Sophie McLeish @sophieactual@witches.town

@Sylvhem But we started off lifetimes ago writing assembly on punched cards and *cringes* paper tape, so we're a bit hierarchical and procedural.

@Sylvhem We rather like the idea of the CW as a tiny abstract.

Hey @Sylvhem would it be fair to suggest that CW'ing by default would be a good UI enhancement or should noisy people like us just suck it up and learn to to it that way?

@nobody Welcome home. Witches town is probably one of the safer places you'll find on the web.

The only sort of unwritten thing we've bumped into is if you're anything like us, and tend to write jinxes that are way too long, CW most everything, like treat it as a default.

Enjoy.

@alyx Microsoft quietly announce the rebranding of their venerable NT marque. All products to now now carry the WindowsED brand. Industry pundits unsurprised.

@Garlynne It probably should be called soy juice, then the image would line up with the texture.

@ambyrb If your thinking already follows similar lines you can't really be appropriating it.

Related ideas seem to have the habit of arriving fully formed in apparently unrelated locations.

Unrelated, until you introduce a group soul, or overmind or messengers of the gods, or archetypes, or whatever.

We'd just take all the sparkly bits and horde them away, never know when they'll be useful.

@Sylvhem Yes, it's got real depth now. Maybe we're just a stick in the mud, prefer things to be added on to, rather than changed out of all recognition. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

@AliceinCrystalTokyo You're evil and vile and our head is starting hurt.

@Sylvhem Why do so many people have to write a better, incompatible mousetrap when all that they really need to do is ask the cat?

Ok, that was maybe a bit harsh, some designs really are so bad they should have been compiled to /dev/null

@Sylvhem Yes. It is.

Note to self, install a damn keyboard that supports macrons. That last word is kōrero. Copying and pasting individual letters isn't funny.

We're back on our hobbyhorse of paradigms again.

Like a magpie collecting trinkets, we collect paradigms.

"Oooh, shiny, we'll keep that one."

We like paradigms, not for any specific truthyness or falseyness, but as something to weasel between.

We think of that collection as our Chronicles of Awareness.

So, we were down in the epistemological anarchism rabbit hole which led us by a vastly circuitous path to the notion that we're a species of chaos witch.

Edge of envelope though, because our views seem to align with it, rather than having been formed by its korero.

@ouzobat Whiskey and a half corona for breakfast isn't a problem. Is it?

Gods we love witches town.

Without it some nineteenth century-centric shrink would probably have us in a long-sleeved white jacket on a
prochlorperazine drip with added phenobarbital and tuinal just for good measure.

Or, more likely, some sixteenth century-centric auto-da-fé aficionado would getting their rocks off while we burned at the stake.

Ok, everyone went quiet. Looks like we went too far. Again. *shouting into the void*

"Sophie?"

"Yes?"

"There's weird, then there's this ..."

"Seriously? Do we look like we give an ever-loving sabre-toothed tigered fuck about that?"

"No. But you probably should."

"fuck.right.off.into.the.sea.you.came.from"

"Ok, just saying."

"Say it to someone who cares."

"..."

Part of our plurality is a nexus that refers to herself as a rebellious angel, post-angel would work as well.

The soul description is hers, albeit mediated by a compressed, encrypted burststream, but our algo's are getting fairly good. We still lose some subtleties, or perhaps it's just English that lacks them. Maybe we'll try te reo Māori and see what happens. That's going to be diabolically hard work though.

Angel souls have a generic USB driver, if it's sentient, they can ensoul it. Except dinosaurs, that's another story.

Because it's generic, it has a whole shit-load of error handling.

Lucid dreaming? The error handlers are JIT compiling alternatives and testing them for stabilty.

Sleep paralysis? The error handlers have found a heap corruption and a reboot is underway.

Dreaming awake? If there's enough swap space, keep this one loaded otherwise *SYMLNK the binary so we can get back there.

It's not too far-fetched for us that trans-people probably have angel souls.

Relationships are a USB cable, if both ports have compatible drivers, it works.

Cats live with people who have cat-drivers, dogs with people who have dog-drivers, yadayadayada.

Trans-people are born with Xen pre-loaded, they work out at birth how to install cisWindows and paravirtualised cis-drivers, regardless of which Dom0 they have.

Cis-people are born with cisWindows pre-loaded. What's a paravirtualised trans-driver?

Deep in their DNA, their USB manager SEGFAULTs, their CLR throws an exception and PInvokes UnknownDriver.

That's why we understand them and they don't understand us.