agreed. there’s so much about trans-ness i fear i’ll never get— but i get that, and it’s a very fundamental thing.
― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
@robNot to derail that discussion, he is also a huge fan of The Carpenters, spent lots of car trips as a kid hoping he wouldn’t start singing along (literally the worst singing voice I’ve ever heard) but! Important life lesson about taste!
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 20:12 (eight months ago) link
i'm sorry that i put myself in the ludicrous and impossible position of trying to "translate" b/w the two of you. for some reason i thought i saw a glimpse of hope in a possible reconciliation of worldviews but i feel like i just made an ass of myself. tbh i find it really confusing to post here sometimes and have a hard time with the pace and quantity of posting. i try to post less and think more. but really appreciate you posting here if it's not obvious― budo jeru
― budo jeru
i'm not asking you for an apology. mostly it's not, like, your responsibility! that was something i kind of had to unlearn, the whole "white man's burden" thing. it's great that you want to put more thought into your posts! unsolicited advice on that front. one of the things me and my primary have started doing is, like, at once point she told me she was on Team Kate. and i was like, i don't want you to be on Team Kate, I want you to be on Team Kate's Girlfriend (i mean i used her name of course). that's something i try to do, since then, when i think about things i think about it in terms of "is this a Team Kate move?" i find that a lot of the times i fuck up, it's because i wasn't on Team Kate.
agreed. there’s so much about trans-ness i fear i’ll never get— but i get that, and it’s a very fundamental thing.― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r)
― juan epshteyn-- r.i.c.o., but suave tambien (Hunt3r)
you don't have to _get_ everything about transness! all you need to get is that trans people know stuff about transness that cis people don't, and when we say something about being trans it's best practice to assume that we know what we're talking about. :) (though we don't, always!) same goes for members of any marginalized group or _non-normative_ group.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 20:15 (eight months ago) link
xp to gyac
awww lol
my dad singing along with things he couldn't (like OPERA ffs) was also a feature of my childhood. also he could clap his hands with punishing volume when he wanted...a trait I inherited to my partner's dismay
― rob, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 20:18 (eight months ago) link
My dad told us at Christmas he has some previously unknown (by us) interest in opera, am hoping he might go with the husband to one next time he’s over, mainly cos I have no interest & it would be nice for them! My dad is a complete troll, when we had a landline I would ring home & he’d answer & pretend not to be able to hear/understand me - always thought it was the funniest thing ever lol
― ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 20:31 (eight months ago) link
Kate i appreciate your resolve to call people in instead of calling them out. It's extremely difficult to balance the resolve you've demonstrated to aid in the recovery of others with the need to protect your own emotional equilibrium and avoid taking on an undue burden of responsibility. Please give yourself permission to snap. Just in general, and especially when someone resists your aid. What you're doing is good and positive, imo it's what this moment calls for broadly speaking. So it's on us collectively to help each other achieve that balance, it can't be all on you.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 20:57 (eight months ago) link
One's perception of the tilt of a slash character depends on where one imagines the fixed axis or pivot point, which could be at the top, making it similar to a pendulum, or in the middle, making it similar to a propeller, or at the bottom.
Because printed alphabetical and numerical characters in English usually align to a notional horizontal line at their 'base', my imaginary pivot point is at the bottom. And because English reads left to right, a slash where the top is further right than the bottom appears titled forward and when the top is further left than the bottom it appears titled backwards, against the right-to-left motion of the reader's eye.
I had fun writing that.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:50 (eight months ago) link
That is, to me, the normal interpretation and I tend to agree. But I realize there are other points of view out there and I feel we may as well hear them out, sweet child of mine.
― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:54 (eight months ago) link
That long post from Kate above is great, and there are lots of things that make total sense and are eye opening. Kinda like downloading a new device driver!
