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Whatâs a cliplog? A microblog taken straight from the X11 clipboard and updated with a keyboard shortcut. Maybe it doesnât really deserve a name of its ownâŠ
Canât always tell if Iâm fence-sitting or if people just keep building unnecessary fences where I happen to be sitting
âWelkom by de neadersassiske uutgĂ„ve van Wikipedia. Wikipedia is en internetencyklopedy dee döÀr vrywilligers maked wördt en under vrye licensy uutgeaven wördt.â
Dutch Low Saxon. Iâm slightly in love with it? Itâs way cooler than the Low Saxon this side of the border. Although I suspect wouldnât be able to tell the difference yet without seeing the spelling.
Are people with #aphantasia known to be less likely to have (had) imaginary friends, see #ghosts, hear voices, talk to characters from their own #writing, or have other semi-unusual-but-also-sort-of-common mind-stuff going on⊠or get results from practicing #magic for that matter? (I donât mean levitating and casting fireballs â I mean âinternalâ effects.)
Iâm lumping a lot together here, I know.
Trust Germans to find a way to make "DJ" even *more* gender-neutral by wedging an unpronouncable asterisk into the already unnecessary cutesy female form "DJanes". I *think* this is a use of the CP/M|UNIX|DOS|⊠wildcard, so it gets points for that!
This week I destroyed my tablet, my AA battery charger, and my card reader/USB hub/eSATA front panel. Two days to go; whoâs next?!
Just remembered I had a fleamarket Commo 128 at one point. Wrote a "Hollywood hacker OS" simulator and the beginnings of a vampire adventure game. There was a wolf. It followed you up laddersâŠ
God give me the strength to accept what I cannot change
Other God give me the will to change what I cannot accept
Be kind, for people grow up to be entangled with their own localised normalities and arenât always going to achieve the enlightenment required to extract themselves therefrom and become like you
I opened a box of two frozen pizza baguette halves, and one of them was facing downward! That has NEVER happened before!!
"Ăöwer us"
"Over [i.e., about] us" in the local language â I dare any other language to casually have an "Ăö"
Reasons weâre not the galaxyâs most basic bitch species after all, #1:
We have a bazillion muscles in our faces with which we can inaudibly express amusement, adoration, contempt, curiosity, confusion, disgust, anger, boredom, contentment, happiness, fear, nervousness, triumph, sympathy⊠essentially anything encoded in the Intergal Emoji Standard of 2563 except for uwu because wth sort of face is that anyway.
Can the insectoids of Toctiqetec do that? NOPE.
Apple/cinnamon is not nearly as delicious an idea for a shower foam/gel scent as vanilla/cookie dough⊠couldâve known!
When did we go from âgender shouldnât matter in most everyday situationsâ to âeveryone, state your gender and preferred pronounâ? For someone whoâs shy, in the closet, or feeling insecure about their presentation, it can be uncomfortable to be put on the spot like that (and it can lead to public self-denial lest the legitimacy of oneâs claimed gender be assessed (quietly) by a whole group of people at once)
Bring back gender privacy
Bought the 3rd and 4th Black Sabbath on CD after listening to them on Spotify Premium. Iâm not Modern-People-ing correctly, I think
The Perpetuum Immobile. The Wheels of Standstill busily rearrange the world to keep you in your place as you scramble up that hillâŠ
Now my personal mythology has another devil next to the Entropy Wolves that you can only begin to see once theyâve eaten all the light of the universe
đ Bees cause the night; bees long for lovers
Bees cause the night; bees long for us
Me before Strange New Worlds: "Wah! Discovery is not true to #StarTrek and Burnham never stops drama-whispering!"
Me after Strange New Worlds: "Wah! #StrangeNewWorlds is so much safer than #Discovery and doesnât boldly go at all!"
Christmas can be hard. If youâre alone, if youâre feeling alienated or excluded from the warmth and cheer and togetherness, if youâre half-buried under failures or holiday stressâŠ
I want to send you ((hugs)) and what <3 love I have to give and tell you you are not alone in this. *We* are not alone in this.
