social.noyu.me

i wrote a frequently asked questions page for the touchhle website, some of the answers might be amusing/infuriating if you're in the emulation or digital preservation space https://touchhle.org/faq.html

oh my god the dawning realisation that half of my chronically ill friends only became chronically ill like Very Recently because of a Certain Pandemic and i just didn't notice it when it happened because chronic illness makes you a lot quieter and aaaaaa

i'd love to have a good way to roll up existing twitter/etc threads into blogposts… the problem is that the original form something was written in is critical to the message. the raw text doesn't work as a blogpost unless i wrote it all in one burst without feelings drifting

my far and away favourite brand of nonreusable respirator (i.e. mask for avoiding getting covid) is seemingly no longer sold. this sucks…

every swedish or german attempt at pronouncing Glasgow is pitifully english or american. the campaign to call it Glesga globally starts now

man

i'm not good at writing posts, exactly, but

"dreams of a pluralistic world" (my most recent blog post) is still far better written than anything i could've written half a decade ago

is that my new baseline for quality? i'm pretty happy with such a baseline

do not dissociate away yourself but also don't not do this you gotta be like interestingnessmaxxing imo

violence would be such a beautiful name for a girl

had some thoughts after a friend told me they got blocked by the menswear guy* (they don't know why)

* this is a guy who exists on twitter in like the last year or something idk if anyone outside twitter knows who he is

mental images that stuck with me: someone posting about how (from memory) “mech pilots leak in their suit not because of being scared but because the machine is wired into their central nervous system in a way to make violence intensely pleasurable”