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pardon my french (yeah that's right you should probably excuse yourself)

i wonder if it's easier for people who know French (or other languages where everything is explicitly gendered) to accept gender is a weird made-up concept, or if they're too stuck in 'everything has gender'

Every time I see an actually formatted blockquote or code block, especially on GoToSocial I'm so happy with markdown posting support

it's just so much nicer to read

The neurodivergent urge to put half of your statements in brackets* (because you want to give additional content)

*and pseudo-footnotes to everything you say

#cat succeeding in making my wife quite angry. She told me "come make your cat behave!". Had to take a pic before inviting him down. Useless, because of course he climbed back up 10 minutes later anyway. #catpics #blackcats

if i livestreamed this it would just be me writing the same code in a hundred different ways over and over trying to find an ergonomic API, while anxiously flicking back and forth to social media tabs for dopamine and shitposting

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I've refactored this structure at least twice already

it will be refactored many times more

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i can't hold a candle to Nael, age 6. I'll never be half the poet

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## The Yak

The Yak
He distracted the programmer
Yes
YES
The Yak is shaved

the GoToSocial settings pages that are just form fields for editing json objects really make my need for abstraction tingle :\

for the new year i'd like

a single follow-requester

to actually read my bio

*and* write a decent message

Looking for people who know something about early computing, especially in the Netherlands. Please boost and help me solve the mystery of this custom made plate that used to belong to my grandfather Bram Jan Loopstra, one of the pioneers of Dutch computing. What do the pictures mean? #computing #history (EDIT: Wow, thanks for the overwhelming response! You may have to check the post on my instance to see all the MANY helpful reactions.)

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