drone that is confused by all of the compliments on its "costume". humans don't seem to understand that this is just its face
My condolences. Storytelling is quite an art form and it’s unfortunate that has been a negative experience for you.
aw, thank you! I’m just very easily hurt by witnessing things like injustice or cruelty, fictional or not, and storytelling is almost never calibrated with my emotional sensitivity in mind - so I end up much more hurt than what I think was intended
for the most part I avoid storytelling right now - even in video games. although sometimes I’m able to enjoy a video game with a story because the story isn’t told in a way that affects my emotions very strongly. for example I’ve been really enjoying Alien: Rogue Incursion in part because the story isn’t able to upset or disturb me in the ways that it’s trying to (sadly some of the audio logs still managed to hurt me though)
but yeah I don’t know what I need in order to be less hurt by ficitonal injustice or cruelty. I wish I did
I had quite the polycule going in my BG3 runs
aww hehehe omg that sounds really nice. I’ve always wanted to be able to play a game with romanceable characters like that
I’ve actually done some studying at some point of the different “schools of thought” such as the Milton Erickson model and its potential applications. It was part of my sociology interest topics, and was quite useful as it kept coming up as I dove into social influence mechanics and how they are used with high cohesion groups (cults) with applications in broad scale societies (colonialism and imperialism)
woahh interesting. I had no idea that you studied sociology, let alone that you dove so deep into hypnosis, or even how applicable that kind of thing is for understanding cults - though that last part does make sense
Anyway, long tangent to say that you are right about it being difficult to ethically study hypnosis, and the subjects belief structures play a huge part in any sort of “suggestibility.” 😅
omg wait what do you mean by “ethically”? are there easier ways to study it that are unethical instead? I always thought that it was just inherently difficult to study because there were way too many confounding variables - because what you’d have to control for are {social dynamics between the hypnotist and the subject} and the subject’s beliefs about hypnosis (and probably other messy social/psychological things too) which sounds basically impossible
You’re right that things are much different with queer folx. It’s also different depending on localities. And bottoms/tops won’t necessarily correspond to submissives and dominants. They are different dynamics altogether. I’ve much more practice as a soft domme and scene top. And some practice as a softly dominant scene bottom.
hm that’s a distinction that I have to admit I’m kind of fuzzy on. like I here are how I think those words are defined:
but by these definitions, for example it makes sense to me that the top in a rope-play scene would also always be the dom because they’re restraining the bottom, and therefor taking control for themself (by making the bottom physically helpless). so I feel like there’s something I’m missing
I have actually interacted with some domme and top leaning switches that have expressed interest but there’s often some difficulty getting aligned on boundaries around sexual touch and the fact that I don’t actually want those parts (I was born a tease or something which makes me an exceptionally frustrating brat)
hehehe omgg - very fair lol. so it sounds like it’s difficult for you in general to find play partners who aren’t interested in doing completely non-sexual scenes? (and scenes with any kind of sexual component would be a hard limit for you)
Yup! I’ll let @Trey answer those questions. She was a bit tied up over the weekend and wasn’t able to respond so far.
oh - right! sorry I should have asked her instead. I guess I was just shy to talk to a new person hehe. but I would love to hear about it, Trey!
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the autistic urge to buy coin batteries just to verify that they do in fact taste bitter
hey all, if you’re using Windows 11 I highly highly recommend that you run O&O ShutUp 10 on it in order to disable as much spyware as you feel comfortable disabling. this isn’t just about protecting your own privacy but also about protecting the privacy of anyone you communicate with
O&O ShutUp 10 doesn’t require any technical skill to set up other than understanding its UI. it should be relatively simple to run it and disable what you want to disable
if any aspect of the UI doesn’t make sense to you, or anything about my post doesn’t make sense, here’s a video that hopefully does a good job of explaining why and how to use O&O ShutUp 10
also, one more thing to keep in mind: sometimes Windows will reset your privacy settings when it updates, so be sure to re-run O&O ShutUp 10 periodically (maybe once a month?) to make sure that your privacy settings haven’t been reset. from what I understand O&O ShutUp 10 will automatically detect that your settings have been changed and offer to change them back for you
also, the last time I posted about Lisp someone replied saying essentially that Lisp is a bad programming language
and to be honest I’m not sure where I stand on Lisp in terms of its quality as a programming language, but I’m leaning towards it being kinda impractical but charmingly simple like FORTH. but I don’t care - I just want to make this thing because it’s fun and I want to understand Lisp better and this seems like a great way to do it (and I already have a much deeper understanding of the difference between a function and a special form! or at least I assume I do. my definitions might be different from the official ones)
in kaslisp yesterday night I finally added 'foo as a shorthand for (quote foo) and omg a lot of my unit-tests are so much simpler to read and write now T_T I had no idea how much of a big change that would have
I was dreading implementing this in my parser because I wanted to generalize it for both lists and symbols, but actually implementing it was surprisingly simple once I had conceptualized exactly what I wanted to do correctly
I’m kinda curious if there are other Lisp prefix characters that I could implement next, but I have a suspicion that ' is all I need for now
also I think I’m getting pretty close to when I can call kaslisp feature complete! and then I can start implementing a kaslisp interpreter inside of kaslisp lol
I don’t want to implement the parser inside of kaslisp too (that sounds like a fucking nightmare lol) so I’ll probably create a Lua-style (dofile) function that I can use to evaluate other files
i often see and hear a lot of talk about community and what it means: its something like a group of individuals with a shared identity or goal that value one another. it’s often held up in an unambiguously positive light and everyone wants to belong to one. i agree – community is wonderful and vital to our survival no matter what the threat level to our existence is. unfortunately, something i think that many aren’t ready for is how messy communities are. we have friends which are closer than others. we have partners that we want to spend most of our time with. sometimes we’re just scared or uncomfortable. there is always that one or few individuals we tolerate or just dont like. some will get jealous, some will feel betrayed. moreover, i think that most individuals belong to communities that they aren’t even aware of.
i value social bonds and community more than anything else. to me, my community is everyone directly in my life, everyone who shares my ideals and values, everyone who shares my struggles, and generally anyone i feel i can positively impact. im told im optimistic to a fault and that im going to be hurt and betrayed. and theyre right – i am. but the alternative is just not acceptable to me. i would rather be hurt for my optimism than to feed the atomized doomerism that seems to be so pervasive. i am strongly of the belief that most individuals want to care for others, want to be cared for, and want to do right by others – even if they fuck up sometimes. i am betting that my faith in others will often pay off more often than it wont.
what i want to see is more faith and trust in others. im not asking anyone to be like me and open themselves up to infinite amounts of hurt and betrayal based on a vague notion that People Are Generally Good ™ – but i would like to see others reaching out to people who they think are kinda neat. or opening up and being a bit vulnerable to that friend who they’re not exactly sure where they stand with, but they wanna be closer. i wanna see just a little bit of faith that others aren’t too busy for you or out to hurt you. not always.