Hanhula

I thought my work was cool for finishing at 4:30 with the drinks fridge opening. 3:30! How good is that!

All we can do is keep pointing everyone here.

Hundred percent! Got myself a club bar from mum's latest deposit of Random English Snacks at my house so I am VIBING.

Snuck home at lunch to avoid pub time at work. Cosy in PJs with some popcorn and my housemate playing ff16.

Man, I wish we didn't have to go into office.

Yeah, if you click on my username you'll notice it's something like @hanhula because I'm accessing this thread through Kbin. Unlike Reddit and Twitter, which are centralised on one site, the fediverse is more like your email. We can all access the same posts and comment on them as if I'm on Facebook and you're on Twitter, just like how you can email me from Hotmail even though I use Gmail.

I'm personally using kbin because it's a more reddit-like vibe visuals-wise, but there's really no downside to using whichever instance you like.

We've been dating 8 years online (thanks, Covid, for making it way more of a task...) and had very little in-person time, so we're holding off on marriage until we've had more time together in-person (four months IRL together so far) just in case we end up really not vibing offline. Would rather not go through a divorce if it doesn't work out!

Thank ye! We've already got our relationship registered with the gov - doesn't need to be marriage yet! Got to be in Australia to start the partner visa process and have him be able to stay, so it's going to be easier like this. Partner visa shouldn't be too bad!

My partner got his working holiday visa! Now he can get back over here and we can start working on our partner visa next ♥

It's the sexism, honestly. I cannot tell you how many times I've been passed over, talked over, belittled, and mocked for being a woman in tech. I have a lot of support from half of the industry, but from the other... well. I've been told to make sure I stay behind the man because he should always be walking into a room first. I've been ignored by coworkers. I've been screamed at by my boss in a way he only ever did to women. I've been seated in a boss's office for him to leer at me whilst lecturing me over nothing because he wanted to stare.

That, and then the pay gap... It's unsurprising. There's so much sexism in the industry and there's even more for someone young trying to get into it - both with the social pressure, as you mentioned, to do something else, and the general rude bollocks of 'girls can't code'. I'm so proud of all the young female devs I see starting to get into tech.

Mm.. it's a bit different. I'm a female game dev working in one of my country's bigger studios, and I'm one of two women who touches code (aka, software engineer/developer). Out of the whole company of ~300 people, there are only ~50 women. Most of those are artists, designers, QA, production, audio, HR , or other higher ups in the company.

It's no secret that they're desperately trying to get more female engineers on board, but there's just a huge shortage of tech talent where I live, and a lot of women are driven off from game dev because of the reactions and treatment that are so typical of the environment. Even getting here, everything has been very male-dominated through my entire career; women in tech just aren't as common for countless reasons.

I'd love to see statistics for some of the really big companies, actually.

Hi, I'm an adult woman who also looks pretty young! There's still a huge difference between how I look now in my late 20s and how a prepubescent child looks! These things are false equivalencies. Stop trying to justify this shit.

It's not Japanese culture. I know a fair few Japanese friends who are disgusted by lolicon.

The fact is, if you're drawing childlike characters and putting them in sexual situations.. there's something fucked there. Sure, they're not real, but it's still fucked up to be attracted to that in the first place. They look like children!