Arugula @skyenet@witches.live

all the best JRPG party compositions are also polycules

the bechdoll test: does a story have two dolls who talk about anything other than their witch?

yes?

then it's a bad story.

small brain: calling pharmaceuticals by their brand name because you trust that the brand-name pills work better

normal brain: calling pharmaceuticals by their generic name to avoid promoting big pharma

massive brain: calling pharmaceuticals by their brand name while buying the generic versions to encourage brand genericide

universe brain: emigrating to escape the usa healthcare and trademark systems

is your teen self-harming? know the signs:

* posting opinions about open source software on social media
* opening Pull Requests on GitHub to projects they're not organization members of
* using Wayland with an NVIDIA card
* learning the Vulkan API
* getting into Wintergatan's Marble Machine videos on YouTube

There's a peculiar doll that communicates exclusively over radio waves. Its transmissions have a range with an approximately 200 foot radius, and it will broadcast over several frequencies at once.

95.1FM is the doll's conversational frequency. If spoken to, a response is broadcast over this channel using a voice typical of this type of doll.

88.8FM broadcasts intermittent speech consisting entirely of variations of "awawa". The tone of the "awawa"s on this channel has been observed to be largely consistent with the doll's mood, a hypothesis which the doll cheerfully supports when asked.

103.2FM is a chiptune music station. Analysis of recordings taken from this frequency have concluded that the music broadcast on this channel is produced strictly by a single 2A03 sound chip, the same as can be found in a Famicom game console. The small number of songs that have been identified have shown to originate from a wide variety of sources from radio-friendly pop, death metal, vaporwave, baroque, and tracks from video games that are available on consoles other than the Famicom. The doll unhelpfully describes this frequency as "a distillation of history's greatest bangers".

108.1FM features readings of fictional stories about dolls and witches. The voice on the broadcast is not the doll's voice, but is otherwise a consistent feminine voice. The stories largely focus on different types of doll such as "combat dolls" or "plush dolls" while occasionally including witches and other characters such as "moths", "spiders", and an unknown class of entity called "angels". The doll claims to have no knowledge of this frequency and is confused by questions about the specific stories.

The radio doll's origins are unknown. The doll possesses no marks that would identify its make and model. Its witch states that she bought it at a yard sale a few years ago at "quite the steal", but she doesn't recall an exact date or location for the transaction. The witch has shut down further inquiries for purchase, saying she's gotten "quite attached" to the entertainment the doll provides.

Happy the year of the Linux desktop to everyone!

As the old year cycles through to the new, be sure to turn off your gender, take out the filter, and scrub thoroughly in soapy water with a wire brush, then let it dry completely before reinserting and powering on. Don't want to start the new year with a stale gender!

in a very doll awawawa mood

Today I wrote a regex and it didn’t take THAT long and I didn’t die or anything. Can you believe it. She truly does it all

a debugging manifesto

Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

people ask questions like "how are you?" and like how tf am I supposed to know

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protip if you don't go outside you won't have any problems

There are people whose entire media or consulting job is making you hate labor action and forget the bosses who abuse workers and force them to use collective leverage. Don’t let those assholes win by diminishing your empathy. Rail workers deserve better. You deserve better in the workplace too. We are on the same side.

Mastodon instance wrapped

- You migrated to 56 instances this year
- You thought of 7897 instance names
- You bought 2 domain names
- You posted 3 toots