@timbray A colleague once referred to a task as "bear-loading". When I corrected him, he asked if I had ever tried to wrestle 800 pounds of tranquilized brown bear into the back of a pickup truck. When I confessed I hadn't, he said, "Then trust me - this job is bear-loading."
Last time flying, the check-in folks were struggling with a dying airport computer.
It was a terminal terminal terminal.
you mess with the bull you get the horns. you mess with the goat you get the woodwinds. the horse has the string section and the rabbit is on percussion
If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:
“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”
So a thermocouple is a good way to accurately measure the temperature of something, but, if you had a more complicated setup, you might need a ... thermopolycule!
The thing about social media is that it allows bad wordplay to be seen by everyone. It's constantly being observed. A "pun-opticon" if you will.
Trans Day of Leave Us The Fuck Alone, You Obsessed Weirdos.
the Discord Movie Night chat discussion on whether or not an F1 car is sexy started at "well its just a penis with four breasts" and devolved into heated debate on whether the driver is the clit of the car before ended at great length about whether youd get multimillion dollar genitals but they have to have adverts all over them
The protomolecule knew what it was doing
I spent last weekend at Capricon, in Chicago, with my girlfriend and whole family. It was a nice time together with the family I've been pulled into now that I'm dating an old friend, us having discovered some feelings for each other now that we've both transitioned. I've known her husband even longer. An all-trans polycule of people who've known each other for decades. Their kid has known me her whole life and has taken me as a bonus mom, something I'd never imagined possible.
This was my first time at Capricon since 2020 at the very very end of the before times. It is so nice to have a girlfriend and family all COVID careful. We had our air filters running in the hotel room, all of us are always in respirators when among others. So nice to be able to be safely together in the room, and to eat together in the room in safety.
Capricon was one of the most-masked groups of any size I've been in since the early days when anyone gave a shit. Still far less than even half but so nice to not be alone. It was also the queerest, trans-est gathering I've been to that's not specifically a queer event. The kind of place people were casually outing themselves. You know, like, "that was back before I was on T!"
It's interesting now to be in a new phase of transition and to be at a con in a dress (and even my first corset!) as a woman and it's just ordinary, six years ago I was a bearded lady and the dresses got a lot more attention. It went shockingly well for me then, but I really like how things are for me now even better.
i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago
Never touch the terminals.
Please don't. Cause of failure.
This may be the cause.
It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time.
It is not possible.
@kyle_pegasus @davidgerard @EF @Tubemeister @TheEntity
The GNOME project will finish when they reach their final aim: The UI with a single button used by a single mouse button, and when you click on the button, it will tell you "You're doing it wrong" and close itself.
The "Downloads" folder on my laptop
i am trying to get better at designing websites very slowly and unsurprisingly i think design is a "skill" where "spending time on it" makes me "better at it" and making a nice design "takes time"
"Some of Biden’s most effective Covid propagandists, including Leana Wen and Rochelle Walensky, have been quietly walking back their minimization of Covid."
https://justinebarron.substack.com/p/bidens-handmaidens-is-it-surprising
I'm a trans woman and I'm not as obsessed with facial hair as Pete Hegseth is...
I have to say, "Pressure Vessel for Human Occupancy" sounds simultaneously awesome and rather frightening. Whatever you are doing, it has to be dangerous! (Especially so since pressurized aircraft cabins are regulated under aircraft rules and not PVHO so the one thing that actually is safe doesn't count!)