gender.

Soooooo, new gender just dropped for me? Maybe?

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I have something on my server I need help with one sec

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"The sun comes up every day. The wheel keeps on turning. And things can always turn in your favor. If you let them."

— Hathor (with a cheeky little wink from Hermes).

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Some new books for Pride month!! 😁👍🏻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Wukong, what have you done this time!

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I'm very fond of this video

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They lost interest in learning a new craft pretty quickly

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How I spent about an hour of my day. They both woke up from a nap so don’t mind their grumpy faces. The hat is a bit too small so their ears won’t go into the holes but it’s fiiiine…

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priDE MONth

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shark tapestry crochet for my bsf!