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.

I just had an evil idea lol. so I live in a white suburban American neighborhood which is full of deeply suspicious Christians. it’s even a “gated community”

so for Halloween this year I’m going to find an ornate glass bowl (I’m sure there’s one somewhere in this hoarder house) and put it on this altar cloth that I just ordered

and then I’m going to decorate the whole thing with (fake, electric) candles, fill the bowl with candy, and put it all outside for trick-or-treaters

I have mostly kept my two twitter accounts alive out of some kind of morbid curiosity; watching something that belonged to all of us dismantled and destroyed by ONE idiotic male. But these new changes break the model completely.
➡️ Fediverse, brace for another migration.

I want to get a big tattoo of a demon binding sigil, so if anyone asks me about it I can be like “yeah this isn’t my body. I was possessing it and some fucker trapped me here so now I’m just stuck looking for a way to escape” which is honestly not far from the truth

I've thought about this video at least once a week since I saw it

https://youtube.com/shorts/D6NhvJ406vc

Something in my house is sucking a *lot* of power and I would like to find it and make it stop doing that. Anyone have specific recommendations for multi-circuit power-usage-tracking devices? (I have 13 240V and 18 120V circuits across three panels, suggesting I will probably need three such devices; the most populated panel has 10 120V and 2 240V.)

Other requirements: ideally #homeassistant compatible, not internet based (currently have devices on zwave and non-internet-facing wifi, adding zigbee soon for unrelated reasons), works with normal US split phase power. Assume I am a reasonably competent electrician and am comfortable putting a current transformer around a wire.

#homeautomation

hey!! reminder to back up your drm-free media!! bought something on GOG? cool, download the installer!!! bought some music?? save it locally!!

just because it’s drm-free doesn’t mean the download can’t be revoked!!!!!

scifi is too broad of a genre lol. I got excited because I saw someone on Taimi who liked scifi and I was thinking “omg they also like nerdy {fiction that is about science} like me!” but what they actually like are action-y emotion-heavy space operas. which is perfectly valid! but not what I was expecting or hoping for

Which brings us to the age-old question:

Has nobody done this before because it's hard?
Or because it's really fucking stupid?

Debut albums have a special energy to them, cus they're drawing from pretty much every musical idea the artist has had in their life up to that point. Then they have to make a second album, they've already used up all their best ideas and they have a couple of years to scrounge up something that matches the energy of a decade+ worth of inspiration.

hey trans fedi! can you share with me some of your favorite robotgirl content? can be art, text, video, whatever. smut is very welcome.

i have an idea for a side project, but i want to get some better ideas of what's out there first. i'm not looking for cyberpunk media in general, i specifically want robot girls.

feel free to tag or boost as well. thank you!

#robotgirl #trans #cyborg #transhumanism

this joke is so good because it really feels like the point the slop joke has devolved to lol

🦨since "post your images with alt text to make them accessible to people with vision issues" isn't working, here's a new one:

post your images with alt text or some guy will repost your image with alt text and steal all your clout

dummy A: "a circle has one side!"
dummy B: "no! a circle has infinite sides!"
me, enlightened: "a circle has three sides. that's why the study of circles is called trigonometry."