And now is not the time to condemn yourself. Try not to flee what daylight there is. Donât busy your mind holding all your sorrows and pain at once, to be evaluated and despaired over time and time again⊠try, just try, to step out from those long shadows youâve grown. The present moment can be enough for now. The small things, the little joys, maybe some youâve almost forgotten, you big grim adult, you!⊠and maybe thatâs vague self-help babble, and I can clearly not heal myself either.
But this fool here wishes you peace. ^^
Life's own pariah
Wrapped fast in the fabric of fantasy
Will she pass muster
How on earth do you know when something youâre tippety-typing away about is no longer just a note to be kept with other notes and/or in a note-taking application and needs to be moved into a proper P.R.O.J.E.C.T. folderâŠ?
Stop naming ships âPrometheusâ! It never ends well!
One criterion, two criteria
One phenomenon, two phenomena
One bacterium, two bacteria
One homo sapiens, two homo sapiens (or homines sapientes if you want to sound clever)
One seraph, two seraphim
One sefirah (sephirah), two sefirot (sephirot)
One âŠnephal? nafil? eep!âŠ, two nephilim
Come on, YouTubers âŁïž
imagine all the endless fields and pastures being returned to nature and the occasional self-sufficient homesteading enthusiast because ScienceMachines can grow food more efficiently in less space... it would be wonderful, sniff (said the person from a tamed, densely populated country)
I hate how even the most âfreeâ cartoon dogs are inevitably depicted with collars. I also hate funny livestock animals. Itâs unnecessarily punching down the food chain.
I find it a little weird when people say theyâre âownedâ by their cats. Unless weâre talking farm/village/outdoors cats, the adorable floofs are ultimately entirely dependent on you.
Yes, I do take things too literally, why?
For some reason new _days_ start in the middle of the _night_. And the _first_ hour of the day is either the _zeroth_ or the _twelfth_ (24-/12-hour clock). Does _anything_ make sense?
Whatâre the Martian and Venusian counterparts to "terraforming"? Martiforming
Venusiforming
Venereforming
Veneraforming
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Q: Why do stars twinkle?
A: Because theyâre these really teensy-tinesy bitty dots. CUUUTE
My finger-eating mechanical typewriter didnât have the numbers one and zero because, eh, the letters I and O will do. Early leetspeakâŠ
uthors that are more fun to read or talk or listen to podcasts *about*, #1: H.P. Lovecraft
Imagine if Elrond Half-elven had had one full elf parent and were called Elrond Three-quarters-elven
Does anyone else experience confusing menus or an overabundance of title and interstitial screens and intros and logos as an efficient deterrent when it comes to even starting a video game? Dragonâs Dogma: Dark Arisen is one of the worst offenders in my library, along with Capcom Arcade Stadium, Mega Drive Classics, Zaccharia Pinball, Atari Vault⊠maybe all those "simulated arcades/living rooms" but even that could be implemented with far fewer extra steps. And the logo plague is universalâŠ
Someone needs to invent kluntjes that dissolve without stirring
Especially when considering I can swap out part of the charset when transitioning to a different map that may have a different biome or society
So the inverse colour characters on the Commodore 8-bit machines are in fact not generated from the regular 128 chars but are simply characters 129-256 (or 128-255 if you will) and thus redefinable. My dream of a plus/4 Ultima-lite RPG with reasonably sized character tile graphics is not entirely dead
The world becomes less scary when I think of it as just a giant classroom. The lower-brow tough normie kids with their blunt, open contempt and ridicule and the odd seriousness of their silly hostility; the activist kids with their ironic and sarcastic remarks, barely predictable offence-taking, and conditional acceptance; the straight-A overachievers who barely recognise your existence; the fellow outcasts who donât necessarily like you (or you them) but are the ones whoâll have youâŠ
Okay, those protohobbits are pretty cute!
Uploaded a bunch of Plasma colour schemes. For the 0 people who care. lol
https://store.kde.org/u/anjune
I read that book; was interesting; have little to no personal experience with the male milieus she immersed herself in.
