Fit from Friday. I did a ton of people watching on Capital Hill in Seattle, and my god, there are a million trans folks now.
good morning. It is 2026-06-28, and it’s a Sunday.
Back from Seattle after a weekend of fun. I was hanging with some girls, and we went to a leather dyke event. It was lovely to spend time during their pride weekend, in an incredibly sexy, affirming, beautiful setting. Watched a bunch of girls dance in their kinky finery; watched a bunch of girls have extremely kinky sex in public. Ate a lovely breakfast made by a sweet cow girl the next morning.
Now back to Portland.
New technology is coming. I upgraded my phone for the first time in three years. Going to try to keep it quiet, but also did get a pretty powerful phone this time. I know that I’m going to be away from the house a lot more since I’m going to be working. And I want a tool with good battery life that is for communication with my family. Intentional technology.
One more month of unemployment. Time to get things set up for the rest of the year. Set up habits and other delights.
Made it to Capitol Hill, Seattle. Turn out coming up on pride weekend, during the World Cup, is an adventure in traffic and parking.
So I applied to 137 jobs since January. And I had an interview with 3 of them: a group home, a sex club, and a switchboard operator. Tells you what jobs are acceptable for the transexual, and how fucked up the job market is right now.
So it turns out the music my friend’s mom Marlene was listening to when I was a kid was Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, played on a continuous loop of anger and despair.
Current tech plan:
- new phone within the next 3 months. An iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator.
- Clear out the MacBook of cruft. Use it as the general work and labor computer.
- Keep the blackbook a simple writing machine.
- Use iPad as daily consumption computer. All videos and reading and fucking around on there.
Keep it simple. Keep things separated.
I am employed again. Start in August. Relieved.
If I get this job I may invest in a paper encyclopedia. Analog knowledge in the house.
One of the good things about having a dirty car: the floor mats still carry sand from our beach trip early in the month.
If I agree with Yuval that this is indeed a time to build, then what can I build
There are a lot of people out there doing good work to expose the absurdities, the hypocrisies, and the sheer destructiveness of both the Left and the Right. I myself did some of that work for several years, but Iām not inclined to keep doing it, largely because that work of critique, however necessary, lacks a constructive dimension. There has to be something better we can do than curse our enemies ā or the darkness of the present moment. If I agree with Yuval that this is indeed a time to build, then what can I build?
Alan Jacobs