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@lenny_wonders@treehouse.systems
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cat wrangler. crafty.
I write some (a lot of) music.
"len" is good as well :)

be warned--I post A LOT

love me long-winded or don't love me at all.

also I'm still coviding and you should be, too

music mostly marked under #lennySings if you want to follow it here, or @lenny_wonders on youtube.

https://linktr.ee/lenny_wonders

I am just a pile of impossible questions, held together by spit and duct tape and hope that flickers on and off, on and off, on and off.

pronounsthey/them
profile picwhite person in their mid-30s smiles at the camera at the wharf. They're wearing an envo respirator and aviator sunglasses.
banner pictag from an axolotl plushie. It says "kind of cute, kind of ugly, sorta weird, but oh so snuggly"
ko-fihttps://ko-fi.com/lenny_wonders
linktreehttps://linktr.ee/lenny_wonders

hmmm side note

today has been a day with a lot of little things that could have felt very destabilizing but they weren't

and I am proud of myself for that :)

I have no idea how the next few days are going to go 😂

In theory I have the transmasc social club thing on Wednesday!! And also, there's a decent chance I will be laid up with a migraine, given what the barometric pressure is doing!!

think calm thoughts about gay friendship, my friends

I had kind of forgotten what it's like to be medicated for my ADHD (it has been a whiiiiiiile)

so far at least, it mostly looks like:

the tasks I am doing are just tasks, and not tasks with several other secret tasks hidden inside of them (ruminate, interrogate myself over my decisions, assume everyone hates me, panic about how I'm going to prove I am worth a damn given everybody obviously hates me, etc etc etc)

they sure don't joke when they talk about the ways testosterone changes your arousal patterns, huh???

this is weird. fucking WEIRD.

...also I kind of wonder if I was a lot more ace than I realized before, but perhaps confused/ignorant of what some of that meant... 🤔

I keep wanting to be like "I got so much done without any meds, now that I'm treating my executive dysfunction I will RULE THE WORLD"

I'm trying to not build in those kinds of expectations; I know that isn't how it works 😂 medication isn't magic! Sometimes you get better at focusing, and the thing you're focusing on is "gee there sure seems to be an overwhelming amount of human misery in the world."

Still though, I am optimistic :)

i think some of you might be gay

I am on medication again for my ADHD.

It's like someone turned down the volume in my brain.

I am feeling very difficult and it is frustrating to me 🙃

I just wish my needs were less complicated, that's all. I wish I could just want a thing, and pursue it, and have it, instead of all the shit I actually do.

bah.

It's supposed to be "some people are using new technology to write code in an ineffective and intellectually lazy way"

But somehow it has turned into

"I assume code I don't like must have been written in an ineffective and intellectually lazy way (and therefore I can disrespect its author)"

Feels to me like "vibe coding" has gone the way of "gaslighting."

It's a term that is meant to describe something specific, but has been diluted until it means "code I don't like."

But it's worse in that "vibe coding" is meant to be about the process, so it turns into "I assume I understand the process that led to code I don't like"

Which is just another version of "I know the right way to write code, and people who don't write it like me are doing it wrong."

This is what happens when we lose specificity 🙃

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sister showed me this
@elilla despite not being native to fedi, this screenshot is the most fedi thing I've seen in a while. ;)
@elilla Hey, red, yellow and green are used with the same meanings in railway signalling too!
@zuthal @elilla also the word "yellow" where I'm from is only used for train colour-light signals and not for car traffic lights, where it would be referred to as "amber"
@zuthal @elilla Ooh, incorporating some of the fancier railway signal aspects might be useful!

green: continue
green blinking: continue, limiting speed
yellow: slow down, be prepared to stop
yellow blinking: navigate on sight, be prepared to stop
red: stop
@that @elilla and if you can't talk you can use hand gestures to make the semaphore shapes!
@that @zuthal @elilla starts to blink yellow
@elexia @that @zuthal
robotgirl whose cheeks flush with green lights involuntarily when you compliment her
@that @zuthal @elilla
blue: shunting operations not allowed
white: shunting allowed
@chfour @that @elilla somehow need to incorporate a DO NOT HUMP stencil into this
@chfour @that @elilla presumably as a tramp stamp for someone who exclusively tops

@zuthal @elilla
Unlike road signals, railway signals aren't standardized, each country has their own.

You're probably mostly right when it comes to red and green, but yellow does take on different meanings.

@elilla @azrael Can do train signals instead?
@elilla @azrael Like those old-fashioned semaphores with the bar that goes up and down

@elilla “before we start, let’s talk about consent and boundaries and safewording”

[ pulls out a slide deck ]

@kuriko @elilla Wait, that's just ordinary British train porn!

@kuriko @elilla
Essential, especially when pulling a train.

(there, i said it)

@kuriko @elilla (Justin Roczniak voice) "So first we must ask, what is a safeword?"
@kuriko @elilla where do I get this slide deck, I need to have it /(somewhat) serious

@Liaely
I do not have a slide deck for this >< that was one quick duck search for a shitpost -- this image seems to be from this flicker collection

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mark_vogel/albums/72157625332301325/

United Kingdom Railway Signals (Basic)

Explore this photo album by Mark Vogel on Flickr!

Flickr
@kuriko getting into bed and pressing the Train Ready to Start plunger

@elilla I dunno why but the obvious overlap of "safety tools" for TTRPGs and kink never occurred to me until this moment.

Now, I'd bet good money the TTRPG ones came from kinky folks.

@masukomi I mean I'm far from the only DM who grew up to be a DM