maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

at least with retro computer stuff. these days everything is TTL and nobody cares

i'm not trying to gatekeep by saying that you NEED to know the difference between TTL and RS232. i'm saying if you're trying to do serial stuff without it, you WILL have a bad time, through nobody's fault but your own

i'm sorry i'm not cute fluffy furry enough to be popuretrotechfur

retro tech doesn't care about your sensory overload. retro tech predates a lot of people trying to get into it today. you gotta learn the stuff eventually or you might end up, at best wasting a lot of hours in frustration, at worst frying expensive hardware

man if you don't want to learn the difference between TTL serial and RS232 serial you will end up having a bad time trying to get into retro tech

i wanted to call myself sapphic more but now because of Identity Politics by principle i need to call myself lesbian in order to ward off exclusionists from getting the wrong idea about me

i like the word "sapphic" because i like that it relates to Sappho. i don't like "sapphic" to mean "not lesbian". i am a lesbian, fuck you.

and if anyone's thinking it, the robots.txt file was originally without asterisks, i only added them after noticing it didn't like it. i also tried changing the order of allow/disallow (which canonically shouldn't matter) and twitter still thinks it's not allowed to load that url

even discord gets it right

i think twitter's robots.txt parser is just wrong and i'll have to live with twitter being the only website that doesn't embed my opengraph cards correctly

i don't understand

or at least i thought i had >:(

i finally fixed the opengraph directives on my website so twitter shows previews https://maple.pet/

also since apparently (maybe i'm the only one late to the party) the "sunset lesbian" flag creator has been showing her full ass parroting exclusionist and separatist rhetoric, please consider reading my blog post about the lesbian flag back from february: https://maple.pet/blog/lets-talk-about-the-lesbian-flag

and this one https://mobile.twitter.com/kildeerqueer/status/1412064020660621315

here's some better threads for more info https://mobile.twitter.com/kalina_chung/status/1415124333534453761

anyway let's hope the #LesBiTwt kids read this and spread it around even if in bad-faith qrts. maybe it'll reach someone

"but mavica you're just stoking generational warfare by playing the age card!" no. i'm telling kids to learn some history instead of telling others to go off themselves over what labels they chose. this is not something you sit by idly watching, & it's more serious than you think

the disrespect exclusionist teens have on the internet for queer history is something i will never forgive

imagine cultivating a label and a space for yourself and like-minded people only for 50 years later teenagers to tell you that actually that label is wrong and it means something else now and you're excluded from it