Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

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Four #trans people were elected to office in yesterday's elections across the U.S.! Congratulations Danica Roem, Lisa Middleton, Andrea Jenkins, and Tyler Titus!

https://lexiecannes.com/2017/11/07/gop-bloodied-in-historic-off-year-election-trans-woman-wins-va-statehouse-seat/

https://mastodon.social/media/JTDY721d_PjnmJA9jpc https://mastodon.social/media/UOrhzKjXq50EEL3TjZE https://mastodon.social/media/BHExtMhviR-H7YWINIM

when you wake you have a Pepsi craving. weird, since you've never had soda before in your life

at work you start noticing stuff out of the corner of your cybereyes: familiar billboards, vending machines, friends' actual drinks - all Pepsi-branded now, even things Pepsi would never sell

that evening you can barely comprehend your fav news podcast; the feed's near crowded out by intrusive thoughts about that fucking soda

but you do catch one line about "viral marketing"

#posthumanhorrorstories

@lizardsquid
Who needs anemones?

local shark girl eats pickles https://mastodon.social/media/1lQSEtoGZBnJuKx-wpE

we now return to our scheduled shitposting, already in progress https://computerfairi.es/media/VRGk0z469dbR8mwYeWM

Its sad how Wile E Coyote is remembered for his violence and not for his brilliantly realistic paintings of tunnels

Sometimes that pain will resurface in the strangest of ways, in a time maybe when you think you're done with it. That's okay, it's still part of that process. Sometimes I still have days where I can't get someone who was close to me out of my head, or I suddenly find myself in that same place of dispair or a feeling will trigger that sense of lose again and I'm in tears

It's okay

"almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983"

"amber-screen library computer in 1998: type in two words and hit F3. search results appear instantly. now: type in two words, wait for an AJAX popup. get a throbber for five seconds. oops you pressed a key, your results are erased..."

Also a good bit about how interfaces destroy data, disable cross-referencing, and generally suck in all kinds of unpardonable ways.

https://tttthreads.com/thread/927593460642615296