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thinking about the meaning of "performance", oops its about gender too 

This was inspired by another thread but felt like it's own thing

We have noticed that there is sometimes a notion, when the word "performing" or "acting" is used, that something is not genuine. The idea that if something is an act, it isn't *real*.

it's quite the opposite. a good performance comes from somewhere genuine and deep. a good DJ tells their own story to the audience in music. The difference between a singer singing the words, and really _feeling_ them is stark.

a genuine core shines through regardless of skill.

performing takes energy. but it's not inherently fake. and it can be deeply satisfying to do.

this carries to gender as well. "boy" was a character that I hated performing. It was a halfhearted phoned in act necessary for survival. "girl" is only a facet of who i am, but its something I very much enjoy performing. it can be exhausting, and i need breaks, but in the moment it feels right.

@stolas@elekk.xyz @envgen taskbar? what's that, my lemonbar only shows some info :P

I got sent this and relate quite a lot; thinking this might be useful for some others here

"I never thought I'd grow up"
youtube.com/watch?v=jlK-6PVMCN

borgbase's backup reminder emails are awesome

forgot to unmount my luna backup fuse mount for the second time, which locks it and then new backups will fail; but the 1 day inactive email does wonders :D

this is so cursed,,, closing the Wix website editor consistently fully crashes firefox

@IceWolf I like the non-urgency but I'd rather have that encouraged in a 'normal' chat UI
I find mastodon dm's become quite messy

corporate surveillance and techbroism 

@vy hmm I'd think (hope) thats more of a sideeffect though?

it's main usecase is easily managing state, and that can include garbage profiling yeah :>>

migrated two of my irc bridges sucesfully :D
they both use the one-ipv6-address-per-connection thing now, which is neat

I really should've documented the IP_FREEBIND setup for matrix irc bridges......

now im migrating it and it ain't working

@haskal wooo only took approx 5 years to get them shipped :P

caffeine, dissociation 

@satanskrapfen@chaos.social for me it can really go both ways depending on how it kicks in. roulette is fun i suppose

caffeine, dissociation 

chugged my icecoffe now a cappuccino that should ground me in this dimension

a lot like the generation that brought forth hippie culture, many many people in my generation (I'm a milennial) seem to have this deeply ingrained desire for more communal form of life because we were raised on and exposed to a level of neoliberal ultra-individualism, isolation, and alienation under late capitalism the world hadn't seen until then and despite all promises this ultra-individualism has grown stale for us except for those who can afford to live that way by exploiting others

what I'm saying is, I always wanted to live in a leftist housing project or a squat, but these days I'd be fully content living in any place where I knew my neighbours' first names

I just don't think you've really lived until you've committed arson.

@IceWolf I really like the component structure of React and the likes.
For making actual GUI/webapp stuff it's waaay nicer than rolling my own in vanilla js

@unascribed oh looks great, will be very useful
*and will now promptly forget it's existance*....

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