Kaye @kaye@octodon.social

So I finally got my first scientific paper published! In a scholarly outlet and everything! There was peer review and they asked for revisions and stuff. It's not in a top-tier journal and it's not world-changing and... ah, who am I kidding, I'm currently 60% happiness by volume. 🎉💦👌👏✅✨

A lot of fairy tales kinda come down to "don't go into the forest you idiots"

Though there also is an element of "but if you do, bring back some of that witch gold"

At this point you could probably create creepypasta just by reposting the pre-Disney versions of European fairytales

Maybe the versions written down by the Brothers Grimm, or maybe the source material they were using - even the Grimm versions are somewhat sanitized

Movie review talking about how a movie is very weighty, and how the movie is at least kinda about "the incredible heaviness of being German"

I was a college libertarian but I got better after discovering furries

That is actually 100% what happened

I always need to bring someone along when I need photos, because I genuinely cannot tell which ones are good, because I always feel like I'm horrible and ugly and awful. :v

I was thinking it was maybe because people know me, but... no, I occasionally go to other offices and it works there too.

At my workplace we're required to wear ID badges, and everyone does just that. There are big signs reminding you of the policy. As an experiment I stopped wearing mine. I was curious how long it'd take for someone to call me out on it.

Two years and counting.

I had one of those end-of-the-world dreams today. It wasn't actually an unpleasant dream, which... wow brain we need to talk

"Excelpunk"

[Walks up to a random couple] So which one of you is the podcast and which one is the thirty-minute argument about old videogames

I saw a kid today who had a paper glider attached to a rly long spool of transparent twine. So you can toss it from the balcony, watch it fly, then reel it back and repeat. That's actually pretty clever, huh

In the 2050s, AR and VR gear is commonplace. "Emotive apps" offer a risk-free way to experience almost any desired state of consciousness, but the market is controlled by a small cartel of tech firms, driving up prices and suppressing creativity.

But that's about to change. We've spent the last year reverse-engineering the platform, and we're about to release an open-source alternative. Tonight, we break the emotive monopoly. Tonight... we bring down Big Mood.

Sometimes I feel bad about not really engaging with the furry community. Then some shit happens on social media and I'm incredibly relieved I neither know nor care about anyone involved. 👌

Also, a second application that loudly announces you're not using the first one whenever a Forever Cancellation becones likely. Ideally we'll get a nicely anxiety-riddled social hellscape out of this

An application that montors social media traffic and uses big machine learning amalytics to predict who will be Cancelled Forever next, so that you can unfollow them before your peer group

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[Small brain] Rolling your own cryptography
[Big brain] Rolling your own math functions
[Galaxy brain] Rolling your own private in-house language that compiles down to VBScript

Alternate caption: "if yOU THink BiTcoIN SucKS whY don't yOu SHoRT iT?"

TEchNiCal anAlYsiS Is mEANinGFUL