oddlyqueer

Unfun fact: Rabbits actually can scream, I have had the misfortune of hearing it. It's not a sound you forget.

I just had a horrifying vision of AI SM tools that help you optimize your public presentation. Get AI critiques as well as tips for appearing more favorable. People do it because you need to be well-received by AI evaluators to get a job. Gradually social pressure evolves all public figures (famous or not) into polished cartoon figures. The real horror of the dead internet is that we'll do it to ourselves.

I like this; I have a lot of commands that I don't use often enough to justify an alias, but still need to rerun all the time. thanks!

I keep my personally-identifiable social media completely distinct from my openly trans social media. I'm not out IRL and I'm in a part of America where it would be ~~dangerous~~ too dangerous for my comfort level to come out / present as trans so for the moment I'm just doing the most good I can with my cis-persona, and I'll come out when it feels safe to do so.

EDIT: not to imply that there is anywhere in America where it's not dangerous.

For me ctrl-r is faster most of the time, history | grep [command] is better if I can't easily pattern match (don't remember it exactly, using several flag variations, etc.). they're both good tools.

I didn't know this was a thing. tyvm.

I do this too, but I usually can't remember the numbers for a stair I use regularly unless I'm actually at the stair.

I have also tried not counting and I can still tell there's a part of my brain still stubbornly counting.

Mine locks on the first press, then beeps to confirm on the second (within a timer). I press it twice because every once in a while I'll mix up the buttons and actually hit unlock, which has a different confirmation beep.

I do this too, usually because I've run across an odd word choice or turn of phrase. I am way less accurate though.

TW: spiders

I do this too, because my parents did it. I made it a conscious habit after I found a tiny spider skeleton right under the opening of a can I'd already started drinking out of. Now I at least check, usually blow, sometimes rinse.

I'm not superstitious, but when I'm walking on sidewalks or tile floors I have tended to try to avoid cracks or lines. It's an easy but engaging puzzle to try to do it while maintaining a normal gait, like the ambulatory equivalent of Sudoku.

Then, one day, my high school geometry teacher taught us about angle bisectors and the game changed permanently. Now, in addition to visible lines, any line intersections now produce invisible bisector rays that must also be avoided. I made a picture to show where you can't step on a sidewalk. It has been decades since high school geometry and I still try to avoid bisector lines any time I'm on a suitable floor. I have never added another rule to the game since, and it wasn't til this post that I thought about how strange that is.