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
politics, complaining
sometimes I wish my political views were more similar to those of most of my friends because then I'd be less upset by political conversations with people I care about. I have substantial reasons for not agreeing with some very passionately-held positions, and I know people aren't looking for an argument most of the time so I have to stay quiet. But I'm scared, because I don't know who would suddenly hate me if they knew my real views on some volatile things.
political confession
Modern public schooling seems so bad, so opposite to how humans learn, so innately and unavoidably abusive that all budget questions about school funding seem appallingly wrongheaded; underfunded or not, schools are an abuse factory where children are imprisoned with no somewhat-older role models, trained to submit to authoritarian lecturers who don't have the resources or the agenda to let humans learn through curiosity and experience. they crush curiosity and teach abuse.
How different would the world be if Sid Sackson and Sid Meier traded specialties?
I don’t know how to actually help people I care about.
relationships, anxiety, negative
I love Jacel very dearly and sie is not doing at all well and I don’t know how to help and I don’t know how to “just deal” with that. I do see an awful lot of ways things get worse and I am afraid of them and I don’t really know how to avert them.
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Nar and I communicate by happily yelling at each other.
me: NAAAR!
Nar: MRAAAWR!
me: NAAAAAAAR!
Nar: MRRAAAAWRRR! *prrrrprrrrrprrrrr*
emotions
I miss @Jacel very much.
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So if you talk to non-Gerudo NPCs around the Gerudo Desert in Breath of the Wild, you'll notice a common theme: they all have trouble with words like "sav'aaq," "sav'saava," etc. One of them will actually explain to you how to make the /v/ sound.
This leads me to believe that the sound /v/ does not exist in Hylian, which would make sense as Hylian is often just Japanese with a different coat of paint (see: Old Hylian text in Wind Waker).
Anyway, that was a fun thing I noticed and wanted to share.
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maple classic™ 
mastodon feature to let people follow your public posts regardless of you allowing them to follow you or not is long overdue
i want to let people follow my public posts but i want to filter who sees my follower-only posts
lists could work for this but oops you can only add people you follow... i don't really get why
come on folks, please?
I am Sam,
Sam-I-Am,
I do not like
green eggs and ham.
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Wait, Facebook is literally pushing a VPN solution that claims to "protect" you?
A VPN that sends all your traffic through facebook's servers
How dumb do they thin... 33 million installs... Okay they might be right about how dumb people are
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Just received a work email with an attached spreadsheet that supposedly will instruct me.
The spreadsheet just has a single, orange highlighted cell filled with the words "please help".
Easily my favorite part of cryptocurrency news is watching people reinvent automated forms of things the SEC explicitly forbids
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Diane Duane is one of my favorite authors, and so I pass this on. All their ebooks are on sale, and there’s also a paypal address provided.
RT https://twitter.com/dduane/status/963428700342706177
An unexpected financial shortfall has left us in danger of losing our home. Would you consider buying a sale-priced #ebook to help us out? http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/a-difficult-appeal/
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Hey I found a gaming meme in favour of decentralization https://mastodon.social/media/yJI-z_nkCvovPgPZ8zM
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politics
One of the weirder things that I think about after looking at a lot of satellite photography is that...Is the regulations for new housing/general construction in America _actually too stringent_?
In all seriousness, if you look at a lot of new cities overseas, they just kinda...build multistory buildings before the roads are even in, and when I look around my own city, I see buildings lying vacant because either permits have to arrive or labor isn't available.
meta, abuse
How can one talk discuss persistent, long-term patterns of abusive behavior from someone who has themselves become a target of widespread abuse? The need to defend someone facing abuse sometimes gives abusers cover of their own, and that looks like a hard problem and it keeps me up at night sometimes.
Is a Hot Pocket a meat pie?
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Lizard is finished!
The digital version is already available at: https://rainwarrior.itch.io/lizard
NES cartridges will be shipped out to kickstarter backers very soon, and once this is finished they will be available for sale.
hot economic take
Minimum wage is a shitty basic income program that only covers people with jobs, at the expense of employers.
I’d rather we have basic income and no minimum wage. When “unemployed” doesn’t mean “starving and homeless”, it’s a valid competitor to “terrible underpaying job” and suddenly wages will correlate somewhat with suckitude of a job
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
