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rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Raye with an aye
@rayewithanaye.bsky.social
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Polyamorous non-binary trans person from Chicago. I do tech stuff, specifically DevOps stuff, specifically Kubernetes stuff, specifically stuff that doesn't work most of the time.

Pronouns: they/them (or whatever, I'm not a cop)
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rayewithanaye.bsky.social
We're a very neurotypical household... 😅
A Signal message: the laundry basket sort order was mismatched for color and purpose. I fixed it in case you need to move anything. 😊
September 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Cheese curds and a demolition derby! 😁
September 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
I'm no expert, but I can say with some certainty that this key would not, in fact, work... 😅
A banner on a building that says "We make keys that work" with a photo of a key that has vertical bittings that would not function in a pin and tumbler lock.
August 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
They had one job...

#hyundai #ioniq5 #ioniq #cars #electriccars #electricvehicles
May 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Zero regrets on this sticker purchase
A photo of a windshield of a car with two stickers. One is a typical Chicago city sticker and the other says "Department of Defense Registered Vehicle - Stargate Command" in the style of a DoD window decal.
May 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
I can literally get a bottle of ranch dressing for what this restaurant by me charges for a shot glass of it.
A fast-food menu with various sauces and dressings listed for $2.49
April 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Words cannot describe how shaken I am to my core after watching the videos of these two from today. We're not even 90 days in and my GTFO clock is sitting at about five seconds from midnight... 😣
President Bukele of El Salvador with President Trump of the USA in the Oval Office
April 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
I made an espresso martini! (it's actually Folger's decaf, don't tell anyone)
An espresso martini
April 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
I feel dumb... 😅

#trans #transgender #voicetraining
April 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
I had to use a heat gun to fix my hair dryer... 🤔
A Makita heat gun next to a disassembled hair dryer and some tools
April 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
From the protest in Chicago earlier today
A crowd of people in a protest marching down State Street in Chicago.
April 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Trans day of visibility! It's wild, if you look at a photo of me from just a year ago pre-transition you could barely even recognize me... 😜
Two photos of Raye side-by-side. They're wearing a very similar outfit in each photo and look basically the same except slightly more feminine in the right photo.
March 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Finally made my DDR pilgrimage 🇯🇵
Raye playing dance dance revolution
March 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
US Customs and Border Patrol's app crashes every time I try to scan my passport that has a nonbinary gender marker. I feel like that's not a good sign... 😐
Screenshot of an app crashing at the "Scan your document" screen
March 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Ran into my car's twin at the pizza place! 😊
Two Hyundai Ioniq 5s parked next to each other facing opposite directions
February 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
From a purely technical standpoint, based on RFC 2616, I reject the premise that this web page has been moved permanently. Really should be status code 302 or 307 with an Expires header set to "Sat, 20 Jan 2029 12:00:00 EST"

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtqia #nonbinary #queer #http #webdev #devops
A curl command output showing that the US State Department's travel website has 301 redirected a page from "lgbtqi.html" to "lgb.html"
January 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
No context, just a photo of me smiling from a few months ago that I really liked. I didn't realize that I didn't used to smile like this until after I started my transition.
A selfie photo of Raye, a white person with brown and blue hair cut into a sideshave.
January 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
My gender is illegal now? Cool... cool... very normal thing to happen to a person.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary
A close up photo of Raye's passport with focus blur highlighting the "X" marker listed for sex.
January 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
My parents do the most heartwarming but simultaneously ominous gestures to support my transition sometimes. 😅 ☠️

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #deadname
An ornament labeled "Good Children" with three names: Scott, Jamie, and Raye. Scott is crossed out.
January 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Trying out the blonde hair thing!
A photo of Raye on a couch with a Blahaj shark stuffed animal behind them. They have blonde hair in a sideshave haircut.
January 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
Hey look I'm reading the thing...

#ontyranny #timothysnyder #book
A person holding an e-reader with the following text: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century 1 Do not obey in advance Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
November 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
rayewithanaye.bsky.social
enbies the moment they get an ID or birth certificate with a non-binary gender marker

#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #nonbinary #serenity #firefly #memes
Two screen captures of a scene from the movie Serentiy. The top panel shows the character "Dr. Mathias" overlayed with the text "I'm not sure what this is... I see no listing of sex or gender". The bottom panel shows the character "The Operative" played by Chiwetel Ejiofor overlayed with the text "I have neither... Like this facility, they don't exist".
November 15, 2024 at 1:51 AM