Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

@maple neutral trans stories, I guess

still haven't heard from anyone about Plume or other ActivityPub blogging stuff

does nobody here use that shit?

I have a silly dream of making a paper machine, something I could feed with clean cotton rag and it would pulp it and extrude sheets. that's getting a bit ambitious considering we've never built any machine that wasn't in kit form :=/

I'm a sucker for ooold books about, like, how to do practical stuff like make paint and soap and inks and stuff like that. all the things we've gotten super used to as commercial products

(like...we assume we're _always_ gonna get that stuff at the supermarket or in a convenient yellow Amazon tote or whatever, right? well...maybe not for much longer...)

here's a favorite, "Henley's Recipes"

https://archive.org/details/henleystwentieth53143gut

kinda want this but then I would have to figure out how I would actually use it

it'd probably just become another lump of useless technology in the basement

now, Kara's a witch, and my mom Mona's religious (jryy fur yvxrf univat jvyq betvrf jvgu inevbhf tbqf, naljnl, ng yrnfg va ure bja zvaq), but I ain't really into that shit

still, I sometimes feel inclined to help 'em out with their crap. thinking of how I'd make a "pendulum" (it's a divination thing) app that was actually, like...not just a pseudorandom number generator because that's not gonna respond to the spirits, or whatever

bleh. there's workers over at the house working on replacing all the windows which means none of us can focus on anything

we just totally fumbled the dice thing huh @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe

eh, we'll start over. we never stick to any new habit immediately, haha. but I'm gonna land on you even harder, tomorrow

oh heh yeah I promised myself I would try to get #ffxiv running on Xubuntu, that's gonna be "fun"

really blows when you find out (probably) that someone you used to wanna be good friends with just decided one day that you're not worth acknowledging even more and probably has you muted or blocked or something so you can't even ask why

like...what do you do then? how do you even know what you _did_? "oh I don't have to tell you anything and you're abusing me just by asking" well fuck you if that's how you think