Zatnosk @zatnosk@manowar.social

"Masculinity" is a meta-trait.

* People can have traits that distinguish them from other people.

* Two people with the same trait never express it identically; ergo, a trait is actually set of trait-expressions

* Masculinity describes a subset of such a trait-expression (for some traits), i.e. masculinity is a property that distinguishes trait-expressions from each other.

Okay, I want to try to focus my spare-time-project-energy for the coming months.
I will do my very best to restrain myself to three projects:

1. Getting #GardenGame to a minimal playable state, so y'all can start making small virtual gardens. I'm not good at graphics, so keep expectations low for the first release.

2. #StarShip, a PHP fediverse server project by @InspectorCaracal . I'm thinking of making a zatnosk-experiments branch and just do my best to run wild with it.

When I think of a future with Open Social Media, I imagine three pillars.

1) Microblogging (ActivityPub), for sharing thoughts with strangers, ephemeral community building, and broad+global reach.

2) Forum / Stable Community (no good solution yet, AFAIK), for discussing, planning, buying/selling locally. All within a distinct group of people, membership of which can be managed.

3) Peer2Peer (Scuttlebutt?), for talking directly to friends, family, nearby people, and easily sharing files.

I wonder if there's any useful applications of $$$var out there.

I've used $$var for semi-generic metaprogramming, but is there pattern that uses $$$var that couldn't just as well be written as a $$var pattern?

I did not expect state-funded national news to not only cover the Fortnite blackout, but also embed a fan-tweet with an image of a butt-naked man.

But that is what Denmarks Radio (who also does tv and online news) has done.

The radio in the office blasting "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" repeatedly from the outro of Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name Of" is a special kind of ironic.

Contemporary danish has an interesting habit of importing technical or niche words from english and applying a weird mix of danish and english grammar to them.

It's especially horrible when it goes wrong. Such as some danes saying "en tanks" or "en drinks" and referring to a single object ("en" means "a" and "one" at the same time).

I'm not sure if my brain is playing tricks on me, but I just read "when I ghost you" (referring to not answering communication) and parsed it as

"I looked at your screen in a local multiplayer multi-computer context*"
(*commonly LAN parties)

I can't verify this slang, but I'm pretty sure it was common among danish gamers in the early 00's (if not in the 90's too). And yes, it was literally the word "ghost" imported into danish sentences; as in
"Hold op med at ghoste!"

Oooh, this #GardenGame is almost nearing completion!

The most notorious King of Denmark was King Christian IV.

He had a lot of buildings built, one of them was a round tower, which he called... Round Tower.

Very creative guy, that king.

tfw you make a minor edit to an .png image, and the time it takes to embed it in a pdf goes from 0.968 seconds to less than a millisecond.

That's the difference between looking at a spinner and (perceived) instantly.