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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

about to migrate accounts to treehouse.systems, see you on the other side

✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

i'm playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance because i watched some youtube clips and it had fun dialogue options, but what i'm getting instead is a _really_ in-depth history lesson about Czech nobility from a thousand years ago

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

maybe what Amaranth needs is a "starter FPGA project", something fun you can buy cheaply and mess around with

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

@glyph huh, I've never looked into kratom because it's not something that's just available around (in places where I've known people using the black market, you could just buy racemic or even D-amphetamine, you didn't _need_ kratom) but it's interesting to learn that it's bad in this particular […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

having seen this play out to the bitter end, my conclusions remain the same also if you're interested in what "clarity of purpose" means for me, i explained it in mastodon.social/@whitequark/1158655…

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

OH: "the ANC on my headphones is so good i just missed a drone strike fully"

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

@xgranade I did not realize yesterday that _this_ is what's happening here, and now that I do see what's going on I think it taints the entire effort

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

@xgranade making a callout post (a list with a single entry in it) which is another trans woman is strongly indicative of a personal grudge, with the moral angle (whatever it is) being tacked on as an afterthought

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

@xgranade no, nope, you don't get to do this. if you come from a place of moral superiority you better not act like you have a grudge against your ex

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

@xgranade how many of these lists started as "here is 1 (one) trans woman who is Problematic", exactly?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

@azonenberg i think you'd know the answer to this offhand: can i swap from an XC7A200T-1FBG676C for an XC7K410T in the same package with no PCB changes?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

so, the list. while i do not think that "making a list" is inherently wrong, doing something like that requires a clarity of purpose and a specific, achievable objective. i do not think this particular list fits the requirements

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

the main counterargument to this is "but you and your loved ones might all die!" to which i respond: i woke up to a close friend today telling me about the missile that exploded near her location. for sure, we could all die. this is a risk i find acceptable because the alternative to "you and […]

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

people like to prance around this, but if you look at the last let's say 40 years, it's very clear which states have their borders violated and which states do not i am in favor of further nuclear proliferation

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

easy solution to the current political situation: give greenland a nuclear submarine

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

babe wake up they invented carbon offset for AI

It's a tweet from Logan Kilpatrick saying I am happy to share that we, the Google AI Studio Team, are now a sponsor of the Tailwind CSS project. Honored to support and find ways to do more together to help the ecosystem of builders.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

@castaway this might work. it did not occur to me that this would be a thing

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

@unlambda the two places where i lived previously used none of the three, so i think i just went through every emergency number i remembered until finding one that works might've been 911, might've been 112

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

i asked a chemist about it and she said "isothiazolinone derivatives are just There in soaps" alright cool

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

this is the most specific product safety notice i've ever seen

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

i have _never_ had so many people openly advocating for violence and destruction in my replies. evri sure has a reputation huh

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

hey wanna hear something surreal? when i called 911 to report a stalker being actively in my home right now, the cop on the phone spent like a minute trying to figure out if my ethnicity was "white - british" or "white - other" lord only knows what they wanted that data for

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

UK residents: what do i have to commit so that Evri will finally stop putting items into trash bins?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

$ git worktree add pages/ pages $ ssg -o pages/ *.md huh.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

wait, you can put a git worktree *inside* another git worktree for the same repo?

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

i like this part of the uk because it barely ever rains (i kind of like when it rains but i also kind of like when it doesn't rain)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

@0xabad1dea I think everybody involved was surprised. MTR was stopped for the day iirc because nobody has accounted for the possibility

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

@0xabad1dea i remember how once Hong Kong (plumbing goes on the outside of the house) got a bunch of snow unexpectedly

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

(on the flipside, nothing will stop me from buying this exact xps 15 7590 again if it breaks until ebay runs out of replacement units. does it work? yes. does it bring joy? absolutely no. did the ceo come out vocally in support of some weird nazi? not to my knowledge)

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

@ppxl i think nearly every vendor is doing s0ix these days, so this problem would be pretty hard to avoid

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

dell laptops are frankly mid at best (and got worse since the ~2021 model i own right now) but it's relieving to know that if i need a replacement maybe it'll be made by a company that has one (1) working braincell cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/1158…

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

@saraislet sorry i know this isn't a comment on the content, but i love the turn of phrase of "thinly anodized" considering that process creates a surface layer with thickness measured in [dozens of] nanometers. really drives the point home

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

i have asked on the support channel and the people there honest to god told me to buy an aliexpress devkit

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