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Observation about Mastodon vs Birdsite 

I love that on Mastodon, despite having half the follower count, I'm 10 times more active here than I ever was on Twitter because on the whole, people here seem to care more about community and conversation than they do about self promotion.

I have conversations with people on Mastodon, but if I wanted to talk to my friends on Twitter, it involved asking them for alternate contact info.

Calling into work: Too soft and gay to submit myself to capitalism today. Prescribing myself time with friends and loved ones and making at least one (1) art

(I wish)

oh no: work, marketing, capitalism 

I have been included on an email thread in which a marketing manager is repeatedly requesting last minute changes to a web form someone else is creating.

Every last minute feature request reads like a half drunken stranger leaning in to suggest terrible ideas, just with a bit more eloquence -- and includes buzzwords like whoa

help

i stumble backwards, shielding my eyes from the warm radiance of the takes, hollering "it was only a rhetorical question, it was rhetorical, have mercy"

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I just got out of a meeting that might as well have been sitting in a dark room listening to a lightly encrypted number station for all the good it did. It sounded like the presenters were underwater, and I could barely make out a word any of them said. X3

I was just asked: "Would you sell your pants for otter paws?"
I replied (because what else could I say): "Hell yes! I'd just wear skirts instead!"

Ficlet 

They don't know they are all crazy. All 7 billion of them. Every Terran possesses a complex organic computer suspended in fluid and enclosed in [calcium]. It is literally so complex that it doesn't shut off when they [sleep]. And every one is structurally incapable of distinguishing fantasy from reality.

That is what makes them so powerful. They can look at the universe in all of its totally and just… dismiss it. Dream a new one to take its place, and be so convinced, they make it real.

@impiaaa @garbados

my favorite prank is to put

echo "sleep 0.1" >> ~/.bashrc

at the end of someone's .bashrc. Every time they open a new shell, it'll get slower by a tenth of a second and they'll never know why.

I am unreasonably proud of this.

github.com/psydwannabe/limeric

Thank you @typhlosion for the idea and for running with it :D

hot shake 

It's just flavored cream in a glass

Maybe with some solid stuff on the bottom

work, coding 

There are 3 types of release ready

1) It works well, is efficient, passes rigorous QA and is ready for production

2) It works and you're proud enough of your implementation to offer to share it with other coders

3) Other coders have expressed interest in using your code and thus it must be rewritten from the ground up to be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT

*snoop backup singer voice* boooooooooooooooooooooop

game idea:

you're a soft-spoken and forgetful expands-in-water dinosaur sponge in the distant, arid future

you're in a dessicated stasis when a still-running social markov bot posts 'meds reminder' to a media feed in your vicinity, spurring you to roll/waddle your way to all the nearest water sources to keep hydrated, lest you fall back into capsule stasis. you do this out of a desire to find the bot that reinvigorated your spirit and express your delicate, absorbent gratitude

Hey, agender people? Could you send me the genders you're not using anymore? I have... a project in mind for them.

fictionlet 

She always dried herself off from the feet up after a shower, because otherwise the roots would grow too quickly. If she toweled off from her head down, her rootlets would begin sprouting as soon as they touched the matted, tangled fibers of the bathmat. Her feet would mistake their surroundings and all the water dripping down them for a place to grow, to stretch out her own tangles and attach her in place. She would need to painfully trim them back before she could leave for work.

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