Notices by Kaliah (kaliah@dragonscave.space)

Hello wonderful beings in the fediverse! It's been a while since I've been on here, but as I did last year I wanted to talk about Valentines day, particularly about love. So many people make today exclusively about romance, and I don't believe that's what it has to be. There are so many different kinds of love you're allowed to celebrate, completely outside of romance. Sure, go out with your partner, or partners, if that's your thing. Do something fun with a friend and show them how much you value them, if you either have no partner, don't want one, or just feel like spending this day with a friend. Visit with your family member or members, if that's what you want. Do all of them throughout the day, if you feel like you can, and want to. Tell your special partner(s), friend(s), or family member(s) how much they mean to you. And if you don't feel like spending today with anyone, then do something for yourself, because self care is okay. There is a distinction between love and romance, and I firmly believe Valentines day is about love, in all its forms. So go out there and express whatever kind of love you feel like you can. Happy Valentines day.

Welcome to Kaliah OS, version 2.0! Hmm. Let's see. Do we have a changelog in here? Ah! Yes! Here it is! It says "bug fixes and performance improvements". Seriously, damn it. These lazy ass developers! You couldn't write anything better for this major version of Kaliah OS? Fine then! Roar! I'll just have to find the tiny changes by myself through experimenting and finding the new crashes, sorry, features, these lazy devs implemented. This being version 2.0 suggests there are some major changes, but the changelog as it stands is pretty underwhelming. Oh well! Let's upgrade it anyway! *Kaliahverse crashes immediately after upgrade*.

In seriousness, happy birthday to me! :)

Someone just wrote "Goof afternoon" instead of "good afternoon" to me in an email. This changed the entire tone of the email in my head. LOL

You know? I'm realizing what a pain in the ass it is, at least for me, to read something off a computer out loud, reasons for needing to do this vary. The options are either 1, listen to the screen reader, pause it every 3 seconds, and ultimately read at a slow pace. Or 2, spend 5000 dollars on a braille device that only shows you about 5 words at a time so you have to scroll down every 2 seconds, which also slows me down. There has to be a better way for us to do this.

So, something I appear to have just discovered with youtube ads. With almost any ad, you can block it if you're not interested in it, don't like the content, or just generally find it annoying, and it won't come up again. Except, you literally can not block ads for youtube premium or youtube music. I will never, ever be interested in either of those things, and yet, as far as I can see, there's no way to opt out of, express disinterest in, or otherwise block these ads. You're forced to see them, even if you don't want to. What the fuck? Why is nobody talking about this? And this trash company wonders why I download everything I enjoy to my local drive. Really wishing I could put that downloaded content on my phone right about now

Okay, people. When you're writing out a word, be that a swear word, or a word that could be triggering for some, or even just a word you find generally uncomfortable to write. Please do not use alternative characters to attempt to censor it. It makes it much more complicated to read, it disrupts people who potentially want to filter out that word from social media, and in the worst cases it can be confusing to people. I've had a couple times where people replaced letters with numbers, or non-qwerty characters to attempt to censor a word, and their attempt made me utterly confused by my screen reader's output. Please just write the actual word in its uncensored entirety. It is not bad and will help people know what you mean, and in some cases will make it easier for people to filter out the content that triggers them or that they don't want to see. Thanks

Not so dear discord,

Please choose a mobile interface and leave it. No seriously. Leave the mobile interface alone. Choose a layout and stick with it. You should not be changing your interface four times over the course of 6 months. Yes. I have had my interface change four times as of today and I'm getting extremely tired of it. Please stop it and stop it right now before I send the Kaliah roarmonster to forcefully teach you a lesson in interface development. Hint: It does not involve developing new flashy interfaces every 3 MS.
Sincerely,
A very dissatisfied user

If people around you make you feel like you can't be yourself, leave them. You deserve to be authentically you.
If people around you make you feel hurt, be that physically, emotionally, or any other way, leave them. You deserve to be happy.
If people around you make you feel unwelcome in their life, leave them. You deserve people who will support and welcome you into their world.
If people around you make you feel invalid, leave them. You deserve to feel valid no matter who you are or how you identify.
If people around you aren't letting you grow, change, or heal, leave them. You deserve to move forward.
Whoever you are, you deserve good things. You deserve better. You deserve supportive, loving people. You deserve acceptance. You deserve happiness. You are valuable. You're worth it. You're amazing, just the way you are. Your authentic, true self is wonderful and unique, and don't let anyone in this world tell you otherwise. Please be safe and take care of yourselves

Okay... I want to say this. Right here and right now. When you're around disabled people, you should do the following:
1. Don't speak to someone else who is with the disabled person as if the person can't speak for themself. This is incredibly rude and harmful. There's nothing wrong with communicating with a disabled person. Ever. There isn't a problem. There. Is. Not. A. Problem. With any of it. Talk directly to us.
2. Don't ignore disabled people. Talk to us. Ask us questions. We are people just like anyone else living in this world. Asking questions and having conversations with disabled people is not wrong, rude, disrespectful or harmful. It's okay. Seriously. It's fine.
3. If a disabled person tells you to stop doing something, even if you think it's somehow helpful to them or you think they need you to do it for them, stop. Seriously. Just stop doing it. They're telling you to stop for a reason. Society has this common need to overdo it when it comes to helping disabled people. If they're asking you to stop, then stop.
4. Respect us. There is not a single person, and that includes disabled people, in this world who doesn't deserve basic human respect.
5. Don't look down on us. We have disabilities, but we can still live our lives. We just do things differently than people without disabilities do. It isn't something to be ashamed of. I also hate the societal stereotype that disabled people going about their lives are an inspiration. Stop thinking that too. We're people. We live. We exist. We have just adapted in our own ways, and as such, we may live a little differently. And that's okay.
Once again. Ableism needs to stop existing. Please, please do not participate in it. It's a real problem that hurts so many people

I fucking hate discord's mobile interface. Everything is constantly broken and nothing does what I want anymore. This thing is a pile of explosive shit. That's all I will say, although I could create a 20 page essay on how fucked this stupid interface is

@menelion Not me, their desktop interface is fine. Sure, I have a couple of issues with it, but the mobile one is where I really, really have big problems. The desktop one makes sense to me with the hotkeys and what not, the mobile one is just total garbage

What a person said to me four days ago: This thing needs to be done by the end of the day on April 4.
Me: Completes said thing at 11:15 PM on April 4.
I am the world's biggest procrastinator, everybody. I had days to do this and I did it right now. Now good night

I'm at a friends house and meeting her dog for the first time. This is the most calm, loving, affectionate dog I have ever met. I usually am not a dog person, but this one admittedly has my interest

"the" is bad. Don't say that word. You have to speak english language without saying that word. Game used "the". Game is bad for using forbidden word! @BTyson

Hey look, I didn't have the weeks bug again this year. Day 1, week 1 of 2024, remaining days 365.

Last year, it read something like: Day 1, week 52 of 2023, remaining days 364.

@BorrisInABox I don't see said tab if I look at my dropbox settings

@gtbray @BorrisInABox That's where I looked for it. I went to my dropbox settings, looked in the tabs for third party AI and it's' not there

@gtbray @BorrisInABox That's weird. Yeah I'm looking in the online settings, not in the app or anything, and it's not there at all.

God damn it I wish people would stop. Fucking. Yelling. About sports. You want something to yell at? I'll go over there and smash your TV into a million tiny pieces. There's something for you to yell about. Shut the fuck up for the good of everyone in the world

I really can't believe we're almost done with 2023. It seems like this year just started two months ago. Time is going so so fast