Melissa? Minerva?? Luna??? @melerva@mastodon.kitty.systems

The thing about Anime Avatars™ is that I feel more comfortable interacting with them than pictures of actual human faces

I have never looked at an anime character and felt threatened; the same cannot be said of selfies

Hey if I boost something from a bigoted edgy memelord let me know I don't have the mental strength to check people's post histories before boosting cute/funny stuff I see

Just found out sheshiresat never died

Eat Dirt and Wiggle™

According to the Infinite Monkey Typewriter Theory, I should be capable of doing something productive eventually, provided I continue to indulge every intrusive thought that enters my tiny head as I lazily meander down the road that is Life

I've decided self-hosting Mastodon is too much of a hassle, as I dislike the language it is written in and would prefer not to keep the whole toolchain on my server

Does anyone have any suggestions for instances to move to?

I have previously been on mastodon.{social,online} but apparently that's Bad, Actually

*switches to Luna*
"You just got moooooooned!!!"

Untitled Luna Game

Lifehack: if you buy a refrigerator, you can put all your food in there and it's way cheaper than keeping your AC running non-stop!

A bunch of grown adults are gonna walk into their job to meet their new boss and I'm gonna be sitting there like "hi I don't know what I'm doing here but please bring me your quarterly reports"

It's okay to be in over your head. That's one of the fastest ways to teach yourself to swim.

Just make sure the people around you know, and are not relying on you.

Good: doing a coding competition even though you don't know the language, just to see how far you can get

Bad: Getting hired for a job you have no qualifications for whatsoever, planning to learn as you do it

Guess which one I'm doing 🙃

I passed the aptitude test though which means I might not actually be in danger of drowning

By the way, I don't use Arch.

We need a 🤗 emoji but less happy and more like "that sucks, friend, I hope things improve soon"

Okay so Arabic is a beautiful language but I think it's best if I don't try to learn to read it because my eyes already hurt from jumping forward and backward

anyway #TIL

Chapter 1 is rewritten. I only changed 19 lines and now the entirety of Chapter 2 has to go.

It's better now though.

#writing

Continuing to call javascript ECMAscript until someone on the ECMA committee explains the difference to me

Rewriting everything again to change a minor plot point :D

#writing

Chapter 3 is up!
https://kitty.systems/~melerva/story/book1/03.html

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