katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

I'm still impressed by object permanence.

Like, I can go into a cafe on the other side of the country, leave for a year, and come back, and it's still basically the same.

That's kind of wild to me?

It's not like this is a new discovery. ELIZA was written fifty years ago.

("how does that make you feel?" being the archetypal Therapist Question.)

It can legit be a really useful way to approach certain kinds of conversations, but recognizing the functions and limits of that style of communication is important.

Realization: the structure of Therapist Questions is in part a specific way of moving a conversation along without having to overtly show any of the therapist's actual thoughts.

Being obviously wrong or misunderstanding is weird and off-putting, so direct input is only given at specific points.

My cell phone has apparently decided that just after 22:00 is the perfect time to send me spammy manufacturer push notification adverts.

I want to reach through the screen and give whoever is responsible my meanest look.

And now for something completely different!

What does "butch" mean to you? I've had two separate people close to me call me by that label in a week, which I found pretty surprising.

This is a good time to mention that I would *love* a privacy setting that posts public to the local timeline but not federated timelines.

Ah, okay. I figured out what went wrong here.

I set the post to Public, not thinking about how that it would mean it spreading off of my instance and into other spaces that lack the cultural context.

...So they'll be unlisted in the future.

In all seriousness though, if a transphobe can read a Gender of the Day post and think I'm on their team, is this... really a good thing for me to be doing?

It's an easy joke to misread without context.

All #genderoftheday entries are somewhere between 30% and 95% serious.

Me: "I need to read more primary sources about communism and anarchism."

Me: "...wait my partner literally just bought a tall stack of books so she could do that. So the books are right there."

(btw if the grammar in my toots is fucked up, it's most likely because I changed the sentence structure once or twice while composing and didn't fully proofread the result.)

Actually, now that I think about it, it's socially pretty terrible that "epithet" was at some point started to be used as euphemism for "slur".