wrenxi.bsky.social
@wrenxi.bsky.social
I got on well enough with my middle/high school male friends. We were, in retrospect, all kinda neurodivergent.

It took me growing boobs to realize that them wanting to talk about penises was a manifestation of cis boy gender euphoria . . .
January 18, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I absolutely have.

In Iraq. They were mostly open again by the time I was in country, summer of 2004.

It’s a common response to an invading army.
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
It’s not the first time (Panama, 1989).

Maduro wasn’t dumb enough to declare war, however, so the legality is oven more questionable this time.

“Hey, Congress, the war’s basically over, backdate the declaration.” Perhaps?

I don’t think they’re that competent.
January 3, 2026 at 2:13 PM
If he admitted he’s a trans man.

It’s kinda hard for anyone to help when one doesn’t want to be helped.

It’s harder when one wants to ensure no one gets help.

There are quotes where she sounds like such a rotten egg . . .
December 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Yes, l read chunks of those standards an a kid in high school in the early 1990s.

There’s nothing quite like blanket assumptions of delusion to keep a kid closeted.
December 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Alita/Gally has always felt like a more attainable level of full-conversion cyborg.

And more affordable, somehow, probably due to the setting being full of military surplus . . . Something I didn’t think about in the early ‘90s.
December 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’ve bought shorter novels . . .
November 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’m mostly fine now, but neither I nor my unit know what I’m supposed to do next.

Hurry up and wait, but big Army is running around like a head with its chicken off . . .
November 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I adore estradiol undecylate.

Health insurance sucks.
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
They’re not getting paid right now. They can expect back pay, but reasonably expect to get stiffed out of per diem.

The reason this photo is here?

Because they know there’s fuck all for them to be legally doing.
October 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
So obvious the Army made it policy:
Don’t take picture of yourself (or your buddies) breaking the law.

Not quite so obvious:
Don’t talk to cops.
Don’t send your partner or buddies notes or texts about breaking the law.
Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony.
September 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
State violence is political violence.

Advocating for state violence is advocating for political violence.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“Wai! Wai!” And other excited ‘80s anime girl noises . . .
September 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I thought those were so pretty, but never used one beyond playing with it in the store.

Lovely to see a couple of them still in existence.
August 31, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The nuclear family model is bogus and exhausting. Been there, done that.
August 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Well,
E levels can kinda be adjusted by feel, but having a baseline or two really helps develop understanding of what the various “feels kinda crappy” mean.

All of the ones I know? E has dropped below optimal.

Or “Spiro made me pass out after donating blood.”

That was last month’s discovery.
July 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
You’d hope.
July 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Never is when the DOD passed an audit.
July 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
13 instead of 47, in my case.

But my life would have gone very differently that way.
July 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
So you can soak them in butter.

The cheese and potato ones are better than the onion and potato, of course.
July 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
History.

And advocating violence is against the TOS.
July 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’m pretty sure no tax on tips is only to prevent single moms from getting an Earned Income Credit.
July 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I knew I wanted to be a girl by middle school.
I was closeted IRL until I left college.
I was explicitly a lesbian in boy drag (still closeted) until I got my 20-year letter from the Army.
About that time I read “if you want to be a girl it means you already are.”
22 months on HRT.
July 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM