Rowan
@totooria.bsky.social
Anarchist, enby trans woman, she/they
I post about linux, ham radio, motorcycles, cycling, politics, and general nerd shit.
I post about linux, ham radio, motorcycles, cycling, politics, and general nerd shit.
Reminded once again of the absolute bonkers trip that is the Cambridge Latin textbook series. How many language textbooks have a Plot Summary section on wikipedia??
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...
December 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reminded once again of the absolute bonkers trip that is the Cambridge Latin textbook series. How many language textbooks have a Plot Summary section on wikipedia??
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrid...
Me: I'll just anglicize my middle/second name cause I'm tired of people misreading and misspelling it
Also me: what if I chose a last name that required nato phonetic disambiguation?
... might as well have leaned in and gone for the traditional irish spelling instead.
Also me: what if I chose a last name that required nato phonetic disambiguation?
... might as well have leaned in and gone for the traditional irish spelling instead.
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Me: I'll just anglicize my middle/second name cause I'm tired of people misreading and misspelling it
Also me: what if I chose a last name that required nato phonetic disambiguation?
... might as well have leaned in and gone for the traditional irish spelling instead.
Also me: what if I chose a last name that required nato phonetic disambiguation?
... might as well have leaned in and gone for the traditional irish spelling instead.
literally just autism'd my way to sysadmin (professional) from sysadmin (hyperfixation)
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
literally just autism'd my way to sysadmin (professional) from sysadmin (hyperfixation)
I have once again made the mistake of thinking, "oh it's not cold enough to need my heated gloves yet" before arriving home with fingercicles
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have once again made the mistake of thinking, "oh it's not cold enough to need my heated gloves yet" before arriving home with fingercicles
getting the clean version of "I write sins not tragedies" when it comes on autoplay has gotta be one of the most confusing musical blue-ballings. They didn't censor "whore" but they did the "god" in "god damn"??
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
getting the clean version of "I write sins not tragedies" when it comes on autoplay has gotta be one of the most confusing musical blue-ballings. They didn't censor "whore" but they did the "god" in "god damn"??
watching a drunken socratic seminar happening at a bar patio, so, an authentic socratic seminar
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
watching a drunken socratic seminar happening at a bar patio, so, an authentic socratic seminar
Try as I might, I don't think I'm ever get rid of the citydweller habit of calling places with with lower populations 'towns'
October 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Try as I might, I don't think I'm ever get rid of the citydweller habit of calling places with with lower populations 'towns'
Metaphor Refantazio initial impressions: holy shit so many of these characters are distilled gender
I am in awe of More's character design
I am in awe of More's character design
October 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Metaphor Refantazio initial impressions: holy shit so many of these characters are distilled gender
I am in awe of More's character design
I am in awe of More's character design
post-punk song idea: drum/beat pattern is just a cold start pushrod v-twin going from cold idle on the intro to clutch engagement on the verse
September 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
post-punk song idea: drum/beat pattern is just a cold start pushrod v-twin going from cold idle on the intro to clutch engagement on the verse
wellp. Kicked off a big sonic analysis job on my workstation to do some stuff with my music library, should take at least 12 hours. Went to check in on it and accidentally cancelled the running task. There goes a whole 5 hours of compute I've gotta re-do for nothing /sob
September 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
wellp. Kicked off a big sonic analysis job on my workstation to do some stuff with my music library, should take at least 12 hours. Went to check in on it and accidentally cancelled the running task. There goes a whole 5 hours of compute I've gotta re-do for nothing /sob
I had a song stuck in my head for the better part of the afternoon but only the very first word and god damn if I didn't find that fuckin tune after like... 2 hours of furious library scouring
September 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I had a song stuck in my head for the better part of the afternoon but only the very first word and god damn if I didn't find that fuckin tune after like... 2 hours of furious library scouring
If any of y'all followed me here from twitter and are confused why I dont post political shit like I used to it's because the shit isn't avoidable anymore. If you're still not aware of what's happening, I'm impressed -- in a "wow what the fuck how??" kind of way
September 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
If any of y'all followed me here from twitter and are confused why I dont post political shit like I used to it's because the shit isn't avoidable anymore. If you're still not aware of what's happening, I'm impressed -- in a "wow what the fuck how??" kind of way
The woman who just unprompted said to me while I was walking to coffee "great aesthetic babe, love the jacket, you completely own the look" absolutely made my day hell yeah
September 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The woman who just unprompted said to me while I was walking to coffee "great aesthetic babe, love the jacket, you completely own the look" absolutely made my day hell yeah
blonde + autistic is a special kind of airhead
September 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
blonde + autistic is a special kind of airhead
Thanks to the ongoing Arch DDoS issue, I'm forced to run sofware revisions that are at least a few weeks old. The horror!
