Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

You know that old saying "in this world, it's eat or be eaten"? I say we try to make this world into one where it's cuddle or be cuddled (or neither if you don't want to do either for whatever reason).

@byttyrs I'm, like, Schrödinger's cuddler. You never know where I'm going to actually be on the graph until you actually try to cuddle with me, at which point we figure out both how warm I am and whether I want to cuddle or be cuddled.

Another interesting source of validation back then was when I started learning Dutch. One of the earliest sentences I figured out was "Ik ben een vrouw," "I am a woman." It was nice to be able to reaffirm that to myself without giving it away to others. (Incidentally, another sentence I figured out was "Ik ben een sinaasappel." I'll leave it to you to figure out what that one means.)

One of my earliest sources of validation was playing Kahoot in my spanish class 11th grade year. I'd always put in my name as "KitTheKitsune" (this was back while I was thinking of going with Kit as my name). It was always nice. Eventually, iirc, I started dropping "TheKitsune" and just putting my name as Kit. It was really really nice. Mind you, this was after my teacher emphatically declared we had to use our "real name". She never really cared about me doing this, though.

"I don't care whether I should be spraying fabreeze into my hair. I'm spraying fabreeze into my hair."

Friend: Sends me "humorous" article on programming

Me: Sends back a not-insignificantly long chunk of analysis of said article, probably looking way too deep into it

I'm honestly not sure whether or not this is something my friend expected. Like, I wanna say he just expected a "lol" or something. Maybe no response. But, then, we've know each other long enough that he may have very well expected overly in-depth analysis. I have no clue.

Anyways, there's a glimpse of my life

"So over here we have the kitchen."
As the guests looked in to the kitchen, their faces dropped, seeing nothing but ovens covering every possible area. Who was this woman, and why did her kitchen only contain ovens? They would never quite get to know the answer.

"I have frozen goods. I should probably get around to putting them in the shower."

The replication crisis is a problem of capitalism. The need to earn grants and to publish "ground-breaking" research lest you lose your job means that no one really gets to focus on making sure all that older stuff gets published. You're better off trying to show some cool new fact than to replicate (or fail to replicate) something done 20 years ago.

@Colophonscrawl@yiff.life Yeah, I keep seeing that commercial. I can't help but wonder, are they paid actors, were they paid to do this...or were they threatened with losing their jobs if they refused?

@Sapphicgiraffic@snouts.online Depending on how well you remember it, you might try looking over this: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python3/

It's not really a proper tutorial or anything like that, but it walks through all the python 3 syntax which might jog your memory. (There's also a python 2.7 one if you need that instead.) It's also got some tutorial resources at the bottom which might be helpful.

@mavica Wow, and I thought it was bad because it was a JS-laden RAM nightmare. Turns out it's far worse than I thought. Huh.

If you need a(n actual) reason to buy me pizza, I discharged from IOP today! Successfully! I still need help, but I'm *much* better now!

Re: last boost

If anyone wants to buy me a pizza, hit me up.