Heli 🦨 @heli@chitter.xyz

wolf love battery is empty

cold mornings

@xj9 the normalization of the idea that software is in one of two states: either regularly updated or abandoned, is one of many obscene things about contemporary computing culture
if something needs to be regularly changed in an additive and (in context) meaningfully novel way in order to just continue working in the same way then it's unacceptably fragile by any reasonable standard. if that's due to the environment in which it exists then under any other circumstances one would look for a different environment.

when an american man walks into a quaint wee pub in Scotland and announces he is 1/8th Scottish, we all leap up with tears in our eyes & cry out "a lost son of Alba is returned to us!" and everyone busies round him and gets him a whisky and an old lady called Morag tearfully hugs him and calls him a bonny lad, and we all ask him to marry our bonny daughters, and the auld men start up a ceilidh tune and we teach him to dance like a Scot and when he's all tired out we cut off his head and eat him

I can't believe Bill Watterson predicted MMOs

Panic has in their possession an internal iPod prototype and they decided to finally write about it

https://panic.com/blog/a-prototype-original-ipod/

Dune is about how sand is course and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere

while engaging in passive activities such as films or lesson, please do not forget to provide enrichment for your adhd friends by passing them entertaining objects such as ;
-pens (clickable)
-bubblewrap
-very small pieces of paper
-difficult to eat snacks
-cats

thank u

can't really be mad at kids for yelling and crying in public. The only thing that separates me from them is a flimsy patchwork of coping mechanisms, some of which even sometimes work