the trans agenda is having an aisle in every pharmacy for over-the-counter xenohuman HRT

like give me two bottles of Stranger Things Demogorgon, three drider pills, two coyote bottles for my furry partners, a 30-day supply of the kemonomimi variety pack, and oh yeah one Morrigan Aensland for me

@YKantRachelRead ooh good point

the existence of high femmes implies the existence of wood femmes and dark femmes

I love the term “high femme” because it sounds like there’s a ruling class of High Femmes on the Lesbian Council who are set apart from the common sapphic by their lipstick, microdresses, and love of pink body glitter

this song is how I first found out about Soul Coughing and I wish they would write more music from the perspective of characters like this. this is such a cool vibe. it almost feels like a much softer version of Chat Pile?

CW: the lyrics are from the perspective of someone who sounds paranoid-schizophrenic. there are religious references and there’s implied kidnapping at one point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHSb5WwADU

"Publishers actually reuse ISBNs" is a horror which keeps traumatizing new librarians every so often

@coffee4danz I'm blind and for me alt text is the Big Special Thing about Mastodon. If someone posts a meme, I'm in on the joke. Someone shares beautifiul moss, or their cat, I'm in on the beauty or fun or whatever. I'm now 62, and this is the first time I entered a community and a culture where people grant me this kind of access and community. So grateful for people who do alt text.

@alice In general: Fuck everything that requires an app to use it.

any musicians of fedi? preferably those who are queer and trans.

it feels really lonely to be one of the few musicians here in a platform where people talk about linux all the time.
#music #musicians #musiciansofmastodon #transMusician #transartist

honestly if you ignore the whole "cookie handling required to authenticate" part, mediawiki's api strategy of "one php endpoint with a shitton of query parameters which are all prefixed according to what functionality they relate to" kind of rules actually

@rowan ugh it really really is. I’m sorry you have to deal with this shit too 🫂

there are a few different technologies (languages, frameworks, etc.) that I’ve been interested in learning, because I think I might be able to find them beautiful eventually

but as soon as I start trying to learn them, the surface-level details that I learn immediately strike me as very ugly. probably just because I don’t understand the wider context for why they’re designed the way that they are. but I tend to be so put off by my initial distaste that I just give up on learning the whatever-it-is. I wish I could download full knowledge of the technology into my brain so that I could immediately know whether I like it or not, with full knowledge of what it’s trying to accomplish and why it’s designed the way that it is

anyway the things that I’m thinking of as I write this are:

• Model-View-Controller and its variations (MVC, MVVM, MVCVM)
• architectural patterns in general
• Lisp, Haskell, and F#
• Nix / NixOS

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

okay but more seriously, I care a lot about writing code that I find beautiful: the joy of writing code to me is about creating beauty

so I’m only interested in {tools/frameworks/architectural patterns/etc.} that facilitate elegant, beautiful code (in my subjective view of elegance and beauty). but I have no way of knowing if I’ll find them beautiful without spending a lot of time and energy deeply learning them, what problems they’re trying to solve, what philosophies they use to solve those problems, etc.

and I don’t really have the spoons or patience to spend those resources learning something highly technical on the gamble that I’ll end up liking [the thing]. also anything sufficiently complex or opinionated looks Very Ugly to me by default until/unless I learn that there are good reasons for it to be designed Like That

so that’s why my knowledge of technical things is so limited and why I like to write most stuff from scratch and invent my own best practices as I go

if it takes me more than 30 minutes to learn how to use a piece of software then I do not want to use that software

and that’s why I only know Python

@1 There are a certain category of music that is probably actively dangerous to play in a car cus it has the capacity to awaken anyones inner speed demon, and MBR is definitely among them. I'd say most metal music with the exception of doom metal prolly fall into that category to some degree.

@Impossible_PhD I want to beam this into the brain of everyone who has ever touched open source software

Every semester, I have to stop my students when they try to go "you can just--" in my technical writing courses.

Nope. Everything that ever comes after that opening bit is *always* coming from your specialized knowledge. If someone could, they would've already. They wouldn't be asking for help.