Isokate

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go to sleep

I swear I’m not trying to do the smug vegan/vegetarian bit - but what I *am* saying is that I’m very glad I cut meat out of my diet a while ago with all of the deregulation on meat processing going on lol

To jump off this, a lot of recent discussion has made me realize that reclaimed slurs provide a very important yet glossed over function for the groups they refer to. The social taboo for the out-group maintains their status as the one piece of language that can’t get subsumed by wider culture.

Isokate@isokate.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It’s really weird how I’ve encountered a lot of people that aren’t a member of a minority group but feel very insistent on using their slurs. It’s so easy to just not lol

this pride month, look into the controversy of a transfem in your life beyond the surface level regurgitation of screencaps and discover the readily available information that proves her innocence before she loses the ability to defend herself forever

It’s crazy how nobody knows about the best data structure ever made (xarrays / xars) New blog post at some point because they’re genuinely so useful. Generally work better than and are a great drop-in replacement for dynamic arrays or lists in many cases

Why do I bother with good cybersecurity when the bullshit services I am forced to sign up for @ uni or jobs are just gonna leak all my info anyways I can enable 2FA, have unique and complex passwords for every account, regularly delete old accs and my personal data becomes public regardless 🙃

Did the normal CS flexing ritual of "I program in C!" "Oh yeah? Well I write assembly like a real programmer!" ending with someone doing the mandatory "I manually wire up the circuits and do everything that way" Except the person that said this is a mechanical engineer and she wasn't lying 😭

I got my absurd quantity of caffeine, jar of pickles, ibuprofen, estrogen, a Linux VM, digital hardcore music playing, G502 mouse, a box of tissues, gallon of milk, and Vaseline Time to lock in on my Linux kernel programming project