Lady @Lady@cat.family

i need a name for what i am because it’s not goth but like, it’s close

« powerfully as these are experienced, they are also more than complicated by how permeable the identity “survivor” must be to the undiminishing currents of risk, illness, mourning, and defiance »

never seen claire’s name come up in a piece on mastodon and we all know she’s the one holding this whole site together lmao

find the people doing the actual work and listen to them

you can recognize them because they don’t write thinkpieces and it’s a blessing if you can get an interview

look it’s not a perfect rubric or line to live by but once you start thinking about it, it really does become obvious how little the biggest names have actually done

be
• the most prolific
with
• the lowest profile

the industry is bad and the people who work in the industry are sellouts

fond of journalism but not fond of journalists

who reads this fucking newspaper lmao

« To Chinese in the business elite, who grew accustomed to the privilege and attention their success brought, the Big Boss, as many of them refer to Mr. Xi, doesn’t care about the economy or people like them. In his opening address at the party congress, Mr. Xi mentioned “security” 52 times, “Marxism” 15 times and “markets” three times. » i agree, he should have talked about Marxism more and security less

oddly pro-China headline in the NYT today

might fix hashtag and mention processing in the advanced text renderer while i'm at it too

it will still be terrible for screenreaders on instances which aren’t ours lol but maybe we can get it into GlitchSoc

my dayjob is working with Rails apps so i don’t love doing it in my spare time but this is mostly a frontend thing

yeah remind me to dev this i bet i could do it in like a day

i’m not alone in preferring the second one right?? i bet i could make this happen lmao

would you rather see

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gods i just had the greatest time with my girlfriend [fur jnf ybbxvat fhcre ubg nsgre n qnl bs jbex] so after dinner we put on The Reminder and danced

and eventually [bhe fuvegf jrer bss naq jr jrer shpxvat rnpu bgure guebhtu bhe wrnaf]… well for a bit anyway haha [jr qvgpurq gur wrnaf jura jr ergverq gb gur pbhpu]

i mean this is basically how Discord spoiler tags work

it was neat to be able to switch between hidden and unhidden text flexibly in the same sentence and i think it was better at actually giving people context for what they're reading