Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

The fire alarms went off for a fraction of a second last night. This interacts very poorly with how I respond to sudden loud noises. x..x

I am likely to be frazzled for the next two or three days as a result. I know it isn't a reasonable or proportional response, I have a phobia and it sucks.

“Piano concerto #4 in G” is the classical music version of “untitled.txt”

Palantir corporation is geniuinely evil. Why can't I find organized opposition to its existence?

Deleting social media apps from my phone is scary until the moment the icon disappears and then I suddenly feel peaceful

(bye, Reddit)

PUNCH THE DOLLAR AND WIN TWENTY MONKEYS

People who interact with me regularly adapt to me and I don’t think it’s very healthy for them

I’m not good enough at shaking off the feeling of not being good enough at things

"Speaking fees" for retired politicians show the amazing power of human planning capacity. Humans invented the perfect crime by creating an acausal crime: one where nothing untoward has happened when the effect occurs, by predicting the subsequent existence of a cause, a motive, a bribe, in years to follow.

I haven’t played a Phoenix Wright game for a while and yet I’m trying to compose a “Baby Got Back” parody involving “I like Larry Butz and I cannot lie” and it’s not working

halp

My birthday is tomorrow and so far the extent of my plans for it is “go to work as usual” and “complain about how my ankle hasn’t healed from the bike accident yet”. Dirty abrasions are slow to heal, I guess

I have seen no small amount of “stop giving weird technical advice in response to social problems” toots lately, and I think that’s an important perspective to keep when moderating and maintaining communities - community owners are the bridge between technical skill and social need.

That said, I offer nerdsplaining as a service: if you want to know what some opaque piece of tech phrasing means, and why nerds seem to care about it so much, ask me and I’ll do my best to make it make sense

Github is aimed at software developers. GitHub threads will therefore tend towards discussions based on what is mathematically possible drowning out conversations about what is socially desirable. This is normal; computer programmers are required to argue with an electric abacus all day and it is a notoriously finicky and uncompromising device.