jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

@pbandkate I kind of hate this discourse as someone who has been hearing it for years and years. I will not give up queer; there is no substitute for me. nothing else fits. nothing else so perfectly encapsulates non-hetero, non-cis, non-normative identity in one word. nothing! the best I can do is agree to avoid using it around company that objects to it but they will not stop me from using it as an identifier for myself because it is such a huge part of "me" by this point.

@pbandkate yes this is how I feel too...

having a really hard time here lately with the word queer. i know that it upsets a lot of people for very valid reasons and that for a lot of people it’s still a slur but..... it’s how i identify. it feels so much more right than “bi” or even “pan” and it took me so much time to feel confident enough to finally identify as queer and it felt so so good to start identifying as that and saying it and claiming that word. so to feel like i now shouldn’t be saying it is.. tough

whenever you define a system, you have also defined its negation. this has been known to cause problems

The tech industry: a thriving community of folks telling you to solve your own fucking problems you pleb bitch btw emacs is trash and nobody cares that you run Arch.

@eightbitsamurai "Gawrsh Donald, I thought it was because we serve an authoritarian despot who forbade us from doing it."

@dankwraith VALID TO BE AGNOSTIC TO THE REALITY OF IDEAS

@byttyrs

historical materialist / metaphysical nonmaterialist crew

I used to think I was a hard materialist, ontologically. but I struggled so much with convincing materialist explanations for math, & implementations of the 'same' logical system on different material substrates that intuitively give the 'same' outputs. like, what even is a 'logical system' or a concept of 'same' that holds across clearly-different substances?

eventually I decided that I don't know how to answer those questions, & that's okay : )

still a historical materialist, don't worry!

if you study math in any kind of abstract way you eventually either 1) become a nonmaterialist or 2) become a tegmark-esque chump who thinks that the entire world is literally numbers, like literal ass numbers

@LoveyDoveyArcticWolf you took the right path

Crimes from @Gaynebula

@lynnesbian "fuck off icarus" — the Sun, probably.

*flies too close to the sun*

@neufv
sometimes, to ensure i breathe clean air, i remove people like you from the planet

also the elephant is replaced with this

starting a new instance (thicc.nicc) where the notification sound is a clip of nic cage saying “i’m gonna steal the declaration of independence”

gender is a scam invented by bathroom companies in the 1960's in order to sell more bathrooms