Speaker To Yesterday

Where the once-possible remains imaginable

[speakertoyesterday]

Pronatalist dating?

Are there ways to meet people interested in forming a family and having children very soon?

[lemonsweet]

Very fascinated by this Walmart shirt. Could they not use the actual phrase or something? It's not even specifying "when you're mean to me" it's just when you're mean in general this particular bunny gets hurt. She carries all suffering. This bunny experiences all evil in the world.

[lemonsweet]

Very fascinated by this Walmart shirt. Could they not use the actual phrase or something? It's not even specifying "when you're mean to me" it's just when you're mean in general this particular bunny gets hurt. She carries all suffering. This bunny experiences all evil in the world.

[setulose]

Trace amounts of Monica in my life

[setulose]

A statistically insignificant level of Monica in my life

[setulose]

My life manufactured in a facility that also processes Monica

[speakertoyesterday]

This song was not about the Clinton administration

[aflo]

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

[speakertoyesterday]

So there was PsDoom, where you kill processes with a shotgun (or BFG in extreme scenarios). That would include itself or serious things like init, so everything would be a zombie, which is bad.

[speakertoyesterday]

I haven't been posting here much

And I miss it. Some old friends vanished, and life got in the way. And a lot of energy went into a relationship that's long lasting, but also has some troubles that we need to work through.

Still in the Bay, and now with car to enjoy nature more.

[eightyonekilograms]

things are getting real weird in my profession

[eightyonekilograms]

things continue to get real weird

[speakertoyesterday]

Nah, topping from the bottom is common

[eightyonekilograms]

things are getting real weird in my profession

[eightyonekilograms]

things continue to get real weird

[tearlessrain]

actually caring about the rights and safety of children is so stressful right now because a large amount of the time I'm sitting there internally screaming "THAT'S WORSE. THAT POLICY IS GOING TO ACTIVELY CAUSE HARM TO CHILDREN YOU ARE MAKING IT WORSE." and nobody cares because it's not actually about protecting children but the thing is children actually do need more protection very badly, just not like that. REALLY not like that. and the things that would actually protect children (education, greater personal autonomy, access to knowledge and resources that don't hinge on their parents being willing/able to provide them) would give adults less absolute power over them and that upsets too many people who see children as status symbols and tools and extensions of themselves.

[falling-components]

wizardry in games all falls in a spectrum between "press 2 to cast fireball" and "learn a bespoke programming language to cast spells"

[falling-components]

despite having premade spells written on cards, magic the gathering has a "stack" and the comprehensive rules are 292 pages long so it's at least a little bit programming magic

[speakertoyesterday]

It's turning complete

[transhuman-priestess]

Computers should still come with floppy drives. I'll die on this hill.

I don't want to email myself word docs, i don't want the cloud. i want a small-but-relatively-chunky item with a low storage capacity that's cheap to replace and easy to label and organize and i'm not joking.

[estrogenerational-trauma]

i want to carry around a little case with diskettes in it that have all my personal projects on them labelled with a black marker that smudged just a little after I wrote the name on the disk.

i want a little box on my desk with color-coded floppy disks that all contain a single story or project im working on.

i wanna put the disk in the drive with a hefty 'k-thunk' noise and listen to the drive read the data.

[kocurek1921-deactivated20260103]

Something like this?

Saved those during big cleaning at my job.

[transhuman-priestess]

my babies!!!😭

[transhuman-priestess]

Look, I know it’s old but floppies are definitionally digital.

Analog does not mean “old” or “pre-internet.” It means that the signal is a continuous wave, rather than discreet chunks of ones and zeros.

Analog signal - Wikipedia

[foone]

fun fact, there's at least once floppy disk that's analog:

Video Floppy - Wikipedia

but yeah most of them are digital.

[speakertoyesterday]

I thought a lot of the copy protection relied on the inherently analogue nature of the medium. Stuff like weak bits that would flip on read because the magnetic strength was in between what it needed to be or the encoding was subtly off.

[omgpoindexter]

thoughts on americanising fic

i’m american, i don’t care

i’m american, i would rather you americanise your fic

i’m not american, i don’t care

i’m not american, i would rather you americanise your fic

i have a different opinion (pls explain in tags!)

Voting ended onApr 8

​trying to gage this - i personally think it’s unnecessary, as ao3 is not an american territory that im publishing into, but ive had comments before that lead me to think it takes people out of the story. let me know your thoughts! :)

[omgpoindexter]

just to add:

by “americanise” i mean purely in terms of vocab/grammar, for example the use of em dashes is different (in the uk we use -, in the us you use —), or you guys would say “apologize” rather than “apologise”

i agree that if a story is set in america, i wouldn’t be writing “bloody hell” and using “pavement” instead of “sidewalk”. i do think there is some nuance there!

[spiralingintocontrol]

I mean I gotta be honest here I just can't read smut that uses British terms. it's like they're having sex and then the word "arse" comes up and I'm like. Oh. We're at the pub. We're chimney sweeps. I just

[canisbeta]

easter sucks i don’t think we should have widespread christianity events permeating our neighborhoods. however, i like that somehow this became a rabbit-centric time of the year. i propose we overturn easter and replace it with a celebration of bunny girls. give it to the trans furries. they can like, graze on fields of grass and do freak sex stuff or whatever. let’s go lesbians

[flareonfloof]

that happens already. oviposition commissions spike every time

[flareonfloof]

happy oviposition commission weekend

[baba-fett]

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

[paranormal-taters]

specifically this kind of bonk.

[humanityinahandbag]

Reblonk

[mereologic]

i think the idea that segregating kids from adults online is somehow going to lead to the childrens having less inappropriate conversations online is kinda funny.

and like do we think parents wont pull "my twelve year old got groomed by those other twelve year olds" i mean really now?

[speakertoyesterday]

"I want to put my long necked giraffe up your fluffy bunny"

[mereologic]

i think those twelve year olds you're imagining have severe developmental disabilities.

twelve year olds generally know what sex is. they talk with each other about other twelve year olds that they want to have sex with. many of them have figured out how to masturbate. very few of them have penetrative sex, but oral sex is not wildly uncommon.

I think you're possibly thinking of five year olds.

[speakertoyesterday]

Oh this was a reference to a famous story about trying to make a kid-safe chat program for disney. https://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-toontowns-speedchat-or-blockchattm-from-disney-finally-arrives/

[mereologic]

i think the idea that segregating kids from adults online is somehow going to lead to the childrens having less inappropriate conversations online is kinda funny.

and like do we think parents wont pull "my twelve year old got groomed by those other twelve year olds" i mean really now?

[speakertoyesterday]

"I want to put my long necked giraffe up your fluffy bunny"

[speakertoyesterday]

Changing the rear tube in my bike stripped some skin from my thumb and lead to the new tube popping as I inflated it. So no fusion for me tonight, alas