katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Being in a social group where the vast majority of people have chosen their own names makes it easy for me to forget how boring many people's names are :purple_heart:

Laser printers are so much better than inkjet. Home inkjet printers are generally garbage.

Who needs colors anyway.

Serious bitcoin question: what was the design intent behind making the currency deflationary?

On the other hand, sometimes I worry that Monsterhearts can be misery tourism. That trying to imagine abusive circumstances I've never actually experienced firsthand does a disservice to people who have been there.

I don't know, really?

I heard Avery Alder on a podcast where she said something along the lines of "the great thing about tabletop RPGs is that you can have experiences, without having the same *responsibility* to them that you do with actual events in your life."

That's really stuck with me.

Still trying to process what makes this game special. There's lots of little things, but it still feels like there's something big that I'm not wholly able to articulate yet.

The closest I can get is that the game encourages you not just to be terrible, but to be believably terrible. To be terrible in ways that actual living people around you might be or have experienced. And maybe as a result you'll learn how to be a slightly better person for real.

@baxil​ I got around to reading your car theft story, and it is properly baffling. Awesome :D

I wonder if being a furry will be seen as an Old People Thing in the next few decades.

Something about the Mastodon UI makes me significantly better about clicking on a post and checking replies before replying myself. It's good :)

Anarchist Lookbook!

"What to Wear to Smash the State:
Anti-fascist activists believe in dressing for the job they
want. Right now, many think, that job is punching Nazis."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/style/black-bloc-fashion.html

A question thread for toy friends:

What does being a toy mean to you?

https://www.etymonline.com/word/*skei-

My favorite etymology fact:
"science" and "shit" have the same root, proto-indo-european "*skei-", meaning to cut or split apart.

Oh wait, here's what looks like the original (better quality) link, not a re-upload that somehow has higher pagerank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Evergreen post: a lawyer and a cop share an entertaining one-hour
law school lecture on why you should never ever give a statement to police (without a lawyer) when police are investigating a crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4_EdPwTkE

Listen though I think it's wonderful that "this is not a place of honor" etc is a known and recognized phrase.

Car insurance claim filed.