misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Someone who says to you, "there you go contextualizing everything" does not respect your perspective.

Someone who says to you, "you don't respect the way I show love" does not respect how you wish to be loved.

Someone who says to you, "you and that damned brain of yours" does not respect your intelligence or your independence.

Someone who says to you, "You can't blame me for lashing out because I was in pain" does not respect your safety.

You deserve to be treated like a person.

I think I've finally figured out the, like, core cause of my distaste towards transphobia in general and the leaked memo in particular.

Gender issues is one of the last bastions of birthright caste systems in our society. There's probably a real word, but what I mean is, like, you're born into X, your role is X, you will die as X because you are X kinda thing.

Moving away from apprenticeships, feudalism, slavery, etc., has done wonders to fight that in many aspects of life, expanding (say it with me now) equality of opportunity to a greater and greater population. Expanding the human right of self-determination.

The memo, and transphobic pushes in general, are people crying for the old system, when people were born into certain roles and "knew their place".Well, pardon my English, but fuck that, and fuck them. Self-determination is a goddamn human right.

Hopefully we'll soon have a society where it's a universal right.

Proposal: Instead of talking about "finishing" video games, talk about being content or satisfied with them or about having concluded with playing them.

Help free yourself (and others) from the assumption that one can't be "done" with a game without 100% completion. Doing so takes on increasing importance as the mounting prevalence of DLC, MMOs, and achievement inflation further screws with our brains' hardwired need for closure.

Seen on birdsite :

A transgender friend has told me the UK should be required to live "as" an independent nation for two years before making the irreversible decision to transition out of the EU

https://mobile.twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/971726317166219264

The advertising industry sucks: the quick fix.
#lateStageCapitalism #advertising

are ye ready kids
AYE AYE CAPTAIN
I can't heeeeer you
ohhhh
who lives in a sepulchre under the sea
GREAT CTHULHU
all rugose and squamous and bloated is he
GREAT CTHULHU
that which is not dead may eternal lie
GREAT CTHULHU
and with strange aeons even death may die
GREAT CTHULHU
GREAT CTHULHU
GREAT CTHULHU
GREAT CUH THUL HOO
*nauseating piping*

"Pesto Zoodle" is Ponyville's Groucho Marx.

Bram Stoker’s How Dracula Got Her Groove Back

"For the love of god, Monstrosaur!!"
"RAAAAAAAAWRGH!"

boss: your mission, should you choose to accept it,

super hacker: this better be good

boss: is to write a program that takes in valid DD/MM/YYYY dates and outputs milliseconds since epoch,

super hacker: below my pay grade old man

boss: in brainfuck

super hacker: Now We're Talking

I still call the string of posts on Mastodon "timeline" but I think we need a term distinct from birdsite

May I suggest: toot chute

A couple of friends of mine have recently been experimenting with mentioning CALLIGRAPHY PENS a lot around their laptops with browsers open on Facebook.

They don't talk about this otherwise, in any form or medium. Sure enough, they're getting calligraphy related FB adverts now.

There's no way big ad-based companies aren't helping themselves to data from your mic. Your phone and laptop are listening devices. For most of us, this will never have serious ramifications, but still, act accordingly.