Le Kendall [they/them]

if you're concerned about information security, you should know Signal isn't actually secure. instead, try Mastodon, which is a website where you can be guaranteed no one will ever see what you post

WILLIAM BLAKE: I, the venerated William Blake, have written the finest verse about a tiger anyone will ever conceive.

NAEL: hold my juice

embrace the fact that loads of stuff you thought was important when you were in your 20s objectively doesn't matter and probably never did, enjoy the clarity

At this point, it doesn't matter what justification they provide for Link's suspension, the fact of the matter is that the BlueSky team has demonstrated a wanton disregard for their own commitments to user moderation by deploying suspensions in response to what they take to be personal slights.

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between human & non-human things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

Anyway yeah I think that’s gross even though OBVIOUSLY Siri isn’t a person who can be harmed by insults. Sometimes people delight in having an excuse or justification to say the bad words… and that doesn’t say good things about them as people?

I think there is a thing where, like, when voice assistants were new there were (probably still are) dudes who think it is hilarious and fun to call Siri/Google a b***h or a w***e.

The whole discourse about whether the plagiarism machine is a person, has been poisoned by the fact that the people on one side of it have used the plagiarism machine to destroy their ability to think.

It's so obvious that it probably goes without saying, but any argument about gender norms should understand this fundamental truth:

Some people need there to be a clear hard line between being a man and being a woman, because they want to clearly understand who they can be sexist toward.

Does my blood phobia make me a bigot? Is it morally questionable that I hate cauliflower? Am I still allowed to be disgusted by dog-poo on the footpath? 🤔

A Facebook meme: "My whole political stance pretty much boils down to "I care about other people and the planet" and wow does that make some people mad."

We did not weather nigh two decades of “lazy millennials are destroying every single industry” to turn around and do this to Gen Z!!!

in fairness to them if they had learned literally anything about social networks they probably wouldn't have built one

My brother's response to hearing that Patricia Routledge had passed away was, 'That's so sad, where do we send the bucket of flowers?' and that's why he's the only person I trust to handle my memorial service because nobody else will be funny enough.

Stranger

There is a bit in a taytay song that I like because it reminds me of a song I like by someone else… anyway this is neither of those songs and I like it a lot open.spotify.com/track/3QCvO9...

If you throw the cringiest weirdos off a cliff all you’ve done is become the cringiest weirdo closest to the edge off the cliff, and have shown your support for “throwing the cringy weirdos off the cliff”.

It’s a hard life!!!

“Our lunch is spoiled,” said Toad. “I made it for you, Frog, so that you would be happy.”

“But Toad,” said Frog, “I AM happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up, I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you for a friend.”

So I already had the steam version because of early access (but I stopped playing that a while back and decided to wait for the full release) but I bought the switch 2 version so playing it can count as family time as I am not shut away in my study 😅

I’ll find some time here and there (I mean, I do let Zip have a fair bit of screen time!) but probably not any blocks of several hours in a row… 😂

Thank you!! 💚

I need a lot of sleep to deal with lack of downtime and sensory overload of school holidays 🫠

So when am I going to be able to play Hades II 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Then the next two weeks are school holidays and I don’t want Zip to spend hours and hours on screens and that means I can’t spend hours and hours on screens because he understandably finds it extremely unfair if I am on a screen and he’s not allowed…

Let Zip stay home from school because it’s the last day of term, my sister-in-law is coming to visit… I have my writing group all day Saturday and then on Sunday I’m riding the train to Newcastle…

… did chatGPT write this based on employment contracts…?

people who say crypto doesn't have any valuable uses: have you considered illegally hiding assets from your partner? i reckon about once a week i see a judgment about a separation including some annoying forensic accounting to find crypto that the husband (yes, husband) was trying to obscure

a thing which makes sense to me is learning that tidiness is not being about making things easy to FIND, but about making things easy to PUT AWAY. I think that's why tubs and bins work so well for me. It makes things really easy to put away!

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

Hey, Autism is not a disease. While not all Autistics have food aversion, it is found in a lot of Autistic and neurodivergent folk. If you want to stick it to the people sharing and celebrating the spreading of misinformation about Autism, share stuff made by Autistic folk. Like my book: