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Why do I keep dating ppl who are into tentacles?

[avatar on lastfm since 2005 is literally a tentacle monster]

Any trans named "John" ~obviously~ named themselves after John Homestuck, the main character of Homestuck.

This thread brought to you by someone stating that "Keith" is the kind of trans masc name that is ~obviously~ inspired by a fictional character, thereby forcing me to look up the name "Keith" and find out that he's some guy on Voltron.

Anime nerds are simultaneously extremely self conscious that not everyone is into anime...and completely unaware that not everyone gets their references or slang, because they come from anime.

Btw, it's not an iPhone, because fuck Apple's overpriced walled garden.

Honestly, none of the devices I own nowadays are Apple.

I had to crowdfund for a Macbook to push shit to the app store, and the damn machine broke twice on me within a year.

In 2015, I started teaching myself how to code.

In 2016, I got accepted to a tech bootcamp. They had space for me in the iOS cohort, so I was, like, "Sweet!" even though I had been focused on web up until that point.

I spent the next few years learning how to be annoyed with Apple.

I actually like Swift, but I wish I could use it on non-Apple hardware, for non-iOS things.

Anyway, I was broke until a few months ago, which is why I got my first cell phone in 2010 & first smartphone in 2019.

Wow, a smartphone is really useful.

~ Me, the mobile dev who owned a flip phone until last week

Hey are there any extensions for VS Code that number the "columns" -- vertical line numbers, basically?

I have a very long doc right now, where it would be a useful feature, to ensure lines on the same heading level are even length

Wildest fantasy: Nonprofits having any solidarity, at all, with labor

Oh, I'm sorry.

I overestimated.

It's half a percent.

Wtf is wrong with these nonprofits?!

Nonprofits encouraging people to scab for Amazon, so they can get that sweet, sweet 1% or whatever of every Prime Day purchase donated to their dusty coffers.

2019 news headlines like "Stacy from Montana, who lives many thousands of miles away, and has never left her state nor willingly spoken to a person of color before, thinks AOC sucks"

Anyway, glad 2be living in a city that didn't immediately cave to Amazon's greedy demands for tax breaks

Seattle literally has about the same population, and the same ethnic demographics, as Staten Island, the smallest and whitest borough of NYC.

Honestly, in Seattle, a lot of anti-Amazon sentiment is combined with anti-immigrant sentiment, so it's kind of hard to fuck with people who tell you they hate what Amazon is doing to the city, cuz you're just bracing yourself for them to start talking at you about Amazon bringing in too many foreigners.

Seattle is so white that tech is making it less white by hiring non-locals, and that is truly saying something.