Notices by Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes), page 5

@djsundog It all depends on what mode of access you're looking for, what flexibility in access you want, and what scale you're talking about. RDBMS took off in enterprise largely on the back of how they enabled extreme flexibility in their queries. If you don't mind having to co-design the data store and the way it's used, then you don't *need* RDBMS, but it can certainly help enable a more rapid development process too.

@mhd @malin I guess it's franchise-by-franchise. The traditions in Mage: The Ascension is, to me, a wonderful pastiche of the occult communities of the 90s and 00s.

@malin @mhd this is one of the things I enjoy about #WorldOfDarkness games. Their clan/tribe/tradition/etc colors your character's personality and social affiliations and give a guide to common character builds, but it doesn't force you to do anything a particular way. In fact, building out a character that bucks the stereotypes can be a ton of fun.

@MishaVanMollusq Ohhhhh yeaaaaahhhh.... (bomp bomp)

@MishaVanMollusq Unfortunately, that means we're stuck with him.

DUFFMAN! can never die. Only the actors who play DUFFMAN!

@MishaVanMollusq DUFFMAN!

@SmudgeTheInsultCat It was apparently for a mental health screening. Still bullshit, but not an upcharge for crying.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/11-for-brief-emotion-the-hidden-charges-of-us-healthcare-are-utterly-enraging

@StevenSavage I sincerely hope the news desks at Telemundo and Univision grabbed that ball and ran with it hard, because that is a place where it'll be hard to spin it with some new ad buys.

@noondlyt @skinnylatte Sure do!

TIL when I read in books about people eating a "joint of mutton" in the medieval and early modern period that I had the idea all wrong. I imagined a leg bone with meat on it...you know, bone, joint.

But no. Roasting mutton by fire is hard if you leave the bones in because bone insulates against heat pretty well.

So it was typical to debone the mutton and roll it back up tightly before roasting it; if done right, it looked like a leg.

"Rolling a joint" is a much older term than I thought.

@NicolaElle There was a point at "peak kintsugi" when (allegedly) some people were smashing their bowls just to get them fixed and show them off.

For me, that's the bigger lesson
in kintsugi, which is that "ugly" and "beautiful" are not facts but judgments; the bowl boldly shows its history of having walked through both of those judgments. But the bowl just...is itself.

To be any kind of trans is to likewise choose to walk through these worlds of judgment and see them for what they are.

@NicolaElle The digression into kintsugi was of note to me. I am a transgender student of Japanese tea ceremony, which is the practical art most closely associated with kintsugi, so I'm amused to see kintsugi being adopted as a trans symbol.

I also took a personal symbol from tea ceremony. Specifically, we have folklore of a kitsune becoming a student of Sotan, an early head of the tradition. So I have a tattoo of a fox trying to drink tea while keeping their tail tucked in their kimono.

@djsundog Oh hard agree.

i think the privatization and financialization of everyday services and goods has done more than anything in culture to make society decohere. interacting with the world on basically any level now largely consists of attempting to outwit giant systems designed to exploit you. from the perspective of an individual, there is virtually no consistent expectation of any duty of care, moral responsibility, or trust evident in daily life, so there's little to suggest you value those qualities either

@kwf want. WAAAAAAANT!

@thorncoyle Oh, without a doubt. I'd just never realized some of the side effects that has on us! 😆

@thorncoyle Honestly, I said it largely because it was the first time it'd occurred to me how many English homonyms are result of sucking up another language.

@thorncoyle Because it's three languages standing on top of each other wearing a long coat. More source languages means more homonyms.

@LeDiva I'm not even that big of a stoner, but I assure you this still causes me a great deal of bemused confusion when I travel abroad.

Alright. My queer little ass has voted and done its part for a #KamalaHarris win. Here's to hoping!