Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

masto is going through one today huh

unfair that i still have to use the microwave when dragons can just cook things in their mouths

if you are going to share a small fragment of writing devoid of any context, the only merits i can judge it on are technical

so pick a technically skillful piece of writing

amazon keeps trying to sell me on their serial fiction service by sharing small quotes from the stories but friends the quotes are bad?? it’s not working

i play pokémon because i like raising cute creatures to be strong

the more gameplay there is for raising cute creatures to be strong, the more cumbersome things are for competitive players who just want to play with their desired teams

letting you farm experience candies with max raid battles or transfer egg moves by just putting two pokémon together in the nursery in SwSh is objectively good for competitive players but also takes all the fun out of gaining experience or pokémon breeding for me

those parts of the games went from challenges in their own right to just facilitatory mechanics in preparation for the challenge of battling

pokémon games will never be as good as no-frills battle simulators for competitive play and they should embrace that instead of trying to turn an RPG into a battle simulator but with more grinding

and also make actual battle simulators instead of trying to shut them down

honestly i don't like the QoL improvements in recent pokémon games

song to play instead when your relatives ask you to put on Hamilton for the holiday: https://truellform.bandcamp.com/track/doap-2020

bigoted is when you try to justify your own personal aesthetic preferences as somehow morally superior or culturally enlightened or more civilized or more universal than other possible aesthetic preferences, fool

???????you ever just see a take

annual reminder that gender dysphoria is specifically excluded by Congress from ever being accommodated in the workplace

Daddy was a bankrobber
But he never hurt nobody
He just loved to live that way
And he loved to steal your money

wolf alice kind of day 🐺🍄

patriotic canadians get fucked

buddy 2016 is recent

nope still june

can they sign on to this manifesto? why haven't they already?

i'm saying all this because if a§c shipped the same exact software they have now but with a featurelist like

- we recognize that social software is shaped by its participants and that we, too, must be shaped by them in order to produce good software. we value dialogues which develop US in the correct direction. we do not have all the answers

- we want to build access for everybody, and (failing that) for those who are most endangered by a lack of it and most vulnerable in society at-large. we recognize that the issue of access is complex and are invested in dialogues which further our understanding of this subject

- the issue of access is not limited to our users, but also to us, i.e. our company. we are committed to making OURSELVES more accessible, diverse, and multifaceted, and value the cultural transformations which develop from a broadening of access to new groups and new horizons

- good software is not software which encourages use but software which is driven by use. software cannot be separated from human needs and labour, human activities. in developing software, our goal is to FACILITATE human activities, not CREATE activities for humans

- newness has no inherent value to us. we will use existing solutions when existing solutions work. we like democratic media and democratic technologies (HTML, email, Atom) which people have had demonstrably easy and lasting access to. we aim to protect that access

- the above points are abstract, but the conditions of life are material. our aspirations are meaningless if we cannot convey them in the language of material action. the following are concrete steps we have taken as an organization to manifest our goals. this list is a work-in-progress. it will never be complete. [LIST]

without any software changes, if they had simply presented themselves like that i would be about 5000% more optimistic that they might actually achieve a good thing

while these things don’t pertain to software, they do pertain to labour, and emphasizing software capabilities at their detriment is *cough* bourgeois as fuck