Notices by masukomi (masukomi@connectified.com), page 3

@whitequark a) cool b) what does headmate mean? Is it DID related?

🤔 Either way, it just occurred to me that people with DID have next-level budgeting problems.

@whitequark

Is there a better term or way too reference it that i should use by default ? DID is the only term I know except for the older, more loaded ones

Re bank accounts: makes sense, but also ugh. It’s hard enough to earn money for one people.

@whitequark so, if I was speaking to someone like you in the future and said “is this a mental plurality related thing?” (Like asking about headmate) Would that make sense to them?

Also, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions .

@whitequark 🤔 huh. “Plurality” sounded so ambiguous to me. Like “A plurality of what?”

A promise to all of you. When I finally release my book I will:

1. have an author's website
2. allow you to 🤬 buy the ePub from me (or the publisher if i get so lucky)
3. Make it available on sites other than 🤬 amazon, including, but not limited to Kobo & B&N

#writing #author

I want 2 major changes in the eBook world:

1. I want someone to sell a device with hardware & software as good as the Kobo Libra Colour that isn't coupled to a single bookstore
2. I want it to be come normal for authors - ESPECIALLY self published authors - to sell their their books directly instead of just handing them over to Amazon.

Amazon will NEVER stop fucking authors over, & they'll never improve the 💩 software on the Kindle devices if we don't give them a reason to.

#writers

Our neighbors have acquired goats. 🐐

The dogs are loosing their little 🧠s.

They got used to the chickens. 🐔 They _mostly_ got used to the neighbor dogs, 🐕 as long as they don't look like they're heading towards us.

🤞 they'll get used to the goats soon & start ignoring them too.

@Gargron @mcc Yeah, people just bounce right off the "I have to pick a server?!" onboarding step.

Mastodon could have anticipated everyone's desires perfectly and It still wouldn't "win" because of that.

I don't know why that's so 🤯 for folks when it's the exact same thing as getting an email account BUT it IS and I think ALL decentralized systems are going to loose out to centralized ones until someone comes up with a solution.

@hellomiakoda Price varies wildly depending on country & insurance. There's a Dr. in Thailand who does great work for < $3k.

In the US, it's anyone's guess. Pretty sure it goes > $150k for some doctors.

Mine was ~3 months ago & I still don't know how much it's going to cost me after insurance. 🤷♀️ Our system is effed.

@hellomiakoda @masukomi@dice.camp Alas, I do not currently have access to that level of technology.

🤔 could have just printed myself new bits if I had that.

Self-Intro:
Privileged white middle-aged 🏳️⚧️ person. Trying to unlearn my biases, and learn how to live with disabling neurotypes (Autism & ADHD) in a Neurotypical world.

Things you'll hear about on this account:

- programming
- #ADHD issues
- :autistic: #ActuallyAutistic issues
- 🏳️🌈 #Queer / 🏳️⚧️ #Transgender / :polyamory_flag: #Polyamory rights issues
- anti-fascist & capitalist thoughts
- #3DPrinting
- #accessibility issues (low vision)

You can find TTRPG musings at @masukomi@dice.camp

@hellomiakoda

Eesh. sorry you got that. Glad you caught it before they did something nasty.

related: I've been pretty happy with my decision to require approval for follows.

@hellomiakoda seconded.

That being said, i have seen 1 (and only one) good use of them. https://rain.thecomicseries.com/ had a drawing of each of the characters holding an umbrella in the colors of the character's respective pride flag. There was one straight person and because the straight pride flag existed, he got to have an umbrella that wasn't just blank.

But, I don't think that's a good enough edge case to justify its existence.

@hellomiakoda I kinda love it. It feels playful.

I like it when people play with the language

An old coworker said “People fear, public speaking more than they fear death.”

She was trying to be empathetic about people’s fears of speaking, but honestly that’s how it should be. Death is inevitable and unavoidable. There is nothing you can do to prevent it. It’s coming.

The only rational response is to accept that and deal with the things you can control, like public speaking.

Yes, fearing public speaking more than death is a very reasonable and healthy perspective.

@hellomiakoda I don’t know what Chronos Time is, but I’m pretty sure I don’t wanna play it now

@hellomiakoda @meadow yeah. My wife only does light roast lattes with plenty of steamed milk, and they still taste burnt to me. Stout beers taste like burnt bread to me.

@hellomiakoda @meadow it just taste burnt to me. It smells delicious though. And my wife is a coffee snob with a really high-end machine and really picky about her beans. I am reasonably confident I’ve only tasted the good stuff.

On the other hand. She thinks my tea is just as terrible as I think her coffee is and I’m a tea snob. I don’t understand how people can go without drinking this delicious brew.

@whitequark A. wow. B. Are you getting paid for this work? I’m really hoping you are.

@selzero @codinghorror No. They never show. It's literally just a handful of characters waiting around for Godot and saying mostly boring shit.

It _could_ be cool if they said anything that really made you stop and think about your life, or the world, but they don't.