Not sure you can just conclude that thatâs what drove her to end her life, even if she described these experiences as eye-opening and harrowing (and felt guilty about deceiving people).
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/woman-pretended-to-be-a-man-dies-assisted-suicide-realizing-difficult
Sauronâs mark on Finrod, the symbol your wisest could not discern? That looks rather like your brooch, Galadriel. PLOT TWIST!!!
Giant eagle on FIRE! Middle-earth, continent of badassery and/or miserable brutality. How can you still be yelling when clashing with orcs like that; Iâd be sooo out of breath and/or dead. Is that our moon? It ought to be but I canât tell.
âLegionâ of elves? That seems wildly anachronistic and also out of character. Call it a host of elves plx? Admittedly I have not read any Tolkien in a while. Maybe Iâm wrong
You had no word for death? Didnât plants and animals die?
Those are some uncharacteristically spiteful elf children. Go to your rooms!
popterm alsamixer
What I like about Unreal Engine games: those annoying intro logos/anims are deletable files
I kinda feel like inventing a virtual town outside any demographics-based punching up/down/sideways and culture warfare for people to come together and start over with their own âboroughsâ or âestatesâ and just pretend to be a future or parallel reality nation in which we can all live and let live and be individuals
âŠthatâs probably some hippie libertarian 1970s fantasy about the internet as a whole
âHow many miles to Babylon?
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, and back againâŠ
If your heels are nimble and your toes are light,
You may get there by candle-light.â
It MEANS âbefore it gets dark (and you light the candles)â but I rather like the idea of asking if it is a place you can get to by the light of a candle (and possibly neither more nor less than that)
VSCode interprets my ASCII art as Perl code =)
Iâm not going to call her his âsex dollâ just because he ordered her from his fantasies into his life; longing & smitten-ness are made of more than rutting. Luo/the book?/its author? may have a sexist streak (proof of which this margin is 2small2contain); so do often the publicly fairest, most enlightened humansâ private needs, for social & innocent biological reasons. For them I prescribe self-aware fatalist acceptance; for the book⊠idk
Later, Mr Luo, given immense powers as an unpredictable analysis-proof âWallfacerâ, requisitions a real-life version of said dream woman. The way Da Shi knows exactly what he means & finds him a woman right out of his daydreams rather outweighs the disbelief I can suspend⊠(but I suppose there is a type that âdoesâ it, if not in practice then at a daydream level. Sensitive, intelligent, imaginative, utterly open & innocent & petite & delicate & protective-instincts-rousing; a Bambi Pixie Dream Girl)
So second bookâs love-unbelieving main guy Luo Ji at the behest of his love-believing, YA-novels-writing girlfriend dreams up the perfect woman and to his own astonishment 1. falls in love with this imaginary creature 2. goes on a road trip with her because sheâs just that real to him. ⊠Is that an option? Asking for a friend. Oh, the friend has aphantasia.
Proposition: Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls IV) is really a satire of socialites and eccentrics/people who can afford to be nuts
(Todayâs Renoise rookie mistake) No wonder the pad chords were so thin when you can only use an individual plugin instance on a single track at a timeâŠ
How (non-)sensical is this whole business of unfolding a subatomic particleâs dimensions from M-theoryâs eleven down tosix, three, twoâŠ? The Trisolarans unfold a proton to two dimension to inscribe integrated circuits on its now immense surface, turning it into a particle-sized computer that can conveniently be accelerated to near the speed of light⊠is a two-dimensional object even possible in three-dimensional space? Wouldnât it have⊠no substance?
âA live action Pac-Man movie is on the wayâ â didnât expect to hear thatâŠ
So, watched RMCâs video on the VecFever. I hadnât realised colour vector arcade games like Atariâs Star Wars used CRTs with shadow masks, costing them some of that cleanness and vibrancy associated with vector displays. I wonder if MAME on a high-res LCD isnât actually closer to what I imagined them like â or the monochrome Vectrex displat, for that matter?
