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Momentclature (n/many) 

"I'm in debugging mode."

1. Explanation of seeming nonsequitur response to console inquiry as stack is cleared, ie:

"How's the pizza today?"
"...it could be the beam bender if the gas *is* pure, so I should check for condensation on the mirror before I do further disassembly."
"... that good, huh."
"Mmm? Oh. Sorry, I'm in debug mode. Uhm. Pizza's good!"

2. Statement of mood, ie:

"How do you feel?"
"I'm in debug mode."
"...that good, huh."

Remember when we'd bounce ideas off each other and follow where they went, world-building and character-designing and history-editing and skill-forging, bad puns and worse innuendo and obscure media references and little bursts of things one of us was excited to share with the other because now those facts could live in two heads instead of just the one...

I miss that. I still miss that, and I still miss you.

I know. It's okay. Time's past.

I enjoyed those times with you. Thank you for them.

status:endofJan(_failover//:rabbit)(mh -) 

tldr:
not great
still here

longer version:
resources extremely limited
depth of year-end burnout was perhaps deeper than realized
managing to maintain appearances during daylight hours at work
heavily self-censoring night activity to avoid messy breakdowns
low on meds, trying to get hold of psych, usual difficulties
tired
apologies

our work is never over

Work (30 gigastupids, +/- .5 milistupids) 

Today we learned what happens when you never clear the slop out of the bottom out of a new industrial waterjet for over a year, because your manager was told at installation it was 'maintenance free', so he shrugged and threw away those instructions.

o.o <---- thousand yard stare

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

Anyone have any good info on taking progesterone as part of feminizing HT? All I could find is conflicting documents. Personal experiences with it would be great to hear, too.

@Heffboom_Konijn #PleaseBoost *hugs you all* here is the gofundme link for my car crash if anyone can help me. I am scared to ask and humbled having doing so. thank you all for any and all help yall can provide in my dark days gofundme.com/name-change-help-

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Fibre Optic Trunk 

In the spring, we tap the data as it begins to flow through the sugar maple; we boil off the packet headers to make sweet, delicious infosyrup.

Code of conduct 

For quite a few years, I was a member of a hackerspace in DC.

In 2012 or 2013, we voted to institute a code of conduct. It passed handily, 2/3 to 1/3.

That last third pitched a fit in the meeting, resigned, threw their keys on the table, and walked out. That was maybe 30 people

The rest of us threw a party after the door slammed.

This seems like a good time for a PSA:

If in the future you see something on a public-facing webpage you want to make a durable record of for use as evidence, don't take a screenshot. Those are -- understandably -- widely considered too easy to fabricate.

Instead, snapshot the page with the Internet Archive. It'll log a timestamped copy of the page to their servers. Highly tamper-resistant.

archive.org/web/ ("save page now", bottom-right)

i wrote up some vignettes of things kiwi farms has done to us, to give you a better picture of how they operate, and how they've twisted reality. hope u enjoy. feel free to pass along to anyone you think needs to read it. docs.google.com/document/d/1By

mh (<~>) 

All this work, time, medication, money, resources... just to hold things together.

I share this because I know some of you are struggling to hold things together. That it takes so much effort, sometimes. Just to keep the plates spinning, the balls in the air another few minutes. And when we succeed, the reward is nobody knowing. We pass, at work. On the subway. Walking down the sidewalk. On the phone.

I know it's hard. I'm proud of you. Keep going. *offers hug/pawbump/nod of approval*

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mh (<~>) 

Descent arrested. Stable.

It is almost a truism that the meds work, but staying on them consistently is an effortful task. Timing is becoming complicated: some interact with others, and spacing them out reduces unpleasant side effects. Dose changes still affect my innards more abruptly than my mind. Unexpected interactions between psych and nonpsych meds do interesting things sometimes, like flush potassium unexpectedly out of my system. S'tiring.

Double Bucky, you're the one... (tech +) 

Would it be advantageous - if one was teaching oneself to be more ambidextrous for Reasons, and currently righthanded - to have a horizontally-mirrored layout numeric keypad on the left side of the keyboard? it's already upside down compared to telephones, and transportable with USB HID.

cuil 1.2, hume 30 and decreasing 

I keep hearing the faint but distinct sound of a ST:TOS medical tricorder just above and afore my right ear. Every so often, the warble breaks through the background noise at work.

Which is not a bad representation of how my brain would visualize tickling the temporal lobe of someone locked in a delusional state.

So. If somebody's trying to directly frob my perceptual, emotional or memory systems to get a message through?

You've got my attention.

Try harder.

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