beeps was here @batbeeps@awoo.space

I don't know how folks deal with terminals and code editors with transparent or graphical backgrounds. To me that seems like the most distracting way you could possibly use those things.

This toot brought to you by resetting my terminal settings to fix an issue and AUGH WHY IS IT TRANSPARENT!?!

Basically:
- Unless your community exclusively deals with sexually explicit materials, consider pushing those to their own channel/sub forum/whatever and allowing teens to join.
- Don’t assume that everyone over 18 is happy to see porn all the time either (they’re not).
- Don’t assume that because something is kinky that it’s inappropriate for minors. Hell, they probably got the kink from watching cartoons in the first place.

On that rather specific note too, how in the hell is someone just coming to sexual maturity and realising they’re attracted to this very-weird-specific-thing supposed to therapise or make sense of it if every related community refuses to let them in?!

I entered the furry fandom when I was 15, via a kink-related (but not explicit) forum. I made friends, gained skills, gained respect and maturity, helped organise communities and founded communities of my own all before I was 18. It helped me find support in an incredibly turbulent and lonely time of my life. It let me develop a curiosity into a passion into a job.

Had that initial forum just shut the door I probably wouldn’t be here today. It seems thoughtless to strip away that potential when it’s not necessary to do so.

It kinda annoys me when (not explicitly NSFW) furry spaces decide they’re going to be 18+ only.

If the reason is because you regularly deal in explicit imagery or roleplay then you should probably be segmenting that to a separate area anyway. Not everyone over 18 wants to have other people’s horny blasted at them all the time.

If your concern is minors being groomed, then that’s a problem with the people in your community (and you should probably be ejecting those people regardless of whether you host minors or not.)

I’m the kinda person who would totally get an old iPod to have a dedicated music listening device (and also nostalgia) but then I remember that like 95% of things I listen to are streamed now.

Jerma’s obscenely high effort streams give me life.

This is the 69th toot I've made since moving usernames. Nice.

An intro toot because I never made one before.

👋️ Hello, I'm Kim.

🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ I'm a trans woman who uses she/her pronouns.

🇬🇧🇲🇾 I'm mixed white/Asian and live in the UK.

🕸️👩‍💻 I'm a professional website developer specialising in accessibility.

🤖🦇 I'm a furry. My fursona is a robotic Honduran white bat. Her name is Emy. She beeps.

🚀🗳️ Likely topics: Star Trek, politics, cartoons, web stuff, tech.

Come on and jam!
Come and eat some jam!
We have lots of jam!
Mmmmmm tasty jam!

Kim writes a feature request.

The existence of recreational drugs implies the existence of professional drugs.

"Kim, your incessant bat facts are driving me batshit insane!"

"Well, bat shit is *insanely* high in nitrates and makes an excellent fertiliser!"

"I'm leaving now."

No processes, RAM empty.

Living in Banksy’s hometown means seeing his stuff everywhere but I really think he phoned it in on this one.

Semver obviously best but for automated processes using the date and a deduplication thing is just so much easier.

I took a random punt on it being the 30th week of 2021 when thinking about something dumb (release versioning strategies) and it turns out it is, indeed, the 30th week of 2021.

Little victories.

Can you smell what the @batbeeps is cooking!?

It's curry. I made curry.