CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@CordiallyChloe @rooster "Boss makes a million, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time"

When you've been staring at a problem trying to integrate 2 very different systems for a week, and come to the conclusion that it's about as impossible as taking thousands of excel files and automatically migrating them into a database. Unstructured data to structured data just doesn't work like that...

@Unixbigot I know this is probably a shitpost, but unfortunately, that's not the case. The universe is expanding faster than the speed of light.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-can-galaxies-recede-from-us-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/

@FinalGirl Another I do a lot for my butch self is just do androgynous shoes like Converse or Toms or whatever. Everyone wears those and the men's and women's look the same. For Converse, I put in fun shoelaces - currently rainbow ones

Sometimes I'm reminded that as bonkers as our legislature is, there's a lot of way crazier legislatures

Gunfire breaks out in Philippine Senate where authorities tried to arrest a senator

A burst of gunfire rang out in the Philippine Senate, sparking chaos in the building where authorities had tried to arrest a senator wanted by the International Criminal Court in connection with a deadly government crackdown on drugs.

AP News (apnews.com)

@philou Sure, but I can't fuck off to some other planet

Building the thing that fixes the thing - I understand the problem pretty well and can pat myself on the back for figuring a thing out.
HAPPY-BRAIN-CHEMICALS = TRUE

Slop together some code, I don't really understand what's going on, and kinda nervous about it all. Trying to figure it out well enough to review it, fix the bugs it slopped in there, eventually give up, cross your fingers, click submit.
HAPPY-BRAIN-CHEMICALS = FALSE

@irene I used to love being out in the wilderness. These days, being Out as a trans lesbian, I feel more safety and comfort in places where I can be lost in the crowd of people just as weird and weirder than me. 6'2" blue haired trans woman? That's not even the weirdest person that the shopkeeper has seen this afternoon. Small towns? Unless I'm going into a college town for supplies, I'm going to be the weirdest person at the Walmart. Even if most folks are okay with me, there's going to be Those Assholes. I don't like going into the countryside very much anymore.

@passthejoe You don't hear about a lot of them either because they keep it confidential or it's simply not newsworthy.

@passthejoe USS Ford. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/onboard-fire-uss-gerald-ford-aircraft-carrier

@demi Yeah for actual emergencies. But I'm just talking about my irrational fear of "I'm feeling trapped and really need to go and be... Not Here." Somewhere else. I don't want to be at the mercy of others whether I can just put on my shoes and walk in some direction. Or hail a cab and exist somewhere else. I can tolerate a whole lot more situations as long as I know I have the Option to leave if I need to.

@irene Yeah, if it wasn't for my desire for a yard to toss my pup into, I wouldn't mind apartment/condo living. I really loved my last place which was a 900 sq ft townhouse in a dense part of town. We barely ever drove anywhere except for our monthly Costco run and to go visit family. My car battery kept dying Even still we barely drive, it just means we have fewer options for restaurants or groceries.

But just the knowledge that at any point in time I could walk to the park and keep going through green space for miles. Or going to the subway and going anywhere made me not claustrophobic about it all. Cruise ships, like that picture just gives me heebie jeebies.

@irene see exotic places without ever actually having to interact with "the wrong sort". I mean if I go to a resort I'm still interacting with the tourism industry, but even still.

@Aurani The "poop cruise" ...

Raw Sewage, Biohazard Bags, And 'Toilet Lasagna': Inside The Carnival Voyage That Became Known As The 'Poop Cruise'

In February 2013, 4,200 passengers and crew members were stranded on the Carnival Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico for four days during the "Poop Cruise."

All That's Interesting (allthatsinteresting.com)

@johnduggins When they go well, they sound like they're fun (aside from the fact that they pollute a ton and charge you extra for EVERYTHING). But it's the fact that when they go wrong, shit goes very very wrong ...

@SymTrkl I don't mind little day trip boats - I used to scuba dive and it was a lot of fun. But being out at sea for days on end only to land in little islands selling tourist crap and paying hundreds of dollars for tours to see the tourist traps...

@SymTrkl Oh sure. There's other reasons to dislike them. But that's dislike of them for business/moral/ethical reasons. Not my fear of them.

I feel like my fear of cruise ships is justified in that it's an enclosed space, diseases can run rampant, and you can be effectively imprisoned there when something goes wrong.

The ship loses power. A disease outbreak. Fog closes the port. A bad storm. Whatever. At least (if)/when I go to a resort, I'm on land. I can go to a hospital. If there's some disease outbreak, I'm not stuck in my little tiny cabin for days on end. I can catch the next flight home if I have to.

@LunaCOLON3 Feel free. Just a fun concept I thought up

@vocumsineratio Well apparently in this case, level 1