Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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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!
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.
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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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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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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!
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.
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With all new members we would like to remind you to make use of the CW (Content Warning) feature.
On your post box there should be a "CW" button which will enable a dedicated box for Content Warnings.
Our rule of thumb is that any content that would be awkward in public should have a CW. This will be enforced.
Unlike Twitter, your visibility will not get hurt by using CWs. Usually the opposite is the case as people will be more comfortable with boosting your content.
Thank you for your understanding 
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Back to playing Runner with feet, after a long absence, we'll see how this goes.
death, afterlife, plurality(?)
There is now a part of me that believes that when I die, I won't be annihilated, or reborn, or go to a recognizable place like heaven and hell, but instead my parts will scatter in the wind like dandelion seeds.
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⚠️ Hey #MastoAdmin FYI there is a Mastodon security update apparently coming 6 July.
The reason you probably didn't know about it, is because it was only announced* behind a proprietary centralized paywalled garden. (Not Twitter.)
Be ready.
* This is not a recommended way to run an #OpenSource community.
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Happy Enshitification Day! 💥
July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...
A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.
Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!
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pride month is over, time for wrath month
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I think the only thing I wanna put out there for newbies landing on fedi is not only do you not have to censor words to evade bots, algorithms and searcher arguments; doing so actively harms the ability of people who want to set up mutes OR enhanced notifications to do so on that content.
Yeah some people might have muted the word 'commission' because they don't want to be exposed to opening ads for whatever reason.
Please don't do that. You don't have to here. We're big on individual agency to see or not see what we wanna.
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My ultimate fediverse tips are:
- Embrace these specialised nerdy spaces
- Think about how awesome it is that people have such great passions and how you’re definitely one of them
- Wait, am I autistic?
- Let me research that for a minute…
- Holy shit I’m autistic!
- Oh my god this explains so much
- Oh wow I can finally embrace all of myself and share my true self without shame
- I’m going to post so much about random shit that interests me!
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Someone else on another network said (and again, I think they meant it as an insult) that Mastodon is social media designed by people who think that social media is bad, and unironically yes.
Joined Aug 2018
