as a wise woman once said, “product of our environment, coproduct of our experiences”

Happy 202A!

Made a video about autistic employees and whether we're "taking" accommodations away from those with high support needs. Sorry the video is terrible, I avoided this for years and this is my first time. It does have captions! Adding the video in 3 parts.

Saying this as a parent. Parents have obligations toward their kids. Not the other way around. If a parent is abusive, manipulative, or damaging, children have every right to cut them out of their lives. No one is obligated to put up with abuse from a parent. That's not how it works.

There are three types of men

All I want for Christmas is Sabbipode!

How to hide from predators and enemies (a not over-bright, bossy cat) when they have the high ground.

My dear friend Nick suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on December 1st. James will be doing a charity stream later today (time TBA) in memory of what would've been Nick's 39th birthday. If you're able to spare anything at all, it'd be eternally appreciated ❤️ www.justgiving.com/page/trashpa...

Please don't annoy me. I'm enjoying my quiet time.

Fellow cat owners: are you getting your babies a 2 meters tall cat tree as a Christmas present, or ARE YOU A BAD CAT PARENT?

I love this kind of banter! 🍿

I wonder if the MAVEN orbiter failed because of this error: "Failure to find NASA on Earth was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of Mars has elapsed or updates are forced."

now, take every color that contains red and remove 1 to its code. take every color that contains green and remove 2. take every color that contains blue and remove 4. get it now?

Sabbipode really, really wants to go outside... but getting up is so hard! Girl, I fully understand you. That's so relatable.

If you think you have every right to persistently misgender a trans person, ask yourself if it's OK to go up to a recovering alcoholic who is five years sober and do nothing but remind them of past drunken spirals at their most suicidal. If that seems in really bad taste, guess what misgendering is.

Stray is a cosy, cute game about being a cat as much as Ecco was a cute and cosy game about being a dolphin.

C has a coin flip function called fork(). after a process calls the function, there's a 50% chance that the return value is 0 (tails), and a 50% chance that the return value is positive (heads)

«In order to provide you with a better service, we resolved to terminate it.» It makes sense, I guess. 😑

you can't write good code if you don't write bad code first

A 'fire amoeba' called 'Incendiamoeba cascadensis' is happily thriving up to 63-64 °C. www.nature.com/articles/d41... So fire chuchus from Zelda games actually exist in real life.

I bought one of those mattress vacuum cleaners and, as the author of this article, I was disgusted too. An appalling amount of dust came out of my sofa, which had been previously cleaned fairly recently. I will no longer trust anyone's sitting room.

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Okay, it's time for my *2024* recap, I guess.

There are bad people, really bad people, and then absolute monsters who design keyboards in alphabetical order.

"Enbies" by juggler / Michael Lefkowitz logic-masters.de/Raetselporta... I don't remember how I found this puzzle, but I'm glad I did. It wasn't easy at all! I made some progress, and then I was completely stuck for a long time.

"Cracked Eggs" by Nell Gwyn logic-masters.de/Raetselporta... Another puzzle from the Puzzler Pride 2025 collection. Slightly harder than the previous one, but still approachable.

"Asexual and Non-Binary Pride" by PhoenixAki logic-masters.de/Raetselporta... I found this variant sudoku puzzle through PhoenixAki's YouTube channel. It's approachable, and I recommend it!

Spent the afternoon in a local cat rescue org. I was constantly covered in cats. So many cats, all of them purring at a complete stranger!

oh my god it's incredible

42 was an actual description of what vibe coding would eventually be, you wait for an agent that deliver a totally unrelated code and blame your instructions as being unclear xD

How did I miss this one until now?

Getting some zoomies around the house and scratching my sofa to feel more relaxed. If it works for cats, why shouldn't it work for humans, too?

- We need to leave the house by 8:00. At 7:57: - I should get dressed, or else we might be late.

Braiding Sweetgrass by Br1312te. A sweet jigsaw sudoku with modulo-3 constraints (and more). A comment under the CtC video pointed me in the right direction; no spoilers, just a suggestion on notation. It actually made the puzzle much easier! sudokupad.app/ew0fmz0exc

It’s international men’s day, and I gotta say…. It’s only for trans dudes. Sorry, cis guys, some of you are great, but as a whole, you just had masculinity handed to you. I’m only gonna celebrate my bros that had to WORK for it.

this international men's day I wanna just be like men dudes free yourselves from this prison you've kept yourself in, it's killing you slowly as a gender and a section of society. you deserve rest, you deserve the freedom to cry, you deserve your vulnerability and genuine affection free yourselves

8th March: International Women's Day 19th November: International Men's Day By extension, we should celebrate nonbinary gender identities on all the remaining 363 days!

something i have tried to explain a few times, when people see crashes (panics, asserts, segfaults, whatever) as "bad": when you have a bug, your program crashes if you're lucky. If you're not lucky, your program keeps running, but it is now a different program than you think it is. That's worse.

Falling to my knees in the supermarket when I find out Cloudflare died because someone forgot a WHERE clause in a SQL query.

The autistic urge of devising an overly complex scheme in order to avoid asking a simple question.

A really well-written article on plurality by @theanimeview.bsky.social. It includes a glossary explaining some basic concepts!

°C °F 🤝 -40°

How to tell your mother she may have ADHD?

in honour of yet another rustc dev coming out as trans, i propose that we rename Compiler Diagnostics to Compiler Dysphorias

She is a seal. Look at how she's spreading her fins, er, paws.

+++FLASH NEWS+++ I moved a box, and the cat (who was perched on its top) did not jump off it.

Pixie and Sabbipode enjoying a sunny morning.

"In the real world no one will accommodate you" is trauma talking. It's true that people aren't falling over themselves to help me but my adult life is way more accommodating than my childhood was, because adults get to make choices. I'm accommodating myself.

Pixie and Sabbipode at 18:01, making sure I don't work too much.

Let's buy this grain-free, monoprotein, low-calorie food for sensitive cats, to keep my babies healthy. They will be so happy! The babies: Why are you starving us? 🥺🥺