woman-shaped person, she/her/hers are fine, terfs/swerfs/exclusionsts will be blocked. i simply do not care about shipping discourse and purity culture wars bc i have other things to worry about and assimilation is not my goal.
a common throughline in shit i like is understanding how and why systems work and fail. i do my best to have unique and blockable tags per fandom. popular tags include:
#tuesday again no problem- a weekly roundup where i talk about what i’ve been reading/watching/playing/making/listening to
#evil lair llc - shit i do to my apartment/various non-textile hacky nonsense
#mackintosh my little black cat. mack for short.
#phil short for philip marlowe, my little tabby cat. not a thought in her beautiful empty head.
#maps charts and graphs/ #and lists and flags - bureaucratic & simplified representations of information
#technology and you - dumb hardware mostly
#better living through the scientific method- science communication (mostly astronomy hoax debunking), shit i think is neat, early- to mid-century physical sciences lab aesthetics
#my one true love is the sky - astronomy shit
#cowboyblogging general western stuff/#ain’t that a kick in the head - stuff tangential to a Fallout: New Vegas/The Good The Bad and the Ugly crossover you can read on ao3 here
#textile crimes - i was a textile lead at a makerspace and i’ve never really grown out of playing with string
#good lines - art i think is neat
#answered - ask memes mostly if u wanna go ahead and block that
#capitalism and you the stupidest tech finance shit imaginable from when i used to do market research for video games
elsewhere:
ao3: sictransitgloriamundi
discord: girlfriendsofthegalaxy#5949 (mutuals only pls)
Listening: I have been slowly trying to get my music library into an actual order again so I picked up some of my old metadata databases I was building last time I tried this and managed to put a good chunk of my music through Beets, which means I now have networked access to all my music that was in nice, clean albums. Listening to a lot of Debussy
Reading: Started back in on A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour which is a very different book from An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.
This book is also very dated in a way that is essential to its content. It is I think interesting in giving Petrawicki an objectively cool and interesting technology instead of the easy to dunk on scam it could have used. Like. Reading this explains some of why Green is able to be normal when talking about AI, beyond just generally being the kind of person who seems to think carefully about things. He has already done the thinking about what if a technology is incredibly useful and powerful and also being deployed in dubious or stupid ways!
Watching: Continuing to watch some Severance. Occasionally my partner will ask me "hey what do you think it's doing" and like I have no goddamn clue. I am waiting for the information to be revealed.
Making: Fiddling with some electronics projects with whatever junk I have lying around. Trying to minmax this LED driver.
Built a Lego film camera model that I got as gift from a friend, extremely cute model, very cleverly put together, it's using a lot of tricks to assemble robust vertical panels that seem to be a much more common thing on newer aesthetic-minded models. I never really saw anything like this on Creator kits as a kid.
the knobs and cranks have some very clever tactile movements using technics pieces and there's a particularly tortured construction that wedges one of the rubber 2x1 buffer pieces in the middle of the model so that it moves like a film advance lever.
Playing: Forza Horizon 6 has some kind of horrible bug on my system that causes it to crash constantly so while I have tried to play it it has been incredibly frustrating and has me making extreme threats about Windows programmers. On Linux is runs without crashing but has extremely frustrating hitches and lag spikes so there's not really any good options here. Tempted to install Windows on my handheld again just to see if it has the same issues.
Tools and Equipment: If you are working with CSV's it basically always pays to put them into a Pandas dataframe. I was sorting through some of my old bank transactions for some stuff and it's just much easier when you have all the column information tied in correctly.
trying to get through a real dense but good history of lgbt life in sf pre-1965 and contemplating… like… the ways that gay life is entangled with vice are commonly flattened. like it is easy to think of it in purely liberatory bohemian “hell has all the best parties” terms but if your culture is reliant for its financial existence on a market for Sin, what that means is that organized crime and vices that give onto real evils will have market share in your liberatory space! Like it is both true that there’s no disentangling sex work from lesbianism in this time and place (statement of solidarity) and there’s no disentangling sex work from lesbianism in this time and place (some lesbians worked as pimps for their girlfriends to make the money to open their bars. I do not think this relationship was always awesome for their girlfriends!). It is both true that gay culture flourished during the lawlessness of prohibition (once you break down one arbitrary social boundary others start looking more flexible) and true that gay culture flourished in the lawlessness of prohibition (gay bars were key players in protection rackets and HEAVILY incentivized to fight any anticorruption measures in local politics, which they did). it’s the same as the fantasies about the golden age of piracy, right? on board this ship outside the strangling reach of the colonial powers of europe, egalitarianism prevailed! also total lack of protection against every evil including death, also frequently amoral participation in colonial violence
even though i went out this week specifically to acquire a pill popper and it worked perfectly last night on mackie, i had to pill them both by hand tonight bc i was genuinely afraid i was going to break phil’s stupid little neck. also it’s nearly sunset and i have not heard a single gunshot or firework (and only two gunshots and one firework last night) which is the realest recession indicator imo
they are high as balls and they both got stuck. mackie could NOT figure out how to get up on her cat tree and then when i put her on my bed she could not figure out how to get over my legs. phil stumbled onto my chest and has not moved
even though i went out this week specifically to acquire a pill popper and it worked perfectly last night on mackie, i had to pill them both by hand tonight bc i was genuinely afraid i was going to break phil’s stupid little neck. also it’s nearly sunset and i have not heard a single gunshot or firework (and only two gunshots and one firework last night) which is the realest recession indicator imo
milord, the knightly order is questioning again whether your selective enlisting of a roundtable comprised of just emotionally stunted haggard women with dog motifs and no self preservation was fuelled by a tactical need, or perhaps [checks parchment] yes, as they put it, himejoshing out
the only place that 'i suffered and because i suffered so should you' belongs is when you see something diabolical or emotionally devastating on the internet so naturally youve gotta call up your best friends
Hi, my name is James Webbony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Space Telescope and I am a telescope in space (that's how I got my name) and I have a five-layer aluminum-coated Kapton sunshield protecting my instruments and gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Lady Gaga (AN: if you don't know who she is, get the hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Hubble Space Telescope, but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm an infrared telescope but I am much larger than Spitzer. I have 18 primary mirror segments. I also study exoplanets, and I go to a telescope school in L2 where I'm in orbit (I was launched in 2021). I can see distant galaxies (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly gold. I love space, and I take all my photos there. For example, today I was taking a photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is about 500 million light years away. I was using my NIRcam, NIRspec, MIRI, and FGS-NIRISS. I was walking outside L2. It was around 1 million miles away from Earth and there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I unfolded my primary mirrors at them.
