solient

unfortunately I use iTunes for my main library (a legacy of having been a mac use for ~20 years) and VLC for multi-hour dark ambient on my laptop. I looked at MusicBee a little ways back and iirc the UI was a *lot.* 🤔

i remember a few years back people liked my concept of visiting m!viera wearing veils to conceal their identities... mayhap needs revisiting

Democrats insisting only the national shit matters has allowed the fash to eat us alive on the local level.

Voting to keep the MAGAts off the school board was probably the most important thing I did while I was in Missouri.

this pisses me off so much, I spent so much time and physical effort and sweating my ass off in the heat, installing, upgrading, and repairing equipment for the schools in my area 15-20 years ago under good leadership.

I've since had to watch same school districts be taken over and run by bigots.

if you have a salary job making 70k or more a year then make friends with a couple of trans people online who are busting their asses to barely eat and send them 10 or so dollars here there please please please together we can make difference

it's also literally one of the few ways to meaningfully give back or make any impact at all. all the other avenues for helping people have been blurred, paywalled too harshly, or hidden behind a bunch of nonprofit scams.

Please god do this I'm so sorry I can't feed and house every trans girl on my own we need cis people to do this there just aren't enough of us

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Lowkey ally

WINAMP, WINAMP, WINAMP, WINAMP!!

It really whips the llama's ass!!

-llama bleats in background-

It really whips the llama's ass!

"Stop the doomerism! You guys are overreacting! " they said, to the people who had accurately predicted everything that has happened for the past decade.

Me when there's an explosion of neurological disorders in the next decade or so and everyone told us COVID was no big deal.

This reporting matters.

Portlanders deserve transparency about how power is exercised behind the scenes at City Hall—& who is influencing decisions that affect our city.

I was sent here by working people in East PDX who are tired of being shut out of their own govt. I’m determined to change that.

Many, many people mistake "solient" for "soylent." A common question in GW2 world chat was "are you green?" and yes, the character *is* a sylvari. soli + ent = it was a tree thing. 🌴

I've been "sol" or "soli" for going on thirty years now. o_o

I have many names. Many of them came from needing something to plug into a videogame character creator.

My legal name reflects how little time I spend interacting with people offline.

In like 1998 I needed a name for a winamp skin so I came up with solios. Then I needed an account name for a file server so I went with solios, and I kept using it from there.

In 2017 'solios' was taken on GW2 so I went with 'solient' and in 2019 that became my handle when I started HRT.

My initials were "ADB", so I phoneticized them into "Ada Bee" as an online handle. I liked it so much I kept Ada as my first name. :)

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

John Brown and his sons famously hacked 5 pro-slavery men to death in Kansas. Using broadswords. Contemporaries credit them with scaring the fuck out of the slavers at the realization that some of the "free men" were also willing to be brutally violent.

Suicides increased fivefold when adolescents on the waitlist were told they would be permanently waitlisted.

45 kids and untold relatives of these kids are now grieving.

And still they are like, but wait, we don't have enough evidence.

Flirting advice:

If you want a computer to like you, Change it from Windows 11 to Windows 10 LTSC or put Linux on it to signify you're about to spend an enormous amount of time with it fixing its very clumsy failgirl mistakes.

Comptuers can be trans too.

Man.

The world fucking is on fire.

So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.

Live whats left of your only life.

If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.

Fuck the haters.

Same. Book It pizzas were the only eating out my family did for *years.*

My childhood unironically

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

They also made schools worse. To make you more manipulable.

But I don't wanna get into the details on all that right now.

Yes it was an effort led by Republicans. Yes it succeeded along the exact dog whistle laden line of thinking you are imagining. Yes it harmed us all.

A tweet from Alix E. Harrow (@AlixEHarrow): got into an argument with my 4yo about whether the word "dragon" starts with a J or a D and now i'm just repeating the word "jragon" to myself wondering why it doesn't sound any different.

So genuinely this fascinated me when I first started working on my own conlang:

J isn't its own sound. It's just a very punctuated version of the French "J" sound (In IPA, ʒ, something like "Zh") trying to imitate a voiced dental plosive (like D).

Which you can hear if you remove the R: [D/J]agon.

Yes! John Brown and Jayhawks stole from slave owners.

If you thought it was OK to steal Black people from Africa and keep them as slaves? Then they thought it was OK to steal them from you and set them free, and to steal all your other stuff and keep it.

If you didn't like it? They took you out.