[dan] @TaxDan@retro.social

Hello friends. Feel free to throw some she/hers in with the they/thems for me. Been doin some gender exploration lately. Came to a couple of conclusions tonight.

I just want to virtually catch fish in a virtual river on my couch.

Yeah so masto is my little lightly filtered diary that I share with people I trust + internet weirdos that I've consented to sharing with (most of the time, everyone our instance federates with; I public toot a lot). Don't fuckin share anything I've posted here anywhere else lol. Boost here as desired but what TaxDan posts on mastodon stays on mastodon.

Sure, someone could find me and see things I didn't want them to see but they'd have to figure out which weirdo instance I'm on at least. That's a good enough barrier for what I post here. Good luck finding the dirt, future snoopers.

Okay okay, I'll do a new #introduction post for the twitter migration folks. Hi! I'm Dan. Or TaxDan (more on that later). I'm #nonbinary and use they/them pronouns. I'm #bisexual and #polyamorous. I'm an #anarchist with a particular interest in police and prison #abolition. Into building communities and learning collective practices that make policing and prisons impossible.

I play drums for @DoctorDeathray and Her Implements of Destruction which is based out of Ellijay, GA and has the @ellijaymakerspace to thank for bringing us together! I have written music via singin' and piano'n in the past and I will again in the future!

I organize and am attempting to build multisexual (bi, pan, poly, fluid, queer, etc) community in Georgia via an organization called Bi+ Georgia. These days we mostly put on social events and discussion panels. We have a discord server. We're working (slowly bc we're all volunteers) on building more to help connect our people to each other and to the resources we need to survive and thrive.

I play computer games and switch games. I like to talk about that here because I know y'all are nerds like me who actually appreciate it. I also work a day job as an office admin in the accounting industry, which is why, when there were too many Dans in the music scene, I became TaxDan. I vent about my job a lot here.

Haz (bra insert) tiddies!!! 🥰🥰🥰

My therapist said I was kicking ass and taking names 🥰

https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/solidarity-with-trans-youth

Hello computer nerds of the fediverse, I'm trying to figure out if all the fuss about the RESTRICT Act thing is just tik-tok misinformation nonsense or if there's something to it. Notably I don't see the usual advocacy organizations chiming in loudly about it like they would if this was a big threat to individual privacy.

Gonna try and upload a video. Dunno if that works on here.

Our church is certainly not perfect but this was powerful coming from the pulpit. What brought me to tears that you can't hear very well in the video is my congregation loudly shouting "amen" to each of her statements affirming trans folks in our community (of which we have several including myself).

If it hasn't been said already, it should be said that @DoctorDeathray has a killer vibrato. Just absolutely crushed this rendition of Ain't Got Heaven. 🤯

Bi+ GA streaming thing for Saturday works. Yay. Now time to watch NETV before sleeps. I always seem to catch videos of Doctor Deathray playing or the time I played with Hurly Burly. Anyway here's @djsundog

Conversation went *okay* as in the tone wasn't aggressive. There were some shitty things said in a pleasant voice when she talked about how she felt about it. Nothing I care to repeat here. She also said I supported her at her wedding and she wants to support me at my ceremony and she acknowledged that I've never demanded or even asked much of her in my identity journey (which is true! and she should say that!). She also wanted to read a book I referenced (Sissy by Jacob Tobia) that I said was good for parents. Didn't make a commitment to come to the thing or not. Expect to receive a long email and/or text after she talks to her shitty husband that encourages her bigotry.

It's always the people with 500 page tax returns that want it printed out on paper.

Soundtrack for the dystopia
https://linquafranqa.bandcamp.com/album/bellringer

I basically have been prepared for this since I came to the conclusion that I want to wear a dress for this ceremony. And also since I realized that being closeted/hiding for others' sake causes me a lot of emotional distress and so I'm going to only be ridding myself of closets going forward, not going into them. This conversation was inevitable.

My mom:
polyamory = cool
dresses = end of the world as she knows it

Have to have a conversation after work where I will probably lose my relationship with my mom. So that will be fun.

Basically I'm letting her know that I will be wearing a dress at my throuple's commitment ceremony later in the year. Because otherwise she will say I ambushed her with it at the ceremony. Either way she would probably stop talking to me for at least a few years. Very fun.