Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

🌟 @RadicalEdward 🌟

The ADHD need to do everything to the absolute limit of ability, all the time

Due tomorrow? Do tomorrow. (just scoped that, won't take more than an hour, half that if I skip the stuff they ignore anyway and add it in post. I can do that while eating breakfast no problem.)

Good enough is the bare minimum, Ideal is the goal (Oh hey I started working again at 10pm instead of sleeping because I realized I could do this better!)

Fuck, I can't even ride a bike without pedaling as hard as I can.

Dismayed to notice that in 2003 I published an article containing a sentence with an unmatched left parenthesis so that everything I’ve published in the last twenty years has been part of one extremely long parenthetical remark.

web dev would be so cool if it wasn't for the web dev industry

X has taken its stance. Nazis on the platform are allowed. Pro-Hitler posts are allowed. Holocaust denial is allowed.

If you stay on a platform like that, you can't escape this creeping normalization. Even if you think you can.

"Oh, there goes another Holocaust denier. Just part of being online, I guess."

"Oh, another transphobe calling people dehumanizing slurs. Well that's the Internet for you."

Creeping normalization is like advertising. Even if you think it won't influence you, it will.

🍂 Cozy

#krita #MastoArt #DigitalArt #ArtWithOpenSource

Fediverse? Ça c'est un anglicisme. Plutôt, on utilise «l'univers fédéré», ou «le fédé»

This job requirement is extremely funny to me:

I was reading a blog about ME/CFS and went: I think you're also autistic. Based on what you say about your experiences, and also how you phrase things.
Kept reading and had to scroll down to see the rest, where the blog continued:
Because I'm also autistic,

There. Stop all the expensive diagnostic processes. Just send me your blog post, I'll know.

English with its cabinets, closets, wardrobes, fridges, cupboards, pantries... they're all just kasten to me!

TIL there's a Mythbusters comic. and it has Furries in it.

I think something that bothers me about a lot of fiction is that it privileges objective details over subjective ones.

This is especially a problem for me with descriptions of people. For me, the experience of meeting someone often makes a bigger impression than their features!

When I say someone is attractive, that really is how I feel about them. It's not how I feel about any part of them. It's not a statement about their eyes or the shape of their cheeks. Statements about figure like that seem to address the body of the person, not the person.

I wonder how much of this is "show, don't tell." I always struggled with it. I could tell you about how someone is angry, or I could tell you they glared at me, or I could say something about the shape of their eyebrows. But in each case I'd be telling, which is the effect of using words and not pictures. The only decision available to me is what to tell.

The idea that if I make you come to a conclusion indirectly, you're more likely to have reached the reality of what I meant to say? Or that it implies my work is a higher achievement? Those ideas seem to privilege inferentially-minded people.

Which is not the same as intelligent people. I would tell a story like that to actors. I would never tell a story like that in a roomful of forensic accountants.

I'm not saying that to pick on forensic accountants. Merchants of Deception, probably the book I most enjoyed in 2022, is the true autobiography of a forensic accountant. It's written in such a literal way that it could be used in court, which it was, because it was effective enough to get him sued.