Liking that stuff about the countdown appearing in Wangâs photographs, and only his. Is it just me, or is <genre> fiction is just full of the *Anomalous* now, more so than it was in, say, the 1980s?
Silly putty is making me smile
Iâve never had any before
Why kill yourself because the laws of physics arenât their usual invariant self at a high-energy-particle-colliding sort of level? Isnât that⊠too interesting to throw your life away over?
âIchorous tentacles constrictâ⊠âIntricate, macabre music playingâ⊠Stranger Things audio description subtitles are quite literate
Heard and read a lot about this trilogy. So far itâs been 1966 China and the idealistic cruelty of mind warriors with political religions that decide categorically which people, thoughts, and even laws of physics deserve to exist and which must be broken or exterminatedâŠ
ow is it that kooks can be identified by their bizarre capitalisation?
She got up in the very doomed, dramatic way she had and left them, and Lactamaeon, second in command of Yr, whispered, âIf one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy. And therefore, UnbeautifulâŠâ
âKill me, my lord, in the form of an eagle,â Deborah said to him in the language of Yr.
âa species so stupendously primitive it hadnât even developed STL travel yetâŠâ
What do you call a moon of a moon? We could use note values.
Quaver = planet
Semiquaver = moon
Demisemiquaver = moon of moon
Hemidemisemiquaver = moon of moon of moonâŠ
And then also bubble up from quaver toâŠ
Crotchet = barycentre with sibling planets, if any
Minim = parent star
Semibreve = starâs barycentre with sibling stars, if any
Breve = centre of galaxy
Longa = galaxyâs parent galaxy, if any
Maxima = A WHOLE FRICKINâ UNIVERSE
It wouldnât get confusing at all
There should be some sort of loungey, living-roomy place-to-hang-out-at for queer/ace/trans/kinky/whatnot types (the types could vary daily) where you could just relax/read/game/draw/crochet/write/code/cuddle/stare off into space, and you wouldnât *have* to make contact with anyone, but if you did (would?) want to socialise, youâd know youâd have some specific thing in common, at least in a broader sense (in practice this can mean bugger all), and you wouldnât have to justify or explain it
The battery life of my Orgasmatron is really disappointing (Iâm talking about my Dyson V7 Motorhead vacuum cleaner)
Unfortunately the universe doesnât agree with me. Weâll see which one of us is still standing when this is over.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky/Less Wrong (sans the context)
Today I learned an âopen relationshipâ is just getting to have sex with other people whom youâre not dating and donât love. So for me that would be _worse_ than monogamy. But I guess my partner would be welcome to it to take the sex pressure off me. đ The priorities of people with sex drives are strange and frustrating.
Polyamory is the desirable one.
lol when I lie on my back and pin my wrists down with dumbbells I feel affixed in place enough to follow a train of thought insteaf of constantly trying to find the best way to curl up and sleep
what an ingenious depressed shut-in life hack
enabling 2FA is a great way to ensure I wonât bother logging in to a website ever again
Meat eaters! Your food is already vegetarian. Why not cut out the middle man?
I dreamed I had a fake PhD that would expire unless I called into a game show Monday morning and won
Also sleep paralysis and hot flashes and chills all night, fun
Today I learned you can mount a directory, not just a filesystem (fstab: what where none bind) :)
Fox is to vixen as dog is to Ă°iggen
So just for fun (this is fun for me) I tried to come up with a non-jokey Latin phrase for âDonât let the bastards grind you downâ:
Non patimini beluas pessum atterere vos = Donât let the brutes/beasts grind you down/into ruin
Nolite pati beluas pessum atterere vos = You donât want to let the brutes/beasts grind you down/into ruin (if youâre attached to the âNoliteâ)
NOTE: This might be gibberish. Donât use on actual Latinians.
I just invented guidelines for life
1. That banning/mandating/regulating (something) would make life nicer in some regard is not sufficient reason to actually do so.
