Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
@hollie Hey I really appreciate the alt text. (I tend to not like watching videos.)
Esme Povirk
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thanks to chronic illness communities online for being the only way many other chronic illness patients will ever figure out what the fuck is wrong with them because the medical system sure as hell won't
Esme Povirk
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The thing about painted bike lanes and flex posts is that there's a pretty big difference in user experience between places cars *shouldn't* go and places cars *can't* go.
Paint and flex posts are like rumble strips: they are designed to gently remind cars where they should go in a way that does not damage the car. This makes sense for a highway off-ramp, but it clearly falls apart when we're talking about safety for someone on the other side.
bash scripting
I've been slowly becoming more evil ever since I learned you can have terminals in gvim.
function :e () {
gvim --remote-send '<C-W>:e '"$(realpath "$1")"'<CR>'
}
function command_not_found_handle ()
{
case "$1" in :*) gvim --remote-send '<C-W>'"$*"'<CR>'; return 0;; esac
/usr/lib/command-not-found -- "$1";
return $?;
}
I'm plural and have a bunch of different internal voices, and only realized in adulthood, but I now suspect that many of these voices were based on the body's voice at the time they formed including changes from endogenous T.
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Girls in skirts ❤️
Boys in skirts ❤️
Enbys in skirts ❤️
Everyone is cute in skirts!
Neurospicy ramblings
@Sophie You are probably unusually skilled in sensory imagination, or at least sensory memory.
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still playing BIT.TRIP Runner (in perfect mode with feet and a spaced repetition system), but I think the pace is picking up now? No more learning new buttons/mechanics at least.
Esme Povirk
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I've been writing again! This is a story I've been wanting to tell for ages, despite it involving the darkest thoughts and moments of my life. It's about the time I time-traveled in order to save my life.
(Or that's one way of looking at it, at least.)
Huge bold font blinking content warnings for suicidal ideation on this one!
https://medium.com/@tattie_potate/saving-myself-252d2cac327a
#TattieWrites #transgender #trans #suicidalIdeation #trauma #hope
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@picklish@weirder.earth I'll pay attention to see if there's a pattern, thank you.
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@picklish@weirder.earth Post-dinner thing: possibly. Regular sleep times: yes.
Esme Povirk
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Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.
Mastodon: You actually don't need a billionaire at all.
Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that's true.
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@picklish@weirder.earth Maybe naps are the wrong approach entirely. My energy has a tendency to crash in the early evening, and I don't know what to do about it.
@dbdean I have this bookmarked for that purpose: https://cassielabelle.medium.com/help-somebody-i-love-is-transgender-part-1-what-does-that-even-mean-905d98684884
Esme Povirk
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I saw a post here (that I can't find) that kinda changed my life.
It said the best first step to changing the world into a better place is to just stop making fun of people. Ever. For anything. Including in your own thoughts that you may never speak aloud.
I try very hard to do this! it's such a stabler and nicer-feeling foundation to my thoughts and my life. It sheds a mental weight/burden I couldn't see before.
Such a great distilled bit of advice for a big concept!
vim
@minego Anything specific that gvim is missing?
People who regularly take naps: do you adjust your bedtime afterwards? I worry if I go to bed at my normal time I just won't be able to get to sleep, and I don't know how to adjust it.
vim
So it turns out that you can start terminals in GVIM and manage them like buffers. I needed to tweak it a bit, but it's really nice to have this without having to learn an entirely new tool like tmux.
@BenPaddon I didn't read it as sarcasm. I'm choosing to take this as a good sign about my mental state, rather than a bad sign about my ability to detect likely sarcasm.
I am also glad you're enjoying threads, and I would like to be wrong about it eventually becoming shitty. I take no joy in people losing platforms where they were having fun and connecting with people.
@BenPaddon That just means threads is still in phase 1 of this: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Which, given that it just launched, I would hope so.
The reason I'm on Mastodon is that I expect for-profit social media will always become shitty eventually, and I want to be on a platform where that won't happen. (Also, I genuinely like it here. I can spend a little time each day reading things my friends like and/or care about and then feel satisfied and go do something else.)
Joined Aug 2018
