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good at people who are bad at people

@aescling there appear to be; they’re a bit different design

@noelle @millihertz could also be history.pushState() javascript, which is designed to add useful navigation to single page web apps (like mastodon), but on many websites is used in such a buggy manner that it just breaks history navigation instead

“don’t worry; i hate professional writers too”

@aescling returns a new object with the same enumerable, string‐typed keys as obj, but with the values mapped according to the function mapValue

Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(obj).map(([key, value]) => [key, mapValue(value)])) sure is a pattern

the bookstore owner, placing a novel on the shelves: ‘it’s a boy!’

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like it looks like a shitpost but it’s actually very straightforward and clear

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people who don’t understand performativity: :dog_tilting_head: what that mean?

people who do understand performativity: yeah that’s a logical application of butlerian poststructuralism onto literature

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folks in a discord are having a conversation about “grimdark” but what they’re describing feels like it includes southern gothic and i’m not sure i agree with the equating of those terms

thanks to a mastery of language and abstract forms, humans can look at a pizza and say “food”, and look at a boot and say “shoe”. dogs cannot make this distinction

@witchfynder_finder i hear they’ve now replaced it with Universal Time of Crotchetiness

really frustrated by this whole “being in love” thing

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.