Emily

i’m really happy to hear they’re working for you

i’ve been thinking about signing up for it for a while now but i havent *quite* overcome my skepticism that diet and herbs could have so much effect.. (esp since my past attempts to explore diet and supplements have lead to mostly null results)

are we finally abandoning twitter? i wish bluesky was more usable on ipad, it’s just the iphone app magnified to the big screen, it’s ridiculous.

England feels so flat to me already, I’m so used to hills all around me

skeets? posts? why not clouds

i put the brisket avi as a placeholder until i find a good selfie but honestly i like it and im gonna keep it, at least for a bit

like yea, some people that are surface-level fine have absolutely horrible vibes and it’s ok to trust your gut there but this sentiment of “all centrists are secretly nazis” that i sometimes see is not something i can condone

after critiquing tpot a bit, a critique of the left for balance: this all-pervasive paranoia of “okay their takes are surface-level reasonable but what if they’re *secretly* a nazi?” is absolutely corrosive and leads to insane levels of echo chamber formation

the reasoning i see from far left people is something like “surely if their views were unobjectionable they wouldn’t go to such great lengths to hide it” but it is also very understandable why less left conclude they think “anyone more right than me is a nazi”

there’s something hilariously absurd about how people will hide their very milquetoast centrist takes behind 1000 layers of illegibility bc they’re so afraid of getting cancelled; and then very left-brained people see that illegibility and just jump to “ah yes a nazi” and cancel them anyway

i dont want to post an object-level take on the latest tpot discourse but i do want to offer the observation that if tpot wants to seriously live up to their implied ideal of being the better person, they should post more genuine reflection on the issues and less snarking at the outgroup

ngl i would like to see more thoughtful commentary on this topic from people inside tpot, understanding *why* people become this way rather than just treating these twitter left circles as an outgroup that is simply crazy

degreebled is boba and greebled is kiki

kegan 3 is boba and kegan 4 is kiki

have we discussed whether things are boba or kiki on here yet

i got into hardcore pure maths for a girl (when i didn’t actually like it that much, and neither did she, lmao) and i’m still trying to recover from the damage that caused

i really want bluesky to succeed but im currently kind of pessimistic. feels like this is growing too fast, too soon, with insufficient aforethought.

threads on this app seem to break a lot, it feels like. feels like i’m often missing context to posts?

ngl really disappointed that this site has the exact same discourse as twitter now. Politicks was a mistake. oh well it was cute while it lasted.

be the raccoons hourly you want to see in the world

my biggest complaint with this app is that it’s even worse than twitter at actually giving me all the posts on my timeline without massive gaps in them

i’ll see like 3 hours of posts and then suddenly the next post was 6 hours earlier

the marketplace of ikeas

core memory this, core memory that, upgrade to integrated semiconductor memory already!

one thing i would like is to indicate hour markings on the scrollbars, so i can easily scroll to “eight hours ago”

making scroll bars work sensibly for infinitely-scrolling content is an interesting problem that seems unsolved

i love watching people on youtube do silly anachronistic projects like this but somehow when i sit down and try to do one myself i get all overwhelmed by doubts that i’m wasting my time on something so frivolous :(

my biggest problem is probably that i can’t quite articulate why i’m doing this. i’m doing things in Hard Mode for no reason. considering how impractical it is it’s more of an art project than an engineering project.

i’ve been thinking about building a computer from scratch using technology from around 1980. started reading datasheets for it today. it seems like a potentially fun project but it’s also kinda huge and i can’t quite decide whether it’s a good idea.

watching a video on synthesiser music and very fascinated how much patience must have gone into experimentation here

i really admire people that have patience and persistence… something utterly incomprehensible to my adhd mind