Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

oh nice new BERWYN

there are definitely engineering decisions which are complex and weigh a lot of factors and require technical and theoretical expertise to evaluate, but those tend to be interesting problems

hard problems tend to be more like “i have known what needs to be done for six months but it is so aesthetically repugnant that i can only work on it for a couple of hours a week before my brain loses the ability to focus”

a hard problem is simply a problem that is hard

this was also a fine bit but in my head what i heard was “grandma can’t be doing that, she has arthritis”

here’s the actual clip if you’re curious

all other things aside, biden saying “i’m the most pro-union president and you all doubted me, but guess what, the data is in” and then leaning close into the mic and whispering “when the unions win, we all win” WAS pretty great

putting these in a separate repo like this does create an unfortunate situation where i’m going to constantly be having to update a subrepo hash but frankly if i’m going to have to run a manual build every time anyway might as well

there’s a repo now; i’ll use it somewhere eventually; more to come https://git.ladys.computer/Fortune

me @ my gf

that thing where dogs are Not Having A Good Time and they just pout at their owners like “Why?”

“umbreon is like a My Little Pony”

i don’t want to see people doing cool stuff with the things i make (because then i have to support it), but i do want to see people doing cool stuff LIKE the things i make

it sure would be nice if everybody else formatted their fortune cookie quotes exactly the same way as this approach i invented a week ago

« Simulated thinking may be thinking, but simulated love is never love. »

« I go and attribute all of these qualities to the computer and condescend to get mad at the computer and give it the dignity of my emotion wasted on its stupid metal framework… »

for the record i don’t have a strong opinion on the “Biden serves until he dies and then Harris takes over” VS “Harris takes over now” debate but if they’re going to do the first one they should stop making such blatantly politically toxic moves

• debate fiasco
• “i’ve been staying up past my bedtime”
• no communication for days
• “i don’t believe that voters are actually worried” / “polls are fake news”
• “i’ll be happy if trump wins so long as i tried my best”
• radio interviews to show he can think on his feet; later comes out that they were scripted by the campaign

really is speedrunning “how many bad looks can we give in a week” huh

everybody loves file·names which begin with U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS