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software tinkerer and aspiring rationalist. transhumanist and alterhuman

I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible

I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post

I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time

I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
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an example of mansplaining
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Once I saw a woman post her fursona. On her shirt, there was C64 assembly code that printed something like "hello". Helpfully, I explained her how I'd have written the same code. (I think my code was like one byte shorter, took the same amount of clock cycles and was much harder to read, defeating the purpose of having it on a shirt. I also didn't know C64 assembly, only generic 6502 assembly, so I had to look up the system call she used. Oh, and she was the founder of a large game hacking website.)

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trauma and brainwashing mentions, rhetorical question
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I thought the mech genre was just about big robots fighting. you’re telling me there are traumatized brainwashed combat dolls piloting those mechs?

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Octavia Con Amore pink_moon_and_stars Succubard's Library

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boosts_ok boost to help me survive hug_love

It's tiiiiime! This is the longest book reading video to date, and it's finally done panda_yay Listen to it to scratch the Elder Scrolls autism itch or just to fall asleep to~

[The Great War]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijUhbKvbLog

If you like it and/or want to help me survive, ko-fi monthlies help me buy food for me and my cats and I appreciate every one a ton frog_blush
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This recording was honestly frustrating as hell to get recorded because of environmental factors leading to somewhere between 30+ discarded takes, but it was worth it, and I can't wait until tomorrow comes so I can work on the next one shiba_love Thank you all for supporting me so far, and I hope you like the reading~ bear_love

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I’m starting to think that {keeping track of what’s happening in a story} takes significantly more effort for me than for the average person - which would explain a lot, like how AAA games can be something to casually enjoy instead of something that’s both mentally draining and a bit overwhelming

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the LGBT+ urge to make vampires represent queer people despite how incredibly problematic that allegory is

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https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/1po9o4c/all_the_taurs_work_in_progress/

Hi everyone! I’m […] working on my [Minecraft] mod — All the Taurs. At some point my soul just needed my friends and me to be able to play as centaurs, so… I decided to make a mod for that lol.

huh… I wonder why someone would be so interested in being a taur that they would go to this much trouble. this is purely a cosmetic mod from what I can tell, so it doesn’t even have any gameplay implications. is being a taur really so appealing that you’d-

In the future I’d love to add even more forms too: […] spiders, octopi, and so on!

wait I want this mod now

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Linux complaining
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okay if Arch randomly breaks itself one more time I’m switching to Mint instead. it genuinely happens about 10% of the time that I try to update my system. infuriating

also I hate whoever decided that on Linux all .so files should be globally shared across all programs and automatically updated/deleted by the package manager and all dumped into one single clusterfuck of a directory. like no wonder everything is constantly breaking when the system is juggling dependencies like they’re flaming chainsaws

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eli (ˈe̝ːli), vampire kitsune

what’s a good daw i can easily run on linux and with shitty hardware

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eli (ˈe̝ːli), vampire kitsune

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karma and nihilism
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the big truth of nihilism is that there is no big truth. there’s no greater purpose, no higher calling, no point of it all. i think most people with a cursory understanding of nihilism probably know this much about it.

but often i’ll see even nihilists with sentiments akin to “you get what you deserve” or “you receive the energy you put out” or some other karmic law. i’m personally in favor of absurdist nihilism but i think we should be careful what beliefs and meanings we choose to adopt.

karmic beliefs and most religious beliefs are a way of finding sense and control in a universe that gives us very little. in almost all cases, we’re just along for the ride. it’s important to identify points where we do have some control and try to responsibly exert it in a way which uplifts ourselves and others around us. the problem with certain beliefs is that when we assume control where there is none, we can start placing fault and blame where it doesn’t belong.

minorities are often scolded for being bitter or unhappy and sometimes this is extrapolated to justify their position in life. this is a frustrating reversal of cause and effect – most people are miserable because of their position in life. it takes a significant amount of effort to be happy in spite of it all. worse yet, it seems to me that most people do try to be happy in spite of their circumstances – they just can’t do it 100% of the time.

know that life is unfair and even when someone doesn’t subscribe to or live according to your own ideals, it’s extremely unlikely that they’ve brought this onto themselves. no one wants to live a life of pain, unfairness, isolation, or hurt. i choose to judge others by how they exert the infinitesimal amount of control they do have: do they cause hurt to others? do they make life harder for those around them? with a few notable exceptions, i don’t often care what they believe, only what they do.

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Orgasm talk
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I want a toggle on my body that let's me choose to orgasm with or without cum. It would always be off, unless someone really likes it otherwise~

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when ur mean to me online this is who ur being mean to

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one of the crazy things about engineering is that there’s probably a name for everything

the seams that let plastic parts click together? probably a name for that. the process of making those seams? probably a name for that too. the industrial machine that forms those seams? there’s definitely a name for that thing. every individual part of that machine? names for those too. there are probably even verbs for what each of those parts does

every single mundane human-made object probably has like 4 or 5 names just to describe the object as a whole - let alone the sub-pieces of it. and it goes on forever

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Red Dead Redemption 2 is on sale for $20 USD on Steam!

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what if instead of bad things we had good things insetad

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Strange Antiquities is Really Good if you happen to like solving puzzles, organizing things, dark spookiness, petting a kitty, and feeling like an occult practitioner. I definitely recommend it

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mcfox_spin1, IPv4's greatest defender

stolen for alt text

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English speakers: japanese counter words are so weird and confusing
English speakers: that’s not a flock of crows it’s a murder of crows

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genuinely one of my favorite things about Lisp-like languages is how variable names can include so many symbols. I love how, for example, all of my functions that return booleans can end in a question mark - and all of my functions that are called only for their side effects can end in an exclamation point. imagine having list.append() which returns a new list, and list.append!() which modifies the existing list, except that works for all methods

I’m almost tempted to write my Python code in a similar way - for example the _x suffix would mean “called for side effects only” and the _p suffix would mean “answers a question and returns a boolean”

it’s a really nice way to have both concision and clarity - both of which are important for good code IMO

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