social.noyu.me

there is no absurdity in that high-level scientologists are required to believe l ron hubbard's sci-fi writings are literal truth. the absurdity of the required beliefs is the point. if you reach that level you are supposed to realise that beliefs are malleable for cult purposes

do you ever think about how GNU is probably more relevant than the gnu now and about how it has a different pronunciation that's more obvious from the spelling and most people probably don't realise this and so stallman may have accidentally regularised an english word's spelling

they need to put me in a lab and do brain experiments on me so i learn that there are keys on a keyboard other than c, eb, f, f#, g#, bb

aaaaa i need to kiss more girls

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