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695I 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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blackle mori
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish
here is some haphazard advice to getting back into reading:
- try to find a specific place where you can read without distractions. for me this was having long baths with my phone in a ziplock, reading epubs
- if a book sucks, hit the bricks. don't feel bad about dropping a book halfway through. once you have a reading habit in place, then you can try to trudge through books that are outside your comfort zone. but for now, just read what you like
- take people's recommendations. regardless of if you finish, you get to talk to them about it
- do research to find your next read. read reviews of books to see if they sound compelling to you
- don't let yourself spend a whole day/evening/night reading the same book. you'll eventually get burnt out on it, even though you nominally want to know what happens next. pace yourself
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kasdeya
kasdeya
I love watching Let’s Plays of story-based games because the commentary helps remind me that it isn’t real and I can always fast-forward past the painful parts
I think it also helps a lot if it’s an older game because those tend to have much more simplistic plot structures, so I can predict roughly what’s going to happen in advance and I can identify which part of the story I’m at, and when I need to skip past a part
it also helps a lot that the overall storytelling isn’t as effective as newer games - from technical limitations, voice acting, and just the fact that folks didn’t take video games as seriously as a storytelling medium back then
anyway I’ve been watching Jesse Cox play Ace Combat 5 and I’ve been really enjoying it, for all of the reasons I mentioned above
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Joshua Small
jsmall@infosec.exchangeIt's been years since I actually liked an Internet ad but this Indian restaurant keeps making King of the Hill memes and I don't hate it.
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Deep Space 90210
DS90210@mastodon.socialKira: I’m sick of being tolerated.
Kira: Either adore me or despise me you cowards.
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Owlor 
Owlor@meow.social
one type of autism assessment question that keep tripping up the demographic it's intended to diagnose is any variation of "do you have a problem with..." some ways it might fail to yield accurate results:
* "No I don't have a problem with [thing], I just avoid it"
* "No, I don't have a problem with [thing], I have a system for dealing with it"
* "No, I don't have a problem with [thing], it just doesn't come up often enough to be a problem."
* "No, I don't have a problem with [thing], actually I seek it out cus it helps drown out some other sensation I do have a problem with".
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Taweret@timeloop.cafethe fediverse is just a bunch of neurodivergents building their own internet so they don't have to talk to the other internet
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kasdeya
kasdeyaI strongly prefer scifi to fantasy but I’ve got to admit, it’s really easy to quickly explain a fantasy concept to someone
like my “a witch hands you a TF potion” poll. the scifi equivalent would take a lot of explaining because every scifi universe is different, but everybody knows what a witch is and can imagine what a transformation potion is, so I can explain everything you need to know in literally just seven words
maybe this is part of why D&D got so popular: it’s just really easy to quickly get someone up to speed, like: “you’re adventurers and you’re going into a cave full of goblins”
anyway I’ve been thinking about making more cute little choose-your-own-adventure style polls and I guess if I do I’ll probably stick with fantasy instead of scifi. as much as I wish I could do scifi it would just take way too much explaining lol
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Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺
zekjur@mas.toPSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?
Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example
Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!
This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.
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kasdeya
kasdeyaa witch appears and offers you a TF potion! she explains that the transformation will take 1 hour and you can mold your body during that time to choose your exact shape, coloration, sex characteristics, etc.
which do you take?
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Smolcasm
smolcasm@rrr.shheight exchange poll but this time i'm too lazy to do actual measurements. wyd?
