Smol kingfisher @aeki@beach.city

When you've been hyper-focusing the entire day and everything you've ignored now demands your attention

Ukraine is a real country where millions of actual people live. It is not an "empty no man's land" somewhere in-between "the West" and "Russia".

All of Russia's rhetoric is as if the world consisted of only Russia and the US (maybe China too). Everyone else is just "territories".

It feels weird and angry to be in this situation when whether your country will continue to exist is being decided by other people.

In the same time I feel lucky we're close to Europe and thus more...relevant?

Ugh.

Keyboards are the pinnacle of digital technology.

Those of you who write Free Software, do you primarily:

Fun with flags - thank you, @asaaki

"Waiter, I just saw someone sneak around and sprinkle some powder in the food over there."
"Oh, that is perfectly normal sir. That is just the sus chef."

I am BAD at staying in contact with people. It absolutely boils down to “I need something that I know THEY’RE interested in talking about AND is big enough to warrant a ‘hey, significant update message’”

Deities forbid I start a year long hiatus with “I found a half eaten donut on the ground” to a professional patisserie. I HAVE TO BE INTERESTING DAMMIT!!!!

We should stop doing phone calls already.

It made sense when it was the quickest way to contact someone at a distance, but now we have better ways to do that.

You don't know what they person you're calling is doing, but you're asking them to stop it and give you immediate attention instead. That's not very polite.

And if more people happen to call at the same time, one of them gets a "busy" response and has to call back later. That's inconvenient for both the caller and the callee.

Honestly one of the biggest issues I still see on masto and the rest of social media from "allies" is just immediately assuming the worst faith from "awkward" behavior instead of realizing someone might be autistic, have English as a second language, or both.

Search strategy for survival: bread first

What's your opinion on nicknames that other peoples give to you?

(Of course four options can't cover every case, so pick the most lenient option you're still okay with.)

my desk is a horrible mess lately and it keeps getting worse and it is absolutely a reflection of my mental and emotional state. and i don't want to clean it because it feels like giving myself more work when i'm exhausted and also because i feel like i should address the root problem instead and ask for help, but that feels deeply impossible

This. If you have knowledge you want to pass on, make a blog, a website on something.

Posting on things we have to get an app, sign in, find et and scroll for ages, is ensuring this knowledge will not spread.

Even Twitter is part of the problem

There's nothing like trying to watch YouTube videos on mobile to emphasize that ad blockers are a mental health tool, above and beyond their utility at protecting people from propaganda. Like, none of these scam-health-scare snake-oil salesfolk or horror movie promoters are using content warnings for their gross-out garbage, fatmisia, or ultraviolence. That stuff is just smashed in everyone's faces, bedamned the consequences.

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