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dorky femme droid

eggbug enthusiast

important eggbug lore

 


 

if you use the phrase "be normal" as if it's something to aspire to, kindly take a long walk off a short plank. or block me. whichever is easier for you.

 


 

child of the 80s

 


 

i escaped a cult.
all of the content warnings.
all of them.
tag: exerian's tragic backstory

 


 

                                 
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artemis
@artemis

sometimes system to system communication feels super personal and intimate and other times it's like

"HELLO. I come to you as an emissary. My people have requested that I deliver unto you this Dank Meme! And deliver hopes that we can arrange for a meeting at a future time, to be determined via consensus amongst both parties. I do hope it finds you all in good health. Alas, I know you little, but you seem quite the welcoming troupe."


twilight-sparkle
@twilight-sparkle
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0xabad1dea
@0xabad1dea

whenever clocks make things complicated, as they often do, someone inevitably declares: "we should just abolish timezones."

All right: poof. There is now exactly one standard time in use by everyone everywhere.

You try to arrange an online meeting and set it to be at 13:20. They write back: are you being serious? that's the middle of the night! Okay, so now you ask them what their usual business hours are, and work out where the overlap is.

It turns out this just keeps happening, so you need some sort of way to infer what someone's sunlight hours are without having to ask every person individually. It turns out you can calculate this pretty accurately from knowing their rough location, because the sun is pretty consistent like that. Hence, you can measure their offset from some arbitrary reference point and calculate their daylight hours, which you're probably going to want to represent in some sort of standard notation. It doesn't have to be precise to the second or anything, so you're probably gonna wanna break it down into zones of approximately the same sunlight hours...

You have become that which you swore to defeat.


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

These people always, oddly enough, suggest that Universal Time should be keyed to something roughly convenient for them (UTC being still reasonably useful even across the US, when they don't just completely unironically say Make EST Standard Everywhere) rather than, say, CST


NireBryce
@NireBryce

these time units are so... planetary, anything outside of that gets kinda hard to reason with when we talk 60 minutes to an hour, 24 hours to a day



applecinnabun
@applecinnabun

don't "touch grass." grass is the office carpet of outside. attune to the wind. grasp at the chaotic flow of the water. share breath with the trees. glimpse the core of Being. live. be alive. you're an animal!! be an animal!! also lawns are ugly!!!


CERESUltra
@CERESUltra

"Touch grass?" This Grass has forgotten the prairie, forgotten the wind of the high plains, and is nothing to me. Touch River beds, wet and dry. Touch Oaks and Pines and maples, Touch mountain stone and desert sand and estuary reeds. Touch thorns in the thicket, snow in the tundra, rocks worn smooth by the years of flooding creeks. They are ephemeral. They are eternal, they are older than you and younger than you and they move through time without marker, making your petty divisions look like ant hills to giants. Find yourself in a dense forest fog and loose all sense of space, drift in the ocean with no land for a thousand miles, lose all bearings on up and down in a merciless blizzard, and then you can tell me my opinions on which market available popcorn machines are "way too involved" and "unnecessarily reasearched".