Makaiton, Master Wizard of Cat Herding
@makaiton.bsky.social
He/Him | Autist | Twindad | Dumb Husbando | Unapologetic Metalhead | Cynical Gamer
Being in Ohio, but not being on this app all that often, I'm just now seeing the whole "You need to verify you are an adult to have access to all of our features!"
Anybody else in a religiously oppressive state that is dealing with this have a take?
Anybody else in a religiously oppressive state that is dealing with this have a take?
October 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Being in Ohio, but not being on this app all that often, I'm just now seeing the whole "You need to verify you are an adult to have access to all of our features!"
Anybody else in a religiously oppressive state that is dealing with this have a take?
Anybody else in a religiously oppressive state that is dealing with this have a take?
Something something something survivor bias something.
April 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Something something something survivor bias something.
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Holy shit I hate sciatica.
Can we make beds and desks and chairs and screens and jobs and etc. where we can just stop sitting all day long and having to do so in the most damaging ways possible? Please?
Can we make beds and desks and chairs and screens and jobs and etc. where we can just stop sitting all day long and having to do so in the most damaging ways possible? Please?
December 28, 2023 at 5:13 PM
Holy shit I hate sciatica.
Can we make beds and desks and chairs and screens and jobs and etc. where we can just stop sitting all day long and having to do so in the most damaging ways possible? Please?
Can we make beds and desks and chairs and screens and jobs and etc. where we can just stop sitting all day long and having to do so in the most damaging ways possible? Please?
Had 3 bots follow me today.
On the Sky.
Really? Already?
On the Sky.
Really? Already?
December 6, 2023 at 11:35 PM
Had 3 bots follow me today.
On the Sky.
Really? Already?
On the Sky.
Really? Already?
If your don't already follow...
Do the thing.
Do the thing.
November 19, 2023 at 12:32 AM
If your don't already follow...
Do the thing.
Do the thing.
My wife came home yesterday talking about a kiddo she had assessed who was "severely" autistic. She mentioned, sidelong, that she knows she isn't supposed to say "severe," but that he was.
Then my brain exploded into frustration and societal rage and I went on a rant about the whole conversation.
Then my brain exploded into frustration and societal rage and I went on a rant about the whole conversation.
November 18, 2023 at 2:08 PM
My wife came home yesterday talking about a kiddo she had assessed who was "severely" autistic. She mentioned, sidelong, that she knows she isn't supposed to say "severe," but that he was.
Then my brain exploded into frustration and societal rage and I went on a rant about the whole conversation.
Then my brain exploded into frustration and societal rage and I went on a rant about the whole conversation.
Ughhhhh... Apple users.
November 7, 2023 at 9:17 PM
Ughhhhh... Apple users.
Random thought of the day brought in by my insatiable libido: reading (listening to, actually) Emily Nagaski's book, "Come As You Are," changed my relationship with my wife, the way I think about relationships, and pretty much everything.
November 3, 2023 at 11:02 AM
Random thought of the day brought in by my insatiable libido: reading (listening to, actually) Emily Nagaski's book, "Come As You Are," changed my relationship with my wife, the way I think about relationships, and pretty much everything.
Someone I followed posted something delicious and was completely
unapologetic for it, soooo...
If you don't like it, I'm a millennial, fuck you.
unapologetic for it, soooo...
If you don't like it, I'm a millennial, fuck you.
November 2, 2023 at 10:21 PM
Someone I followed posted something delicious and was completely
unapologetic for it, soooo...
If you don't like it, I'm a millennial, fuck you.
unapologetic for it, soooo...
If you don't like it, I'm a millennial, fuck you.
Wanna know the empirical evidence I have that everything is better over here in BlueSky? I woke up this morning and 99% of my timeline was people losing their shit over how awesome DS9 is.
That, and the fact that I have no idea what stupid thing any of the dumb politics did? Chef's. Fucking. Kiss.
That, and the fact that I have no idea what stupid thing any of the dumb politics did? Chef's. Fucking. Kiss.
October 31, 2023 at 10:57 AM
Wanna know the empirical evidence I have that everything is better over here in BlueSky? I woke up this morning and 99% of my timeline was people losing their shit over how awesome DS9 is.
That, and the fact that I have no idea what stupid thing any of the dumb politics did? Chef's. Fucking. Kiss.
That, and the fact that I have no idea what stupid thing any of the dumb politics did? Chef's. Fucking. Kiss.
