ugh the power died and now I’m stuck in the dark with just my phone and nothing to do :/

I’m making my own Lisp implementation despite having a tenuous grasp of how Lisp works, because I read 40% of a math paper about Lisp. I’m not even referencing the math paper as I write it I am entirely just making shit up

https://gitlab.com/__kasdeya__/kaslisp/

this is a bad decision and no one can stop me from making it

Whenever anyone describes gender as a spectrum, or suggests that non-binary exists somewhere "in-between" between man and woman, we think of this video by non-binary trans fem content creator, author, and influencer Elle Deran

https://www.tiktok.com/@elle.deran/video/7443177846874328362

The transcript is as follows:

So gender isn't binary?
It's not.
It's a spectrum.
Not really.
Wait, I'm confused. I was taught that there was man and woman, and non-binary people fall somewhere in-between.
Well, you see how a spectrum still has two ends? So seeing gender in this linear fashion relies on binary thinking and positions man and woman as these sort of opposing opposites. Which they're not.
Well, then how am I supposed to see it?
Think of it like this. We culturally see the sun and the moon as these opposite entities, representing the light in the dark. And when we look at the sky, they might be all we can see. But the truth is that there are billions of other stars and moons in the universe. Our sun and moon aren't opposing opposite. They exist together at all times, along with billions and billions of planets and galaxies and other universal entities, all of which have overlapping similarities and differences. And as we evolve as humans, we learn more and more about the universe. So when we discover a new planet, we didn't just make it up. It didn't just come out of thin air or thin space.
Nah, haha.
It has been there all along. We have only brought it to light.
Right.
There are infinite ways to be a moon, infinite ways to be a star. And there is so much more to our universe than what we can see in the sky. There are infinite ways to be a woman, to be a man. To be non binary. Infinite ways to be a human. And at the end of the day, we are all just different expressions made up of the same stardust. So, you see, gender isn't binary. It's infinite.
Cool.
Yeah.

Thought some of y'all might find this interesting, whatever form your own gender has taken from the stardust 🫶🏻

#ElleDeran #trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #TransFem #WeAreAllJustDifferentExpressionsOfTheSameStardust #SoGenderIsntBinary #transition #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+

[Frodo]
Where am I, and what is the time?

[Gandalf]
In the House of Elrond, and it is ten o’clock in the morning. It is the morning of October the twenty fourth, if you want to know.

“Fighting the world as your authentic self is better than fighting yourself on behalf of the world.”

This quote inflicted on me a severe concussion of the identity, when I stumbled upon it in an unrelated article* back in January 2022.

It set off and guided a months-long outbreak of hyperfocused, ruthless self-examination, where I uncovered my own structural dissociation and eventually identified trauma, a process that quite abruptly led to the realisation, seemingly coming out of nowhere, that I'm trans.

*So what was that unrelated article about then? Being #trans. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I still have the link: https://www.self.com/story/before-transitioning

[repost from January 1st 2023 on my previous account]

One thing you get sometimes, especially in cartoon, science fiction/fantasy and children's entertainment spaces are people who have only encountered one good example of a particular genre and have come to the conclusion that it must have been miscategorized, cus they seem to think being bad/shallow is part of the genre definition?

I've seen this play out with Tolkien a lot, with people quibbling over whether or not he actually counts as a fantasy author, basically because his writing is good and his world-building is solid and like, that's just called being a good fantasy writer.

It occasionally shows up with children's media too and it's especially stark there because "children's media" isn't just a matter of genre, there are specific standards that apply to children's media, you can tell when something was made to be in that category by its vocabulary, reading level and what it can and can't show.

I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride

I just completed part 1 of Alien: Rogue Incursion and I really liked it. it feels like if Alien: Isolation was an action-horror FPS, but it also does a lot of things that I really wish Alien: Isolation had done:

• a lot more thought was put into the environments. like what is this room for? how does it fit into the overall layout of the area that you’re in? what is this division of the station for? etc.
• a lot more thought was also put into the objectives, like what kind of technology are you manipulating right now and to what end?
• there’s a lot of {manipulating physical objects in your environment} which I find very grounding. I especially love the rewiring minigame because it’s so seamless and feels like it’s just another part of the world that you’re interacting with
• overall the world just feels much more real and substantial than in Alien: Isolation. you can really take your time to appreciate little details and they will all make sense in context
• the intensity is never cranked up too high. I found the intensity of the second half of Alien: Isolation to be pretty exhausting - just being consistently high with no breaks
• the map is much smaller and more focused and there’s a lot of backtracking and Metroidvania-like exploration, so it’s possible to gain a sense of the layout of the station over time
• also, the story isn’t told especially well so I was able to not care about the characters and not be disturbed/upset by the parts that tried to hurt me, while still enjoying the lore and worldbuilding

so yeah I feel like 95% of players would find this game boring at best but I liked it so much that I’m replaying it on a harder difficulty, and I’m already finding new secrets that I missed on my first playthrough

“may your favorite language never break backwards compatibility”

- ancient curse

I find it funny how the meaning of “I beg your pardon” has drifted from “I am so sorry” to “what the fuck is wrong with you”

but also this is a great example of how politeness-phrases get diluted over time because people mindlessly parrot them (or deliberately use them to be rude with plausible deniability), and eventually have to be switched out for new ones

The history of raised panels

this is a surprisingly interesting video about why a lot of simple architecture and furniture (like doors) has “raised panels”

#electronics beings of Fedi, can you please tell me how to #repair this switch in my electric kettle? it looks like it’s been exposed to a lot of water (hot water leaked into the electronics of the kettle) and it’s rusted. the problem is that it doesn’t complete the circuit when it’s in the “on” position. I want to either disassemble and clean the rust off of it or just buy a replacement switch

but, I can’t even disconnect it from its electrical connectors. they look like you can just pull them off, but I’ve been pulling fairly hard and they won’t budge

so my questions are:

• how do I get the electrical connectors to disconnect?
• is there a way to disassemble this switch?
• should I even be messing with this, or should I just buy a new kettle?

based on a recent experience

turbonerd thought time: what would a completely, recursively modular operating system look like? and don’t say “linux”

by completely modular, I mean building the OS on a kernel that only exists to act as an interface between different components, standardizing basic operations and translating code and such. the kernel would also incorporate a basic set of hardware drivers, and all hardware would have to be built to interface with that kernel, so calls to any hardware would be standardized and universally compatible. the kernel doesn’t actually do anything on its own though, nothing ever calls the kernel itself for an operation, all calls just go through it. there are a few core parts it calls for as a minimum, and you plug in whatever you want to fill those core requirements, no matter how they operate, and the kernel unifies them and makes sure everything is seamlessly interoperable. of course, you then plug in whatever else you want, maybe with a hardcoded maximum limit to encourage developers to utilize or upgrade existing components as much as possible instead of just making new ones all the time

by recursively modular, I mean every individual component that plugs into the kernel is also made of different modules, and includes all past versions of itself as functionally separate parts that can be called and ran separately and even simultaneously. nothing loads unless it’s called, so the only resource cost of that should be storage, but it would result in effectively universal and infinite backwards compatibility and interoperability, since nothing is ever deprecated. this goes for hardware too, no hardware would ever become incompatible with future versions of the OS, even as new hardware gains new capabilities, because it’s all running through the same standard. since the kernel is the interface for these components, and components can’t interact with each other without going through the kernel, security patches would all be built into the kernel instead of each component, so all systems of all configurations would have the same baseline level of security and would always be safe on the internet