why isn’t the future the way we thought it would be
Alex I. Thymia
@maia.computer
programmer in the streets, shitposter in the sheets queer, trans, leftist, metalcore enjoyer, tech nerd, retrocomputing enthusiast, reluctant southerner pronouns: she/they languages: English (native), German (okay-ish)
I wonder if cyrillic "kid's handwriting" fonts commonly mirror Я and И like latin ones mirror R and N
I feel like a hypocrite because I find pandering nerd-"culture" mashups to be eyeroll-worthy at best but at the same time I also think shit like danny dorito is hilarious, even though it's ultimately not especially different in spirit
5 words from my birth year (1983) that describe my vibe beta test cryptid cyberpunk gender transition information superhighway it is legitimately hilarious to me that there are a bunch of tech terms AS WELL AS “gender transition” and “gender nonconforming” first recorded the year I was born
🔞CammyRose🌹🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@camburger666.northsky.social · 5d ago5 words from your birth year that describe your vibe (91) bdsm bestie cybercrime cybersex hoochie
gonna default on my student loans and tell them it's because I didn't want to destroy something that bloomberg news called "beautiful"
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoWe admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?
hot take: we fucked up when we let computers get so important to society that developers had to stop putting easter eggs into software because they were seen as unprofessional and untrustworthy
oh, to be a cat and live a life where the gravest injustice I face is a human making me vacate the window on whose sill I had been lounging
Hey guys. Stella here. Just wanted to say I figured out today that “baked beans” is an anagram for “naked babes”. Well, have a good one
the existence of neutral milk hotel implies the existence of a heretofore undiscovered acidic milk hostel and basic milk motel. in this essay I will
shout-out to Pluto TV for having an all-Bob Barker-era Price is Right channel so I can relive my childhood when I have to take a sick day
the more I rotate this fact in my head the more I start to think the problem is the economic incentives dictating that any product that fails to capture less than its entire addressable market is considered an abject failure
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2mo ago3 has a huge problem in that people actually fucking despise reverse chronological as a timeline order by a wide margin and get very angry when their timeline doesn't use any form of salience sorting
I will never get over the fact that "jackfruit" is the name of an actual fruit and not what you would call someone if you think "jerkwad" is too explicit
fun fact: although North Korea is widely considered the world’s only necrocracy with its 1998 constitution naming Kim Il-sung “eternal president of the republic”, it is neither the only nor even the first currently-existing necrocracy—though it is probably the only *state* that is a necrocracy…
confusing americans and annoying the rest of the world by continuing to call american football "football" but calling soccer "association football"
to the tune of “every rose has its thorn”
Zoe Tunnell ➡️ FlameCon E-09@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 2mo ago
Grogu’s family has announced he has passed away. “He was probably like 56 years old, which is like a baby age for little freaks like him,” his mother told the Times. He will be flushed down a special toilet with an extra wide pipe designed for Yoda disposal. “Like a big green turd,” she added
the what discourse? sorry i use social media to keep up with friends and look at naked anime women i have no time for stupid discussions
explaining HRT to an american: imagine a Hamburger that makes you a woman
Worm Girl@cataclysmtlg.com · 3mo ago
RIP DNA, Hitchhiker’s Guide had an outsized influence on me because I read it at a probably inappropriately young age, but 25 years later I’m glad he died when he did so we didn’t have to find out whether he would have caught the TERF brain worms
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 3mo agoHe was only with us 49yrs, but what an imprint & impact this dude made. I’ll never be able to thank him enough for Hitchhiker’s. DOUGLAS ADAMS was born 74yrs ago today.
this is far milder than the mildest thing a TERF has ever said about a trans person… unless you believe in the divine right of kings I guess
Euan@euan.bsky.social · 3mo agoIris Duane for First Minister
incidentally this is how I found out that Ted Turner wasn’t already dead
Matt McDaniel@themattmcd.bsky.social · 3mo agoKinda funny that they turned a color photograph into black-and-white for this.
