Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still working on BIT.TRIP Runner.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd When I was a kid, I rented Super Metroid and never found Bombs. Well, I know where they are now but I'm still going to pick them up.
Google and ad blockers
Thinking about Google responding to the popularity of ad blockers by trying to put up technical barriers. I'd say they're putting enough effort into it that they must consider ad blocking a threat to their business.
Yet I don't see them making any attempt to address the critical problems that make ad blocking necessary. I figure they feel they either can't fix those problems, or wouldn't make money if they did. Either one would mean their business can't exist without scams.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Continuing with BIT.TRIP Runner.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Starting another randomizer because I have no restraint.
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Reading about a construct I've been wanting to know better for a while: self-compassion!
"one of the advantages of self-compassion over self-esteem is that self-compassion is not based on the performance evaluations of self and others, or on congruence with ideal standards. Rather, self-compassion circumvents the entire self-evaluation process altogether (positive or negative), focusing instead on feelings of kindness and [...] recognition of one’s common humanity" (Neff et al. 2005)
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I needed to understand the angles on Threads federation in a more rigorous way, so I took a few days to think through and write up my sense of the benefits, risks, and available risk mitigations, along with loopholes that need closing and questions to discuss with fediverse administrators.
This is a blisteringly hot subject for me, so it's hard to keep my head cool enough to understand other people's trade-offs, but I'm trying.
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normal gamedev: all bugs must be squashed! this build is bug free. 🚫🐛
indie gamedev: yay a weird bug! i will gain its trust, befriend it, and make it a feature. ❤️🐛
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Streaming BIT.TRIP Runner with untested settings on upgraded Internet connection. I hope nothing breaks.
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While I don't believe in wasting empathy on fascists, when I see people posting "fascists aren't people" stuff I feel sick to my stomach because this kind of dehumanization of people we hate (even if they hate us) is fascist thinking. Fascists are people, terrible people who wish or don't care if they do the rest of us harm, but still human beings. This doesn't mean we have to indulge them, it just means that when we dehumanize other people we are in the process of becoming fascists ourselves (no matter how loudly we yell "freedom"). Freedom comes with responsibilities if you're not a fascist and one of those responsibilities is to recognize that we're all human, even the people we don't like or who may want to kill us.
term with mostly nsfw usage but sfw in this case
Update: Cole is a femboy (he/him or she/her pronouns) and would probably be interested in presenting femme regardless of being plural.
The system is still a trans woman while individually Cole is not.
-Gaspar
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Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
twitch rolled back the sexual content stuff after less than a day
spineless cowards lmfao
spineless cowards lmfao
Unironically love when a deadlock happens and I have to stop everything and investigate because who knows when it'll happen again to a developer?
Oh hey I guess Threads started federating. My instance's admin has been blocking Threads since July, and I hope others do the same.
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Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features
Feature opt-out by default bothers users who like to keep their files private.
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I really dislike the common line of reasoning that "being gay/trans isn't wrong because they were born this way/it's not a choice". That's not why it isn't wrong. It isn't wrong because it doesn't cause any harm to anyone. If being gay was a choice it'd be just as okay morally!
This is important because sexual attraction and gender identity can naturally change over the course of one's life. Under the framework of "it's only ok if they're born like this" that can be seen as problematic. It forces people to stay quiet about their experiences if their identity changes at all and especially if some external factor was a catalyst for that. And so what if it was? What if some experience "made you bi"? There's still nothing wrong with that!
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When the invasion from the fourth dimension came, it had unexpected benefits. The new overlords were surprisingly mild. They only wanted the Earth for Qling, a substance we neither understood nor needed. They filled enormous eye-warping four dimensional tankers with a cargo we couldn’t even perceive, then left us in peace. A few stayed, having found human friends and even lovers.
My neighbour is one such. We met when xe returned my lost cat. “I don’t know how she keeps getting out”, I said, “all the doors and windows are shut”.
“What about that gap there?”
“Where?”
“Oh of course, it’s invisible in three dimensions. Here let me close it up.”
The cat is still furious about this.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Continuing the attempts to get better at playing BIT.TRIP Runner with my feet. Also updated the spaced repetition system to choose pars more aggressively and lower cooldowns when I repeatedly fail.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Chill puzzle time! At least I hope so. Trying out Inhabit.
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@hellomiakoda @punishmenthurts @haui @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic my intuition is that a lot of NT "communication" comes down to both people nodding in agreement about something but if you ask them seperately they actually don't even agree.
We are bad at communicating because they follow rules that make things easier for them, not more accurate or precise, just easier for them.
By insisting on the necessary relevance of the specific information you fail the NT nod along test, you make it "difficult" by refusing to make collective the sense of ease the primary goal.
That's why we are so "difficult" maybe idk
Joined Aug 2018