Shit heel alert. While the empassioned voices here have good intentions, folks like this Tool fan are just incendiary devices--you might play with it a bit to look and feel cool, but eventually it will hurt somebody. Always block and move on, do not engage. Spay and neuter wild trolls.
October 30, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Shit heel alert. While the empassioned voices here have good intentions, folks like this Tool fan are just incendiary devices--you might play with it a bit to look and feel cool, but eventually it will hurt somebody. Always block and move on, do not engage. Spay and neuter wild trolls.
This is the best articulated explanation of the situation we all find ourselves in now. Seriously, I don't think it even slightly misses on a single point; from being coerced into participating in the system to "ALL THE FUCKING COPS." Print this out and frame it, because it's fine art.
I'm not an accelerationist because I'm not pushing this as an agenda, but what I'll point out is that the entire country is constantly being held hostage by bad actors engaged in a never ending game of good cop-bad cop with Republicans who see the Republicans as closer kin to their policy than us.
October 30, 2023 at 10:27 AM
This is the best articulated explanation of the situation we all find ourselves in now. Seriously, I don't think it even slightly misses on a single point; from being coerced into participating in the system to "ALL THE FUCKING COPS." Print this out and frame it, because it's fine art.
I know there are definitely parents who would a little aghast at the fact that I've let my six year old watch FMA: Brotherhood several times and have thoroughly discussed the concepts, morals, and lessons the series presents with them. But I don't care at all; they get to understand stuff like this:
October 28, 2023 at 5:24 PM
I know there are definitely parents who would a little aghast at the fact that I've let my six year old watch FMA: Brotherhood several times and have thoroughly discussed the concepts, morals, and lessons the series presents with them. But I don't care at all; they get to understand stuff like this:
At one point, my mom called me out on me driving in the middle lane on a the lane highway. "You don't ALWAYS stay in the rightmost lane!" The obvious answer to that was that I was trying to stay out of the way of folks getting on the highway via on-ramp. Buuuut, this begged a lot of other questions.
October 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM
At one point, my mom called me out on me driving in the middle lane on a the lane highway. "You don't ALWAYS stay in the rightmost lane!" The obvious answer to that was that I was trying to stay out of the way of folks getting on the highway via on-ramp. Buuuut, this begged a lot of other questions.
If, like me, sometimes you like to put loud, wrong folks in their place, find your resident Pro-Lifer and ask them how old, in God's eyes, a person has to be to lose all value as a human life.
Then just watch the stupid fireworks. Best when used in a crowd of stupid.
Then just watch the stupid fireworks. Best when used in a crowd of stupid.
October 24, 2023 at 12:17 PM
If, like me, sometimes you like to put loud, wrong folks in their place, find your resident Pro-Lifer and ask them how old, in God's eyes, a person has to be to lose all value as a human life.
Then just watch the stupid fireworks. Best when used in a crowd of stupid.
Then just watch the stupid fireworks. Best when used in a crowd of stupid.
So I just watched Willy's Wonderland for the first time. It was more or less what I was expecting and absolutely didn't disappoint. However, the silent protagonist motif really struck me. I thought maybe they'd have him talk at some poignant moment, or even at the end, but no. Never says a word
October 21, 2023 at 10:28 PM
So I just watched Willy's Wonderland for the first time. It was more or less what I was expecting and absolutely didn't disappoint. However, the silent protagonist motif really struck me. I thought maybe they'd have him talk at some poignant moment, or even at the end, but no. Never says a word
Our HOA complained about my wife and I speeding in the neighborhood.
This is funny for a lot of different reasons, not the least because I NEVER speed.
But my wife and I were talking about this and I provided her my "Types of drivers" theorem.
Three types-- "Flow," "Obsessed," and "Entitled."
This is funny for a lot of different reasons, not the least because I NEVER speed.
But my wife and I were talking about this and I provided her my "Types of drivers" theorem.
Three types-- "Flow," "Obsessed," and "Entitled."
October 13, 2023 at 12:35 AM
Our HOA complained about my wife and I speeding in the neighborhood.
This is funny for a lot of different reasons, not the least because I NEVER speed.
But my wife and I were talking about this and I provided her my "Types of drivers" theorem.
Three types-- "Flow," "Obsessed," and "Entitled."
This is funny for a lot of different reasons, not the least because I NEVER speed.
But my wife and I were talking about this and I provided her my "Types of drivers" theorem.
