Gaelan Steele

@Gaelan@cathode.church
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nerd (computer); is trans; likes trains; american (pacific northwest) immigrant in scotland

let's make the world a better place! but also get up to some hijinks while we're here

pronounsshe/they
websitehttps://gaelan.me
formerly athttps://queer.party/@Gaelan
❤️@qenya
Gaelan Steele9h ago
Show threadGraham Sutherland / Polynomial11h ago
@leftpaddotpy I have a lot of complicated feelings about the whole thing, but to distil it down into a soundbite: it feels weird to have a culture of free software that doesn't unconditionally respect the user's freedom to choose what software they want to use.
Gaelan Steele1d ago
Glyph1d ago
whoever is doing this _please_ stop playing with the monkey's paw https://mastodon.social/@verge/114383625601142305
Gaelan Steele1d ago

today at work: Gaelan costs the company £0.00000202 in lifetime revenue

(I stopped using floats to calculate revenue)

Gaelan Steele1d ago
TIL döner, shawarma, and gyros are all various languages’ words for “to turn”
Gaelan Steele1d ago
Show threadIrenes (many)2d ago
pardon us, we seem to have a macro-writing vi macro caught in our throat
Gaelan Steele2d ago
keep seeing people post about the Catholic Church and thinking there’s drama about my instance before reading more carefully
Gaelan Steele3d ago
halva 🐇Mar 12
there literally isn't a single linux distribution that I can recommend to a new person without adding a sentence long "but..."
Gaelan SteeleApr 15
tadzikApr 15
It's 2025 so I blogged again, this time about remote work: https://blog.tadzik.net/the-importance-of-offtopic.html
The importance of offtopic | blog.tadzik.net

Gaelan SteeleApr 12
liverpool review: on a friday/saturday night, it sure is a certain way that I am not
Gaelan SteeleApr 12
daily affirmations