the traditional political quadrant test is pretty bad. it was created to make people into libertarians its not really as objective as people think. also: don't get your politics from a BuzzFeed quiz that's like getting it from the harry potter house of the libs you hate lol

tfw someone comments "still as beautiful as ever 😍" and you appreciate the sentiment but that's absolutely not the aesthetic you're going for

:mario_awe: handsome, swole, badass, etc

:mario_flop: pretty, beautiful, cute, etc

2009 vs 2019

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1376114/

@zenhob it's what people should use.

this is me being peak white person I guess

oh no, my Goodwill is full up until Wednesday so I had to carry my bag of crap home

this is the opposite of tidying

I just want to put this bag of totally usable and clean clothes and objects into the garbage

oh no

I have a 400 sq ft apartment and already purge things on a regular basis

last year a friend accused me of being a minimalist (and I argued that I earned no such acclaim)

I bet my space is starting off tidier than some of the spaces on the show end up

and yet

things "bringing joy" seems an insufficient metric

my old cats' ashes don't bring joy, yet I'm not tossing them- that's monster behavior

likewise the food processor I bought four years ago and never used... well, maybe I should use or donate that

I haven't even watched the popular cleaning show yet and I'm already purging half my crap, trying to decide whether things "bring me joy"

accidentally deleting one's entire Twitter history when only intending to delete 91% of said Twitter history (but finding this more amusing that distressing) sure is a mood

Great moments in centrist history

Teens these days don't know what it is like to be groomed by Piers Anthony books.

cis people: first vs current profile challenge! Look at how much I’ve changed!

trans people: hold my beer

every five years or so when I remember to flip my mattress around I also remember why I deliberately forget to do it the rest of the time

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

I just get sad whenever I see commercials. Especially ones I like. How much fucking creative energy goes toward making rich people richer, and what kinds of things would be produced if creatives didn't have to make a salary to survive?

this week in gender: while being very excited about stretching my lobes to 13/16", I suddenly felt intense dysphoria that my additional lobe (3 on each side) and cartilage (3 helix and one conch) piercings were entirely too feminine, so took them all out

somehow, my rook has made the imaginary masculinity cutoff

jack black is basically sans undertale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3DaCJi1jQ

me talking about the fediverse, 2017: someone made an instance where you can only use the letter e 😂

me talking about the fediverse, 2019: two-thirds of all toots are trans shitposts and two-thirds of all toots are about guillotining billionaires

"A never-before-published image from an internal Ring document pulls back the veil of the company’s lofty security ambitions: Behind all the computer sophistication was a team of people drawing boxes around strangers, day in and day out, as they struggled to grant some semblance of human judgment to an algorithm."

"A second source, with direct knowledge of Ring’s video-tagging efforts, said that the video annotation team watches footage not only from the popular outdoor and doorbell camera models, but from household interiors."

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-camera/

dreamt I was staying in an Airbnb with some friends and there was a hognose rattlesnake hidden in a basket and my friends were all, "yeah, hosts usually leave booby traps"

in case you can't tell, I've never used Airbnb before, and I've booked my first one about a month from now

when I first ran D&D, my grandmother, who had bought fully into the IT'S SATANISM hype, insisted on sitting and watching the first session

about an hour in, she threw her hands up and yelled 'THIS IS JUST MATH' and stormed off

he kill da pizza

fun pac-man fact- the ghosts in the old macintosh version always traversed the same path and subsequent stages only differed in speed so the same order of directional inputs entered in increasing speed would let you play indefinitely

I know because one of my favorite ways of goofing off in computer class as a kid was to see how many stages I could get through in one class period

the screen would be an absolute blur but a mere illusion of real pac-man skill

this pac-man game is just if pac-man was a tron, huh #agdq

Is this solarpunk :thinkhappy:

mary sues aren’t real

men can be OP and survive anything and win everything and no one cares

let women be the same way

say what you will about virtual hydlide but these magenta knights inn the volcano are ✨fabulous✨

I'm very excited for virtual hydlide in a bit as I have fond childhood memories of repeatedly dying in hydlide on the nes

the flame that burns the most cga burns half as long

it's so... beautiful

it's time for the best part of #agdq- the awful games block! kicking it off with the DOS mega man in CGA mode 😍

steam hasn't worked on my computer since I upgraded to Mojave, and apparently Valve doesn't care to fix it

@varx sneaking up behind you after you'd already typed a perfectly reasonable standard quote, just to ruin your day

who invented the smart quote, so I can flush them down a toilet

here's to locking a production database after work hours due to a one character typo- a "smart" quote in a database config

:fucc: :hot_shit: 🍻

Hey, a mastodon instance under the name "gasthe.lgbt" just opened.

The people who registered it are claiming to use it as an acronym to get it past the radar:

https://gameliberty.club/users/matrix/statuses/101268820597695926

Screenshots of the page as it is at the time of this toot included, and archive here:
http://archive.is/UQFRo

You should suspend this instance if you're an admin, and report it to get.lgbt: https://get.lgbt/abuse

Thank you!

and now to notice and begrudgingly accept all the typos that gboard put into early toots in this thread, because such is life

(the disk was mounted, not minutes)