Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

@karma If something you are working on has escalated five levels up the management chain, that is because four levels of management also couldn’t figure it out. It’s not just you, and you feel in over your head because you are facing something genuinely difficult; breathe deep, have faith in yourself, enjoy the chance to meet your boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss and work through a puzzle together.

I’m planning an essay this weekend on my own system to handle All The Things at work, meanwhile

I have a strong expectation that it is unreasonable for me to expect tolerance for the same behavior that I tolerate in others and observe to be tolerated by others in others.

I’m at work drinking coffee to counteract the hangover from last night’s cannabis use, which was in part to get over the frazzled-ness that came in part from excess coffee use. NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG WITH THIS PLAN

In practice, coffee reliably induces productivity for me and I haven’t found effective alternatives - adequate quantities of caffeinated tea upset my stomach - so maybe this is the best balance I can manage. It’s productive, I’m just noting the symptom circle.

@troodon https://youtu.be/2XID_W4neJo

I keep trying to change my user icon here and it keeps glitching out. @admin , any known issues?

in the grim future of Super Mario Odyssey, there is space travel and mind control hats, but no democracy. Only monarchy and despotism; tiny kingdoms as far as the eye can see

@troodon 🐈💨 💥☠️💥

If I was less shy, this feed would probably contain more dragons and dragon porn, tentacles, latex, inflatables, etc. I should probably just post all that stuff more and rely on content warnings to let people self-sort if they don’t want to deal with it. I mean, not everybody’s here for the software.

I don’t think I’ve ever done an #introductions post, so:

Hi! I’m Kistaro Windrider. I’m
* nonbinary
* a software engineer
* too frazzled for side projects
* near Seattle
* otherkin (dragon) with a complicated cosmology
* vaguely neopagan, occasional Tarot reader
* pretty harsh about self-censorship, which is why there isn’t a lot more weird furry stuff on this feed

On second thought I think I’m going to set my alarm clock to Ohgodwhat Remix

normal: listening to a song on loop now and then
why I am abnormal: today the song is “ohgodwhat remix” (Homestuck Vol. 3)

@Gargron If usernames of people who place reports go through a one way hash, Mastodon admin software could grow a feature where a report could be flagged as “hostile/frivolous” (which is different from “understandable but wrong”) and too many would suggest a prompt to disregard all reports from the same hash for a day/week/month, allowing some level of report management without immediately unmasking reporting users. Username space is small enough to brute force though

The electronic gadgets section of office supply stores was much more exciting before smartphones