Lena @NBLena@witches.town

emotional labour is labour

Remember when we were younger, and we fantasized that cyberpunk was this awesome desired thing?

Where you could plug yourself in and digitally craft your entire everything, or have some spliced organo-mechano body sculpt so that you could appear outwardly as well as you felt inwardly, or just how much your overall appearance was modifiable?

Remember how excited you got inside when you fantasized that all these things were completely normal in that world, and that it would be worth it despite the utterly bleak dystopian backdrop that leeched all of the empathy, compassion, and civility out of being alive?

We're not there... we've DEFINITELY got the latter dystopian part, and we're still working on the first half, but the general world is not qvite as receptive to our crafting of our own images as would be ideal.

Hold on to those that are accepting of it. Hold on to them tightly.

This is how we survive the problems of the latter... how we navigate the dystopia.

We are better than the inhumanity of this world, because inside we are bright-neon, rainbow colored, shiny metallic, soft and comforting, hard and unflinching, loud and proud, qviet and caring, glowy-eyed beings.

We craft our existence despite being surrounded by these crumbling ruins of society, because who we are is all we have. They cannot take that away, because we won't let them.

You are worth every last gasp of breath that's inside you, every tear of sorrow, every dazzling spark of elation, and every shred of compassion.

I don't know if you needed that reminder or not... I just know that I did, today.

*Hugs softly*

Congratulate yourself for doing difficult things, even if they might not seem difficult to others.

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life. ~ Jill Bolte Taylor

The Homer Simpson ploy is not a good look for us.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/12/05/quit-playing-the-fool-guys-youre-hurting-our-reputation/

Take a nice long shower or bath. Let the water loosen your muscles and your mind.

a week or so ago I wrote a mail to a podcast I like, telling them I think they're great.
In their latest episode they mentioned that they were very happy to have received a fan mail. Like 1 fan mail.
I thought my message would just be one of many.
So anyway, if you can, tell creators you like that you like what they do, they might not hear it as much as you'd think. :)

https://octodon.social/media/AjZ_A3v1-TgoRz1UEUE

austria has marriage equality effective 2019!!!! im gonna cry im so happy Q-Q
http://derstandard.at/2000069288003/Verfassungsgerichtshof-oeffnet-Ehe-fuer-Homosexuelle-ab-2019

OpenMW.

The open source game engine for legendary and acclaimed The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind has been updated again bringing in a few new features and plenty of bug fixes.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/open-source-game-engine-openmw-for-morrowind-has-been-updated.10827

#RPG #OpenSource #gaming #Linux #OpenMW

ok i just misread this for a sec

i love my creeper cats

Self care prevents burnout and reduces stress, that's why.

PSA for people who #code:

Looking stuff up does NOT make you bad at coding.

"Not having to look up stuff" is NOT the benchmark for a good coder, especially as coders have to look up stuff ALL THE TIME!

And I don't mean highly advanced stuff, but stuff like "How does division work again?" or "What's that function called?" or my personal favorite "How to I nest for loops in list comprehensions?".

It's ok if you have to look up stuff!

#coding #adventofcode

#art #challenge proposal:

Do something you're fucking scared to do. Whether this is because it's hard, unfamiliar, or whatnot—just do it.

You don't have to show anybody.

You don't have to do this every day.

But do it one day before this year ends.

I throw myself at art pieces where I'm not sure I can do what I want to do. This has taught me a lot, but even though this is my main attack vector vis a vis art, I still have things I'm afraid of.

This month I'm gonna tackle live figure drawing.

The year is ending. Art out with a bang.

LosslessCut.

A no-nonsense video cutter for Linux.

Free and open-source video trimming and cutting tool. It works on audio files too.

Ridiculously simple to use. One look at the interface and you’ll know what to do.

-Supports all the major video and audio file formats.
-Faster editing with keyboard shortcuts (press ‘h’)
-Very simple to use.
-Immediate video rendering.
-No quality loss.
-Snapshot extraction from a video.

https://itsfoss.com/losslesscut-video-cutter/

#video #editing #OpenSource #trimmer #cutter

Create something for no practical purpose such as a song, a poem, an essay, a painting, a drawing, a comic strip, a collage, etc.

What I love about #Mastodon:
1) #Politicians and #celebrities don't use it as a pulpit.
2) Folks don't use to spew #hatred and #violence.
3) I've made more positive connections in the past few months then I've EVER made on #TheBird.
4) #Advertisers aren't beating you over the head with their obnoxious ads or attempting to mine your data six ways from Sunday.
5) It's feels like this is what social media was supposed to be all along; sharing thoughts.

Here's to hoping it stays that way.