← Feed

Posts

• View post

  Why is it that the same people who refuse to write good documentation for human beings will gladly write a novella length Markdown file with the exact same information if it's for a bot? I think they hate other people and feel superior to them. Other people don't deserve their amazing, faultless documentation. Other people might be rude and dismissive or ask questions in a way that isn't sufficiently deferential. They can't tell other people to shut up without getting yelled at...

• View post

  Since there has been a huge influx of new users, I decided to write a new #Introduction and actually pin it to my profile. I'm pushing 50 years old and I live in a Red State that is trying to make me illegal. I'm a #pansexual / #bisexual #transgender woman married to a heterosexual cisgender woman who frequently talks about the current hellscape for people like me in my Toots. I'm #NeuroDivergent / #ND which is probably why all of these sentences start with "I". I've wo...

• View post

  @aburka@hachyderm.io After my job told me I had to use the Torment Nexus or be fired and blacklisted, I find it's actually quite useful. This is not the result of Stockholm Syndrome or other coercion under duress due to the massive power imbalance and lack of worker protections in my hyper-capitalist country but a purely organic change of opinion.

• View post

  Found it. https://github.com/PKM-er/obsidian-editing-toolbar Added this shit. Guess I'm removing it.

• View post

  @lisa@beige.party Congratulations! I'm not sure what else to say. It was more like 15 years ago for me but it was a moment that saved my life. Here's to finally starting to be yourself!

• View post

  @gwynnion@mastodon.social I'm like "write a script!" If I want to hear people shooting the shit, I'll join a Teams call. Otherwise, I'll just read the transcript that's been "edited for clarity" thanks.

• View post

  @LilPecan@mastodon.social I try to respond to those when I can. Goddess knows I've needed that little bump in knowing I still live, that I exist, that I matter. The world is shitty and a little kindness goes a long way.

• View post

  @ZebKing look, I got them to switch to Signal but talking about "Fediverse" and "Mastodon" or "Misskey" vs. "Sharkey" just gets blank stares.

• View post

  @lispi314 @theVedek @Impossible_PhD I try not to read novels because I can't stop until I'm done. I'll sit in my recliner and read for 4 or 5 hours straight. I'll read the whole thing in a weekend and do nothing else. So anthologies it is!

• View post

  @Impossible_PhD I write short stories but I've been a member of a local writers' group off and on for almost twenty years. It's not genAI, well not just genAI. It was already drying up unless you were an established name with guaranteed sales or a workhouse churning out genre paperbacks like clockwork. Amazon Kindle seemed to be the beginning of the end based on the slow change in our speakers presentations. And traditional publishers were enshitifying before it was a word. You...

• View post

  @fishidwardrobe Ah, the neurodivergent aspect. Autism, in my case, meant I already didn't understand the rules of "how to be human". When I was told "boys don't do that" in response to some of my behavior, I just added that to the list of things I had to mask, like hitting my head against the wall or biting my own hands. I didn't know there were two distinct things at play—autism and gender dysphoria—until I was in my mid-forties.

• View post

  I would like to just ask some questions of cisgender people. If you are a man, think back to when you were a child:When did you know you were a boy?How did you know you were a boy?How did you know other boys were boys?How did being a boy around other boys make you feel?What if you had constantly been called a girl?What if every time you tried to assert that you were in fact a boy you were told you were wrong, that you were lying, and that you were going to get in trouble if you kept saying that...

• View post

  @cstross@wandering.shop @patmikemid@sfba.social @davidculley@hachyderm.io @Flux@wandering.shop I solved a problem yesterday by clearly writing up a support ticket outlining all the things I'd already tried with examples. By the time I was done, I saw the hole with the things I hadn't tried and therein was the answer. I never had to submit the ticket.