Hey y'all! My chat had a very good idea to have pride flag moth emotes, so I decided to make a bunch of them and make them available for free on Ko-fi for pride month. Ko-fi link in comments. All ask is you credit me and spread the love <3

There's a male cardinal I've seen a few times, with no crest, just a smooth top of his head. I looked it up, and apparently it happens sometimes, but that they have a harder time finding a mate. This one, however, does have a mate! Even creatures not fitting gender norms can find love ❤️

This is my first pride month with my new legal name and gender 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 It's been a lot of work to get here, and I've got more yet to do to get my life together, but I'm proud of how far I've come. I'm proud of all y'all, too, seeing so many people figure themselves out over time 💜

Québec has had some of the lowest tuition fees in Canada for many years. Back when I was in university, Québec students were protesting a proposed tuition fee increase, and many people were like "Why are they protesting? They have way lower fees!" No, they have way lower fees *because* they protest.

I'm glad he's not going through with it, but I tried to think of how to communicate how I feel uneasy about this "apology". Not equivalent, but imagine if someone said "I am absolutely understanding the concern of using [guns] to assist [cleaning up the streets]." without mentioning the concerns.

We mostly got through 2 of 6 cases for checking how many digits are needed for "nicely" converting a floating-point number to text. Thanks to @noyainrain.bsky.social and just__jane for the raids! We raided @cupohjoe.bsky.social doing awesome pixel art as usual 💜

I'm eepy, but it's been 10 days and I want to stream, so I'm live seeing if I can make progress on this "simple" programming task! 🖥️😺 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I love finding a new way of looking at a problem that turns it from a daunting ordeal into something clear and manageable. I've been hesitating on a programming task for weeks thinking "There's gotta be a simpler way to do this", and there is! Just needed the right perspective to see it from 🖥️😺

Sometimes, I doubt that I count as disabled, and then I remember that I'm desperate to get this extremely painful new procedure that's like a covid test swab only deeper, longer, and with liquid nitrogen, in the hopes that it'll help improve my breathing enough that I'll be overwhelmed less often.

Why are you trans, wrong answers only. I did it for the quiche. Best quiche I've ever had 😸

This kind of mandatory A.I. B.S. is why I'm not even considering looking for another tech job anytime soon. It's fraud all the way down. I don't want to be anywhere near the circlejerk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhm1...

It's going to be a wild few weeks! I've finally changed my legal name and gender 🏳️‍⚧️ so now it'll be a whirlwind of updating dozens of places as quickly as possible. I hope I receive my new credit card before any recurring payments 😸

PSA for any artists drawing characters playing a musical instrument: stock images often make no sense; you have to use real people playing the instrument as reference. TwoSetViolin has an entire video reviewing bad violin stock images www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPmm...

I saw some bullshit "news" article about how best before dates cause food waste again, and I'm sick of this kind of obvious corporate slopaganda getting published as news. Grocery stores have an incentive to falsify best before dates to be as late as they can trick the consumer into believing,

So, I spent a bunch of time writing some complicated vectorized code last stream, and it turns out that it's 2x slower than much simpler code that's not vectorized at all 😸 It's a good lesson that it's important to performance-test. At least the multi-threading sped it up! 💜

I'm live, not quite sure what I'll be coding yet, but something! 🖥️😺 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I've finally gotten through implementing cos(turns), sin(turns), atan2Turns(y,x), cube root, exp2, log2, pow, sRGBToLinear, and linearTosRGB using Chebyshev polynomials, Taylor series, and bit manipulation. It was a lot of work, but it'll be worth it.

I was finally looking forward to joining #artfight for the first time, and now... Why would they throw away the positivity they had fostered among artists? Why must egos ruin everything good and fun in the world? 😞

I'm live, starting on one of the most complicated single-threaded things I've ever implemented: a spatial acceleration structure that's a generalization of an R-tree 😼 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

Someday, I won't be tired all the time anymore 💜

Heck yeah! Rainbow Railroad does such important work, and they've been swamped, especially with everything being totally upended this past year 💜

I successfully procrastinated by implementing a "nice" way of ordering file paths, so that "Frame2.png" comes before "Frame10.png" and "Version1.txt" comes before "Version1.5.txt", for example 😺 We raided @frootsythewitch.bsky.social , who develops an impressive interactive stream world 💜

I'm live, finding any excuse to avoid starting work on a brutal new feature 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I got my first ever clip on Twitch, and it's me cursing about C++ 😆 Thanks so much, @meeshcosplay.bsky.social ! 💜 and to agree with my past self, FUCK YOU, C++! 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat...

