Charlotte Finn @SkunkyLass@awoo.space

@Zachrabiroff Hmmm! Could have sworn it was, but could be my mistake.

Last night at the theatre, Here Comes Your Man by the Pixies came on, and the twentysomethings behind the counter were singing along and going "hey I think I like the Pixies."

On the one hand, I had to think to myself "the Pixies are grandparent music now, why are you interested in them?" And then I went "oh, maybe they're interested because the Pixies are dope as hell" and went on with my night 🙂

Good flick! Not my favorite film of his, but I'm glad I made the effort.

Now i have to brave some real nasty weather, though.

I had to dip from class a little early but I'm kicking ass at school and this is the last night I can see DECISION TO LEAVE, so off I go.

@Ironraptor I'll look into it. Thanks again!

@Ironraptor Looks like it is. Hmmm.

Well, the trackpad's not so bad. Thanks for reminding me about Frameworks!

@Ironraptor Ah, thanks for reminding me about the frameworks laptop. Do they have the red pointer nub? I've grown very attached to it.

Apparently Lenovo's new machines solder their RAM chips on, so no more taking the route of buying RAM on the cheap and installing it. Phooey.

Think I can still swap out the SSD if needed, though. But my laptop's from 2018, it's not THAT old. Maybe I'll just nab a new battery and fix the spacebar?

@ragnell Ages ago I saw someone tweet "boo to people who leave Twitter for their mental health. Come back to Twitter and be miserable with the rest of us."

I think I knew that, Musk or not, my days there would have to be numbered, because imagine knowing what it's doing to you, and deciding that not only did you like it, others had to as well.

Anyways I've been in a much better mood since I took Twitter off my phone!

And the thing of it is, in many cases anger is fully justified. People have a right to be mad about police violence; there's something the matter with you if you're not mad at cops getting away with murder.

But when I saw people I knew get furious at someone whose chief sin was "did not like movie" at an intensity that was all out of proportion, I started to wonder: if social media is a habit, do the emotions become a habit as well?

LB: The story of Twitter for me is the story of me following smart, insightful, funny and talented people, and then watch them get gradually more and more prone to fits of terrifying anger.

The moment the algorithmic timeline set in, Twitter slowly morphed into a place you go to get in a bad mood and spread it around.

@DotMaetrix but what if the other monsters knew it would happen and that's how they get new recruits

Despite not really being 100% familiar with CSS and being out of practice with JavaScript and HTML, I'm actually making some progress customizing the Rarebit template for Brand Echo. Nice!

I finally swapped out Professor X since he causes as many problems as he solves (just like the comics Professor X)

@skrishna No news is good news!

So upon being reminded of its existence, I went and read the New Yorker article about the Golden Gate Bridge and how it attracts people looking to surrender to the black dog. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/10/13/jumpers

The part that leaps out to me is the part that leapt out to a lot of people - the part where they interview people who lived. And they say the same thing, that as they fell the suicidal ideation left them, and they realized that they didn't want to die.

And that just makes suicidal ideation seem so much more evil to me, because of the people who didn't make it. How terrible their last moments must have been, realizing that there was a monster in their mind that had manipulated them into doing this, and it had abandoned them just in time for them to realize that they didn't want it and that it was too late.

Suicidal ideation is a monster.