twitter is not easy to use
twitter et al are « easy to use » now because we have been using them for years and years.
have you ever seen someone use twitter or facebook for the very first time? it’s fucking confounding.
« what am i supposed to do »
« following? why would i do that? »
« why can’t i get to your uncle’s photos »
usability isn’t a secret UX sauce. it’s years of acclimation and the formation of communities that can bootstrap that acclimation for each other.
hearing something rustling in another room and looking up just in time to see a flash of butt and crooked tail streaking around the corner #kittenthings
yet another surprisingly work-safe Oglaf (assuming your workplace is okay with a little gore and a lot of dark humor)
https://www.oglaf.com/safety-signs-hell/
PokemonGo/bird nerding
oh sorry should have ended that with (2/2) but now there's this one so it's (3/3) and done!
PokemonGo/bird nerding
nearby--last year there were three fledglings, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's another three this year--and just as I was leaving that patch of forest I was buzzed by an adult hawk, probably checking up to make sure I wasn't going after the kids! :D then I got thoroughly scolded by a parent crow--I could hear the juvenile crow nearby, the adult was warning me away. because apparently I was a Cooper's hawk! XD
PokemonGo/bird nerding
took a brief walk down to one of the nearby gyms for a "raid" on a Magicarp (spoiler: I won), and on the way there heard whistling in the tree of a juvenile Cooper's hawk. :D so on the way back I paused to play Cooper's hawk calls on my Merlin app, and spoofed it down close enough that it was perched literally right over my head as it tried imitating the adult call in its cute whistling voice. SO CUTE. XD as I was leaving the area, I heard another juvenile whistling (1/?)
uspol + tech
"If you work at Amazon, Google, Twitter, Facebook or Microsoft, know that your labor is being used to fund large donations to Republicans..." This website has examples per company: https://donationsfrom.tech
foodcrime
6 ice cubes
1 banana
1 tbls canned pumpkin
1.5 cups vanilla ice cream
1 cup orange juice
sprinkle salt, cinnamon
=
something that tastes remarkably like a mango lassi. it tastes more like a mango lassi than the time I actually used the ingredients to try to make a mango lassi. I AM CROGGLED. but pleased!
Did You Know? (TM)
human body temperature is warm enough to melt kittens! at room temperature kittens are usually a hyperreactive plasma, but if confined to a lap or arm cuddle for more than two minutes, they will quickly liquefy into a puddle. it usually takes some time afterwards for them to regain their energetic properties.
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~