Cap in the back, low-key up front. Got it.

they already do, especially when it comes from coal ash.

this is apogee and i absolutely love her. tinygaypirate is incredibly cruel to himself regarding art he makes of her; he doesn’t see his work regarding her as worthwhile… she’s a fucking treasure.

Femtanyl :D

When I told my best friend about mastodon, it misimprinted on her brain in a flash as “walrus chat” and now she can’t for the life of her remember its actual name.

yes, that’s what boosting is on mastodon. see how ineffectual their ‘boosting’ nomenclature is? that’s why they should be renamed.

also rebrand it from Mastodon to Trunky.

1. Trochaic meter is more addictive: 2 syllables with accent on the first. just like YOU-tube, FACE-book, GOO-gle, TWIT-ter, TIK-tok, SNAP-chat, RED-dit, WHATS-app, etc; there are a FEW exceptions like Insta, Messenger, Telegram… but they are the clear minority and were propelled in spite of their names. it’s part of why TEEN-age MU-tant NIN-ja TUR-tles and MIGH-ty MOR-phin POW-er RAN-gers was popular.
2. Trunky is full of bright bouncy sounds that pop, the T and the K both hit nice, the R is exciting and powerful, the y ends it on a high timbre, it’s cute.
3. A mastodon is an extinct lumbering beast from the ice age which is the antithesis of anything trying to break out as a hot new service. But this would allow the service to keep its pachyderm branding.
4. While at it, change “favorite” to “trumpet” (as in trumpeting praise), again it’s trochaic (TRUM-pet) and carries less cognitive LOAD than “favoriting” which feels heavy and committed. Just because you LIKE something doesn’t mean it’s your FAVORITE thing you know? this would decrease the friction of interaction (which is GOOD).
5. Also while at it, keep tooting as the analogue for tweeting, rename boosting to re-tooting for brand consistency, and add a bookmarking function called “Remembering” (because ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET, right? :D)

A mall is a private real estate instrument built by speculators to extract rent from businesses and it’s actually rather predatory. This is fundamentally not real estate and fundamentally does not exist to extract rent, so it’s more like “what if you took a mall and removed all the mall-ness from it”.

If malls were collectively owned by the stores that comprise them and pieces of the mall could appear and disappear at will of whoever’s participating… Is it actually even still a mall really???

Mmmyes a most shapely posterior indeed, madam :3

Hmmm. Actually maybe it can be leveraged.

There should perhaps be a default instance that it funnels everyone into but makes a “power user” option available from a drop down where they can CHOOSE an instance. Make it an opt-in thing instead of a mandatory hurdle.

If they don’t like the way the default instance is managed (content moderation, defederation) they can think “oh wait, there’s a solution for this! Well, now that I know what I’m getting into it’s not intimidating anymore”

Mastodon needs this too.

…

Mastodon needs this ESPECIALLY.

Hey you know what counts as both resting and productive in furtherance of your life goals?

Meditation.

Several times in the past few weeks, I’ve caught myself in a quandary wondering what I can do, but then realized, “oh. I can meditate.”

look. you have a lot on your mind. Letting that shit process is good for you. And you process it by sitting comfortably and letting your thoughts wander while you mindfully sit back and commit to

a b s o l u t e l y   n o t

acting upon ANY of them right now.

This is their chance to stretch their proverbial legs and get some fresh air. You’ve taken them to the park. This isn’t anywhere but a park. This period of time is not for engaging tasks or running errands or indulging vices.

Focus on the quiet things. The sound and feeling of the air moving through the room, entering and leaving your lungs. Or just … your own heartbeat if you can actually feel it. Or just counting without a goal in mind. If you lose track, it’s ok. Losing track is actually the point.

Listen, fam, you were going to waste the time anyway. Committing to this is the opposite of wasting it because you made a choice. At least until something you definitely do want to do pops up. As long as you ‘can’t decide’, default to this.

