Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

i¦ve been wanting to rework my keyboard layout all year but i keep putting it off because it will ruin my typing speed when i do, but in the meantime it just keeps getting more and more strange

“—and then you rent it a U-Haul”

it sounds like computer fans

yes i used an alpha unicode codepoint even though it has not yet been approved via an ISO Proposed Draft Amendment (PDAM) technical ballot

lesbians

and the thing is like, i’m not mad about scarlet and violet?? it’s a good story and i enjoyed experiencing it?? certainly it’s better than either of the switch zelda games

but it’s also like, just a visually buggy game with a good story that happens to use pokémon mechanics. and that’s fine but not what makes a Pokémon Game

honestly the monkey paw curling with regards to pokémon plots is so wild; scarlet and violet have far and away the best writing of any pokémon game short of Explorers of Sky etc, but they are also undoubtedly the worst Pokémon Games

cohost is/has been failing because of the identities of the people who founded it, because of the communities those people are in, and because of the failings of those communities. absolutely. it’s failing because of tech people and tech culture, it’s failing because of online leftists and online leftist culture, it’s failing because of furries and furry culture, and it’s failing because of neurodivergent queers and neurodivergent queer culture. and other reasons besides! if you are invested in any of those communities, it’s necessary that you recognize those failings, realize that they come from inside the house, and work on yourself and the people around you to fix that shit and get better. that’s the only way you will grow, and the only way your community will get to a place where it is effective, or even healthy

but it’s also fine to say nah. it’s also fine to not give a shit. because at the end of the day, these are just friends of friends, not a political organization or movement, and you don’t owe them anything. you can not associate and you can spend your time instead on those who have earned your care

as a white trans woman who has been very online, of course i care about what other online white trans women think or say and what the general cultural currents are like in that space. those are my people, to some extent

but it’s very important not to mistake that personal sentiment for the idea that this microdemographic of white womanhood is remotely important, relevant, or even coherent on any kind of political scale. or that a culture which is steeped in white protestant ideas of gender, western european orientalism and racism, and feelings of exclusivity and sometimes outright bigotry inherited from forums like somethingawful or 4chan is actually, on the whole, a good or progressive force

it’s okay to recognize your personal attachments to these communities and still criticize them. it’s more than okay, even healthy, to recognize your personal attachments to these communities while deciding you don’t give a fuck what they think or whether their current Discourse has takes which are right or wrong. it’s absolutely crucial that you do form other commitments, to other cultures and communities which ARE politically meaningful and DO matter, if you want to get anything done

list of mastodon admins who have generally correct opinions but aren’t dealing with multiple unresolved mental illnesses

pokémon the movie: i choose you is not a GOOD movie but it does go all in on the fanservice

oversteeped my assam and now it’s ✨spicy✨

girlfriend always smells nice in the morning…

remember when there were things to learn around every corner

this is documented almost nowhere so if you don’t spend your days looking thru highly technical character set algorithms and documentation you would be forgiven for not knowing

reminder that Unicode reserves certain private use tags for their own purposes, so you should avoid using those ones yourself if possible

i stole partner’s shirt so they stole my shirt (they’re the same shirt)

gonna stop calling it “Easter” and start calling it “Christian New Year”

very noisy morning and i have a headache