2. Donât be heartless. Maybe not everyoneâs fighting some hard battle youâre just not privy to, but itâs more common than you know, and itâs not just the people you like.
3. You wouldnât treat anyone else this badly, so why are you doing it to yourself?
4. You can change and be things you currently arenât. You arenât in any âhardwiredâ way cursed or excluded from life.
5. Itâs easy to be a saint in paradise or a devil in hell. Would you be equally good under all circumstances?
6. If life gives you lemons, you can still just go explore the universe.
7. Consider how much the media get wrong about the stuff you know. How much do they get wrong about the stuff you donât know? And how much might âyour sideâ get wrong about âthe other sideâ?
8. An it harm none, do as thou art told. (Okay, that oneâs a semiprivate joke)
9. The truth doesnât care about your feelings, but stuffâs not true just because it hurts.
Is that GTK file picker that constantly goes into autocomplete/search mode tripping up anyone else all the frigginâ time?
seriously, "humour me" in Dutch is "do me a lol"? ("Doe me een lol")
Finally understood âAunt Floâ! Flow! DuuuhâŠ
Watched Dune at last. Iâm⊠really disappointed? âDesert powerâ *rolls eyes*⊠how anachronistic (for the world of Dune)! People sound mundane, present-day-ish, and largely uninvolved. Nothing has colour. There's little grandeur or sense of a rich cultural heritage â just this grey desaturated utilitarian military flavour to all but the spice-blue eyes. Of course the David Lynch movie had the opulence cranked up to eleven for House Atreidis and the Corrinos, but it did at least show off more of the Dune universe and made it quite clear that it was a very different age and world. Edricâs (the Guild navigator) visit to the Emperor with his news of Ix (the meaning of which would be lost to anyone unfamiliar with the book) certainly helped âweirdifyâ Dune as well. Oh, well. It can only get more interesting as the story picks up pace in future movies. Right?
The haptics of styorofoam and Cotton balls (cosmetic) are to me as nails on chalkboard are to others and I literally fear touching them
New thingy:
A little bit of research for English-speaking expats
Oh em gee, look at the prettiness coming to my "problematic" first computer love! Back in the day (mid-80s++) I wouldn't have believed it possible. Most games used had bad colour clash or character-cell-based movement or used only four colours in the "active" area... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StWFw1pi0HQ
Q: Would you like to see companies embrace gender(-)neutral German?
A: Not until there actually is such a thing as gender-neutral German. In my maybe not so humble opinion, the current incarnation with the "gender star/colon/underscore" is no better than the generic masculine. While it frequently works out in the singular (apart from the "*" confusing the normies), plurals like "Ărzt*innen" or "Professor*innen" really just inject an asterisk into the feminine form: "Ărzt" doesn't mean anything, and "Professor" isn't the intended masculine plural form either. Using the asterisk as in set theory or like a DOS-/UNIX-style wildcard won't help with that either; the wildcard doesn't work like that. And the nerd and pedant in me is bothered by that. I think the slash thing or mentioning both was better even if it took up more space ("Ărzte/Ărztinnen", "Ărztinnen und Ărzte").
I started thinking about how, when you close your eyes, your eyes nonetheless remain active and awake behind your eyelids, and somehow that's freaky, and now I'm afraid I'll never sleep again
If the Doctor (Star Trek) and other holograms were indeed "photonics", they'd be visible in the dark. But no, they merely reflect light like the rest of us. Yet they probably don't even glow in the infrared! What a scam. "Photons be free" indeed.
I would like to propose the existence of a shameful "kink" among the privacy-minded: a secret, tortuous longing for the final blissful peace-bringing surrender of every detail of your life to Amazon, the government, Google, several other governments, et cetera. YOU WILL EXIST IN NAKED SUBMISSION TO A STATE OF GRACE ONLY NORMIES HAVE KNOWN
When I forgot my meds I can see that my life is really just moving toward growing (or, well, equal... not much left to grow) isolation and suicide
mew and mew. life is few. life is far. mew and mar.
dysphoria sucks balls
Finally pretty damn sure that the barely-remembered old bell the intro The Beauty and the Beast rang in me is Le carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns. One of my earliest musical experiences, but long buried except for a sense of glassy sounds radiating into darknessâŠ
Tonight's Gemini updates:
Some leftover pixel art from my Amiga days collected in one image.
