hiiiii! i have a new blog post up, where i yap about my current collection of funny computers blog.platinumtulip.net/computer-col...

many months ago at this point, i drew some of my computers as little fairies. i got an idea for a design for my new laptop... so here is Magnolia (any/all). the sheer blouse and rimless glasses are meant to evoke the Liquid Glass UI, and he is wearing little magnolia flower earrings. yay

tulip the cat, now with glasses (they/them only)

with the way my PC is currently sitting on my desk, i only see the inside of the case and the ports on the back... kind of moe... (UNCLEAR WHAT THEY MEANT BY THIS)

it's nonbinary awareness week! perceive me and my nonbinary charms! wahaha!!!!

current linux setup: Kubuntu with this theme (store.kde.org/p/1338879/) applied and tweaked a bit. i'm trying out the light-to-dark mode lifestyle out, because i've been honestly enjoying that over on macOS. still on Kubuntu because i'm already used to Debian lmao. with snaps removed, It's Fine.

been spending my day redecorating my linux desktop. hasn't even been two weeks of me going back to macOS and i'm already like "okay so i want to have a top status bar..." smdh

ugh, i need to clean up my obsidian notes, they're a fucking mess. at least everything is all synced again. really eager to organize everything lol

normally i know how to pace myself and my chronic fatigue/disability pretty well, but... i really pushed myself hard today. oops... 😵‍💫

I DID IT!!!!!!!!! i took a two hour nap after taking these photos because i was so wiped from trying to do everything myself. forgot i had chronic fatigue for a while there. BUT I DID IT. I HAVE A DESK AGAIN. MY COMPUTER LIVES

i tend to know people who actively avoid being perceived but i'm out here like [lounges and kicks my legs] hiiiiiiiiii

it's nonbinary awareness week! perceive me and my nonbinary charms! wahaha!!!!

i have a lot of eggbug stickers, and i love to put them on my objects in case someone out there was a fellow freak and remembers the fourth website

i won't talk about it in much detail or very often, especially not publicly. but uh. man my day-to-day life was really bleak for a long time lol.

spray painting stuff is pretty fun. i haven't had the opportunity to do it in a decade so i'm enjoying myself. i'm spray painting the metal legs of an ikea desk metallic gold, and once that's done i'll finally have a desk for the first time in months!!!!!

the battery life on my macbook air is blowing my mind dude. what the fuck. maybe it's just the fact that i've been using a laptop held together with epoxy glue and a prayer for the past few years, but it's crazy how little i've had to charge this thing

love and friendship are literally so important ok? ok

sunflowers for my room...yay

some of this week's tasty treats (not pictured: the homemade vanilla mascarpone ice cream that was one of the best things i have ever eaten)

i really want light pink floppy disks

been a weird year for me. i finally stopped living in denial and accepted that i had to move on from a relationship i had for nearly half my life, because my options were "continue being miserable and suicidal", or "move on and live". i chose to live

i miss creating!!!!!! i haven't had the space or time to create anything lately and it sucks!!!!!

whooooaaaahhh, ohhh whooooaaaahhh, ohhhh you got the power (it's moon child) you got the fight (bahhh oh oh) it's a new story (the beginning of a new and excitingly different story) be his best friend

i need alucard from castlevania so bad

sigh. tulip needs kind boys to cuddle them already. my meter is dangerously low

for fun: i recorded my typing on my new macbook's keyboard. i kinda love how it sounds... nice n tappy.

crawling back to mac os after several years like the shameful beast i am honestly though, it is really interesting using it again after becoming linuxbrained. i'm pretty happy so far. in college i never bothered with the terminal... that's character development

today i ate more than one meal. this is a very big deal for me!!! i've been barely eating lately!!!!!

i have been listening to rain and thunder a lot today. i like it. makes my heart feel full.

i need light pink electronics. Badly

They gotta start making pink consoles again

yeah i'm going back to macintosh. macintosh tv

felt cute for the first time in a while...

been thinking a lot about watching @witchcian.bsky.social play hypnospace outlaw and how "the real villain of this game is misogyny" keeps coming up during streams. the way that game addresses misogyny on the internet is one of the things that hit me hardest (in a good way! i felt very seen)

will the linux nerds who follow me forgive me if i go back to mac os. just. hypothetically speaking.

it's really awesome when websites have advertisements that take up literally 50% of the screen, squeezing all of their actual content onto the other half of the screen. at least i assume this is why i keep running into this—just massive amounts of presumably-adblocked whitespace

man. some of the stuff i used to be really really insecure about were pretty dumb. only existing in deeply insular communities is a great way to scramble your brain

the android home launcher i had been using started putting ads in my app drawer (nova launcher) =_= i guess i will go back to the default google one, even though it puts a big ass unremoveable search bar on my screen that i never use

uuuuu... [lays face down] i miss my boyfriend........

it's the last day of pride month, and there's a lot of thoughts in my head about trans freedom. but nothing is quite coming together. i just know that i believe in a better world, where trans people have autonomy over their bodies and sense of self, without oppression having over their heads

i was looking around at nonbinary pride stickers recently, and noticed that a lot of them emphasize a lack of gender. slogans about "my gender is No Thanks" etc. this isn't a bad thing—i'm not policing people's identities and feelings, cmon—but it is interesting to me, since i feel differently

if i ever go back to windows, it's a cry for help, ok? ok

hi, poppy

yknow i think 4:3 is a pretty good aspect ratio for a screen

do you ever think the ikea assembly figures have ever explored each others bodies

scientists are still not sure how the hell caramelization works. there's still so many mysteries in this world.

shoutout to the Maillard reaction. gotta be one of my favorite chemical reactions out there

well. finished moving out of my old apartment today. i was there for ten years. feeling a lot of complex emotions about it that i don't want to go into. i don't know what the future holds for me. it's both deeply frightening, but exhilarating. i want to make a better future possible.

am i anything