"a very old young person"

thats what the elderly call me

[flipwizard]

Reading currently on the bedside table, The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst and The Elements of Style by William Strunk JR and E.B. White. Great reading if you enjoy a series of old men talking about comma placement and kerning. And gosh don't I just. No reason for this post except hey, William Strunk Jr? Boy I sure hope he does

[flipwizard]

Kind of was thinking everybody was joking when they say stuff like "I can't even read a book these days" due to internet brain conditions like of course I laugh and go haha yeah me too. But then I go home and read until 3 am like... every one else does... right???? And then posts on here are like "what if we read books again as a society" and I'm getting nervous. What do you mean 'again'...

[catasters]

[atapi]

they call it house of leaves because when you see what the house of, you leaves

[evisen]

na na na na na na na batman

[chaotic-inaturalist-images]

MY ORRRRRRB

Fang's Puffer photographed by Patta Vangtal (Source)

[jupitervega]

goin halves on a room with this friend is easin our financial burden a bit while we wait for food stamps next month. we're lookin at $45/night now, & coastin by on whatever food we can scrounge up on a short budget. we're reapplyin for several programs we never heard back from just in case they can help this time. fingers crossed anyway.

my only concern right now is makin sure @cedarsaga has shelter, rest, & enough to eat while we languish in disability determination hell. all of this is harder to come by while i still need to provide care full time, & especially when we're comin down to the wire most days on where we can stay.

we're very grateful for everyone who's helped us even the smallest bit. this has been so hard & scary. thank y'all so much for yr compassion.

please share, please help if yr able. i just wanna keep my partner alive.

c: $jupitervega

v: jupitervega

p: jupitervega

thanks so much for readin 💙

[jupitervega]

confirmed with neurosurgeon today that @cedarsaga has to have a third brain surgery. no concrete date yet but likely in the next 2-6 weeks dependin on surgeon's schedule.

this news is yet another kick in the nuts as y'all can probably imagine. we're already strugglin so much with homelessness & food insecurity, & now my partner needs yet another serious procedure. potentially also serious further treatment dependin on how this third surgery goes.

we still need to ask for help while we navigate mal's upcomin ordeal(s). please consider helpin me give my partner basic shelter & somethin to eat.

thanks for readin 💙

[autistic-bashir]

sometimes it feels weird to call star trek characters by their first names like no that’s not elim i don’t know him like that

[groupthinker]

something to consider

[the-bar-sinister]

Remember when I told ya'll last month to be ready to start looking for a Discord alternative?

Yeah things aren't looking good for discord.

[the-bar-sinister]

#what is the alternative anyway

If you want a direct alternative there's Revolt, which is a free, open source discord clone.

Revolt is the chat app that's truly built with you in mind.

[the-bar-sinister]

Oh...

It's even worse than I thought.

[darker-than-darkstorm]

Time to go back to IRC.

[howtoimpersonateanadult]

I recommend Element; it's very similar to Discord and has basically the same features but it's privacy-focused and both servers and DMs can both be encrypted so only the actual users of those rooms can read the messages.

This means unlike most popular chat apps, including and especially Discord, Element doesn't sell your conversations or tracking data to advertisers, because the company literally doesn't have access to that data in the first place.

I've used it for years and I think it's a natural fit for Discord users.

[give-grian-rights]

sighs. saves for later

[unicodepepper]

if it’s good enough for nuclear codes it’s good enough for me

[flipwizard]

You know when people find out you ride public transportation to get to places instead of getting into my 2-ton vehicle that costs, idk, a thousand dollars a month to maintain, and they treat you like some sort of peasant who's out there hiking along the roads with a mule trying to sell their magic beans along the way or something, and you can tell they pity you for it! For taking a bus to the shop! Or walking to work! M'am you have the wrong end of this conversation: I am pitying you! I'm sick of it and from now on I will be the one frowning condescendingly and going "isn't that dangerous? I mean, driving an automobile all the time? like, they still make those with internal combustion engine, don't they?" with a nervous laugh, or airily brushing them off as so, "oh goodness, I just don't know how anybody who drives a vehicle can stand to waste all their time like that. whenever are you getting all your reading, your crafting, your gazing-out-the-window-to-admire-the-clouds work done, if not on a pleasant and calming bus ride? I simply couldn't imagine trying to fit motoring around in one of those noisy horseless carriages into my packed schedule, la!"

[smol-blue-bird]

sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium

[thirdchoiceurl]

Francium IS a stupid element. It has a half life of 22 minutes and barely exists at all, only naturally occurring as a product of the extremely rare alpha decay series ²³⁵U ➝ ²³¹Th ➝ ²³¹Pa (𝜷 decay) ➝ ²²⁷Ac ➝ ²²³Fr (1.38% chance). There’s less than a gram of it on earth at any given moment. It has no uses to anybody and it isn’t even the most reactive group 1A element due to relativistic effects fucking up its electron binding energies. Stupid substance.

If you somehow asked a genie to get you a gram of Francium in a sealed vial so you could do an experiment with it, the genie would just give it to you because the enormous amount of radioactivity it produces would instantly vaporize the sample and cook you alive. Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse

[bimyheel]

found the guy

[flipwizard]

fashionably I am trying to toe the exact midpoint on a scale between "masculine enough to not get misgendered in the hardware store" and "faggoty enough to be indentified by hardware store as someone too gay to know where the power drill attachments would be located"

[bluecaptions]

How English has changed in the past 1000 years.

[allowthehype-deactivated2015072]

the big mans a lad i have fuck all, he lets me have a kip in a field he showed me a pond 

[victusinveritas]

[soldierporn]

"There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.

"No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul."

Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West

On October 25, 2023—when Israel’s war on Gaza had already claimed the lives of 6,500 Palestinians, including 2,500 children—the Egyptian-Can

[cykelops]

were I to create an original piece of media I would create bait so queer in order to create a fanfic environment I like. I find you guys do your best work under duress.

[cykelops]

I’d say “jeez can two people not be friends anymore?” and then I’d give one of them amnesia in which they only recognize the other above anyone else

[technofeudalism]

from @delatoid on x

[otesunki]

[gerrysherry]

I love this alternate universe