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molegato
molegato@mastodon.gamedev.placeBav is Twinkle's best friend and roadie, as well as a cute little cotton ball! Let's have a look at her model's wireframe ⭐
#lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev
Wishlist Twinkle's Galactic Tour on steam! Bav's there, I promise!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3938440/Twinkles_Galactic_Tour/
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Octavia Con Amore 
Succubard's Library
OctaviaConAmore@cutie.city
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I've seen people here and there talk about receiving massive amounts of harassment on Fedi for being some marginalised group, whether that's queerness, gender, race, or something else, often leading to them leaving. The most recent one was from a woman with multiple times my followers, but I've also seen the sentiment from people with a fraction of mine 
While I don't go into their replies saying this because it'd be rude as hell, I just don't seem to get harassed. Replies I get to my posts seem genuine, ernest, understanding, and thoughtful, and I can count the nasty DMs I've gotten over my 3+ years on fedi on one hand (with fingers left over for a mug of cocoa). Nastiness that finds me tends to be individuals I'm asking to not whitewash poc or to use CWs to not retraumatise marginalised folks, but that's at most once every month or two. I'm part of 5ish marginalised identities yet seem to get less harassment than a bunch of people with only 1, and it's got me thinking a bit 
Cutie.city is a fairly lax instance when it comes to blocks, so either our mayor does some seriously pinpoint precision work combined with future sight or that's probably not the main cause of not getting harassment. It could be that those people with 1 marginalised identity are more marginalised than my 5 combined, but irl, at least, one of mine can't even use bathrooms in government buildings, and I share some identities with people I've seen speak about being harassed so that's probably no it either 
I've had multiple posts hit 3 digit boosts, and it's not like I make don't make tons of posts that have room for reply guys 
Thinking about it, the conclusion I come to is that all of you who follow me are to thank for my experience on Fedi. Not only do you yourselves engage with me in ways that make my time enjoyable, the circle of connections you have also seem to be relatively safe for my posts to be boosted into 
Thank you all for that because it's made me fall in love and stay in love with Fedi for over 3 years now, through multiple instance migrations and through various difficulties (both on and offline), and made me feel like this is home for me in a chaotic world where home is hard to find 
Please continue being kind to me and to each other~ 
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Natasha 
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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
I don't want to laugh at someone's real distress but this IS very funny ...
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Undead Zeratul
Undead_Zeratul@ocw.socialWe're back again today with another look at the challenging yet fascinating modpack, Underdog. Fun fact, when I was planning on making the sequel to There Will Be Blood, this sort of emphasis on environmental difficulty rather than brutal combat that it's predecessor focused on was exactly what I was going for, and I really enjoyed these early stages of the pack! Honestly I wouldn't mind returning if it weren't for changes that occurred due to pack updates, but we'll get to those later.
All in all, the pack does what it sets out to, and I have since found a different pack that has grabbed my attention. Maybe someday we'll do some streams of that...
#Gaming #VideoGames #Streaming #LetsPlay #LiveStream #Twitch #TwitchStreamer #SmallStreamer #Minecraft #ModdedMinecraft #MinecraftModpack
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Owlor
Owlor@meow.social
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Something that happens a lot online is that people hear an argument, mentally replace it with a similar-sounding but different argument and start arguing against that.
What I'm describing is basically a strawman, yeah, but it's a lot more unconscious and less actively malicious than how you'd typically imagine a strawman argument.
When Prokopetz called out a similar tendency, he called it "refusing to engage with each others shorthands" and that's a pretty good way of describing it.
Like, a specific example I've seen a lot is "nazis can't be punk" (with the context making it very clear it's not intended as a statement of fact but a statement of intent, that is, saying nazis should have no place in punk) being interpreted as "no punks are ever nazis" (not really what anyone was implying in this context).
This is a good illustration of what's meant by "refusing to engage with someone elses shorthand". "Nazis can't be punk" is a shorthand for a stance on who should and shouldn't feel welcome in punk spaces and pretty much everyone who's actually involved in the conversation knows what's meant, the nazis certainly know, though they pretend not to as a rhetorical tactic.
Obviously, if people are implying that there's never been rightwing punks, that's worth calling out as factually incorrect, but people sometimes get so caught up in Being Right that they'll literally run interference for nazis to do it.
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allison
aparrish@friend.camphi fediverse, in your opinion which is the lisp-like language that best maximizes for (a) usefulness and (b) non-toxic community? (i'm trying to pick one to learn and maybe actually get good at?)
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