shell utilities i wrote over the weekend for no particularly obvious reason:

$ dice
⚅ (6)

$ dice 5
⚁ ⚂ ⚂ ⚀ ⚀ (10)

@cwebber the state of colorado contains 53 of the 96 mountain peaks at or above 14000 feet in the united states.

nothing i can say that hasn't been said better. _left hand_ helped rewire how i thought about being human while i was still a kid, and _the dispossessed_ did the same all over again years after i probably should have read it.

i can still feel the sensation of sitting in an arm chair in a shitty apartment a decade ago, finishing that book in tears and wishing fiercely that i could live the kind of life it said was both vital and possible.

@jk i still use shift-insert to paste.

@superpat @cosine serious question: is there such a thing as ethically sourced hardware at any available scale?

mastodon: where the only brands anybody talks to me about are fountain pens and archaic terminal devices 1965 - 1990.

@dredmorbius @kensanata @natecull @vfrmedia ...the reality _may_ be that you're a fool not to jump whenever salary or working conditions can be improved a notch or two, since long-term investment in any given entity will probably only be punished.

i know, at any rate, that a completely mercenary and extractive attitude is the correct posture wrt employment; i'm just bad at having one consistently.

@Elizafox are we, uh, really doing a thing where we make fun of what people want their names to be?

because that seems kind of fucked up for around these parts.

@kitredgrave well, was _culture_?