Well, it’s at least only 83F in my room. That’s… not terrible? I still have a headache tho x.x
Des
@deskitty.bsky.social
🔞 I (re)post NSFW things! they/them (he/him if you must). stray cat. sub of some kind. Professional computer gremlin, recreational abuser of type systems, expert at falling over. Enjoyer of earnestness and deep conversation. NorCal. Early 40s. 😸 / ΘΔ / 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Man, it is… really weird suddenly feeling like I am the adventurous one amongst my friends when it comes to sex and kink. >.>;; This is a weird position for me (heh). Normally I’m the one who’s more paranoid about safety (still am, to a healthier degree), worried about appearances (still ish), etc.
This is a great article, even if my solution to this for the past 20 or so years has been a healthy diet of building my shit while telling users and other devs to go fuck themselves, a strategy that is not particularly one size fits all.
Erlend Sogge Heggen@erlend.sh · 3d agoSeeing a lot of dev-on-dev harassment has got me thinking about what open software development feels like nowadays.
Nothing like being asked by your 3yo niece “are you a boy or a girl?” a glass and a half of wine in and wondering what the right answer is [it’s something like “none of the above”] >.>;;
Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
bloodinthemachine.com
A stupid, useless fact I have just learned (because I calculated it): If you drive on a US freeway at 75MPH, your music should be 165bpm to make the dashed lane markers on the roadway line up perfectly with the beat.
Tfw you go in for your STI tests and your lab tech calls out for “Des” instead of <legal name>… oh no the streams have crossed ^o.o^;;
Funny considering I grew up in the Bay Area and lived near Boston for a year. I caught some of the Boston-isms in the questions but chose none of them, heh.
if anyone is interested in sharing your thoughts on how furry intersects with your self-identity, my friends and i would love to hear from you!! any format or length is welcome, including stuff like art or interactive media if you're so inclined (i'd esp love to hear from therians!)
Ån (Fox)@foxriot.com · last wk.If you are interested in participating in the project, you can! Next up is "Identity and the Self" hosted by @energyscarf.net energyscarf.net/blog/midway-...
…oh. That’s why the bio-cat was kinda glued to me this evening. He must have noticed the spiral before I put 2+2 together. *sighs, takes their meds, tries to read or something until their nervous system settles*
I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.
I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
brettcodes.com
I like that NixOS is purist about how it builds and configures itself, but I hate that it’s *so* purist not even /bin/bash exists. Like, come the fuck on, way to break everyone’s shell scripts. …on the other hand, the fact that it cannot run unpatched Claude is nice. >.>;;
Just love not knowing which night my brain will randomly decide to spiral in the middle of the night. Same old shit. *sigh*
I may just be a cat stuck in America 🇺🇸, but even I am smart enough to know it’s still Lake Ontario. We love our Canadian friends! 🇨🇦
Is it floor time? I think it’s floor time. I’ve been a good human for the last hour and change and now it’s time to be a cat once again.
Where are people posting their own long-form writing nowadays? I kinda feel the need to have a blog again, but I dunno if anyone would actually read it. >.>; (And if y'all write your own, please tell me so I can read it!)
Man, I wanna just like… go grocery shopping together. Cook a meal, chill out, leave the house, go somewhere new. Clean up the kitchen together, take out the trash, share space on the couch while we each do our own thing. I miss that.
Well. I did not have “find a bug in SPICE (UTM’s guest-VM tooling)” on my list for today, but here we are. >.>;
It's been almost two years since I posted to my blog, and this isn't as fun a topic as I'd like, but it's very relevant. If you care about me, or if even you have issue with me, you might want to read it. It's not that long. Thank you, for all of you who do. www.crocumentary.com/post/the-sho...
The Show Must Go On
This is a tough post to write because it isn’t what I want to say so much as what I need to say. If you read it, I thank you dearly, because the topic is not fun. It's still important.If you live in the US and you have a conscience and a soul, the last few months and years have been a constant parade of insanity and misery.No foreign enemy, no invading alien and no natural disaster could do as much damage to our lives, safety and happiness as the president and his lackeys strive for every singl
crocumentary.com
Big fucking mood. I get that we’re all (myself included) too busy and tired to show up for each other in all the ways we might want, but… I don’t know. I want to fucking fix this. Somehow. ><
Corpse (Is/Are)@kodochara.bsky.social · 3w ago
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
Here are my states. California is home. Always has been, always will be. Massachusetts... could have been home. I really, really wish it had been, but it's not. I miss the life I was trying to build there. I miss my friends. I miss Mike's Pastries, Tatte, the unhinged road system, the summer rain.
You should give cats everything they want, every day, without a single thought floating through your pretty little head about it. It's good for you! But if you're having trouble, I'm confident I can help. 🌀
That was a very hard therapy and I would like a hug and a cookie now plz. ^><^
Hey, hey you. Yes you. It's okay. It's always been okay. You're not broken for being you. You're not a problem, or a burden. I know it's easy to let those inner voices say otherwise. But take it from a stranger.. You aren't the darkness you see when you close your eyes.
The literal scars I have on my body are just… silly. A soldering iron burn, a whittling knife wound, a claw mark from a dog. The actual scars aren’t visible. And I wonder if maybe they should be. The Tenakth [from Horizon] tattoo their stories onto their bodies. Something about that speaks to me.
Aennor Illustrations 🔞@aennor.bsky.social · 3w ago[Lets talk about the scars] [p. 1-4/7] #BaiSe #Furryart
