Reposted by Max TiuA.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Why talk to Claude when I can talk to Clod, the dirt demon that eats rats and respects everyone's pronouns 1315
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 14/05/2026i've been struggling financially, but today i learned that i'm almost $7/hour away from a living wage for my area, which is so validating. no budget in the world can overcome that! i'm not Bad At This, the world is just expensive and on fire!! 010
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 28/12/2025taylor swift's british accent is going to haunt me in my sleep. send tweet 000
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 02/12/2025i'm no stranger to waking up in the middle of the night with anxiety or stress, but last night at 4am, i woke up...happy? jazzed? full of good thoughts? i never could have anticipated how much mental health relief i would gain by becoming a bookseller 010
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 09/09/2025just received a whopping $4.84 from a class action settlement. i promise not to let it go to my head 020
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 17/08/2025some people heard "'I' is a proper noun" and really took that to heart 000
Reposted by Max TiuCameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025If you like pina coladas And taking cabs in the rain We were driving in silence Across Pont Champlain 4662
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 24/07/2025just bought my ticket to the SF Ruby conference in November--i'm excited to see some folks i haven't seen in ages! sfruby.comsfruby.comSan Francisco Ruby Conference 2025Join us for the San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025: Building the Future with Ruby. November 19-20 at Fort Mason, San Francisco. 010
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 03/07/2025trans privilege is lowering my hormone dose so my body heat lowers and summer is more bearable. cis people could never 110
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 21/04/2025today i had a registered dietician tell me i'm "doing everything right"??? i have had a conflicted relationship with food for my entire life and definitely never could have expected to hear that 😭 120
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 02/04/2025i wish there were a way to find people from previous social networks. like, whatever happened to the guy i lowkey flirted with on a livejournal community dedicated to cryptically posting song lyrics? 010
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 09/03/2025this week i had a doctor literally check that my organs are in the right place. what a weird life i lead 020
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 07/02/2025after transitioning for years, getting called "big dawg" by a random guy on the street will still give me big gender euphoria 050
Reposted by Max TiuJulia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 23/05/2024i miss when queer organizing groups would host dance nights outdoors to help mitigate the spread of covid i'd love to go to be able to hit up a pride event or two but everything has gone back inside because even progressive spaces tend to pretend the pandemic ended 🙃 510014
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 08/05/2024i keep shaving my face and the hair just keeps growing back. what is this sorcery 000
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 31/03/2024a bartender grabbed my arm to marvel at one of my tattoos and a drag king called me iconic. i'd call the evening a success. 010
Reposted by Max TiuJulia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 08/03/2024if you've already had covid a few times and currently don't mask in public knowing that studies have shown the chance for ending up with debilitating long covid symptoms is between 10-20% with each infection how many times do you plan on rolling those dice over the course of your life? 16126
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 01/03/2024my brand of autism is getting high and reading about the inner workings of telephony systems and their histories 010
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 07/12/2023a lovely lil article that in many ways mirrors how i too used puzzles to help me recover cognitive function after my TBInytimes.comGetting Myself Back, One Puzzle at a TimeAfter a devastating injury damaged his cognitive abilities, word games helped the author build new ways to shape his thoughts. 010
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 03/12/2023i lowkey wish i could get a 30 minute verbal or video gender essay from each of my friends on everyone's individual gender experiences. i love talking about and listening to others talk about gender!! 000
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 26/08/2023tbh i tried to get people to call me boy names and they somehow never did 😤 we got there in the end though 010
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 16/08/2023cis people will really put their childhood scouting projects on their resumes, but not list their pronouns 000
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 10/08/2023a SaaS product i'd actually pay real money for is something that keeps custom emoji sets in sync across multiple sets of tooling (Slack, Zoom, Confluence, etc) 000
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 23/07/2023so are neurotypical people just going about their lives without thinking about the social contract, or 000
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 19/07/2023being trans is great* because i get to witness the change in myself from absolutely hating my body and being a shell of a person to actually...loving my body?? what a powerful thing to make for oneself 110
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 18/07/2023i ate a big sandwich and immediately feel the need to sleep. between this and grief, rip to my productivity 100
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 13/07/2023if grief online shopping is a thing, i'm definitely doing it. my remaining dog is being pampered and so am i 000
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 08/07/2023after months of my insurance/pharmacy only filling two vials at a time, unwrapping today's haul felt like christmas morning. i don't have to go back for months!! 100
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 03/07/2023okay so i've been Going Through It lately and this is what i received when i ordered 3 individual lemons. the universe is telling me something. 030
Max Tiu @maximumtiu.com · 03/07/2023maybe one of the most fascinating parts of transition is navigating how the difference in my gender impacts the context of how i relate to others, both internal and external to the relationship 110
