Lady @Lady@cat.family

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!’

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

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

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

genre performativity

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

really frustrated by this whole “being in love” thing

you are not obligated to approach all traditional knowledges with suspicion; nor to justify them, where necessary, with hard and easily comprehensible fact

i hereby liberate you

how to say “you don’t have to narrate your fic from a post‐Enlightenment Western perspective” nicely

hey look french vampires are pretty swell too

anyway nothing rustles my jersey quite like programmers who treat web technologies as needlessly complex because they are more robust than their controlled pocket operating system that nobody else will ever use, and as somebody who spent years listening to people complaining that gender trouble was needlessly obtuse, it sounds the exact same

that or you have conflated “web” with “internet”, which is a mortal sin

you may ask what web technology has to do with gender trouble and in the asking of that question i can guarantee that you do not understand gender trouble

« But 24 hours with Gender Trouble has refined the screaming in my head to a very clear proposition that has nothing to do with anything I was thinking before I opened the book: there are some things that are hard for no reason and there are some things that are hard for a reason. » web technology is hard for a reason

packin’ roasts and makin’ boasts

it’s really easy to listen to??

kind of upset how much i am liking this Katelyn Tarver album on repeat

you say you listen to queer elders? ok name five of their songs

when i found out about mastodon it was because it was (a) new, (b) during the 2016 presidential election / immediate aftermath, and (c) queer techies were talking about it

(a) and (b) are not true anymore and the only people in the (c) camp are either already on mastodon or hate it