Caitlin @c8rz@witches.town

I just like... always forget about the degree of gender essentialism a lot of people subscribe to, and it's baffling because it doesn't even seem to be making them happy. They could just stop

Me, generally: sexuality doesn't impact someone's humanity, and being mean to straight people just makes people feel bad for no reason

Me, talking to a straight person about their views on gender: why won't you let yourself be happy.

@Mirzaba OH right. yeah that kind of thing is different haha. i can see why you'd take issue w people taking that seriously

@Mirzaba is pancake day a marketing thing? I thought it originated as a religious holiday bc lent

@ that ghost: please be more considerate. i will still be here in the morning. cheers.

something just thumped really loudly against the inside of my wardrobe. at 2am, while i am watching someone play a horror game. >:l

Just found out whodunnit in dp and WOW, GROSS THAT THEY BROUGHT OUT THE QUEER CODING THE SECOND YOU FIND OUT WHO IT WAS. Because of course they would! I'm so disappointed in it. It's so charming and funny and so awful to everyone who isn't a cishet white dude :(

@Mirzaba most of the stuff I listen to is like. goth adjacent? Like stuff where other goths would be like "oh yeah of course I love tori amos" but where you can't really argue it's proper goth

@Mirzaba i love 80/90s goth so much but have listened to kind of an embarrassingly small amount considering how goff i was growing up

@Mirzaba shoutouts for including Within the Realm of a Dying Sun!! Dead Can Dance put out so much good shit in the 80s. also Floodland!

I spent the morning installing a new theme & icons on Linux and it's dumb but I feel 100% better about it now it's less ugly. I think I need a different desktop environment tho, I'm not super happy with either of the ones I've tried so far

Really wish there was a way to subscribe to another instance's local timeline, cos I'm too tired to remember to check my other account regularly, but the timeline there is really good

(In Linux's defence, I'm trying to run a game from 13yrs ago. It worked perfectly when I tried a game released this year, and also still supports my laptop, which Apple don't)

I installed a game on Mac, and it consisted of clicking install then running it. Installing the same game
on Mint meant installing it, installing a bunch of packages, googling the error message to find the best advice was a 2011 post to the arch forums saying "I installed a bunch of libs and it worked". I know this is fixable, I know I will figure it out eventually but I have chronic fatigue syndrome and idk if I can do this every day

I really want to like Linux but so far everything has felt like a super uphill struggle in a way that OSX doesn't. It's frustrating as fuck because Apple have made so many choices I disagree with since I bought my Mac (in 2009...) I need a new computer and I fundamentally refuse to use Windows, so it's either learn to love Linux or get over my issues w Apple, I guess

Excited to have slightly more spoons than yesterday and slightly less to do. I'm gonna write some words, finally

Intellectually I know I use the arrow keys way too much to use a 60% keyboard, but fuck are pok3rs pretty. i want to rub my grotty little hands all over them.

@Mirzaba it's so difficult to like... pick one to use, especially if everyone you know is on different things. it would be so convenient if IM programs federated. especially from the perspective of picking one with features that are actually good, without having to bribe friends into joining it

(it was proprietary, but i still really miss MSN, who's nudge feature was maybe the most irritating thing. i loved it)

@bootblackCub Wikipedia linked to this 1992 study: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1992.tb00019.x/asset/j.1365-2869.1992.tb00019.x.pdf?v=1&t=jckgzvpw&s=14617a8f74541b6db175691508765071c1fa1042
(Although I'm not sure if it's good/universally accessible because I'm still half asleep on my phone)

Boost if you use your intervening period of wakefulness to commit petty crime
https://witches.town/media/IROqWwe7WJWB2ghRWAs