Spencer Alves @impiaaa@octodon.social

Now that that's official, I should do a re-​#introductions​:
Hi, I'm Spencer! I do a bunch of things; often with programming, sometimes with games, and almost always on a computer. Check my website for some of that. On Mastodon, I'm known for my bots @doctormccoy and @domainhacker​​​, an emoji importer script, the little 🗨️ in the corner of Glitchsoc statuses, for being a geometric shape, and for the dont_at_me emoji.

Here are some of my political beliefs, in no particular order:
• De-fund the military
• End war
• De-militarize the police force
• Make the top tax bracket 100%
• Fund public schools
• Ban all guns
• Ban bump stocks
• Ban extended mags
• Ban semiauto
• Ban rifles
• Eliminate the death penalty
• Stop making games with guns in them

there are lots of others but these are the non-obvious ones

Apropos of nothing, if you ever need a spare programmer or some programming help, especially for a game or game-related thing, let me know. I've used Unity, C, JS, Python, Java, and UE4, but I'm also quick to learn.

P: Hi, Bill. Do you know who will cover the mill?
B: Hi Phil. I think that's Jill.
P: Jill's to fill? What if she's ill?
B: Maybe she'll have pills, or get someone else.
P: But who would shill? And would they be as skilled?
B: Maybe Gill? I don't know, Phil, just chill.
[enter Bob, stage left]
Bob: Chill, skilled Gill shills pilled, ill Jill, fills mill?
Phil & Bill, insulted & confused: …WTH, Bob?

I'm not giving my phone number to anyone I haven't met in person, but if you need something more or less immediate than Mastodon, you can try my same username on Twitter, Reddit, FB Messenger, Gmail, cybre.space, and maybe others.

Lesson learned: Don't use the "replace geometry" JOSM command without first making sure to download all nodes in the vicinity

JPEG rotation metadata is one of the world's worst inventions

An hour ago I saw a thumbnail that was sideways, but when I clicked it it righted itself. Just now I saw a thumbnail that was right-side-up, but when I clicked it it turned sideways.

Because of how movies (&TV) edit phone conversations, it would be really easy to cut them together into new conversations but still keep it convincing.

"We've built a bunch of parks all in this same neighborhood. What should we call them?"
"I've got it!"

Make an MMO using this

Woah, what! https://opengeofiction.net/ I've heard of collaborative worldbuilding, and I've heard of fictional mapmaking, but this thing is wild!

Dismayed to find that all of the city's newest parks are inside private (but not gated) housing developments

Ah, so today, it was a dream about getting ready for bed, that ended just as the sun was rising. aaaah

LB: The pizza emoji has pepperoni on it (presumably to make it more recognizable) but I'll admit I've never tried pineapple AND pepperoni on pizza. I should.

oh and no buttons. don't like that there's no face button anymore

oh yeah, there's a purple one now isn't there. I want the purple one

ok, now that there's an iOS 13 jailbreak, now that I have a reason to want a depth camera, and now that my current phone is crashing/freezing more, I am a little bit more open to the idea of getting a new phone. still don't like that it has to be a bigger screen though.