lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"



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bovigender pride flag, by @arina-artemis (click for more info)



artemis
@artemis

and its been this way my whole life.

I got into self hosting cause me and my friends wanted to play some games and i figured id google how to run the servers for them. We didnt know what the fuck we were doing. We just wanted to run game and chat servers so we could play the stuff we wanted, we started out Windows Server 2008 on random computers given to us by someone who knew someone who knew someone. and I enjoyed it so I kept doing it. Me and my friend ran free teamspeaks for a couple hundred people because we just felt like it, we ran a plex server, we torrented stuff, we ran minecraft and other random game servers. We ran git, some websites, some forums too. All on like a $30/month (at the time) dedicated server- kinda expensive, but my friend felt like paying for it, and others chipped in when they could. they wanted stuff run for them, we wanted to run stuff, it was a good fit!

like you cannot model this shit as rugged individualism. if we want to break away from central services we need to think about this in terms of communities. if you hate self hosting then you shouldnt be the one doing it! If the ball doesn't fit in your mouth it's not yours.

In the circles I run in, there's some people who know how to 3D print and do that for others. Some people who do baking. Some people who do sewing. Some people who do fermenting or w/e, some who do drawing, mushroom growing, soldering, poetry, whatever. people do the shit that they enjoy doing and they share it with others, and thats the only way this works, because nobody actually wants or can do literally everything.

but to do this we need to build communities. and devs need to build stuff designed for communities to run. Not everyone knows that one person who will host shit. I wonder if maybe it used to be easier to know that one person. before software became so centralized, people were doing self-hosting just out of necessity. they weren't a huge nerd about it they stumbled into it because they had to. but then some stayed cause they liked it. Some became huge nerds about it like me, others just stayed there kinda doing their thing. thats it!



ambercxc
@ambercxc

this is clearly so personal to the author and so so beautifully written. trans experience is so unique. i don't relate to this almost at all but i feel the emotion in every word.

this is a survival story. this is a poem celebrating transness. transness reads in this poem as an incredibly important or even crucial aspect of why and how the author loves. i really don't relate to that - that's not why i love, and i would never share my deadname, especially not on the second date - but i can see the beauty in the author's perspective and how it's portrayed here.

and it's not making a grand statement about trans love. it's not saying this is a universal experience. Like, the fact that i play magic has nothing to do with my transness and i don't like how often the two end up associated in memes, but i don't feel interrogated by this poem because it's just part of this one experience in the author's life. it's beautiful and personal and deeply emotional and i love it.

i love this poem because it isn't relatable for me, just as much as i'm sure it is for other trans people. and i dunno, that's kind of amazing, right?