https://twitter.com/HydeNS33k/status/885896958962958337 a reminder that this happened the other week and it's top-grade cyberpunk shit
Brainfog
When I sit down on the bus, I open my phone. I know most of the turns on the way and know when my atop is, and I don't need a handler ninety-nine percent of the time.
Today I looked up because we didn't make a turn I had reflexively braced for, didn't recognize where I was, and had to reassemble the change of route from landmarks and assumptions because I didn't recognize the mall next to the house.
Terrifying would be the word for it.
vaguely warm take
honestly if there's one thing I hate about most implementations of "realism" is that it's always just to reduce diversity, color nad just... the whole vibrancy to things that makes it all enjoyable to begin with
like truth is often much stranger than fiction and it's perfectly possible to get super weird while still staying well within the bounds of our universe, embrace that shit
embellish it, even
If you want to understand why https://briarproject.org/ is different from other encrypted messenger like Threema and Signal, have a look at this article from Ella Saita aka dymaxion on the birdsite:
Bayspreading: the web coding equivalent of 'manspreading', where your web page loads stuff from a million separate Amazon and Google servers located in the San Francisco Bay Area because you figure 'the Silicon Valley Cloud is everyone's personal computer these days, isn't it?'
and you don't realise 'everyone' in the world doesn't host data in the legal jurisdiction of the USA or even wants their data packets going beyond their local USB cable.
Always Interrogate the Dominant Meta-Narrative
Writing, Patreon
... and that's the last of the Patreon commissions for Summer 2017 done. At 1812 words, that's actually half again as long as I said I would write, but the scene takes what the scene takes. Next week, I can finish up my next bit of First Blush for the site, then move on towards other stories and plans.
Patreon, Writing
Second Patreon reward for summer sent out. Ever wanted a writer-for-hire? I do personalized smut and postfurry feels as Patreon rewards! You could get thirteen-hundred words of your very own personalized smut for as little as $6/month.
My home state did something so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes this morning. ;~;
I've never seen a trans support policy so thorough and well considered. Ever. And it's going into practice in MN public schools.
I think we're gonna be okay. ♥️
http://freebeacon.com/issues/minnesota-schools-adopt-transgender-toolkit-kindergartners/
@typhlosion Well, you know what they say about topologists.
A topologist is a person who can't tell their ass from a hole in the ground, but CAN tell their ass from two holes in the ground. ;)
Some cosmic beauty for your morning: Actual Martian Sunrises. http://yondamoegi.tumblr.com/post/163213501393/morning-on-mars
Subtooting the Internet (Not You)
You don't understand everything.
You don't understand everyone.
Your lived experience is neither universal nor normative.
Your judgment isn't and can't be objective.
Your lived experience doesn't qualify you to pass judgment on other people's lived experiences.
You can, at best, compare your perceptions of others' public performances to your lived experience.
Only assholes treat their lived experiences as licence to pass judgment on others.
Don't be an asshole.
Foodcrime
I have attained some terrible state of kitchen demon. I came home, said, "if somebody gets me soy sauce, I can throw together a stir fry" and proceeded to feed eight people with a pork loin, some cans in the pantry, and some noodles @mawr found me that are amazing.
Account inactive -- moved to weirder.earth