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

• you watch some heady media;
• you lose focus on the media as something in it triggers a Stupendously Profound Notion;
• you start to type up a toot about it;
• you try to find juuuuust the right words to explain;
• you realise that your idea is merely a belaboured rewording of a known fact.

Bonus attention-disorder points if you:
• successfully tooted about all that;
• but only after getting heavily distracted by another toot.

So, I got the urge to try and phonetically transliterate my name, "Electric Keet", into hangul. The closest I've managed to get is this:
이렉드륵 낃
Or this:
어렉드륵 낃

My big question is this: Can anyone out there verify accuracy for me or make some suggestions? (You know, aside from "don't do this". It's not like I'm planning to get a tattoo of it or anything.)

If, after asking for clarification, it becomes unambiguously clear that they're intentionally being hurtful, then give 'em hell, sure.

If it turns out they're just using terms familiar to them, be gentle. Words are habits, and bad habits are very difficult to break. (Good habits are healthy; be open to that possibility, also!)

When I encounter someone using a word in a context or fashion I find problematic, I like to address it this way:

"Before we go on, I gotta make sure we're on the same wavelength here. What do you mean when you say '<slur>'?"

Yes, I'll even repeat the word or phrase verbatim, because my goal is not to make anyone ashamed of their way of speaking, but to get an idea of what they _intend_ to say. I want to react to the ideas, not just their shadows.

It usually works very, very well.

If I call myself a "tranny", I can expect a wide range of reactions:

• startled – "Oh, I thought that was a bad word!"
• neutral – "Not my business what folks call themselves."
• angry – "I heard that word is offensive and I'm calling you out!"
• friendly – "Sisters gotta stick together!"
• confused – "You're, uh... into automotive parts?"

...and so on. But which of these responses is "right"?

Words are bullshit, but we keep using them because they're still too convenient to ditch. Some words take on – or are born into – meanings of sensitive topics, and sometimes those words will themselves become sensitive topics.

"Gay man", "gay Paris", "gay man", "that's gay", and "gay man" are all distinctly different in meaning depending on their context in time, culture, and place.

Words aren't ideas. Words are the _shadows_ of ideas.

I genuinely appreciate the value to the soothing aesthetic of taking a draw on one's vape-pen and watching the LEDs at the end of it glow.

I really kinda wish these particular dispensary-branded pens didn't glow BRIGHT GREEN. It's clever for half a second and then it's really, really annoyingly dumb for the life of the pen. Red will do just fine, thank you.

*old weirdo shakes fist, yells at clouds*

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Apparently, when you tell DOOM (2016) that you want to "restart level", it doesn't just take you back to the start of the level. No, it wipes all the progress made on that level – and any progress made after that level was completed, including later levels and secrets found on previous levels.

You could have been just a smidge clearer on that, id Software.

I am so pissed right now. There's nothing more demoralising than having to redo hard work. *sighs* Way to make it un-fun.

This whole season, I've been thinking that there were a lot of very sitcom-ish episodes... and then it looks like everything will be summed up nice and neat like a sitcom episode....

But I know there's a fourth season. I'm honestly a little terrified of that fact, because now I'm going to _have_ to watch it to see what happens.

 
U+2003 EM SPACE

Have you ever wanted to indent a line in an environment that lacked proper formatting commands? Sure, we all have! But a tab is too wide, if you can even use one at all, and multiple spaces at the start of a sentence are often stripped completely out. Have no fear, the em‑space is here!
 Just plop one in before the first sentence of a paragraph, and you instantly have an indent that survives any Unicode-friendly system.
 Cheers!

FUSION DANCE

hunt & peck + slip & slide = wipe & Swype