Untitled German poem in German
I feel so incapable of doing/tackling/starting/accomplishing anything I could cry, except I can't seem to do that either anymore
New quickie thing about successfully faking a wallpaper when using Kwin without Plasma.
gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/kwin-standalone.gmi
ATTN: If you are currently making a sitcom about roommates, please don't end it with everyone moving out and/or getting married. That's just sad, to see everything dissolve.
Does it bother anyone else on this planet to see SOCAL, OB/GYN or COVID when it should be SoCal, Ob/Gyn and CoViD? At all? Never mind MAC (for the computer).
I'm devastated! But it does look interesting.
There's a new intrusive thought in my mind tempting me to regard all this surveillance capitalist glitz and clutter as OKAY. they just want to KNOW you and SELL you things. you're less LONELY that way. and they give you all these TOYS to keep you happy and coming back in excchange for knowng more about what a cool person you are. ... I may need saving urgently
NERD_tree reminder to self: use 't' to open file in new tab
"noauto,x-systemd.automount" is just the best for network shares in fstab. no delaying the boot process by waiting for wi-fi to become available, but silently automounted when first accessed! thanks to whatever I read to learn of that⊠already forgot
Today I learned of lesspipe! How did I not know thatâŠ
"Two-Edge: Rats and Spiders". ElfQuest minific. (Content warning: alludes to physical and emotional child abuse)
gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/ratsandspiders.gmi
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/anjune.lol/w/ratsandspiders.gmi
I don't dislike "Visual Novels" on principle. Like text adventures They often have far more interesting and, uh, non-normie stories than the more luxurious video games. But imagine reading a book that has only one sentence per page, with some of the pages containing nothing but ââŠâ. That's what the *gameplay* is like. Goes for dialogue sequences in JRPGs, too. PLEASE. We CAN read more than ten words at a time without needing to click for no reason whatosever. Yes?
I just discovered by accident that Konsole previews colours (RGB triplets and named colours). That's great!
OKCwestions, pt. 2
Q: Should there be stricter laws regulating harassment/bullying online?
A: I don't know what the existing laws are and what would need to be added that'd be specific to it being online. Do we want to force website owners to implement filtering and censorship and abolish pseudonymity? There're so many well-intentioned paths to hell.
d e p r e s s e d
Welcome to my to-watch list, 50 Shades. It is time we met
Drabble? Microfiction? Stream-o-Conch? Something of the sort. Julie, the warden, and I (or me) -- gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/juliewardeni.gmi
fifty degrees in the shade / under the post-bloom cherry tree / The evacuation of the nation / to SLACKSTATION for a fee
Agents of SHIELD: If it weren't for the whole being-evil thing, I could think of much worse than being mind-controlled by a parasite that gives you a purpose, inhabits the pleasure centres of your brain, and takes some of that stupid decision-making out of your hand. #porn
New logo â converted from ASCII with a script I wrote. Sometimes I DO STUFF!
Q: If you had to guess, do you think humans will go extinct in the next 1000 years?
A: They're resourceful little buggers. They will hang on for way longer than that, even if it might not be by the billions. Think about what this would require: billions of individuals from a resourceful and technologically inventive species ALL gone with not even one "Adam and Eve" combo remaining, and be it in abject misery, in highly artificial surroundings, in the last patch of uncontacted tribal territory on earth, in an underground bunker, on Mars, or in the Google AI's petting zoo.
Is aphantasia destiny?
