wrath-sedan

Said it once gonna say it again,

Lookin like a perfectly toasted marshmallow

I Have No Bowl, and I Must Scream.

Slaps the hood of Baldur’s Gate 3 this bad boy can fit so many wildly exceeded expectations for a complete AAA-title at launch in 2023

Wake up, reach for my phone “just to wake my eyes up,” proceed to waste time and as a result rush through the rest of whatever else I have to do in the morning.

Yeah I’ve really loved the culture of niche instances like startrek.website, lebowski.social, sffa.alliance. I think they provide an interesting and friendly local feed, have a more general federated feed, and then of course you can have your own subs. I say go for it!

Unironically a fantastic example of speciation.

This feels ripped out of the playbook of scummy mobile ads or adult sites where trying to click the x leads you to the exact content your were trying to avoid

Honestly just shocked how well Adblockalypse rolls off the tongue despite being the linguistic equivalent of three kids in a trench coat

I hate the word “taxpayer” to disparage anything government funded or that implies the government is cheating the average person. For example, I found this headline after 2 seconds of searching:

“The Taxpayer-Funded Electric Bus Company Pump and Dump Scheme that Benefitted Biden Donors”

They use “taxpayer” to make it sound like instead of citizens, we are customers who buy into government services, and should feel personally victimized by people who use government services as they are taking money from our pockets. And don’t even get me started on the “small business owner”…

EDIT: wow, unsurprisingly the word has always been used for political oppression (from ITPI):

“As the Brookings Institution’s Vanessa Williamson has documented, wealthy southern whites ​“focused their critique of Reconstruction on rising government debt and excessive spending, painting government by Black people and poor whites as intrinsically corrupt.” They called themselves “taxpayers,” allowing them to convince small white farmers to join their side while avoiding explicit opposition to Black male suffrage. Ultimately, they were successful.”

Felt compelled against my will to sing this out loud.

I currently use primarily Logseq with a little Obsidian because it’s just a really pleasant text editor and Zettlr for long form writing and research. The nice think about keeping it all Makrdown is that I can use any of them depending on what features/UI I need.

Logseq does have the web editor but it’s more of a demo (it’s literally called demo.logseq.com) but it gives you the full vanilla feature set as long as you connect a local directory. I use Logseq Sync just because I was paying to support the team anyway, and it’s worked very well so far. Just ran into an issue where my laptop with most of my notes broke and so I made a portable version of the app to put on a USB and work on a library computer and it ran and connected to my Logseq Sync remote graph surprisingly seamlessly.

I edit college essays and some academic papers for L2 English speakers. Decent pay, could be higher but I work through a small company that handles all of the client-side stuff so I just get papers in my inbox to edit every so often without needing to wrangle anyone. Slow now since its summer, and sometimes you end up doing way too much work or have people who want content rather than grammar editing (sorry I don’t know any actual physics, just how to make English write good) but overall its been really helpful as a little side income.

The reverse-hustle! Love it, great way to get to the same end goal all while being good to yourself and the planet.

They’re some really good beans from a small farm on Alishan (Taiwan), a mountain which is generally known for tea but the coffee is amazing

you put in 100% more effort than everyone who didn’t post a meme at all, so congratulations

I feel this way unironically because i just got some really nice coffee and am now excited to make my nice coffee each morning