Siobhán Dougall

@siobhandougall.com

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Mom; QLab developer; instructor @ USC Screen Scoring. Queer, trans, disabled. After 4 years of dialysis, I am now a three-kidneyed organ hoarder!

ERASERS BRING HER FAME Mrs. Houston, Originator of Rubber Pencil Tips, Brought to St. Louis for Burial St. Louis, Mo.—The body of Mrs. Mary E. Houston, reputed to be the originator of rubber eraser tips on lead pencils, was brought to St. Louis for burial. Mrs. Houston, who was 85 years old, died at Greenwood, Miss., of apoplexy. In 1859, Mrs. Houston said, she entered a stationery store in New York city to purchase a pencil. She asked the clerk why rubber tips could not be placed on the pencils. The clerk called several officials of the firm and explained her suggestion. Before she left New York, Mrs. Houston said, lead pencils with rubbers attached were advertised there for the first time. The stationery house refused to admit it was indebted to her for the suggestion.
∆E_OK JND result of 0.000050, achieved by cheating!
Your ∆E_OK JND 0.0017 Either you have superhuman cone cells or you got very lucky. I'm going with lucky. This is absurdly below the theoretical JND. Your monitor is doing something weird. Or both.
Excerpted output from Claude Code, in an attempt to generate a plan that it pretended to have already thought about and made decisions about: Here's the plan: ... One concern: ... **Revised approach (Option C)** ... Wait - this has a problem. ... Better approach: ... Actually, the simplest approach: ... Actually, there's a subtler issue: ... **Final recommended approach** ... Here's the concrete plan: ... Wait - this doesn't solve the thread-safety problem. ... **Revised Step 1:* ... Hmm, that's getting unwieldy. ... Let me take a step back. ... **Simplest correct plan** ... Actually, ... The real question is: ... But: ... This is the real problem: ... **Final plan (concrete)** ... Wait - ... I think we need to accept ... Actually, ... OK let me write the clean final plan. ... Does this plan look right to you?
A mourning cloak butterfly has landed on my knee, possibly attracted by the contrast of the black and white floral pattern of my dress. It has a fuzzy brown body and brown wings tinged with light yellow, with a pattern of iridescent blue spots that are hard to see in this image.
Statue at the Lincoln Memorial. A stone Lincoln sits on a stone chair with his stone arms on the stone armrests
Modified screenshot with the green court chroma keyed to black
Search result on Facebook: Mr Bean, TV show, 140M followers
Header from a summons for federal jury service in Los Angeles
Sign just outside the scoring stage control room at Warner Bros: No Musicians Beyond This Point Not sure if it was an admonition or a statement of fact, though either way I did have to walk past it to get to where I was working
Sign on an elementary school bulletin board with the word NOTICE, and traditional restroom-style diagrams for man and woman, and a bidirectional arrow between them. I still can’t figure out what exactly it’s supposed to mean, but I’m not sure I can contradict it
Stephen Fry in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, holding a small multi-bladed knife
Poster for the Out Block Party at Angel City Brewery, June 8, 2025, doors open at 11:30 am.
A white cat walking toward the camera, its white tail formed by the Lingthusiasm logo
A black and white longhaired cat sits primly in the six inch space between the back side of the hallway door and the wall of the hallway. In front of her is a ceramic mug, but it is unclear whether there is a reason for this or not, nor indeed why she is behind the door to begin with. Her blank expression, with head tilted slightly to the left and pupils wide, indicates that she won’t be divulging the backstory any time soon.
We are now refining one of USC’s Unifying Values by broadening “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)” into “Community.” The term “DEI” has evolved to encompass so many interpretations as it has increasingly become embroiled in broader cultural and political disagreements. The value we place on “Community” very clearly underscores our commitment to maintaining a campus culture in which every Trojan is valued, respected, and supported. Recent evolving federal legal guidance further reinforces that our language and actions must be both precise and unambiguous.
Tweet from Jack Dorsey: “just setting up my twttr”
A tuxedo kitten improbably perched in a storage tray that spans across a bathtub
Members of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles pose for a group picture in the recording studio with folks from the songwriting and producing team. jasmine.4.t and Phoenix Rousiamanis are in the back, and TCLA music director Corinne Burch looks like they're exploding internally while Phoebe Bridgers rests her head on their shoulder.
Monster Mash but the verses are Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
A small silver tabby kitten lying on my lap. She starts out purring contentedly, then becomes startled, and ends by attempting to eat the camera. Like ya do.
Closeup of Trump's clasped hands in an AI-generated image. Most of the fingers are not attached to either hand, and some are entirely missing fingernails.
Screenshot from Invader Zim: Dib saying, “Your leaders are just taller than everyone else?”
Screenshot of a diagram from Costco Optical intending to illustrate blue/violet/ultraviolet light being blocked by their lenses. A large rainbow arrow is pointed inward toward a glasses lens, and a smaller pink/purple/blue arrow is pointed back outward.
A small silver tabby kitten sleeping on my arm
A graph of my kidney function (eGFR) over the past month. Pre-transplant, it sits around 6-7; in the week and a half since transplant, it shoots up dramatically, to 50. (Normal is >59.)
An open palm holding 12 capsules, 6 tablets, and a gelcap
Siobhán pointing to herself with a thumb, showing bandages over the dialysis access on her arm
Biden doesn't immediately endorse VP Kamala Harris, throwing Democrats into chaos months before election against Trump
A tiny silver tabby kitten sleeping belly-up on a folded-up towel in a carrier
A large purple plate with a stack of pancakes on one side, a stack of waffles on the other, and a spatula resting on the edge
Close-up of a lantana blossom cluster, with yellow flowers in the center and orange around the outside
iPhone text size system setting, with the slider at the second highest setting
Selfie wearing glasses and a black top, showing a gauze dressing where my catheter used to be.
Screenshot of order details: Flip-flop sandals (partially plant-based)
I'm outside wearing a strappy blue floral dress that exposes my dialysis catheter and 4x4 dressing. The dressing is over my right collarbone and the catheter is wrapped in gauze and extends about 4-5 inches below the dressing.
Three lines that read "Women", "Men", and "Kazoo"
Screenshot of Apple Music suggesting The Village as performed by Wrabel and the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles
Selfie at a dramatic (or maybe silly) angle
Selfie sitting on a hospital bed, in a blue gown, a yellow face mask, and a hair net
Siobhán undergoing hemodialysis. She has pinkish hair and glasses and is double-masked, and two tubes leading from a catheter in her jugular are carrying blood out to the dialysis machine and back.
Pistachio, a French bulldog, lying contentedly in a small dog bed with her chin resting on the side of the bed. Her eyes are ope, but she's not far off from falling asleep.