What will eventually happen is your thoughts will come and go and you might notice that you don’t create them. Your brain is just generating noise and attempting to extrapolate it arbitrarily into various forms. Those forms are driven by your experiences, especially the more recent and/or intense ones. But you didn’t CHOOSE to ‘have thoughts’. The thoughts show up all by themselves. What YOU choose, as the observer process, is whether to entertain those thoughts.

This is how you access your brain’s proverbial ‘dev console’, and how you tweak the ‘settings’: your attention reinforces neural patterns. If you can mindfully select which patterns you wish to reinforce and which ones you will neglect and allow to atrophy, you also tune which kinds of concepts are more likely to show up more often.

everybody should really do this more often. it has helped me get a grip in some very wild times.

actually it would be a wicked cool plot device if fluidic volumes were susceptible to interaction with objects independent of phase due to the quantum level brownian motion interactions of unincorporated particles–and that this is a fundamental cornerstone of why things like atmospheric containment barriers and structural integrity fields can exist, and just nobody fucking noticed that out-of-phase sapients are still consuming oxygen and SLIGHTLY displacing atmosphere!

Like, they can’t reliably create coherent pressure waves to create audible speech, but if they blew really hard into someone’s ear they’d actually feel something very faintly. I mean, canonically this isn’t so, but if I were a writer, I’d actually go there and make that stipulation even if it perturbs prior established canon. It’d be just FUNNY you know?

There actually was an episode in one of the 1990s series (voyager or TNG or something) where someone who was ‘out of phase’ due to a ‘transporter accident’ (as one does) was able to cause a disruption of flow in a plasma conduit or something by reaching into it; the superheated charged particles were not able to harm them but their interference made the conduit buzz or rattle or something and a crewmember recognized there was a particular pattern to it (like morse code) and they were able to communicate through it.

my headcanon:

gravity wells and other such ‘inertial fields’ are trans-phasic. You don’t fall through the floor because it’s not the floor being solid that holds you there, it’s the inertial field of the grav-plating bleeding into higher dimensions and back down into parallel phases of the causal volume.

inertial dampening fields do the same thing, which is why the habitation space within the ship isn’t instantly pancaked to the back wall under full impulse propulsion. When the ship is moving under normal circumstances, the interior does not experience any acceleration so long as the inertial dampening fields are not being overpowered by excessive maneuvering.

… I’m so … Incredibly grateful. For what you said.

I bookmarked this, and I’ve been coming back to it day after day

I can’t tell you how much it means to me, how validating it is, to know that I’m not alone

I don’t care what it says, you’re totally Jessica to me X3

😳😢😭🫂😔😌

exactly D: how the fuck is this even possible that i can root so hard for the people i love, assist them with transportation, research for paperwork, covering expenses, but when it crosses my mind that i find myself wishing that i could do for myself what i do for them … i feel guilty??? what the fuck…

i feel like i’m out of line just writing this, questioning if what i’m feeling is legitimate even as my eyes are literally filling with tears as i type

i’ve found cracks recently

cracks very similar to these

a hefty dose of imposter syndrome, of how fucking DARE i cheapen the trans struggle i root for so many people through by even considering that i might be worthy of it. I can’t be a girl! That would be so HARD and I am SO LAZY! Surely I’m just making it up, and if I ignore it, it’ll go away, right?

…right?

and i worry that if i actually try to talk to my friends about it–EVEN the ones whom are trans themselves!!–they will try to “supportively” reassure me that i am cis

and the thought of that … the thought of hearing them say that … nauseates me.

…possibly almost more than the implications of my life being turned upside down. Or rather, acknowledging that it may in fact have been upside down all along and having to face the grueling, excruciating hardship of what it’d take to turn it right-side-up for the first time in my existence ._.

temporal plurality, great aunt was talking to her past self and her current self at the same time XD

when a friend changes all their account names and pictures, i get giddy and excited for them :3

You don’t even have to sit for your ass to take my breath away.