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privilege, like gender, is not binary nor otherwise fully discrete. we are smart enough to know that our privileges are contextual and not decided by us.

we know ourselves not innately, but through our reflections in others' faces. we know that we are not self-contained and self-deterministic, and somehow yet we defy expectation.

and that's fine. we can deal with it.

#introductions
bug is as old as game boy and grew up alongside it.

win.dlestra.ws is where creations go. it's being updated. kokuagames.com is the biggest thing bug has worked on.

bug desires socialism but spends all their resources simply helping trans ppl survive

even more vexing is the idea that "leftist" cliques can form without anybody holding their friends accountable for anything done to ppl outside them. (especially while accusing others of clout-chasing, lol.)

for example am i supposed to overlook anti-semitism and transphobia over claims that they're otherwise shining figures of struggle against the police state (or however the excuse morphs to defend the friend in question)?

i found the true weird fediverse. i know "magick above all else" is kind of pagans' schtick but regardless of how they spend their energies, people who think "all political thought is for the birds" have literally never experienced any kind of oppression, and their resulting carelessness with words is so predictable but still vexing, especially as an instance mod.

so I just got to see Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind for its first theatrical release in the US in its uncut form...

there was barely a peep from the audience for the entire two hours. just a chuckle when Kurotowa said "shut up."

I think the movie is just that beautiful.

i didn't end up keeping the install, instead going with my original plan of replacing the partition it created with btrfs and NixOS, but it was a nice evening.

i've been through a lot of distros...i've taken minimal installs of arch, debian, gentoo, slackware, and 4 flavors of BSD each from scratch to something useful. so i think i'm qualified to say that there's nothing wrong with ubuntu, especially for the average user.

last night as i was preparing to install NixOS by first running the Kubuntu installer so that it could said magic, i found myself playing with the liveUSB and being completely fine with it...the KDE Plasma interface, the smoothed-over app-store-like package manager, and everything else.

more than fine, i was grateful, cuz i was fed up from messing with computers all past month (and had just taken doxylamine). it felt like Kubuntu had my back that night.

after yellow dog, ubuntu was one of the first linux distributions i ever got working (because like yellow dog, they supported PPC macs). it was honestly breathtaking, as rough as it was getting codecs and such on the system back then.

now, ubuntu and its various flavors are quite possibly the easiest OSes in the world to install. by default, they will even make room for themselves automatically without disrupting existing OS installations.

thinking back on this.
rest in peace, my trust in gentoo.
1 Mar 2017 -- 17 Oct 2017
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