I'm live, escaping from-- err, escaping text strings to avoid a Bobby Tables situation 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

Twitch censorship is getting out of hand. I posted this comment in my own chat while streaming, and apparently viewers only saw asterisks for the words "sex", "sexual", and "long". Yes, the Canadian long form census is too hot for Twitch 😑

I mostly made a passable base-2 logarithm, but then my audio died and I couldn't hear or say anything. I persevered to implement a binary heap with some handy features 😺 We raided @sakuramoussy.bsky.social , who's just getting started on Twitch, drawing art bsky.app/profile/saku...

It's Canadian census day today! but I'm holding back my excitement long enough to stream some programming, maybe a mix of different things today 🖥️😺 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

Two more Readers' YCHs for @tawnycodecat.bsky.social & @subtleerror.bsky.social respectively! 📖

I walked through all of the complicated code for computing lookup tables for Chebyshev polynomial approximations, and my many silly bugs, hehe. We raided @glottal.bsky.social , who's been getting into Godot, and who does all sorts of different types of art, from pixel to 3D bsky.app/profile/glot...

It's been a while, but I'm finally ready to stream again! I'll be showing off some very challenging code I was too anxious to stream, and more importantly, showing all the silly, simple bugs I fixed along the way 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

I was worried today would be a nightmare, and it was a lot, but my partner and I got so much annoying admin stuff done. I'm feeling a lot more ready to face things again 🌟

The timing didn't quite work out today, and tomorrow will probably be a write-off due to a bunch of stressful annoying things to deal with, but maybe Tuesday. I'm a little disappointed in myself for not getting stuff together early enough to stream, but I'm still feeling okay 💜

I think my anxiety is finally low enough again that I can stream again 💜 We'll see how I feel after lunch. I did part of what I want to show on paper, so I'll need to scan or photograph it. I'm looking forward to talking about the silly bugs I fixed 🖥️😺

Looking so longingly into the distance it needs a tag

I'd planned to join in on mocking VGen's puritanical BS, but I'll just use this as an opportunity to let people know that here in Canada, it's legal for women to be topless in public, just like men, no matter the size of their breasts. Courts ruled on it 30 years ago.

I keep thinking "This is almost ready. I should be able to stream tomorrow." and then it's not ready, and I'm anxious and disappointed in myself. Just gotta keep at it and not get too discouraged 😔

I'm going to have so many great examples of silly bugs I've fixed in my code over the past few days, when I eventually have it in a state that I'm willing to have see the light of day. I'm glad I haven't been livestreaming being confused for hours or manually computing fractions in binary, though 😸

14 days until the 2026 Canadian Census! 💜😸

If you search for "KT event" on Wikipedia, this is what comes up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretace... What's @ocarinia.bsky.social got planned for this donothon? 😨

This Tomodachi Life game seems like it might not be what I thought it was. I came into a @clamlynn.bsky.social stream with a raid and saw this 😆💜 www.twitch.tv/clamlynn/cli...

I'm finally live again! Let's see if I can make an OBJ file parser for reading 3D geometry data in under 2 hours! 😰 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat

It's such a terrible movie: homophobia, biphobia, glorifies cheating, other things I don't know if I can mention on BlueSky... yet something about the over-the-top absurdity of it brings a smile to my face, as one of the last movies my friends and I watched before university. I may be a bad person 🤔

I already have a silhouette for my pngtuber's glow outline 🌟 I turned the base image into a signed distance function (each pixel value being the distance to the boundary, or negative if inside), then applied a falloff and colour map to that to make the glow. My pngtuber is by @patooie.bsky.social 💜

This is bizarre! I've confirmed that Twitch won't let me title my stream with "Super" before "Lesbian". "Lesbian Catgirl" is allowed, "Lesbian Super Catgirl" is allowed, "Super Lesbian Catgirl" is blocked, "Super Amazing Lesbian Catgirl" is blocked, "Amazing Lesbian Catgirl" is allowed 🤨 wtf?

I should clarify that this is entirely me speculating from GLITCH's statement sounding like they want recognition from the "traditional film industry". It doesn't get more "traditional film industry" than the Oscars, who require a theatrical release in at least 10 U.S. states for at least 7 days.

It seems like GLITCH is trying to get an Oscar nomination for TADC, needing a release in theatres first, and maybe they're right that it'd get the attention of the industry, and I truly wish them the best. Also, fuck the Oscars, and like with YouTubers and TV, stop chasing legacy media validation!

I've apparently streamed 39.5 hours in the past 30 days! It's still a little stressful bringing myself to start stream, and I still need to figure out how to have a schedule, but I'm very happy that I've been able to keep at it 💜

As promised, I'm live, nerding out about the Dvořák cello concerto. Let's see whether I can get through the whole thing before some body part gives out! 😸 www.twitch.tv/tawnycodecat