yeast-riseman @aysamanra@sometimes.when.computer

The most unrealistic element I've seen in any Star Trek show yet is the family in Picard who voluntarily learn to speak their child's conlang.

Almost all of Twitter is bad, but the part that's surprisingly bad to me is Author Twitter. Apparently writers—even ones I like—get on Twitter and immediately start pontificating en masse on whatever reactionary opinion they've decided to have that day.

I'm still developing an intuition for how the pixel art scaling algorithm works—it turned my first attempt at a flannel shirt into a blobby mess—but it can have some pretty impressive results.

Practicing my Animal Crossing dress design. (This is heavily inspired by the LingXi Royal Academy Dress: https://www.lolitawardrobe.com/lingxi-royal-academy-vintage-classic-embroidery-lolita-cape_p3389.html )

Video game hot take: in ten years, the "obligatory crafting systems are everywhere" trend will be as embarrassing in retrospect as the late 2000's "serious games are gray and brown" trend is to us now.

Rust's primary problem right now is that there aren't enough error-handling libraries out there, so when I write mine I plan to call it the-jesus-and-error-chain.

Common Lisp
Rare Lisp
Epic Lisp
Legendary Lisp

The joke is that if you have to say 'democratic' in your name then you're not really a democracy—you know, like the German Democratic Republic or the Democratic National Committee…

…just some idle Paris-inspired sunday pixeling

Also, for the most part, my French was sufficient for day-to-day communication, with the major exception of the time I accidentally told a waiter that I was dead when I meant to tell him I had finished eating.

…and I took a day trip to Stuttgart, which turned out to also coincide with the German holiday of Fasching, which in that area involves (as my friend explained) dressing up to scare away the winter, which meant I arrived to groups of people wearing garishly colorful hairy costumes and sometimes playing music and dancing.

I also picked up a ton of French-language comic books, a specific spirit they don't export to the States, and had some really good food and wine and walked around some beautiful places, and also gave a pretty well-received talk at a Ruby conference there. Pretty good time, overall!

I recently took a trip to Paris for the first time. It was a lot of fun overall! My two biggest surprises were:
1. The coffee there was mystifyingly bad, like every café was using stale beans, and
2. I saw a man wearing an honest-to-god stripey turtleneck, an object of clothing I associate so heavily with the Anglophone stereotype of French people that I assumed it was never worn by real French people.

Apparently my phone's default behavior on 'Do Not Disturb' is to also silence alarms. This is ridiculous to me. I want alarms to always override anything.

Anyway, because of the above I woke up an hour later than I intended, which meant I had to check out of my hotel in downtown Paris and rush to the airport in the 1½hr I had left before my flight took off. I made it, but only barely.

There's a stop on the Metro line I've been taking called "les gobelins", which coincidentally also describes most of the people I follow on Tumblr.

when you cause too many problems on purpose

why would you call your library for turning pictures into terminal-based ascii art "aalib" when you could call it "ncursed images"?

I'm enjoying Owl House, in no small part because of how strongly I identify with Eda the Owl Lady basically all the time.