Notices by Manuela Malasaña (xibanya@mastodon.xyz)

movie programmer, smug: i pulled it off with a hack

irl programmer, deeply ashamed: i pulled it off with a hack

something I keep seeing in English language stories set in Spanish speaking settings is substituting various words for their equivalent in Spanish, which is always really jarring because if I already understand these characters to be speaking Spanish and then they literally speak Spanish then what the fuck am I to make of that? They spoke ultra Spanish?

i avoided looking at socmed all night but i decided to have a peek now. big mistake. should have kept making bad opera tiktoks

i already have smug European friends asking me if I plan to move away from Texas then demanding I justify on moral grounds why when I say no, which is just like when blue state friends did the same when the anti-choice shit got enacted. they need to believe all those who will bear the most oppressive rule are not worthy of compassion, the alternative would be too heartbreaking for them to bear

a dutch friend asked me why I was "still texan". buddy i have lived on three continents and on none of them did i cease to be texan. this is a place not an ideology, do you understand me?

@liztai omg i need this

ive mentioned a few times before that awhile back i explored irl social transition in a serious way and eventually came to understand that i am a cis woman. the weird thing is i dont feel like it was a waste of time, i feel like i worked hard and the reward i got out of it was a profound sense of certainty and ease of self. i never had been before but now im proud to be a woman. i mean i earned it. wish i got a certificate to hang next to my bacherlor's. or a ribbon. trophy? a sticker at least

@zens well there's animorphs style, where the extra mass hangs out in another dimension, or you could say it comes from carbon in the air and returns to such, etc

@zens i guess that depends on what framework you're using to explain where the extra mass comes from/goes

I got interviewed by a podcast about graphics programming/tech art! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a14zcy2dBx4

en route to Pittsburgh with a JACKET
yes, ya girl mani has learned to pack a jacket even when it's hot outside. ask me about how i went to the mountains of colorado in late october with no checked bags and a small backpack wearing a single sweatshirt and thinking myself such a clever light traveler right up until my teeth started chattering

first time ive sung an ellipses

vocal status update: cover of clandestino by manu chao

if you have audio channel issues listen to this un-tik-tok'd version

another day working at the graphics factory. everybody keeps asking me if they can blit the frag. buddy,

stupid bitches dont know that the best way to have a good time on social media is to make a generalized statement about one’s area of expertise couched in combative language, wait for people to argue the contrary due to taking moral exception to the OP’s tone, pretend not to understand, then dunk on em once they reveal they have no more than a surface level understanding,.m and if u disagree ur a dork

i just pulled the ole “im sorey, i dont get it?” on a reply guy on twitter and am licking my chops in anticipation of the coming slaughter

meanwhile, from the greatest hits collection

gotta be some of my finest work

u gam is too big