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Thats all! I have been working on Phtanum privately for over six years, and to have my work displayed in a natural history museum like this is still absolutely surreal to me. I overhauled the entire project for this exhibition- new groups of life, new weird features, and a crazier and more grounded biosphere than ever before. And thanks to all the wonderful fedi entities who supported me in one way or another as well <3

The Home Assistant wiki badly needs a section on how to properly apologise to your family members

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@kb6nu Yeah, I got so sick of these that I just removed the entire plants, I'll put something else there that isn't miserable 🙃

I am so, so exhausted now. Did a second trip to Action today, bringing back a crapload of ground cover, so I was already tired by the time I got back, and then the vine removal... including removing the two 'base plants' which had developed roots with a diameter of like 8-10cm...

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Completed! That's like, 3 years worth of vine backlog deleted. Now nice things can finally grow there, instead of just endless uncontrollable vine overgrowth!

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Go and browser search 'intelligence, IQ, racism, white supremacy', and do a bit of reading. Go on. As a treat.

I don't think I'll ever get over the attribution of "elevated sense of justice" as a "symptom" of autism. My sibling in science. This is not what you discovered. What you discovered is that "willingness to cheat when nobody is watching" or (perhaps, even) "virtue signaling" are symptoms of allism.

Autistic people have the sense of justice that allistic people
claim to follow. Autistic people are more likely to actually behave ethically, regardless of whether anyone is watching or there is a social reward for it. This is not a weird foible with autists! This is a wild ethical breach by allists! Willingness to compromise on your stated ethical values is not "normal" regardless of how common it may be. Thats's weird! And troubling!

That's something worth looking into when it comes to allistic people. Leave autistic people with our propensity to simply believe and act accordingly out of your doublethink.

@domi @eloy I think I stopped updating it somewhere in 2017 or so, and although things seem to have improved since, there have definitely still been some incidents since then...

food, capitalism 

Supermarket croissants feel very illustrative for the state of food manufacturing; you can get them anywhere and their ingredients are of higher quality than ever in history, but they still taste like shit because letting it proof overnight and develop sufficient flavour is too expensive in a capitalist manufacturing environment, so instead they just add a bunch of sugar

#fediblock aipub.social for obvious reasons
Thank you fediverse chick for pointing out that instance

@peachymist That seems... entirely on brand for that instance, to be honest

that silly feeling when perfectionism meets ADHD :blobfoxupsidedown:

potentially uninformed Re: venting, 'alternative' software dev 

@Ember So that's the thing, this isn't a problem in Node/JS either. It's an example of those "trivially disproven technical beliefs" - the vast majority of node_modules content isn't actually code, but stuff like documentation and bundled tests that could safely be removed if you wanted to (and even then 'gigabytes' is rare to begin with).

And it's actually even worse than that - anyone who has ever touched a bundler should already *know* this just from using the tools, because there is no other way to explain how a few hundred MB of files collapses into a 5MB .js file without any minification or code elimination steps.

every time i have to constantly fish out simple answers out of someone i feel ten years being deducted from my lifespan

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