mind you, in hindsight i'm not upset that he blocked me. people kept boosting his asinine posts onto my feed and it was distracting. pity i can't filter guardian articles by journalist though. there are a handful of writers there who annoy me enough to bait me into clicking on their bullshit

lol, i didn't even realise it was him. he blocked me for pointing out that his experience as a white cis gay man isn't exactly representative of what the rest of us in the LGBTIQ community experience. he's a dickhead

linear discriminant analysis is now AI i guess? sure why not? we now live in a world where anything with a formal procedure is AI if you want it to be. recipe books are AI. flow charts? AI.

me too. i am grateful that there's still a strong community on fediverse. even if it's imperfect and smaller than it used to be, i feel more at home there than here

right? like, there could have been an excellent sequel to 10 things i hate about you in which heath ledger gets hunted by assassins whose singular goal is to free julia stiles from heteronormativity....

entirely possible. i admit i'm trying my best to focus on whats going on in my own country, but its hard not to notice. the shift toward authoritarianism in the US casts a long shadow across the world, sigh

season 3 gave us so much in the jaskier-radovic romance and then it just fizzled out. the writers can't sent him back to a dynamic with geralt given the geralt/yennefer/ciri family arc so i get it but i neeeeeeeeed horny jaskier on my screen. no sexy jaskier and no sexy istredd make danielle sad

feels like it flows from the central issue with the hemsworth-geralt. he's too gentle, and doesn't generate the friction with other characters that drives their love/hate relationships with geralt. i don't feel the urge to slap hemsworth in the face anywhere near as much as i wanted to with cavill

cats are feudalists at heart. each cat is liege to a fiefdom of serf-humans, and claim ownership over all property within that domain. the means of production are kitteh-owned by divine right. tithes are paid in food, attention, scratches, bites, and occasional emails sent to CEOs mid-sentence

what makes it all the more bitter is that i can't even say this without getting shit from other trans people. i'm sincerely glad that they don't feel the shame i feel. but i feel it. and that feeling isn't going to go away just because they're happy with themselves.

this is why i love R. utterly pointless shit implemented in base just because

i know your grants don't fund it (mine didn't). i know your university doesn't give you credit for it (mine didn't). but that extra work you spend at the end of a research project packaging it up and making it a reusable tool? in the "real world" (lol, it's fake here too) we notice. thank you

i unironically adore the fact that R has a roman() function. utterly useless for every practical purpose but nevertheless there it is

lololololol. yeah thats Discourse Bait that the wise among us simply choose not to take, but wisdom is rare 🫠

yeah, that's one of my favourite features on mastodon. i like being able to write notes to warn my future self about people who inevitably cause me grief

i am always wary about using the word "cunt" on an internet that contains americans, but having noticed that they've learned how to use expressions like "serving cunt", i'm somewhat hopeful that they have caught up with the rest of us and have worked out that the word can have a positive valence