forcing new tabs drives me crazy. like how dare you. i even tried to disable it in firefox, but when i do it makes all ‘open in browser’ things overwrite the current tab :(

i definitely agree. curiosity and a willingness to learn are huge green flags imo.

i often wish that there was a way to just make everyone be nicer to each other, but sadly i think that doesn’t exist. the only way i see to improve our situation is to slowly fight back against everything that got us here. if i can make one person/entity’s [1] day better, maybe they’ll do the same for another :3

[1]: are these equivalent, or is ‘person’ too much of a human thing?

we haven’t experienced much of this, which i’m very thankful for.

i assume it’s the same thing that always happens. people have such little exposure to anyone like us, that they assume we’re crazy. queer people for example are a bit more accepted now, because we’re “more common”.

maybe it has sometheing to do with how humans like to be in groups and tribes n’ stuff. when you tell someone that you experience something differently which is fundamental to their life (and they can’t relate to that), they have that hostile fear response: to protect their “normal” group, and keep others out.

i remember before we became a system, a friend told us about their plural experiences and i didn’t even consider for a moment that it could be real, because that would be questioning something which (at the time) was fundamental to how i understood myself and everyone else. being a singlet was like the law of the universe to me, and i imagine homophobes and others feel that way as well. i basically responded with a “yeah sure, ok buddy”, and i wish i didn’t, because they never spoke about that again.

ok, i kinda rambled a bit too long there lol. maybe that’s a useful perspective.

we got gendered correctly in public for the first time ever today! i thought i was boymoding effectively, but i guess not.

last week really sucked, and my mood is all over the place, but this week we’re starting strong >:3

lipu ni li pona mute! :3

oh my gosh it’s Stanley!!

woah, i didn’t know that could happen. i’m not sure if i’d be able to hold on to the front while i’m sleeping. usually whenever we wake up it’s just one of us pushing the other to get out of bed lol.

space, ctrl, or sometimes the entire numpad at once. it’s just one big button :P

and then you start nesting trees so deep that it’s hard to distinguish between the different levels D:

yeah, that’s understandable. i’d never thought about it that way before.

personally i use enby as a way to say that i am in the middle / don’t really care.

i think the issue comes from the fact that saying non-binary means specifically non-{man,woman}. whereas i’ve always interpreted it as just non-“specific gender”.

to me it’s the etc. of gender labels, but i realise that not everyone that i think it describes would want to identify with it.

(and that means it becomes it’s own label, and now we have to figure out what to call everyone_else all over again. (maybe the whole idea of gender labels was rigged from the start))

oh. i guess i’m using the wrong editors then :P

i’d probably use tabs if they weren’t so massive by default.

do people actually use 8 space wide tabs? if so, what for?

please do not wear the cat.

source engine aesthetic was peak. i still love it, and nothing’s been able to replicate it. some games have tried, but the source feel is just unique.

i always love stacking books in barney’s interrogation room and trying to shove as many objects as i can in to kleiner’s mini teleporter.

i also remember having to wait for headcrabs to finish their death animation before i could move forward in hl1, so that’s fun :P

real :(

yeah. you’re right.

it’s not like i blindly trust the votes to tell me what’s right and wrong, but they still influence my thoughts. i could just sort by new, but i feel like that’s almost as easy to manipulate.

i guess it comes back to the topic of the post. where and how i get my information is always going to affect me.

i’m sure other platforms are no better than lemmy with manipulating content, but maybe for different reasons. i just have to choose the right places to spend my time.

isn’t that what the upvote/downvote buttons are for? although to be fair, i’d much rather the people of lemmy decide which things are good and interesting than some “algorithm”

the real Year of the Linux Desktop™ was the friends we made along the way.

idk lol. i acquired this meme from someone else :P

making/playing quake maps is fun :3