Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Saw a commercial earlier about "smash gender roles" with some girl playing football and, like, great. You think women should actually be treated like humans and not be judged for their """masculine""" hobbies. Great. Thanks for finally joining the fucking bandwagon. Honestly, come fucking see me when you wanna say it's okay for a guy to wear a dress. Then I'll believe you when you say "smash gender roles". Til then, fuck off with your """woke""" advertising.

A quick apology to those who use screen readers for the last few posts. As far as I'm aware, most screen readers can't read runes, so my apologies for those.

To translate my last toot:
"HAHA! I have my runic keyboard again!"

There it is in the Ibus configuration:
English - ᚠᚢᛏᚩᚱᚳ ᚱᚢᚾᛋ

ᚻᚪᚻᚪ! ᚪᛁ᛫ᚻᚪᚠ᛫ᛗᚪᛁ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛁᚳ᛫ᚳᛁᛒᚩᚱᛞ᛫ᚪᚷᛁᚾ!

This reminds me that I should:
A) write a blog post on a proposed system for modernizing Anglo-Saxon runes, and
B) get around to releasing the Ibus-table file I made for Anglo-Saxon runes (as well as reinstalling it on my system)

(And/or, optionally C: rewrite that file as a .mim file instead of using an IME meant for a Chinese-like language)

If you're gonna propose writing english with runes, for fuck's sake, at least use the anglo-saxon runes. They're more fit for purpose on the basis of being, well, part of the english lineage.

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Technology quote of the day:
"Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough."

A lot of my life, I've been called up for tech support. When I was in sixth grade (circa 2011), a teacher asked me for help downloading a song off youtube for a graduation slide show. Trivial now, but I didn't know how at the time, leading to a process that took a good few days. However, in the process, I had to listen to that song a lot.

So, fun Kat fact of the day: Almost a decade later, I *still* have the lyrics to the Facts of Life theme song burned into my memory.

Save me from this curse.

Mildly cursed thought for the day: ice is just congealed water

So, I've a question about emphasis in Spanish. I was watching TV and an ad for Peacock came on (in Spanish) with the phrase "No puedes no ver". However, it was emphasized as "No puedes. No ver." To my English-native brain that seems weird. I'd emphasize it as "No puedes NO ver". But, is it actually weird, or is my English language bias kicking in here?

(How is there even a government to collect taxes at this point?)

Look at this ridiculousness. Half the town's on fire, the other half is covered in nuclear fallout. What's the biggest issue on the survivors' minds? The fact that taxes are at 20%. Not from the perspective of "Hey, tax the rich more to fix this mess" or anything like that but generic "MuH TaXEs ArE tOO HiGh!!" What kind of bullshit right-wing ideology leads you to develop a system this ridiculously bad?