Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

Gonna start by posting some recent "Riveting Tales" comics.

I started these as a creative playground without many rules, where I can draw anything.

#comics #rivetingtales

As another xennial who was burned by the demise of LJ and later twitter, this is a wonderful rant... https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

both were the only social media I ever had multiple accounts on... they were in a sense a home for multiple facets of myself.

(thanks to @beccadax for the link)

Giving a new developer the grand tour of the legacy code i’m supporting.

How to have a "beach body":

1) You're already 70% water, which is a good start

2) Replace the other 30% with sand

[Postal Service]
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay

i'm sorry I am like completely dead on the floor this is too much even for elon

I'll stop now and go take a bath and binge bocchi the rock or whatever

"You do math? You must be good with numbers"

"Oh no, the kind of math I do is different, I don't have to be good with numbers"

"What kind of math do you do?"

"Number theory"

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♫ psycho killer, cat cassette ♫

I love this response to anything.

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“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”
bell hooks

@norootcause I need it there so it doesn't mix with my other complexity.

Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’ve reduced complexity just because you moved it somewhere else.

It hit me this morning that often what I find frustrating in discussions around "intellectual property", piracy, large datasets for training things like CLIP, &c. is that IP is a really really poor substitute for actually useful conversations around consent and respect

Like Elsevier asking me to "pwease no steal uwu" about journal articles is very different than, like, an individual selling self-published books on the side saying "hey I need this money to pay rent, so please purchase it legit"

An artist saying "hey I don't like for-profit companies building generators from my work that I posted to deviant art" is very different than Disney cracking down on people making shit with characters they "own".

Someone saying "hey this is really personal work, I don't really want it passed around and edited without my consent" is not the same as pebbleyeet getting mad at anti-fash edits of his comics.

IP is bullshit but that doesn't mean we have to take unnuanced all-or-nothing approaches to things.

That would be like saying if you want to support squatters taking over an airbnb then you can't have a lock on your bathroom door: it's conflating such wildly different things that it's a little silly.

a debugging manifesto