Ds9 brings me an unreasonable amount of joy. Yes I’m watching it again. Yes I just finished watching it for the i-dont-know-how-many-th time a month ago. It brings me joy and comfort.

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Fuck cops. Fucking Scum. Amber whataboutism.

EdtechOS doesnt have a GUI

No problem, I think to myself, typing pkg --search --remote --regex='.*emacs.*' | pkg --install -. Gnus has me taken care of.

4 hours of config hacking later i can finally read my email. I see a message, “please fix the revisionism in your term paper, if you do not fix it by 11:00 there will be consequences”. I check the clock, its 13:00. My emacs timer i just configured to fetch mail regularly dings, and a new message appears. “Please see me after class” it says.

I wasnt optimistic about stalker 2, given all the bullshit stalker2 announcements over the past what, decade? But then a friend said it was really good! Aaaaaand it wasnt bad, but it didnt scratch the stalker itch. It didnt have the delicious eurojank feeling, it was too glossy, and the enemies were… Idk just didnt have the same feel as in og stalker. Mutants were just another enemy, and the danger wasnt something to be overcome with tactics, but with bruteforce it felt like. I was never scared playing stalker 2. In ShoC, i was terrified on multiple occassions (agoroprom underground being the first “oh fuck oh no i wanna go home” experience. I went in without enough ammo, didnt have a good savepoint to go back to to try and get ammo, and had to deal with bandits first. Then the bloodsucker came and i was so scared. It was great).

Stalker2 isnt a bad game, it just doesnt scratch the stalker itch for me. Why would i play it when i could play CoC/M, or Anomaly, or Narodnaya Solyanka OP-2?

how often you log in

Sudo caches my password for like 3 minutes, so i type this all the time

typing of the dead

Omg i love itttt!

This was really helpful, thank you.

In my experience, orgs struggle the most with back-end volunteers - the people who write up minutes and send out reminder messages and provide intake info and organize their documents and all of that other stuff.

This was heartening, i cant do suuuuper fast steno typing to get everything people say, but i can do minutes and the like (im at maybe 60-75 WPM and proud of it). I can organize shit, i can do administrative work and all of this stuff. This makes me feel like theres (potentially) a place here for me.

Are you going to that meeting? No. Not gonna happen. Don’t even bother asking. Are you going to clear a backlog of 6 months of administrative logjam? Yes. And if that isn’t seen as a crucial contribution to organizing then whoever feels that way can fuck right off.

Me. This is me. Fuck meetings. Give me the sweet sweet admin backlog!

Gods i do not want to be a lenin lol, thats for others to do. I would love to be able to provide housing to other trans folks, but im scraping by and cant extend monetary resources to people. And yeah, didnt take long after coming out to myself to become a dirty filthy pinko¹

¹ silly tone

My audhd is truly a blessing in some ways. I can spend a day on something hyperfocused on it and do so so much. I would love to put that energy and capability towards organizing.

If you have ADHD and autism (like myself) and you aren’t medicated, it is even more crucial that you do whatever you can to get medicated for your ADHD.

1000%. Im currently medicated (both stimulants and a2 (ant?)agonists) and getting on the meds was really really good for me. It made it possible for me to do things. Like super basic things. Its why i wasnt crying and freaking out at this most recent meeting i attended and instead was able to save that for afterwards.

Im not an org member rn, but have had interest in that for a while now. The panic is just a lot and all of my exposure to local orgs has been through these “fire the people up” type events. Idk if its the adhd, the autism, past traumas that are unknown to me (i have a lot of missing parts of my memory), or a combo of some or all of the above. Regardless of the why/the roots of my difficulties, from the comments here i think ill reach out to either psl or frso and ask about how i can contribute within my capacities.

Yeah. Ill contact local orgs then i guess, ask about how i can contribute given how my brain functions. youre right, it shouldnt be on us, but i definitely take it onto myself. A lifetime of my needs being ignored has instilled that “no one will accommodate me, ill just do my own thing away from everyone” mentality.

Thank you for the reminder and for the vehemence of your words, genuinely its helpful and appreciated

This song was really fun for my language nerd brain! Dialects just make me happy idk. Also was fun to hear the namedropping, made it close to home.

can’t have enough highly divergent dialectal variants of extremely basic function words, can you?!

Got the best negation words folks! Ikke, ikkje, ikkji, inte, ennte, ette, itte, ittje, ittj, kje, kji (iirc ive also heard kkji? Like k-kj-i. But i could have also been mishearing things and the first k belonged to preceeding word), and all the other variants i havent heard or have forgotten lol

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I remember meeting someone named Are, but she was from a town (i dont recall where) where the r was a tap. She had to explain every time she introduced herself to someone that her name was Are not Ade, cause pretty much everyone, from egersund to hammerfest¹, couldnt differentiate between tapped r and d.

¹ im being hyperbolic here, but it was most people from what she said

Before, guns had to have a round put in the chamber through operating a bolt. when the first self loading guns were made, they were referred to as “automatic” cause you didnt have to do anything to get the next round into the chamber. (This is from memory and could be wrong or off)

Today automatic colloquially means the firearm repeatedly fires as long as the trigger is held, though in pistols the phrase automatic seems to have held on to its meaning as self loading.

Ok! I got bazzite set up for another friend who just wants to play stardew, so im familiar with the process (although the partitioner in the install program was hell lol).

Heard, ill look into all of these, ty!

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