Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
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"We assumed that all fertile females are XX. However, we now have proof that fertile XY females exist -- and we have no idea how rare or common it is, because it's not something we usually test for." https://twitter.com/FierceMum/status/1019750137361559554
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could you dehusk a coconut without breaking the meat and have like a coconut water balloon
HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK ah, the lonely mating call of the wild car alarm
always wash your hands. Do you have any idea how much of modern human progress went into making people not walk around covered in feces all the time?
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I guess I'm kinda uncomfortable with the fact that while most humans go through personal development and changing opinions over the course of their lives, with the internet never fogetting anything, you can lose your job now for things you said before regardless of whether you still believe in them.
And then I got on the wrong bus when trying to go home. Time for an adventure, apparently
My emotions are complicated and sad and there is very little to say or do about them.
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BRING BACK THE DAYS WHEN YOU COULD LEARN WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT WITH "VIEW SOURCE".
I’m playing the WarioWare Gold Demo for 3DS. It is, dreadfully enough, fully voiced.
Wario sounds exactly like I expected Waluigi to sound.
MY LIFE IS A LIE
I’m never quite sure when I should talk about being okay or talk about not being okay.
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Did You Know? (TM)
human body temperature is warm enough to melt kittens! at room temperature kittens are usually a hyperreactive plasma, but if confined to a lap or arm cuddle for more than two minutes, they will quickly liquefy into a puddle. it usually takes some time afterwards for them to regain their energetic properties.
(n.b.: this is me having fun at my job, genuinely)
That point in being a professional software engineer where I have to start asking friends who are professional sysadmins how the fuck they make my own software work because I don’t understand how it doesn’t create an obnoxious disaster in every business environment ever and I need to learn how people mitigate the problems my widely-used software creates
nerd culture hot take
To the degree that “bad nerd behavior” includes pendantic argument about minutiae, nerd culture is always going to include some amount of “bad nerd behavior”. The laws of physics and the behavior of our computers depends very much on minutae, and we as a society rely on having people driven to get those minutae right. I would be very surprised if it would ever not “leak” into other social contexts.
Meanwhile, at work, I get to try to troubleshoot code I didn’t write in the stead of the person who is on parental leave, for the benefit of a huge customer who is investigating using our products for the first time, in a scenario that should be easy but we support it inexplicably poorly and now I have to figure out myself how to make it work.
No pressure @..@
The soundtrack from Atomic Bomberman, a version of multiplayer Bomberman for Windows 95, has only gotten better over the last 20+ years as I have gotten progressively better speakers to enjoy it with. I wonder how much it’s shaped my music preferences in the interim. https://youtu.be/uB1VvshVIm0
I keep getting various pieces of various versions of the Geometry Wars soundtrack stuck in my head
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
