The Leewit @ghost_bird@witches.town

W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for zcat, which handles compression. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX"

L is for lex, which is missing from DOS. M is for more, from which less was begot, and N is for nice, which it really is not. O is for od, which prints out things nice, while P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice. Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table. S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for true, which does very little. U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and V is for vi, which is hard to abort.

#unix #fortune
I love fortune:
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for grep, a clever detective, while H is for halt, which may seem defective. I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for join, which nobody uses. K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while

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. :)

Because I needed it recently, a reminder:

It's ok to turn off push notifications from apps. It's ok to unsubscribe from email lists. It's ok to unfollow. Your attention is yours to give.

#selfcare

I don't know whether it is because I'm getting older or because the news is getting worse but I find myself crying a lot about anti-fascist protesters around the world because I am so grateful; they seem so alone and have to fight the state and fascists together

Reminder for today: It's okay to have limits. It's healthy to set boundaries. You don't need to take on other people's stuff, and you don't need to give your energy away and get nothing in return.

Don't cut off your branches and give them to people/causes who will only toss them aside. It takes time for branches to grow back, and you need them to live. It's OK to keep your branches for yourself.

I wrote a piece called "The Gentle Verb" about designing story for games for the Peabody Essex Museum http://playtime.pem.org/the-gentle-verb-an-essay/

I don't cope well with Christmas so if anybody has something ridiculous I can distract myself with lemme know