Notices by crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)

@clarity i hate that

people call me smart and i have no idea what that means because i was held back in preschool for having emotional development issues. i was basically just this side of special ed. intelligence is imperial nonsense. do you mean critical thinking? because i’m not good at that either

them: don't you wish magic was real

me: haha [vibrating across innumerable dimensions] sure. yeah

person who hides from their friends that they don't use emacs

when i become CEO of Microsoft, i’m replacing Github Copilot with a picture of a rubber duck

@cwebber WOTC wouldn’t mind the PR i bet

this is the energy i bring to software development

@RamenCatholic @neckspike great! so like what's the actual issue? a thing happened way back? is this a problem lots of places? like i really want us to seriously grapple with the situation when we happen to align with fascists on policing queer spaces

@neckspike @RamenCatholic yeah this is not a serious problem anywhere and i'm sorry your locals were weirdos ten years ago or something but you do not need to take up fashy wedge shit online about it. maybe, uh, get involved with the organizers?

@RamenCatholic hey

can we be clear about what "kink at pride" means?

people are not fucking in the streets. if the presence of sex-havers who are not having sex activates one's vomit reflex, i respectfully think they need therapy more than to participate in this discourse critically

@RamenCatholic "kink at pride" is **exclusively** a reactionary wedge tactic endeavoring to vilify queer people categorically as disgusting perverts, and while sex-repulsed ace people are like, real, i honestly do not think it's relevant where the sex in question is *the presence of symbols that suggest intercourse occurs in existence*, and folks arguing such symbols *should not be at pride* are [respectfully] idiot stooges serving fascists

is the zionism that doesn't specifically legitimize a specific genocidal nation-state in the room with us right now

you cannot message your way to comprehension in the face of critical illiteracy. when the spirit is deaf, you must speak to the body, and it cannot hear your words.

dems talk about messaging problems. they are stuck thinking of you as a device, like a slot machine. where’s the handle? what words will open that wallet and still that fist? the wallet didn’t open and the fist still shakes; clearly we didn’t find the handle. why treat humans so dispassionately, so cynically? i couldn’t hear you over the sound of “as an electoral strategist, that is literally my job”

this is what i think every time i hear “it’s a messaging problem”

honey i don’t think the failure to achieve communist revolution in the west is a “messaging problem”. there are no magic words that will radicalize strangers. the search for perfect words is a cynical pursuit of mechanical persuasion, to perceive your audience like devices that can be manipulated into acting right.

"ds9 is a show about a shopping mall in space"

oh. ok

"the mall used to be a labor camp"

hWhat

secret lore that the virgin mary was also trans

me, 2yr coder: some languages are good and others are bad

me, 7yr coder: whatever gets the job done is fine

me, 15yr coder: some languages are good (lisp) and others are bad (not lisp)

ok but unironically i would really just rather be your soft nerd gf than a subject of abject terror that must be appeased / pacified / mitigated

i'm sorry it's hard for me to get close to people. my last relationship ended with a messy breakup and, i dunno, i might not be over it. yeah i sorta immolated his dad and consumed the ashes after i looked in his eyes and realized what he'd done, which i guess is a no-no on this world. i suppose i should have taken the ashes home to eat, instead of chowing down then and there in his parents' living room. i was really hoping we could talk it out but humans aren't so good at communication.