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

look, to clarify, i don't hate people who use the sunset flag. i hate the flag itself, because of its popularizer and how it was stolen. i hate its history and how it got chosen as "the de facto lesbian flag" without my or any other elders' input, on tumblr.

oh my god she didn't even come up with it. she stole it, because of course she did. fuck emily gwen and fuck the sunset flag jesus christ https://twitter.com/Catastrfy/status/1415776581176287232

and that's while working around super legacy code made for a non-graphical screen

trying to eliminate a flicker issue on a device with a graphical display with no backbuffer got me like

anyway if you like me and you want to hang around me and my friends online https://discord.gg/cwn6byK

yeah i flip out a lot. sorry. if you can stand it tho (and plenty of my friends say i'm not unreasonable, which helps the gaslighting that some people will try to do to me saying i'm too angry to have friends or smth) i guarantee you we will have a nice time discussing old tech

i have too much trauma to be nice and cute and socially marketable online

it extremely pisses me off more so because of c-PTSD from being doubted and ignored and told to shut the fuck up my entire life by people who should know better and refuse to. i'm tired of being dismissed and shut down when i actually know something

you bet your ass if i ever get there i'll stop trusting myself (i already don't very much)

full offense, slowly learning not to trust anyone with over 1k followers on twitter

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