Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

« A thousand things make it impossible to mistake the verdict on queer lives and on women’s lives, as on the lives of those who are poor or not white. The hecatombs of queer youth; a decade squandered in a killing inaction on AIDS; the rapacious seizure from women of our defense against forced childbirth; tens of millions of adults and children excluded from the health care economy; treatment of homeless people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic “sweeps”; refusal of condoms in prisons, persecution of needle‐exchange programs; denial and trivialization of histories of racism; merely the pivot of a disavowing pronoun in a newspaper editorial: Such things as these are facts, but at the same time they are piercing or murmring voices in the heads of those of us struggling to marshal “our” resources against illness, dread, and devaluation. They speak to us. They have an amazing clarity. »

eve kosofsky sedgwick, 1993

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

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

if your posts are indistinguishable from that of a CIA plant trying to sow controversy and foil collective action, maybe consider making different posts

the kind of idle linkfollowing which people now see as relegated to sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes was once how the entire internet operated

somebody just @ me when the tangara supports ALAC so i can start considering it

obviously the correct way to format json is

{ "like": "this"
, "mother": "fucker" }

more money:
• can make games faster and cheaper
• can sell games to people who can’t afford $70/game and thus reach a wider audience
• GBA games are better and so should sell better
• GBA games are better and so will drive merchandising opportunities more than switch games
• lower development barriers = more exclusive third-party titles, driving sales

less money:
• GBA games are worse for performative gaming (streaming) and so have less cultural cachet
• the price of games is so disconnected from the costs of producing them that anything you can do to make charging $70 justified is worth it
• can't cash in on ports of iOS games
• most gamers only buy prestige games meaning they won’t consider anything cheap or technically simple

if nintendo pivoted to rereleasing the game boy advance and developing comparatively low-budget, easy-to-develop games and selling them for $30 apiece, they would make

so local tv just died while i wasn’t looking huh

my take is that perhaps we can criticize the united states for its ethical and moral failings WITHOUT needing to fall back on a tired argument where it is singularly responsible for the actions of other nations and other world leaders, as tho its purpose in society is to be both the ethical rule and the peacekeeper/enforcer of geopolitical events and the rest of the world is but a current or potential colony that gets a bit unruly sometimes, sometimes with permission and sometimes without

damn i love the cold war

oh are we attributing and analysing international events as though they were solely orchestrated by the leaders of the united states and maybe, at best, a couple of specially designated enemies there·of in their eternal struggle for the fate of the universe again

aspiring to bourgeois levels of luxury isn’t very “end the american empire” of you

look leftists, when you say “in a world where i am no longer plagued by capitalism, i would ⸺”, we all know that you are just spraypainting the american dream with a mildly progressive patina. you’re not selling revolution to anyone here

read to you by Simon Jones

as a kid i didn’t think Bartimaeus and Harry Potter had much to do with each other but as an adult i recognize that “actually, the magic of British exceptionalism is a farce upheld by colonialism and slavery” is definitely responding to Something

i don’t love depending on G·N·U Make but there simply isn’t another option for what i’m trying to do

i have multiple times done something like $(and $(VAR), -e $(VAR)) when actually what you need is $(and $(VAR),$(space)-e $(VAR))

for the record, G·N·U Make strips white·space from each argument to $(and …) and $(or …) before expanding, not just the first one, which is confusing and definitely not documented

my girlfriend is up and about Doing Things and i am not here for it

sleepy bitch saturday

programmer challenge: write a script which, when given a file in the current git repository, outputs the average age of the lines in the file

bonus challenge: implement a toggle to include or exclude blank lines

that sure was a dream

you ever shout “fuck off asshole” to ä conservative old white dude while showing him your bare butthole between two middle fingers and then teleport into a patch of shade a few yards away