Rikke 🐈 @rikke@octodon.social

#introductions
hi! i'm rikke, a #queer 20-year-old trans woman currently studying #compsci. my pronouns are she/her.

i'm a #feminist and an #anarchist, and spend varying amounts of time reading political theory. i'll probably toot about it too, but will keep them under cw.

other interests i'll toot about are #programming, #foss, #fantasy, #tabletop, and #videogames.

happy to be here!

im constantly scared of saying "x in javascript" as a joke now because it ends up happening anyway

my depression has been relatively ok recently, i'm just scared it'll start flaring up as exams get closer, it always does

(I was reminded of this by the new Libertarian Socialist Rants video which I really disliked tbh, because it just ended up saying "this view of human nature is more correct, and supports my politics", even though it's politics I agree with.)

In the end it's a pretty ephemeral idea and pinning it down comes off as a waste of time more than anything. You can make "human nature" support any ideology you want depending on the data you choose to accept and what you think benefits that nature the most.

If you want to actually make someone consider different ideas, you have to keep their preconceptions in mind. Just saying "human nature is actually this different thing" doesn't work one bit. The entire point of Marx's project was using the axioms economists had come up with to show how they lead to contradictions. He didn't just make up some different system, which is what a lot of people end up doing when talking about human nature.

I really dislike most arguments about what constitutes human nature. Not just the capitalist ones, but the leftist ones too. At best it works as an internal model, but it isn't helpful when it comes to arguing/convincing others. Most of us already have a liberal, axiomatic idea of human nature pushed on us, and leftist attempts at changing that come down to "look, this axiom is better", usually with some pretty weak justifications.

things i will never understand:
-string theory
-jungians
-why people use reaction gifs in goodreads reviews what the Fuck

good morning. today should go to exam revision, but more importantly, should i go back to esperanto or learn toki pona

kinda disappointed by streaky. ive listened to it a couple of times and it just feels...boring, hoping thats not the sound of the rest of the album

i'm honestly really happy i joined mastodon. i left birdsite because of nazis doxing people adjacent to me, and considering the volume of wonderful people here i think that was a good call.

im currently in the middle of the dehumanising garbage pipeline the state calls trans healthcare and im just. never going to get hormones or any treatment or anything if im honest with myself. i know i dont fit their image of a True Trans and idk what to do

any recommendations for #lgbt #fantasy books? i really enjoy epic/high fantasy but most things in the genre just leave me starving for actual lgbt romance

facebook rolling out their dating service right in the aftermath of CA is the kind of terrible optics corporations only get away with in a dystopia tbh.

im watching parks and rec and my girlfriend keeps leaving the room because she's embarrassed. why am i doing this to her

oh hey i woke up to a bunch of notifications. good morning everyone!

internet protocol stack:

application
https
transport
network
link
informed consent for hrt
physical

job applicaton

want to eat money

thanks please hire m

all the advice lists i ever saw about running a d&d campaign always explicitly told you not to run time travel. being the kind of DM i am i saw that as more of a challenge than anything.

turns out they were right. every time a time loop or the present was contradicted because of how freeform d&d is i either had to patch it up, or... introduce another time loop. by the end i had 5 time loops, some recursive, and my players had completely lost track.

don't do time travel in d&d

ive been depressed for the last half a year or so but i think im finally clawing myself out of it. for the first time in what feels like forever i actually want to do stuff and learn and it feels really good