sev @sev@witches.town
Not entirely covered in spikes. Queer cis feminist geek. In the PNW of the US, on unceded Duwamish territory. She/her.
(note this account is way more explicit than my twitter account.)
This urge to swing back toward hard femme would be less frustrating if I could actually get jeans that didn't feel like they were trying to squoosh me into a shape I'm not.
Time to send the custom-made jeans back and ask them to try again, with more ease this time please.
We are soft creatures, underneath it all.
Our flesh is yielding, and while our bones may be sturdy, they can still break. We are made of gentleness.
Compassion is our defining characteristic as a species. We bond and identify with each other, with plants and animals and technology.
We sing a Mars Rover 'Happy Birthday' and bake it a cake every year, because we know it can't come home. (we tell a robot that this is home)
We are gentle. It is not weakness to be soft in a world of hard edges
It's not so much that people forget about Usenet as that they forget why it died.
It got spammed to death.
It lost control over its culture, and that culture was crucial to its functioning.
It was too problematic for ISPs (or others) to provide ready access to it: spam, harassment, child pornography, and copyright violations all posed massive concerns.
There was no viable business model for providing the service.
you: get woke
me, an intellectual: ransomware disproportionately affects older Operating Systems & therefore computer viruses/cybercrime are a class issue
you: NO NOT THAT WOKE
Three days of utterly crappy mood lifted, immediately followed by two days (so far) at home with a sick kid.
Cancelled my date, postponed my errands. I may make it to circus class tonight but boy does that class suck when I have cramps.
Okay, life, you have a week to turn this shit around or I'm going to arrive at WisCon touch-starved and only half-packed.
i feel this constant compulsion to be communicating with someone, but when i attempt it, i find that i have nothing to say
@cyndisision & also: no, you did not contribute to this feeling; it's just jerkbrain depression figuring out new ways to use my old conditioning to torture me.
The good news is, the old stuff doesn't work so well so it has to try new tactics? I guess that's good news? I mean, I could still have the full drowning-measure of internalized misogyny.
Overheard bodyparts nonsense Afficher plus
@cyndisision <3 the proactive "okay to gripe" statement is appreciated. Would be unnecessary except for all that lying depression that insists on coming to visit.
And you are always welcome to gripe in my direction.
I'm amused (and unsurprised) that this sign was necessary. I mean, who hasn't wandered around a doctor's office wondering what to do with a sample? https://witches.town/media/4D9wF8rO-CT0XpUtYTA
Ugh I just want to apologise for existing.
If I'm not enjoying being around me, why would anyone else want to spend time in my presence?
I see many admins are using Docker for their Mastodon instance. There's no problem in that, it seems so simple, etc. But think about that : process are running using ROOT. And by default, there's no namespaces, so a root user in a Docker container HAS THE SAME PRIVILEGES as the root user on the host. With the amount of technology used my Mastodon, it is INSANE to run it as root.
Please share this post.
20 years ago: I hang out with a bunch of men, who I'm pretty sure don't want to hear about girl stuff, especially not pms.
Now: I hang out with a bunch of genderqueer folks, who are significantly more polite about it but I still feel weird bringing up my cis girl hormone problems when somebody asks how I'm doing.
But specific context aside, I should be able to say, "hey, I'm struggling with a solid 60-hour mood slump" to my friends, right?
Aspirational lip gloss arrived. It's *super* sticky & glittery.
Jokes about communism aren't funny unless everyone gets them
They are looking for speakers at nonbinary.tech for a conference about the work of nonbinary people in and around the tech industry. A free conference in London, UK.
@creatrixtiara we need to tell each other that sort of thing more often. I'm glad your friend appreciates that about you.