Three types-- "Flow," "Obsessed," and "Entitled."
Did anyone else's parents just *not* teach you how to cook? Or... Anything home related? I was taught how to do laundry and cook out of a box, but caulking, hanging things, etc., I got nothing.
October 12, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Did anyone else's parents just *not* teach you how to cook? Or... Anything home related? I was taught how to do laundry and cook out of a box, but caulking, hanging things, etc., I got nothing.
Labels are dumb, but also extremely useful.
There's a lot of times I hate the use of labels, particularly around sexuality and gender for myself. What do you mean, "Straight?" What do you mean, "Cis?" These things have always applied to me in the midst usefully of privileged ways, buuuuuuuuuut...
There's a lot of times I hate the use of labels, particularly around sexuality and gender for myself. What do you mean, "Straight?" What do you mean, "Cis?" These things have always applied to me in the midst usefully of privileged ways, buuuuuuuuuut...
September 27, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Labels are dumb, but also extremely useful.
There's a lot of times I hate the use of labels, particularly around sexuality and gender for myself. What do you mean, "Straight?" What do you mean, "Cis?" These things have always applied to me in the midst usefully of privileged ways, buuuuuuuuuut...
There's a lot of times I hate the use of labels, particularly around sexuality and gender for myself. What do you mean, "Straight?" What do you mean, "Cis?" These things have always applied to me in the midst usefully of privileged ways, buuuuuuuuuut...
That feeling when one of your engineers is down on themselves for not directly contributing to development due to necessary education...
... And when you cheer them up with a quote from a random Panopticon track.
... And when you cheer them up with a quote from a random Panopticon track.
September 26, 2023 at 4:05 PM
That feeling when one of your engineers is down on themselves for not directly contributing to development due to necessary education...
... And when you cheer them up with a quote from a random Panopticon track.
... And when you cheer them up with a quote from a random Panopticon track.
I like to shame TradWife relationships because they're just Christianity Approved™ Sub/Dom relationships. Fetishized clothing, fetishized roles and responsibilities, the whole shebang. They just don't have the balls to come out and say "We're freaks and we love it," like normal folks do. Shameful.
September 20, 2023 at 10:22 PM
I like to shame TradWife relationships because they're just Christianity Approved™ Sub/Dom relationships. Fetishized clothing, fetishized roles and responsibilities, the whole shebang. They just don't have the balls to come out and say "We're freaks and we love it," like normal folks do. Shameful.
I have one twin playing Some Kirby Switch Game, another twin in the toddler's "yes zone" with a giant pillow around her neck telling to come to her, the toddler drooling while he stands on a box, chanting and dancing, and my wife changing from pants to shorts in the bedroom, for open.
Good day.
Good day.
September 20, 2023 at 9:59 PM
I have one twin playing Some Kirby Switch Game, another twin in the toddler's "yes zone" with a giant pillow around her neck telling to come to her, the toddler drooling while he stands on a box, chanting and dancing, and my wife changing from pants to shorts in the bedroom, for open.
Good day.
Good day.
Thanks to Musk being... Brilliant, I now have suddenly found a fairly large number of people in here that I was missing from my old Twitter feed.
Thanks, Musk! Your idiocy is my boon!
Thanks, Musk! Your idiocy is my boon!
September 19, 2023 at 10:57 PM
Thanks to Musk being... Brilliant, I now have suddenly found a fairly large number of people in here that I was missing from my old Twitter feed.
Thanks, Musk! Your idiocy is my boon!
Thanks, Musk! Your idiocy is my boon!
Sitting on the ground at the first grade playground (yes, they have one per grade 🙄) letting the twins run amok during the schools "Playground Playdate."
Plenty of parents here, none that I know, and do I talk to no one. I just sit and chill. Boring, certainly, but also meditative. Could be worse.
Plenty of parents here, none that I know, and do I talk to no one. I just sit and chill. Boring, certainly, but also meditative. Could be worse.
September 13, 2023 at 10:05 PM
Sitting on the ground at the first grade playground (yes, they have one per grade 🙄) letting the twins run amok during the schools "Playground Playdate."
Plenty of parents here, none that I know, and do I talk to no one. I just sit and chill. Boring, certainly, but also meditative. Could be worse.
Plenty of parents here, none that I know, and do I talk to no one. I just sit and chill. Boring, certainly, but also meditative. Could be worse.