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
geopolitics, tech
another day at work, another online argument with co-workers about whether the Chinese government is bad
(spoiler: it’s bad)
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Mutant Standard Principle #3
## Challenging normativity, embracing uncertainty
If we live in a society where people are valued based on what is considered 'normal' or what the prevailing trends are, then we can never have a truly civilised or decent society.
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Mutant Standard Principle #3
We need to break past this by embracing uncertainty and radical personal choice at it's very foundations as much as we can. We should be striving for communicative tools and forms of expression that disrupt this state as much as possible.
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Mutant Standard Principle #3
We currently seem to be living in a state of seemingly-endless incrementalism, where people have to affix themselves to norms, and ostracise and villify a particular state of experience or expression, until that moves a little and there are new norms and new dangerous deviants. In this context, every 'success' in this system isn't really a success - it implies there is something deeper within our society that is wrong.
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Thinkin’ about tails
Thinkin’ about how they swish and sway around.
Thinkin’ about the balance. The gait.
Thinkin’ about how it feels to have my tail pet, gently and lovingly
Mmhmmmm~
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a long post about the sun
for those of you who don't live in the pnw, imagine sunlight.
now, imagine that sunlight is much more orange than it should be-like it's sunset orange at 10 am.
it's intensely uncomfortable, cause you know that the sunlight that comes through the window at that angle is supposed to be white-yellow, but there's this weird orange light coming through your window at 10 am, and it's wrong, at it keeps being wrong and orange throughout the day
that's what it's like
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Hey, everyone what lives in the PNW! It's summer, which means BC is basically entirely on fire once again. Make sure not to spend too long outside and to take proper precautions because there's hella smoke in the air and it's not good for you!
Where there is desire there is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame someone is bound to get burned
Just because you’re burned doesn’t mean you’re gonna die
You gotta get up and try, try, try...
My rideshare driver is an early-60s-aged Greek man who does not have a similar voice to Pink, but it’s not stopping him from singing along to his radio without thinking about it. ^..^
(Also I like that song a lot and especially lately)
Good news! My high heart rate and irritable pacing around today was adequate to meet my daily exercise goal, according to my wristwatch
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Seattle friends: remember to check the Air Quality Index, especially if you have asthma. The next few days are expected to be pretty rocky. http://aqicn.org/city/usa/washington/seattle/10th-and-weller/
Ugh, I can *watch* air quality degrading as wildfire smoke obscured the trees at closer and closer distances. :(
mh, -
it’s amazing how many issues self-loathing can’t somehow solve, no matter how promising a strategy it looks like on the surface
not for the first time, I find myself resenting the way my emotions interfere with doing anything people need, want, or expect from me. y’all deserve better than I give you, I’m just a mess
mh, -
it really doesn’t matter how I feel, I don’t have time to keep trying to coddle myself through difficult emotions; I need to get the fuck over it and at least do the basic fucking minimum to keep my household running instead of just running off and playing video games or spending hours in IM services
griping about co-dependency, redux
I don’t have much skill yet at just letting people around me have varied emotions and deal with the lows and stressful points in their own lives without my feeling absurdly stressed about it and guilty for not somehow preventing it in the first place
pseudo-libertarian political shitposting
I am a tautological anti-egalitarian.
There is an important cultural difference between wealthy people and poor people, and it explains a very great deal about their unequal outcomes in life: wealthy people have more money
Browsing a thrift store in Redmond for personal amusement, exercise, and getting out of the house; getting amused by recognizing familiar things in the office supply section that are obviously misappropriated from Microsoft’s supply cabinets. I recognize the supplies they used when I worked there, and sometimes I can read the ineffectually scratched out “please return to office number XXX” labels in them as referring to Microsoft buildings.
Formally writing down today’s to-do list makes me abruptly realize why I don’t always find weekends particularly relaxing: this list is *not* shorter than lists for work days
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
