about me

as you probably figured out my name is winter
i use it/she/they pronouns
i am very much not cis ! idk about sexual orientation though it's hard to figure out
i live on the land mass people like to call "great" britain
i do not write much on gemini because i prefer to use a wiki and my shitty homemade wiki engine is in php so i can't easily provide it over here

this page may not always be kept up to date: for the latest on me and my identity and such refer to my wiki (https)

personality

i'm not very social and often get too overwhelmed if i have to talk to someone i don't know already. also i've learned i find it very difficult to talk to "authority figures" (not necessarily authorities but people my brain decided are more powerful than me in whatever way)
very likely autistic
favourite season autumn (despite my name), favourite colour uhhhh idk theres too many

theoretically i'm an anarchist but i'm always too tired/unmotivated to actually do anything meaningful
i hate the monarchy, the tory party, starmer's labour, capitalism, and authority/*archy in general
don't like stallman(rms) or raymond(esr) very uncool people who should not be as influential as they are
political compass says i'm extremely lib-left
i'm interested in social issues that affect marginalised groups, especially various *normativities (cis-, hetero-, neuro-)

i don't like computers but also spend a fair bit of time using/programming them so i end up being tech support for my friends a lot
regarding above, i use various linux distros (void currently and gentoo previously) on my laptop and i run void on a slow and creaky old computer as a server for mumble, minecraft, website and such
i'm learning russian/русский and french/français, fairly mediocre at them, although i can speak toki pona (except for most nimi ku lili which i haven't bothered to learn)
can play piano (but i usually don't), currently learning to dj and also occasionally try to produce music but i have no ideas
occasional drawing, apparently i'm not bad at it but i hardly ever get motivated

On occasion, I write in a formal style, especially in my open-source projects' READMEs and commit messages, or e-mail exchanges with unknown and/or Professional™ people. This is to ensure that I do not come across as immature or uneducated in situations where that might be otherwise assumed and frowned upon. [also cause it removes some aspect of personality which makes it less stressful] [people should be immature and uneducated more often imo but thats another story for another day]
you might possibly remember me from a year or two ago when i wrote like 2 articles (about a c418 album and a cgi script for surveys iirc) over on tilde.cafe