transister.social

searching "how to slide into dms politely" did not yield the bounty of advice i was hoping for, no wonder men are bad at it

search web: how to repair epilator but I kept trying to fix it and it's really messed up bad now

everything I write is pointless drivel

not in a self demeaning way I'm usually a decent writer, but right now I am writing literalyl strings of nonsense baby words

(not a medical emergency, just avoidance)

a girl I dated liked to tell me "they built you wrong", but folks: she doesn't even know she's bi

my new phone has that face unlock thing and I've convinced myself it works faster if I open my eyes really wide so it can see me good

and so now I make weird faces at my phone to unlock it and I think there will be questions and this is why you shouldn't live alone. phone face is why.

This is possibly #mastodon heresy, but is there a way to view boosts separately?

Ideally: everything directly created by the people I follow in my home timeline as usual, but boosts in a separate collection.

Basically, I never want to miss something someone I follow directly created, which is hard to do with boosts in-line.

(Also, I'd boost much more if it didn't pollute ppls timelines and got deduped)

There are some use cases this breaks but most of those need better solutions anyway.

in college I was helping some classmates study for our test on electricity and so I explained how I think about it: you have this little guy named mr current. He starts at the battery and you just picture him walking along the wire...

but when mr current split in half I could see in their eyes, these people would never study with me again

(this is seriously a true story except one girl did keep studying with me)

I got asked to give a "fun" lightning talk at our next team meeting. I have nothing I want to explain to these people. Every idea is either boring or insane/not long enough.

I think I just realized a lot of my work angst is working with people that are way too normal. It was bad before but now some of the coolest people I talk to are furies, weebs, and short haired redheads and it's not a compatible vibe.

The Oxford comma aids in clarity of communication with no practical cost.

The New York Times is against the Oxford comma, how is that not all you need to know.

I bet Netflix has a policy against the Oxford comma

I bet billionaires don't use the Oxford comma, but am too lazy to verify

forgot to post here that i only got scolded twice for being moody at people over the holidays

1) I was doing another team's work that got dropped on my lap and i said basically "i fixed this even though it's not my current or future responsibility, gl/hf"

2) random dude: "why don't you do X?" then does X without waiting for a response; i undid X and pointed out it's weird to ask questions you don't care about the answers to.

there is very little here i can accept as problematic on *my* end

Every time I reboot my PC it can do one additional thing:

Reboot 1: mouse pointer appears
2: desktop background appears
3: can click on the clock to get a context menu but nothing else
4: can open the windows menu but nothing will launch
5: things seem to work but all my files are gone
6: everything's still gone but now my disk space is critically low

It's been truly fascinating and I have no technical explanation that makes sense

I miss animated gifs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i need to come out irl to someone that would understand my joke.

my ex doesn't like when I start jokes out "so first, a short discussion of how the modern web works" but otoh it would be a lil weird to decide who to come out to based on if they know what css is

btw - i told her to do code bootcamp instead of that stupid meyers briggs class but what do you expect from an esfj 🙄

what if, deep down inside, buried and repressed by a society that doesn't understand or appreciate "those" people... what if I'm... a frontend developer?

this is a bigger crisis of identity than that whole trans thing, css is way more confusing than gender

thank u fellow scientists and welcome to my dissertation on the uncertainty principle. it's impossible to know both the location of the television remote and your phone at the same time. any reduction in uncertainty of one must naturally increase the lostness of the other, and vice versa

we as scientists are still at a loss to explain the mechanics of this operation, but remain subject to the whims of a confusing god

Gotta think of an idea for a Mastodon tool so I can name it Darn Tootin'.

Feeling incredibly grateful to the women who have already been down this path. Everyone's footsteps made a path for me and I don't ever want to forget it.

So many doubts that come and some days come hard, it brought me to tears to search about something bothering me and just get page after page of "nah girl that's just transphobic nonsense"

Years ago in a now obvious misstep, I went to a testosterone clinic and the main reason I kept going back is the doctor looked exactly like Jeff Goldblum and I wanted to trick him into saying "life, uh, finds a way"

(I'm about 75% sure I'm only attracted to women but, well, I mean that percentage used to be a lot higher)

I just want an app that lets me see all the tootsies from the cuties I follow.

Fedilab fucking gaslights you by keeping your position but I still somehow am missing toots from people (I'll see the second half of conversations)

Tusky just doesn't even pretend, which is a bit more honest

(Tootsies are toots, I don't have a foot fetish or anything. Well, funny story, back in the day I thought to myself, "why do people like feet so much" so I opened up a private tab and