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Not much. Most of my listening is done via “random” streams or the radio at work.

Swiper, no swiping!

The Sixth Sense. I didn’t predict the twist because I didn’t know it had a twist, so when it dropped, it absolutely delivered.

Same with Memento, but less so, because I was actively trying to work out what was happening. The twist caught me by surprise, but I knew some sort of reveal was coming

We’re a stongly social species

I got a new PC. I installed Windows on it. I felt dirty, so I said fuck it, and installed Linux instead.

It wasn’t any one specific thing, but a lifetime of windows frustrations adding up, on top of a growing frustration with enshittified tools and services in general

That was 4 months ago.

No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.

No Australia

The chief is to the limit

Gödel’s incompleteness theorem would like a word…

I’m a raging extrovert, and aside from workmates, I don’t think I have any cishet people in my regular circles.

I’ve got social circles again now, post covid, but they’re not the same as they were before covid. The local queer community used to have lots of events, and that used to be my connection to queer folks closer to my age, but a lot of that has dried up and then restarted, but now with a younger focus. And whilst I’m happy to be the elder queer who transitioned ages ago, it’s not so great for connecting with folk of my own generation.

But I still have lots of friends from then.

I used to play roller derby, and that’s gone from my life now (too old to start again), but I still love my running, and I’m a parkrun regular, which brings me around lots of people every week.

Work also gives me a lot of my extrovert social outlet needs :)

That was part of my trouble. I love running, and I got pneumonia (but not covid) right at the beginning of the pandemic, and it took me about a year to recover from that. On top of that, I would regularly run parkrun, and play roller derby, but they both got shut down too.

All coping mechanisms that I lost access to…

It’s all back now, and even though fitness wise, I’m not back where I was, I’m getting closer every day

Leaving aside the low hanging fruit that is my gender surgeries, the real answer is probably the covid pandemic.

I’ve been pretty resilient most of my life, but I kinda fell apart when covid took away all of my social connections and coping mechanisms. It was the lowest I’ve ever been.

I’m an admin too. If your reason for removing a post is because a queer person called themselves a gender terrorist, then it is in fact about them being trans. There is no scenario where you personally are at risk from a queer person describing their identity

You decided to stir up some drama towards some of the people most at risk from Trump gaining power, because they made some jokes about him, despite him being alive and healthy. You’re not the good guy in this story…

On blahaj? It’s a non blahaj user posting to a non blahaj community? It wasn’t really “on” blahaj in any meaningful way.

That being said, I’ve removed the posts in question, but only locally, because that’s all I can do for non blahaj posts

I’ll quote Tim Minchin here

"If you wanna watch telly, you should watch Scooby Doo
That show was so cool
Because every time there was a church with a ghoul
Or a ghost in a school
They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The fucking janitor or the dude who ran the waterslide
Because throughout history
Every mystery
Ever solved has turned out to be
Not magic"

Don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it sounds. I’m familiar with series in the genre. I just hadn’t that term for the genre itself, because I don’t play it :)

I’m not sure about universally loved. I’ve never heard of this series…

Metazooa. It’s not quite a wordle clone, but it’s clearly inspired by the genre

Basically, you have to guess an animal each day, and every time you guess, the game tells you the last branch your guess and the animal have in common on the taxanomic tree

https://metazooa.com

Using GitHub is a skill of it’s own, and requires knowledge of coding practices. It’s hugely confronting to someone without coding experience