Calamity Jan 🐍 @vjgoh@octodon.social
Cyclist at Large, Secret Asian man 🇨🇦
Here's how to say my name:
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@jelle619 ha, well, perhaps pass it on to someone who can file the bug on your behalf, then. :)
@eurasierboy @jelle619 @sanspoint even if it isn't explicitly a bug, file a big report about it. Either way, apple should know what people think the correct behaviour is.
Interesting collective nouns for animals:
Skein (geese)
Tower (giraffes)
Charm (goldfinches)
Dopping (goosanders)
Rasp (guineafowl)
Husk (hares)
Boil (2+ hawks circling)
Kettle (hawks, other birds, large #s, circling)
Cast or lease (hawks)
Array (hedgehogs)
Siege (herons)
Bloat (hippos)
Bike (hornets)
Harrase (horses)
Cackle (hyenas)
I was just doing g and h animals today. Terms of venery are weird.
Getting some writing done.
https://octodon.social/media/xv9nfV6QpWcHsUNaqMU
@NeuroWinter I've been leaning that way too.
It occurs to me that 'SGI' is itself an obscure SGI reference at this point.
"Tu es très jolie." (Slowly makes hourglass shape with hands) "Est-ce que tu fais du burlesque?"
#LinesThatAreSomehowPerfectlyCharmingWhenSaidByFrenchWomen
So I go by 'realitymonster' on a lot of sites. (This is an obscure SGI reference.)
I'm thinking of changing the name of my blog. Here are some anagrams:
'maternity loser'
'normality reset'
'mortality sneer'
'tiresomely rant'
'i rottenly smear'
'a rottenly miser'
'ornately merits'
'enormity alerts'
'i remotely rants'
'remotely sin rat'
'remotely strain'
'morality enters'
'tree is matronly'
The first four are my favourites.
I don't know why, but I like converting immediate raycast code to deferred raycast code.
It's not even that the bathrooms are old. They're all pretty recently renovated, the contractors are just incompetent. Bathroom stalls are a more or less solved problem, and these are worse than all but the shadiest bars'.
And now you know why I hate the bathroom stalls at work and why there's a bottle of hand sanitiser at my desk.
And yet, every day, people go around yanking on doors for no reason, getting their filthy hands on filthy everything. Nobody washes their hands if they don't get to use the bathroom, but they've STILL TOUCHED EVERYTHING. Now they're going to try and find another washroom somewhere else.
(This pattern holds for all the washrooms on all the floors, incidentally. They're all built the same, which is to say, they're all badly made.)
But also, people are just humongously inattentive. There's no reason for all this. Each stall has a way to identify as occupied.
#1: you can see the occupant's feet without moving your head. Cast your eyes down slightly.
#2 & #3: if the door is locked, the door rests slightly further in than when it's not, so there's more of a visible black border from the dividing wall support.
#4: The end stall's door only closes if it's locked; it's the only door that swings inward, not outward.
So, toilet stalls.
My company has terrible stalls. No urinals (thank goodness; urinals are terrible, everyone with a penis should sit down to pee anyway).
The doors swing closed really hard under their own weight, and that shakes all the doors and sometimes the locks slip open. Also there are no external handles, so people reach over the top of the door and yank. Because the locks aren't the best, sometimes someone walks in on you.
"but freedom of speech!" he says, to a group of people that still:
- is too poor to live decently ;
- gets more murdered by cops ;
- doesn't get appropriate medical care ;
- is much, much more likely to get attacked physically and morally everyday ;
- had to give up privacy because of the two previous reasons ;
The Privileged Man's priorities are everything - but you. Of course if you're too loud he'll kindly ask you to die more quietly, so his voice is easier to hear.
Privileged man sees free software made to help a group of people ;
Privileged man owns software, shits on the group it was helping, decides it's all about him and removes features that are not strictly made for his issues ;
Group tells him to go fuck himself instead, privileged man writes a 67 pages blog post about how he's being censored and we're breaking the federation ;
We've all left or died, privileged man wonders why and says we should speak up in public.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/3859
"I propose to remove this blocking feature which is not in keeping with the spirit of Mastodon"
It's the story if one fucking idiot that comes on github to decide what "the spirit of Mastodon" is.
@CobaltVelvet I'm delighted that the issue was shut down so definitively. There's no real debate, just, "NOPE, WNF." :)
Welp, that birthday letter is six colours. A job well done. If I can do that again tomorrow, I might actually be able to get through all the summer birthdays without sending any obnoxiously late birthday wishes.
Yessss
Busting open a new pad.
https://octodon.social/media/aLgRajmZO-vQ6GUh7bo
