Lady @Lady@cat.family

programmers will literally think that just because they wrote the operating manual that they own the machine

i wonder if there is anything which can be learned from all this

similarly, the part where tolkien was bad was the part where he was an englishman riffing on other cultures he had no personal stake in

the part where tolkien was good was the part where he was an englishman riffing on english culture and its antecedents

i’m invisible today (took a vacation day from work)

@noracodes anyway i’ll add that the baha’i calandar of 19 months with 19 days gives 361 non⹀intercalary days total, so really we are all being conned by the illusory prestige of bases 8/10/12

@noracodes i WANT to be using <https://www.ladys.computer/calendar/>, but calendars don’t have much utility beyond scheduling rest days or worship, and i can’t do the first under capitalism and haven’t yet figured out the second

until that gets fixed we can probably realistically never have things like webrings again

if you sharing a link to someone’s personal hobby project has a chance of them going not “hey cool man thanks for the support” but “oh my god i did not ask for this spotlight”, you should just log off and never log back on

i don’t blame google or social media i blame walking talking context collapse machines making it impossible to say anything ever because someone Famous might see it and share it with a million random people

web got bad when celebrities logged on

@alyssa yes i saw it and was like “actually that’s a great idea”

i think it is unethical to hijack the part of brains designed to identify tasty berries amidst foliage in order to make website buttons look good to click at

if you post a color at me i will not see it

apparently colour filters work with night shift now in i·o·s so i turned on greyscale and set the night shift to permanently max

“at least the h·t·m·l parser is standardized”