I wrote about out-of-body experiences. Might not be what you think. Might be a letdown or skary or both. gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/myobes.gmi
Plasma 5: Making Kickoffâs âComputerâ more useful, gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/kickoff.gmi
Reworked yesterdays Commodore TED/264 retrospective a tad, as I am wont to doâŠ
Iâd like a gemini browser to automatically generate a different colour scheme for every server/host/idk â like Lagrange does it for the headlines, but for everythingâŠ
Been working on a little ASCII-art-to-Unicode-art converter. :) A simple project but it's nice to have something actually useful taking shape.
That it hurts doesnât make it true
First version of a new cursive script with German-specific extensions ready â addressing, I hope, some of the flaws of ĂŸe olde SĂŒtterlin. Now itâll need âflow optimisationââŠ
There is no Do, there is only Trine! With Uncle Hamish and Olivia and me in like a couple mins -- https://twitch.tv/hamishtpb
âOxenfree Thoughtsâ uploaded â gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/oxenfree-thoughts.gmi
Been over a week that I merged XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME, still no issues :)
Learned some C with ncurses. 1985, here I come! <3
Yoiks, was operating with about 20% of my mind on the Trine stream and finding it enormously funny that nothing made any senseâŠ
...people photosynthesise with purple skin to save scant food, die at 35 (another side-effect of wiping out cancer, who'd have thought!), and have knowledge, memories, desirable behaviour and skills imparted by viruses -- yet it doesn't feel half bad, because it also means there's no need for locks, police, fear of walking alone in the dark; everything just seems to be running itself without having guns pointed at it; life's... not easy, but informal
It plays on all the senses without ever feeling indulgently hedonist or 'purple'. It'll manage to gross you out *adoringly*. Huge genetically engineered antarctic miners (polar bears) who you'd expect to be an oppressed underclass are a rugged wealthy separate culture that'll take the mickey out of us squishy mind-controlled normies; the eradication of cancer let tumours replicate the host body so well as to produce immortal deformed-looking copies...
Been finding it hard to booklog; it's still what I'd love to have written but so dense with ideas to process and integrate into an internal coherent model -- melancholically playful, whimsical when it should be creeping you out; a dystopia you (sometimes) half want to live in...
Have merged XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME into one, since developers barely know when to use which as it is. Nothing's fallen over dead yet, not even AkonadiâŠ
Not sure what to do with Gemini, really. You put stuff out there and then that's that; silence. Might be in a bad mood though
No more dead links; + some a first few old texts posted to the Gemini thang.
âŠwhose name I surprisingly got right on the first attempt. I forgot I was slightly obsessed with this album! If a psychedelic prog-tech sort of thing sorts like your jam, jam to this.
Five guest musicians (Edward KaSpel, IAMX, Otto von Schirach, Traz Damji, Soriah); bodes well.
Out now! :) :) Advance tracks were brilliant, Anger is an Acid quite likely to remain my high point of the album...
It's time for that old outburst of anger again, because I can't view a single German website without losing my temper any more. YOU. UTTER. FICKING. AR$âŹHOLES. DESTROYED. THE. FREE. OPEN. DEMOCRATIC. LIBERTINE. INTERNET with your regulations. That "Datenschutzerklaerung" and that "Impressum" demand a level of self-exposure (self-doxxing, really) and legalese-compliance that a decently-sized business may be able to deal with but not an intimidateable individual with a need for privacy and a hunger to find the other weirdos of the world. BURN IN HELL YOU SHITS.
Iâll have to talk fragmentarily about this book while Iâm reading it. It's the sort of colourfully imaginative but grounded-feeling life-as-an-XYZ-sort-of-creature-detailing "soft" sci-fi I'd want to write if I wanted to take up the responsibility of writing sci-fi, that is to say, to presume to be able to speculate with some level of plausibility.
I will consider forget-me-nots now
It was a lovely day, that day I walked away... test test
Advantage of attempting to teach yourself piano: nobodyâs going to stop you from using harpsichord, organ, or synth bass sounds when you get bored
No, wait⊠wild poppies.
Drew! The prettiest wildflowers are cornflowers.
Hurray! Huzzah!
Was that double post an accident or did I just not clipboard correctly?
Let's see if this works..
Let's see if this works...
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