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birdsite deletion habits 

9 times out of 10, my deletions are jokes that i'm not 100% sure 100% of people will interpret as one

it bothers me a *lot* when i can't get my meaning across, literal or not, and even the slight risk of it happening with a joke makes me feel like it's not worth it a lot of the time

but why do i only worry about that specifically online there? i tell plenty of extremely bad jokes irl

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birdsite, habits 

you can learn a lot about me by my self-deletion habits on twitter; a place where i was extremely performative initially, and still feel pressure to be for some reason

something i'm starting to notice more and more is how most of the really popular people i know about seem to be both extremely stubborn and also have a pretty aggressive snark game

i wonder if its related?

i sketched a bunny who just CAN'T BELIEVE i didn't post them here

i think it would be really cool to finally be able to articulate myself outside of small chats

hee, it's such a tease. i'll get there though..!

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i honestly think i need to start keeping point form notes for myself, *of* myself

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is it weird to have a trillion writing ideas swimming around your head, but also having them all evaporate the second you actually sit down in front of a screen?

it's weird how i almost never get frustrated with things i'm trying

when faced with something that seems basically impossible initially, i just get progressively more and more excited the closer i get to doing it

oh yeah! i guess i should mention this is for wsl_proxy!

it's a thing i'm making that lets you use wsl command line tools as if they were windows programs

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always happy to come across another situation that's "not such a big deal because it's simply a contrived problem which you'll likely never encounter."

(from superuser.com/a/962805/149426)

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it's unfortunate that i'm relying on base64 existing in any wsl that this is used in, but i guess i'm already relying on bash as it is anyway, soooo....

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i did figure out a way to do it though! and that way is very bad, hee

i base64 the whole command line, and run it in a subshell, because that doesn't require any double-quotes or escaping magic cmd-side

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i even wrote a C# program to use its built-in argument parsing, so *it* could figure out passing that as a single argument to wsl bash

it couldn't do it either

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TIL escaping things for cmd.exe is sometimes impossible

like, if you have a file:

C:\folder with spaces (And parens)\fancy!!! chars'`@;,[]{}().txt

the only way to get that escaped as a subshell in bash is like:

cat "$(wslpath $'C:\\folder with spaces (And parens)\\fancy!!! chars\'`@;,[]{}().txt')"

and i'm trying to write something that will throw this into bash.exe -ic, but how the heck do you escape it?

backslashes won't do it, carets don't do it

looking it up, turns out you can't??

the other use; the times we use it on ourselves, is mostly being apologetic about the things we've already determined are more important to us in the immediate term

and that's just us feeling bad that our priorities don't line up with someone else's too, isn't it?

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does laziness even exist?

thinking about it more, it seems to just be a label people call others when they are judging them for having different priorities

i mean, if you prioritize something, but don't do it, that's called executive dysfunction and that's a Different Thing entirely

re: mh (+-) birthday 

i did get some slippers a day early, which i'm grateful for though!

i'm even happy that happened a day early because it means i can write off the entire day that followed without including that bit

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mh (-) birthday 

gosh, that was a really emotionally draining birthday, and i feel horrible

the highlight of my day was literally when a video game noticed it was my birthday and did something kinda neat--because that was the first thing that happened that wasn't oppressive, uncomfortable, or outright cruel

Eeveelutions are getting out of hand, fam. There's flareon, glaceon, jolteon, patreon, empoleon, nickelodeon, chameleon, etc. Holy heck dude

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