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getting a bit grumpy 

and dont even get me started on how people act about people who like or have done things that not everyone thinks are okay, and who haven't immediately and thoroughly apologized for them

idk. stop having knives at everyone's throats i guess.

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everyone seems to have it out for everyone else. there's a constant atmosphere of danger these days. i don't know what happened. is it just a symptom of being more connected?

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If any of you were furries in the 90s, it's worth noting that VCL is shutting down soon. Last chance to get anything you want to get before the lights go dark there, too.

when the dog bites, when the bee stings
when i'm feeling sad
i simply shout "motherfucker" as loud as i can
and then i don't feel so bad

Mary Oliver (1935—2019) 

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

-Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

psa 

please consider consent when giving hugs to people online. Some people don't like to be touched or held, and thus may be upset by direct hugs. Instead, why not try offering hugs, this gives the person or people you want to hug a chance to consent to the hug!

SCP idea: a copy of the landmark statistics book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, except every time you open the book all the digits change

callout culture 

One of the most frustrating things about callouts is the way the people propagating them abuse the sense of urgency and import that people inherently have. They tend to fall apart under the most basic scrutiny, but the emotional charge of the accusations is often given as self-evidential to the claims and they're often designed to force people to make the mental shortcuts so that they _won't_ use due diligence.

Callouts (specifically the kind that are not grounded in reality) are just a form of emotional blackmail designed to guilt people who do not immediately subscribe to them. They're used primarily by people looking to farm social capital and clout. It's simply another form of abuse that is difficult, if not impossible, to counter and disperse.

legend has it that if you throw a Yamaha keyboard into a swimming pool, you'll become sensitive to the Force

(apologies to anyone who gets this incredibly silly and oblique joke)

there's a practice in astronomy where you block a star's light so that adjacent objects such as exoplanets can be imaged more easily

this practice is called occulting. the witches in the audience know what's up

introducing my new unicode encoding, UTF--1 (negative 1, not to be confused with UTF-1). characters are sequences of 1 bits with length equal to the character's codepoint, delimited by single 0 bits

pros: easy to explain, unlimited range of codepoints
cons: oh man where do i even start

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