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I'm not going to be very active here for a few weeks while I'm visiting family.

Some positive news, though: I came out to my mom as agender yesterday. She didn't seem to really understand, but she was supportive and didn't think it was a bad thing or anything.

It was a stressful experience, even so.

I exist again now

yesterday was kind of a mess but it all worked out

why is it that aluminum electrolytic capacitors are marked on the negative side, while tantalum electrolytic capacitors are marked on the positive side? That just seems like a recipe for disaster to me (those tantalum ones tend to catch fire, and aluminum ones pressurize and explode, when you connect them the wrong way)

and waiting at one of the airports for three hours

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bleeeeh, two finals today and tomorrow is entirely consumed in plane trip and travelling to/from airports

Camera controls are always awkward, whether you pick normal or inverted. There are always times when they feel backwards no matter which you pick.

it suddenly occurred to me that "tentacles" and "ten tickles" are pronounced near identically

ah! I found a setting that fixes my problems with auto-collapsed posts. Click the "app settings" button, then go to "collapsed toots" and check the "give collapsed toots an image background" box. Here's what the result looks like: (hope @Lioness​ doesn't mind my using her posts as an example! She's just the one on my watch list who posts long posts a lot.) awoo.space/media/HbzE3r7gbBj7m awoo.space/media/5k2h85_jYtDsG awoo.space/media/ORlFWiI7h2omN awoo.space/media/whcd6eiD1--cN

The awoo theme is back! Localization is still broken though.

didn't have that either, they just looked extremely confused and handed me the coupon.

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I am reminded of a time a year or two ago when I encountered someone outside of a restaurant handing out coupons for a free burrito. naturally, I asked about one (hey, free food), and then they did the bait-and-switch thing where they say "oh but you have to post about our thing on twitter first".

When I told them I didn't have a twitter account, they said "oh well facebook works too". When I said I didn't have that, they got confused and suggested i-think-it-was-instagram. when I said I

@vahnj​ just to ping you on this, dunno if you can do anything about it

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OH OKAY THIS IS REALLY COUNTERINTUITIVE

when a post gets auto-hidden there's no indication of it at all and it just shows the first line of it until you click on it

so for example I was very confused by @Lioness​ 's post mastodon.social/@Lioness/99157 here because it just said "been thinking about the role of - meta-"

glitch.social people, please fix this D:

@Gaypow have I mentioned that your icon is adorable and makes me want to hug you

My cursor is exactly the height of this gap between the top bar and the video on youtube

this is somewhat satisfying but also why do i notice these things awoo.space/media/zI3k9z9O8IHWA

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