August 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Thanks to the ongoing Arch DDoS issue, I'm forced to run sofware revisions that are at least a few weeks old. The horror!
a juvenile bold jumper crawled onto my hand after range day and refused to leave and I almost cried after I finally coaxed her onto a tree branch 😩
August 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
a juvenile bold jumper crawled onto my hand after range day and refused to leave and I almost cried after I finally coaxed her onto a tree branch 😩
Last time I went to a range day I got teased for looking like a "girltwink gendarme" with a 1911 compact and a UMP-9 style PCC. Buying a Beretta 92 is not helping the allegations... whoops.
August 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Last time I went to a range day I got teased for looking like a "girltwink gendarme" with a 1911 compact and a UMP-9 style PCC. Buying a Beretta 92 is not helping the allegations... whoops.
Apropos of nothing, Forgejo seems neat and eventual federation would be kinda cool. I've been running a gitea mirror of my GH repos but having a federated network of small git forges would help tackle the whole "project discovery" issue running independent forges has.
August 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Apropos of nothing, Forgejo seems neat and eventual federation would be kinda cool. I've been running a gitea mirror of my GH repos but having a federated network of small git forges would help tackle the whole "project discovery" issue running independent forges has.
Riding motorcycle fun but riding 500cc twin at interstate speed for an hour means my hands are still buzzing ten minutes after getting off the bike 😭
August 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Riding motorcycle fun but riding 500cc twin at interstate speed for an hour means my hands are still buzzing ten minutes after getting off the bike 😭
My review of the B-Tech UV-PRO so far:
pros:
- app works well
- don't need to pair the radio to my cardo to use it on my bike
- usb-c power
cons:
- for the love of all that is good and nice stop making me play fucking operation to screw on the dang belt clip b-tech/baofeng/etc.
pros:
- app works well
- don't need to pair the radio to my cardo to use it on my bike
- usb-c power
cons:
- for the love of all that is good and nice stop making me play fucking operation to screw on the dang belt clip b-tech/baofeng/etc.
July 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My review of the B-Tech UV-PRO so far:
pros:
- app works well
- don't need to pair the radio to my cardo to use it on my bike
- usb-c power
cons:
- for the love of all that is good and nice stop making me play fucking operation to screw on the dang belt clip b-tech/baofeng/etc.
pros:
- app works well
- don't need to pair the radio to my cardo to use it on my bike
- usb-c power
cons:
- for the love of all that is good and nice stop making me play fucking operation to screw on the dang belt clip b-tech/baofeng/etc.
I am in desperate need of girls to kiss and be kissed by, but too burnt out to actually be social.
July 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I am in desperate need of girls to kiss and be kissed by, but too burnt out to actually be social.
I'm assuming this doesn't mean something different in the rail world, in which case, not something I'd have expected to see on an exterior signboard for a streetcar, but, neat?
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I'm assuming this doesn't mean something different in the rail world, in which case, not something I'd have expected to see on an exterior signboard for a streetcar, but, neat?
I don't know what the glean from the fact I'm getting ads for rifle ammo suppliers on grindr but here we are
July 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I don't know what the glean from the fact I'm getting ads for rifle ammo suppliers on grindr but here we are
Silly card/web game pitch: rigged best-of-x coin toss game where each player has cards that they play hidden before the toss to weight the result.
July 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Silly card/web game pitch: rigged best-of-x coin toss game where each player has cards that they play hidden before the toss to weight the result.