i'm jeremiah, aka grey matter. 40+ years old. bay area (#california) resident but i moved here from nyc & i'm originally from chicago.
i admin the rap.social instance & have been working with 'puters since i was an 8-year-old with a 2400 baud modem. currently, i work at a lisp-based software development company as an i.t. manager, primarily focusing on #unix, #linux, and network security.
#music, both absorbing & creating it, has always been important to me. i play the alto sax & dabble with #engineering + #production but writing/rapping & #hiphop is my true love. i recorded my first song in 1998 & have built up a decent catalog under a different pseudonym but grey matter is my new venture. attached is one of my songs, ironically about the negative effects of technology & social media (https://youtu.be/yzGO_uQ8mLY).
i love #art & have been working towards a full #tattoo bodysuit for 17 years now. i'm getting close to achieving that goal. additionally, i'm in the process of putting together a documentary (book) about tattoo collecting, as well as a podcast.
beyond that, i have two #chihuahuas that mean the world to me. i also spend a lot of time on fitness-related activities & participate as a physique competitor. additionally, i am a citizen of the #mvskoke tribe & i care a lot native causes.
Good morning to all of you amazing individuals around the #Fediverse today!
For the #MorningMoments today, let's talk about what all of our plans are for the day and the week ahead.
For me, it's work stuff every day as usual. Wednesday, I'll be at the tattoo parlor majority of the day to get some new ink done. Super excited to get this last little bit done. And of course, video games will be played.
I'm Esther, a queer, polyamorous, autistic goth lady, into electronic music, synthesizers, movies, tattoos, cooking, photography, video, and writing, among other things.
I quit a 15 year tech career and will go back to university to study psychology after recovering from burnout.
Hiya I'm amy! I'm a #bisexual butch fem in my 30ies. I left one of the biggest #tech companies in the world in to pursue a life of being hot on the internet. I've wanted to do it for the better part of my life and it was finally time.
A bit more about me: I like goth and industrial music the most (heyyy VNV Nation fans!), but I'll listen to most anything that makes my skin tingle. In my previous life I worked on massive (10s of thousands machines) distributed systems that did stream processing based analytics of various sorts.
I make and share porn, I also sometimes share sfw art and #photography. I also opine on neurodivergency (rarely), and technology (frequently).
wires for @gabujira !
was so sick to tattoo such a large composition, and working around a previous tattoo in a way that feels like an expansion of the design is so fun to me. mostly stencil, partly freehand. much time spent making the tendrils flow just right
Tattoos are how I mark states of being and "staple" my sense of self into my body - the first one, the bite mark, is in a very real way the first baby step I took to transitioning. It was the first time I felt good about something about myself, and now, a couple years later on estrogen, and a bunch more tattoos (and even more planned), I feel good about so many things.
I don't think it's a coincidence that so many things that are counterculture or taboo in society are exactly the things that help people feel a sense of bodily autonomy. I'm sure there are links to capitalism here, but more deeply I think it's about jealousy and hate.
Jealousy from generational trauma that denied our parents and grandparents ad nausem their own (bodily) autonomy, so they projected that onto us so we wouldn't pursue it ourselves, queer or not.
Hate partially stems from the jealousy, but people are also taught to hate these things by many, many social institutions which demand obedience. Religion is one such institution for many, especially evangelical religions, but is not the only such institution. Class structures frequently use things like prohibitions or mandatory body modifications as a way of co-opting what would otherwise be a sense of freedom.
Bodily autonomy is dangerous to systems of control and obedience, because it's the root of freedom of thought, or at least that's what my years of doing trauma work have taught me. When you have time and ability to decide what to do with yourself, you start to form a deeper connection with yourself and others because it's actually safe to do so.
And I think this is sad on many levels. So, don't be sad go get a tattoo.
(This originally appeared as a set of separate posts on girlcock.club. I've edited and combined them into one post now.)
Good morning and happy Wednesday to you amazing folks around the #Fediverse
For our #MorningMoments, let's talk about our plans for the day.
For me, I'm heading to the tattoo shop here shortly to get my right arm from the elbow to the wrist filled in with background stuff. Super excited to finally get this done and be finished with this part of my body.
Je jette une bouteille à la mer mais est-ce que quelqu'un connaitrait un.e tatoueur/tatoueuse spécialisé.e dans les motifs d'hindhouisme (divinités Ganesh, Shiva etc) sur Paris ?
C'est pas pour une amie et le repouet rend votre peau toute douce et vos tatouages brillants si vous en avez :blob_cat_peek_owo: