social.noyu.me

i don't know who needs to hear this, but…

wareware wa onaji jikan wo eien to ruupu shiteiru no desu yo

gender prediction market

i put the “sparkly arc” back in my display name because i don't want me accidentally getting rid of it to somehow imply or cause the end of the arc. but i added a question mark because that makes it less threatening

wait, if i hate the results of trying to write prose outside of twitter threads, is the solution to just make all my blog posts as twitter threads first? oh no

there's something to be said for learning a new language. even one from a relatively similar culture to your own can be enlightening. for example, before learning swedish, i did not realise that “rule of law” is an anglo-american concept. it's not so commonly used in swedish.

have you tried making up a guy to be joyful at?

the 737 max is so cool man. the software workaround to end all software workarounds. the plane that decides it wants to nosedive and won't let the pilot stop it :)

i really want there to be a nice little search engine out there that only searches personal blogs and similar things, perhaps with a hand-curated index. hell, it might already exist. i definitely could build this, but i don't think i could maintain it.

https://twitter.com/Nash076/status/1743249616567517597

had a terrible thought right now so i'd better share it with 1,136 fediverse followers

you know the idea that “the washing machine did more to liberate women than all the achievements of feminism?”

there's a kernel of truth to it, right.

so i thought, well, if only there were a machine to liberate women from that other great task: childrearing.

maybe in the techno-optimistic spirit of 1960's they imagined such a machine? would it be like a dishwasher but instead of racks of dishes you just put the child in.

but then i was smacked in the face by the horrible realisation that it already exists, and it's called… the iPad

🙂 i'm sorry/you're welcome 🙃

i think like half of all social problems can be fixed by radically upending the real estate market. i just need to figure out how you fix the other half