Allan 🐌 @allan

I hate it when people refer to simple algebra as "a model". I mean yes, it is, technically. But if you can write out the entirety of your model on a post-it note then...I dunno it feels like you're tarting it up.

@ink_slinger I was just talking about this recently, adults really have a bias against treating children like people. We're also bad for dismissing their experiences and feelings as being trivial or invalid.

@ink_slinger it also takes the colour and variation out of your beard, which makes you look older (contrary, I assume, to the expectation)

@ink_slinger you look gorgeous... in an unsettling and upsetting kind of way.

I think your glasses made the eye distortion worse? or maybe better? At first glance it's like "oh the prescription glasses that's why his eyes look weird" then it dawns on you, nope.

@xvu I literally have a blog entirely because I bought a stupid domain name with one of those new tlds for the novelty of it and figured I had to do something with it

@xvu I like .io in this context

@ink_slinger I don't believe you, I demand you post selfies as proof

I also really want to drive the Dempster highway one of these summers, but I don't want to drive *to* the Dempster highway, nor do I want to fly/rent a car. Basically I'm impossible to please.

I kinda want to go on a roadtrip, but I don't know where, I don't really want to spend money right now, and I just spent 4 days at NCF and am going to Kootenay NP in 3 weeks.

Maybe what I really want is to just not be here, at work, right now 🤔

@susannah yeah, I don't envy being a mod, I think they're being overzealous but then again I'm not the one trying to contain bushfires of US politics.

This has always been a low-key issue on the english speaking internet, US politics being the only politics, but it feels like now it just sucks all the oxygen out of the room and you can't even acknowledge that there is a world outside America anymore.

@susannah I feel like this is more of a thing than it used to be, like any thread about politics elsewhere in the world becomes a thread on US politics in a hot minute and like why even bother.

@kai ugghhh you're probably right, but also..I could just fake my own death.

@kai I dddiiiiiiddddd. He's not taking polite no for an answer, I'm like trapped in that awkward space of should I just be rude over texts?? or just go meet him and in person say "yeah, nah"??

Or maybe I should fake my own death. I think it's the only way.

@thurloat yeah I'm leaning towards going, eating, and making it abundantly clear I'm not interested

I guess if I want to be a straight up sociopath I can go along for the free food. I do like free food.

Also he speaks mandarin and I can use the opportunity to try mine out (it's bad).

I don't know if I'm talking myself into this because I'm a pushover or if I'm just hungry and going out for dinner is appealing 🤔

Some guy I met at pride has been low-key harassing me to go out with him, and I don't want to uggghhh 😣

he's also newly out so I don't want to crush him under my boot (also we have mutual friends so that'd be awkward), but also also he's in his 40s and newly out and I ain't got time for that, I've done my community service thanks.

I don't do the closeted and the recently decloseted as a rule, but I haven't had to deal with that for over a decade and blerg.

@bgcarlisle I tried that but it turns out I needed to pip3 install them, because they are unsupported by python 2.7, and I just ended up throwing it all into the sea instead 🤷

@bgcarlisle this is why I do everything in virtualenvs.

It's easier in the long run if by long run you mean taking ten steps to do everything but at least then all your dependencies work out because you have a hundred copies of every library littered all over your machine...