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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 points 18 hours ago

I hereby bestow upon you my daily pedant award. I hadn't thought of that.

I guess I could say war doesn't count but whatever, I was wrong. I think the rest of the sentence stands on its own.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 0 points 18 hours ago

Oh that's awful. I thought the nightmare might finally be over.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Is this a personal spiritual successor, or is this there some thread connecting these two games that I'm missing?

They do both rule.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 18 hours ago

Having grown up on the MUDs and MMOs that release before WoW I think I was thankfully inoculated against its more gamified, addictive formula.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 30 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

But not unlike Hitler, he never actually physically pulled a trigger, or set an electric car on fire, or stole food from a hungry person, so really the hate against him is totally irrational and comes outta nowhere. s

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 19 points 23 hours ago

10/10 I mean 3.14

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

I can't imagine getting these orders, to break ceasefire, and actually executing them. It's monstrous...

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

That sinking feeling

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Who the fuck is signing off on the braindead mergers!

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah ha well you see I'm not big on ffffocus (imagine my making a chopping motion with my hands here). Not my forté. So the tiny stories let me switch between worlds before I get tired of writing one.

It is always fascinating to see how different folks are from each other.

 

Welcome to this ninth/IX/9th writing club update!

Happy mid-March to you all, my well lettered friends. I hope you've been graced with some nice weather as we in the northern hemisphere enter into the warmer time of the year. Today is delightfully dreary and overcast where I'm at, which I'm hoping to channel into some indoor creativity.

Okay! Here are the Writers:

Please see last month's post if you need to refresh your memory on what your goals were.

Just an FYI that while "membership" in the writing club is fluid and open, so too are the names above simply my best guess, without judgement, at who is participating on any particular month. So if you don't see your name up there and you'd like me to add it, just shoot me a DM or even better just share what you're working on and you'll be added right back to the roster the following month. :)

 

So I've got a new domain and I want to do some fun stuff with it. Specifically, I'm looking for something that's fun to make as well as use.

I've got experience making webservers in p much every major language. My first instinct is to use NextJS just because it's fast and I've used it most recently, but then I also feel the allure of just rawdawging my own HTML/CSS+JS, like my forebears might've done. XML is kind of a pain to handbomb, though; all those closing tags, etc... Though I'm sure there are plugins for that.

Any suggestions? What was the last tool you used that really sparked your joy of creativity? Any really fun frameworks, stacks, editors, etc?

 

I've recently stopped using tmux in favour of relying fully kitty's built-in windows and tabs, and I'm a fan.

The real killer app for me was the "pass_keys" plugin that allows you to navigate vim and kitty splits all with the same keys. I think there are plugins that allow you to do the same between vim<>tmux<>kitty as well, so it's not like you would need to drop tmux to take advantage of it.

Anyway, so that's been a big shift in my daily workflow. I've been using tmux for well over a decade, and GNU screen before that (I was never able to train myself away from the C-a prefix.

The one thing I miss a lot is being able to quickly detach and re-attach to existing sessions. Especially when doing some work over an ssh connection. But then I can always just shove the terminal into scratch space, or another i3 workspace.


This isn't me trying to sell anyone on ditching tmux. I love tmux, and if it works for your flow then it's perfect for you. More just curious what kinds of setup other people have.

Is there some hot new thing that I've missed that blows both kitty and tmux and i3 out of the water? Idk, but I'm always on the lookout. :p

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Welcome to the eighth writing club update!

Happy mid-February. I hope folks are keeping safe and comfortable. I managed to experience some crunchy snow finally, so that's nice. Crnch crnch crnch, snow underfoot. In my list of sonic experiences this rates as high tier, maybe even higher than crunchy leaves.

If I had one piece of unsolicited advice it would be to take a long walk with only a notebook for company.

Okay that's enough musing. On to the stars of our show - the Writers:

Please see last month's post if you need to refresh your memory on what your goals were.

I can't wait to hear your updates!

 

Just down the street from
where you are I am sitting at a cafe
believing in you. Thinking of you
has helped me put certain things
in perspective. For instance I wish
for I to record only its encounter
with you. You are the one who
rehinges all the names: your face
daisies at the sun, you glory
up the bare hill rallying the squirrels,
your voice trucks through the traffic
running reckless down the roads,
you catch the circling snow in your
sleepy lashes. What is my language
really for? Not to languish on the page
unheard & unlived, but to hold another
person, to address them—it’s true none
of my poems would matter
if I didn’t have the words to reassure,
to cheer, to delight, to soothe, to free
you. To make room for us, for how
we will be present together. I promise
to write to you through disaster, in
the face of violences sudden & slow
—I promise to never let you go.

Bridget Huh is an MFA candidate in poetry at Cornell University. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Prism International, The Ex-Puritan, and Canthius. Huh grew up in Toronto and is the winner of the 2023 Vallum Poetry Award.


I found it here: https://thewalrus.ca/poem/

 

Welcome to the seventh writing club update!

Happy new year!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I was just getting used to drawing the "4" in "2024" in my notebooks, and now I have to get used to a whole new number. I always liked "5" though, so hopefully we get along alright.

As always I hope everyone has had a good month (but not so good as to leave nothing to stoke the fires of creativity).

Anyway, on with the important part - the Writers!

I can't wait to hear from you all. Your updates no matter how trivial always manage to motivate me for the next month.

As always, anyone and everyone are welcome to comment or share their own work in addition to the club participants above.

 

I find I get some really quality introspection / observations around this time of year, and also just during holidays in general. Maybe it's just the time off, or maybe it's having an event to write around. I'm not sure.

Do other folks especially look forward to writing their thoughts down during the holidays? Like I'm visiting family for a couple days, and I can't wait to document the memories that haven't even occurred yet.

 

What I mean by hybrid is like mélanges like green tea & ginger, green tea & jasmine, etc.

I find they lend a nice upper/downer tonality, like in the previous example I'd go with ginger green tea if I really wanted to focus, and jasmine if I was trying to coax a more relaxed vibe.

 

Welcome to the sixth writing club update!

I hope everyone has had a good November (and part of December (these posts keep taking me longer and longer into the month to post - they're basically mid-month posts now lol)). These increased indoorsiness is often good for the types of projects we're embarked on.

So without further ado, here are our dashing Participants for the month!

Have a great December and new year!

 

Is what I say to myself as I shuffle away with my second cup of the morning.

Description: a dark cup of tea in a white and red mug with tiny pictures of landmarks on it

 

It's not my first choice, but it's gonna be TypeScript for me. I've got an interview for a primarily TS position coming up this week so would like to brush up on its quirks.

If the interview doesn't go well, then I'll probably switch to Go, though hehe. I've been really enjoying using it, but no one's ever paid me to do so.

 

I've been getting away with this for many years, and would like to pass it on to you now. It's like an intrusive thought, but a fun one.

For instance when writing to a friend:

Make sure to save yourself some Halloween candy!

Take a moment to muse over the modification:

Make sure to save Yousef some Halloween candy!

Who is this Yousef and why does he get your friend's candy?? Take a moment to enjoy this incongruity, then send the original message. Congratulations, you've just had a moment of whimsy, and no one's the wiser.

You'll find there's no end to what these Yousefs get themselves involved in. May also work with variants of the name like Joseph, I haven't tried.

Okay. Enjoy!

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