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.
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"
Reddit link, net neutrality
This is pretty damming tbqh
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!"
#NoContextTheater
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.
I am unreasonably proud of this.
https://github.com/psydwannabe/limerick-snippets
Thank you @typhlosion for the idea and for running with it :D
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
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
~hacking in progress~⛓🔌💔🍜
https://electrum.cubemelon.net/p/2-138 https://cybre.space/media/6RWGSeKW01aSsblY8aQ
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.
Dragony plush thing! Friendly, non-binary, anarcho-syndicalist, ace.
Check out @mawr for my public account.