domesticated still a little feral

Folks often act like you need to be some sort of math genius to be a computer programmer, but in practice, I find that my skills as a writer end up helping me more than my skills as a mathematician.

Programming is basically explaining what you want to happen.

Just, like, you’re explaining it to a helpful but exceedingly literal-minded space alien from the Eleventh Dimension who’s only had physical existence described to them, so you need to choose your words carefully!

I’m telling yall, software engineering is demonology

#computers#they are not smart#you must explain things clearly to them#they are only speedy#remember the difference

the best part about sci-fi stories told from the point of view of an artificial intelligence is that you can have omniscient first-person narration and it fuckin slaps

oh yeah, also the fact that the narrator will go “Unlike humans, I of course am always 100% rational” and then proceed to do something completely unhinged

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

Seriously people, learn fandom etiquette. It exists, it exists for extremely good reasons, and it's been decades in the making.

You know the saying, 'OSHA regulations are written in blood'? Yeah, that applies to fandom etiquette. We didn't make this shit up to lord it over newcomers, these rules evolved as a form of fucking self-defense and by god we'll die on this hill.

Which is Your Black Cat?

Y'all don't know what rural love looks like. Y'all don't know. We got 6'2" burly fellas rolling in from the logging camps like "yeah I'm looking for a packer for my boyfriend". We got welders coming in after work and you gotta ask em to scrape off their boots at the door and their hands are black with gunk so we gotta help em sift through the strap ons. Three ladies come in wearing floral dresses with their hair in rings like they just got out of church and you ain't sure if they're together or just friends but when they leave they're all holding hands and one gives another a kiss. Old fella with a walker comes in for some lacy lingerie. 85 year old widow is going on a first date since her husband passed. People are people all over the place, it's not different when you can't see it

the adorable one...and then there's Dan.

such a huge relief that hillary’s so ahead in the polls and trump has such a small chance of winning, right? WRONG. DO NOT GET APATHETIC OR COMFORTABLE. DO NOT DECIDE YOU DON’T NEED TO VOTE BECAUSE YOU’RE SURE HILLARY WILL WIN. the only way trump can win now is if so many people expected to vote for hillary don’t show up to the polls. because you BETTER believe ALL of his supporters will be at the polls.

brexit passed in the UK because young people grew apathetic because they were sure it wasn’t going to pass. and it did, because old racists and xenophobes showed up in DROVES to vote.

tl;dr: VOTE, PEOPLE. VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. IT MIGHT.

*AGGRESSIVELY STARES AT USAMERICANS IN 2024*

People, people, don’t pull the same shit that was done in 2016.

In 2016, people didn’t like Clinton so they either didn’t vote, protest voted 3rd party, or straight-up voted for Trump.

Look what that got us. 4 years of a literal dumpster fire.

in 2020 we united behind a candidate that might not have been our favorite but he wasn’t Trump, and we booted Trump out.

For some goddamn reason we are having a replay of that election - a felon (Trump) is running for the presidency, he has FLAT-OUT said he’s going to be a dictator on day 1, and has plans to completely eliminate a LOT of rights people take for granted and have fought for for years.

We need to unite once more behind Biden. Not because he’s your favorite (he may well not be), not because he’s perfect (he isn’t), but because if we DON’T we may never have another election in this country. It will be a major defeat for basically anyone who isn’t white, male, and evangelical.

Rally the troops. Stand up again like you did in 2020. Get out the vote. We’ve got to make this happen.

A battle was won. The war is far from over.

38.3% of eligible voters in New York voted in the 2022 general.

if you do not participate you do not get to complain when the time comes where your rights are getting stripped away and more people are dying than ever before. you will have done it to yourself.

your refusal to participate in the collective game is in itself a decision to murder millions of people abroad and disenfranchise millions of people stateside. you are pushing the button. you are flipping the switch.

your inaction is complicity. this will be your fault.

If youve ever said something nice to me and i never replied I apologize! Unfortunately i am a neurotic prey animal and your message was nice enough to make me scurry under my leaf mold and hold still to camouflage myself until the danger passed

It’s funny how Buffy’s story is in so many ways about financial disenfranchisement and the devaluing of so-called “women’s work” because I’m convinced that I have spent more time thinking about class dynamics in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the last hour than the writers did over the course of the show’s entire run.

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being non-binary is sooooo exhausting... everyone wants a piece of you, you’re hot, you’re funny, you’re cooler than ice cold, you dress impeccably... smash that reblog button if you too think non-binary people deserve to be given 1000000 dollars in cash.

sometimes you can pick up a cat and hold it and it may make noises at you

I would like the start some discourse

I saw recently someone accuse nonbinary people of "riding the coattails" of binary trans people, and I cannot emphasize this enough: take my coattails, hold them in your hands, pull yourself up by my bootstraps. Together is how we thrive, together is how we fight, together is how we win.

There are queer people out there who when they see another branch of the queer community either succeeding or receiving support, their reaction is to try and pull them back down. The logic is often: if I had to suffer, so do you.

If I could give a piece of advice to anyone just entering the queer community, it would be: be wary of people who want suffering more than solidarity.

Remember, in this community, we are not here to fight for scraps, we are here to rise together.

tumblr walk of shame (frantically reblogging 908 different posts to cover personal posts where you uncomfortably overshared about your mental state)

I guess for the sake of true clarity I should note that there are plenty of places where people do technically "have their dicks out" at Pride. That's pretty common in Seattle, where public nudity for non-sexual purposes is totally legal. Every so often at Seattle Pride I'll just turn around and hey, there's a penis, but it's ... just there, being a well-behaved floppy dick. I have yet to see an orgy break out at Pride.

And there are deliberately and specifically nude events in Seattle, as opposed to incidental nudity at Pride, so the fact that no one is clutching their pearls about the nude cyclists at the Fremont Solstice Parade is telling.

That's a great point.

Basically:

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