Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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really feel like I should have gotten to fuck around a whole lot more for the historic amount of 'finding out' that's happened in my lifespan
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COVID, public health in general
I sometimes feel like the rare person who considers COVID pretty serious but is too tired to rage at all the people not wearing masks and thus I conclude we should probably just meet people where they are (flawed as individual behavior is) and get serious about ventilation standards (and enforcement of those standards).
We didn't limit fecal-oral disease transmission in cities through individual shaming, we stopped it by building sewage and water infrastructure
@minego I don't really have one, but I did coincidentally start rotating hosts around that time and it's going great.
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The Goddess of Transfems: Congratulations on cracking your egg, I have unlocked all of your memories related to gender.
Me: Neat, do we get to go through them together?
TGoT: No, I have mixed them up in a big bucket which I will slosh on you every few days when you're busy with something else.
Me: Oh ok.
TGoT: You'll probably be more annoyed by that once you get the hang of emotions.
@autisticompulsive @hollie This is what it feels like when someone new fronts.
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"You can't hoard princesses!" the knights shouted.
"I don't," said the dragon. "Tima, for instance, is a farmer."
"That's not what... You keep them looked in!"
"The lock is on the inside."
"What?"
"They're not locked in. You're locked out."
"They can't do that!"
"I see why, now."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
@kentbeck I don't feel like this is a binary choice? The place I work seems to use a mix of both.
plurality(~)
Theory: it's because we've switched our entire life to deal with differing situations, without knowing what we were doing, so there we're just learning to consciously access a skill we've had all along, while we've never developed the skill of telling ourselves apart.
plurality(~)
How is it that we're so much better at switching than knowing who is in front (and thus, knowing whether we've switched)?
@zigg Do they not go in an equal number of times, and if not, how?
transgender problems
At first I had trouble dealing with shirt buttons being on the wrong side, but now they're all on the wrong side regardless of which side they're on.
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Reminder to my neurospicy folks: you are great. Every time I take an ADHD inventory it makes me sad, because it talks about the ways that this type of neurodivergence inconveniences *other people.* Heck em, your purpose is not to be convenient. You are valid and inherently valuable regardless of how psychiatry treats you and regardless of how the workplace etc treats you.
@hollie If you notice me boosting (or posting) things that need a CW and don't have it, and you have the spoons for this, please call me out on it. I really do try to avoid polluting your feed.
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I really miss when people CW'ed their political posts. I used to appreciate seeing that so much, it's a big part of what made Mastodon so much easier to scroll than the other site.
I wish Favoriting would also notify the person who boosted the post onto my timeline, so they can also know I appreciate them boosting it.
As the replies to that said, multiple profiles can be (sort of) achieved on discord using PluralKit, which btw I would fully encourage non-plurals to use it if it's helpful, it's not "appropriation" or anything.
It would be nice to have something similar on Mastodon. -Lexi
@minego It bugs me that the "inversion" of the if statement went from (a > b) to (a < b) and not (a <= b) as would be the logical negation.
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10 years ago, Morusque released a free album of remixes inspired by our first game 'Blocks That Matter' that contains 9 amazing tracks from talented artists like Disasterpeace, Romain Gauthier, Square Tune Magician @zep @Spotline and more:
https://morusque.bandcamp.com/album/reworks-that-matter
@SpriteGuard (replying to https://twitter.com/Sprite_Guard/status/1610409030689906688 because I'm not posting on Twitter anymore)
Often there's important information you don't have, and no amount of consideration or research will fix that. In those cases, you can make a table - what's the best and worst case for each choice, given what you don't know? Can you do something else to mitigate the bad outcomes?
@SleepyCatten I had long hair in high school and would occasionally be gendered as a girl (usually by older people). Then they'd apologize once I spoke and I just didn't understand why they felt the need to apologize, since obviously girls are awesome and being compared to one is a compliment.
Joined Aug 2018