I had second thoughts about posting that, so I guess it qualifies for posting here...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 06:28 (eight months ago) link
awww, that's a really cool compliment! i'm not really sure i understand it, but that's kind of what makes it so cool, hearing from someone who likes my posts but looks at them from a perspective i never imagined. :heart:
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 13:20 (eight months ago) link
reverse solidus is when i put the poop back into my butt
― ꙮ (map), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 20:25 (eight months ago) link
One's perception of the tilt of a slash character depends on where one imagines the fixed axis or pivot point, which could be at the top, making it similar to a pendulum, or in the middle, making it similar to a propeller, or at the bottom.― more difficult than I look (Aimless)
― more difficult than I look (Aimless)
nonsense, slash characters are all queer, it's kind of baked into the medium
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:39 (eight months ago) link
reverse solidus is when i put the poop back into my butt― ꙮ (map)
― ꙮ (map)
i thought that was called "solidus snake"
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:42 (eight months ago) link
Banging post aimless, you would have changed my vote if you posted that earlier tbh
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:55 (eight months ago) link
(a pedant writes: light years is a measure of distance, not of time)
― koogs, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:38 (eight months ago) link
I don't pretend to have a firm grasp on general or special relativity, but isn't it both?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:46 (eight months ago) link
if that’s true about it being a measure of time then what makes it different from a regular year
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:27 (eight months ago) link
525,600 light years
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:30 (eight months ago) link
Isn't it the measure of the movement of light through spacetime?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:31 (eight months ago) link
how do you measurea light year in the life
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:31 (eight months ago) link
it’s just the distance it travels in a year
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:31 (eight months ago) link
Exactly, through the three spatial dimensions and the dimension of time.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:32 (eight months ago) link
Or the who knows how many spatial dimensions.
how about love
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:33 (eight months ago) link
you don’t need to overcomplicate it by bringing in relativity. just remember light moves at a fixed pace, so the distance it travels in a fixed amount of time (365.25 days, for example) is also a fixed amount
why light moves at a fixed pace? why that pace appears not to change even if we move toward or away from the light? ok now you need to drag in e&m and relativity
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:36 (eight months ago) link
Also why nothing moves faster than light
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:38 (eight months ago) link
i prefer cups of coffee but yknow, just me
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:39 (eight months ago) link
measure in love
― earosmith (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:43 (eight months ago) link
It's the strongest force
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:44 (eight months ago) link
coffee also
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 August 2023 15:42 (eight months ago) link
light in a metallic waveguide travels faster than light in free space. but if you modulate it to send information, the modulated light travels more slowly than in free space, making this fact and post useless.
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:14 (eight months ago) link
ikr fascinating stuff, and yet also it also takes electrons in your car battery three hours to reach your headlights.
better maybe to think about this stuff like turning on a mile long hose, if there's already water in the hose then it comes out instantly the other end (ok not really it propagates at speed of sound iirc) but that doesn't mean the water from the faucet is traveling at the speed of sound down the hose
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:59 (eight months ago) link
dont make me tap the sine
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:01 (eight months ago) link
good god do I wish we could store light like water in a hose
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 August 2023 18:49 (eight months ago) link
it sounds like you might be interested in buying a dreamcatcher i can direct you to my etsy
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:10 (eight months ago) link
what if i told you that we COULD store light like water in a hose
introducing hose of light
― i wanna post cool stuff, slick stuff, neat stuff (z_tbd), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:11 (eight months ago) link
light hose aka the LÖSE, rhymes with nose
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:13 (eight months ago) link
the most forgotten discontinued ikea shelf
― i wanna post cool stuff, slick stuff, neat stuff (z_tbd), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:16 (eight months ago) link
löst but not fargotten
― the late great, Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:22 (eight months ago) link
my new light hose, Pocahontas and me
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 August 2023 19:48 (eight months ago) link
Lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 22:32 (eight months ago) link
You never know, though, Guns 'n' Roses might release their best record yet!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 18 August 2023 00:32 (eight months ago) link
Don't stop believing.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 August 2023 00:48 (eight months ago) link
I like gross things made delicious, like:
Grappa: a vomit belchNatto: a booger when you’re sickPapaya: tasty pooOyster: a huge load from a dead guy
― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:13 (eight months ago) link
The Alpinist: a huge load from a dead guy
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 August 2023 02:28 (eight months ago) link
bands and chicken plates
― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 August 2023 14:59 (eight months ago) link
remove one piece of chicken from an almost perfect chicken plate ...
― sarahell, Friday, 18 August 2023 16:11 (eight months ago) link
stunned that imago has yet to shit on everyone polling their top 50 albums
(not that he would dare to do so with fgti)
(and tbf it is a bit much)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 04:12 (eight months ago) link
lol, i did consider, then reject, some sort of parody
― imago, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 06:56 (eight months ago) link
oh wait fuck what's happened overnight
― imago, Tuesday, 22 August 2023 06:57 (eight months ago) link