@m455 ow ow i hurt myself extra bad this time, call the trioamedics

i knew this already but

i have a bachelors degree in computer science but @m455 is way more computer scientist than i am

me: i used elixir for 4 years and now i know how to misuse pipelines and the with statement pretty good even though the docs say i'm doing antipatterns (what do they know)

m455: ive never touched elixir before so for my "hello world" i'll build a whole ass lisp interpreter for fun

me: too hard to think about, i'll just watch and be impressed

@abbienormal all of those i think are general purpose. registrars will tell you if there's a constraint on their use but i don't think those have any such constraints.

tech bros are fans of .io for the "input/output" connotation but it has a problematic history; unlike .tv or .me, the island countries in the indian ocean originally assigned the .io tld receive none of the profits. https://www.thewebmaster.com//hosting/articles/io-tld-top-level-domain/

@selfsame did you also make the pingu model?

if you are (like me) a philistine then harrow the ninth glossed is an enjoyable read after Harrow the Ninth. warning: spoilers!

These next two are on the same page, which I think is truly and magnificently emblematic of the high culture/low culture shit that Tamsyn Muir pulls.

i think i must have a thing for high/low culture shit

reminded of my favorite shitposter whose toots made me go look up The Cask of Amontillado so i could re-read, get the joke, and laugh

shoudn't have gone scrolling through locked tomb tumblr.

(from https://chillyweirdoinacoffin.tumblr.com/post/670971795801767936/more-non-spoilery-early-thoughts-from-an)

but i am already losing my mind having to endure waiting another four months for my copy

when i noticed this jewel of a joke i could only picture the author giggling, thoroughly satisfied with her own wit

for readers with stupendous foresight and attention to detail it's another clue to make you feel smart when you correctly predict the reveal

for idiots like me it's a flower that blooms only upon the second (or in my case third) read through

#HarrowTheNinth #LockedTomb

i mean srsly if you follow me you might as well get to reading this thing already

a virtual machine for a bespoke fictional cpu whose opcodes are all swears

(i bet @m455 builds one eventually)

the last recent purchase finally arrived

gonna belly up to this trough and gorge myself filthy

24 new (used) acquisitions that i hope will take the edge off until the next locked tomb drops. authors:

elizabeth bear
sue burke
becky chambers
brenda cooper
nicky drayden
kate elliot
ada hoffman
kameron hurley
ann leckie

🧠 again
👨 huh
🧠 it's time to read it again
👨 wait what? we haven't even had time to read half the pile we picked up 6 months ago
🧠 i demand locked tomb
👨 you can quote it from memory already
🧠 not enough of it. can't recall page numbers for some of the quotes that are on the merch
👨 there's merch?
🧠 also buy the merch
🧠 but first, read it again

the second book thrashed me in its jaws since last post and finally spat me back out gasping

the first is a masterpiece and i want everyone to read it

the second, was like a guilty pleasure? i loved it but not sure most would

it's a strange one

2nd-person pov, feeling lost and retconned for half the book 😬

super sharp dialogue, so quotable, like the first

perfect innuendo, funny, raunchy and tension-building

suddenly koolaid man explodes through the fourth wall with a decade-old meme? wat

my love for this book and this author increases with every page

squee the sequel is even longer and i'm certain i'm going to buy it the very second i reach the end

squee it becomes a trilogy next year

dark, funny, horror, endearing, lgbt rep, terrible puns, delicious turns of phrase, just a perfect mix

there's a weensy bit of "that seems far fetched" but then i remember this is more like good anime than hard scifi and i adore it again

i think i got this recommend from thestorygraph.com

that feel when you're really into the ebook you've been reading a bit of every night and you check anxiously to see how soon it will end and there's still like 80% of the story left to go, aw yeah

in other news i am suuuper enjoying gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

glad i'm rereading this. my recreational reading is mostly in pieces, in bed, until i've fallen asleep

no wonder i felt lost the first time around

i wonder how many other good books i've underappreciated because i've missed something important due to reading while falling asleep

(not many because i don't read nearly enough)

"like yoking a doughnut to a cobra"

"wetly depressed"

"if my heart had a dick you would kick it"

The Locked Tomb is full of poetry and somehow i love it

i'm halfway through a reread of the second book. i fear i might reread my favorite parts yet again until i can rehearse them from memory (luckily i'm almost to that point now)

🧠 read it again
👨 nope
🧠 read it again
👨 not yet
🧠 read it again
👨 stuff to do
🧠 read it again
👨 it hasn't even been a week
🧠 read it again
👨 last time we liked a book so much that we read it twice we were 16 years old
🧠 you listened to the same techno song on loop like 30 times yesterday, read the gideon books again
👨 sleep would be a fine thing
🧠 fuck sleep, read it again
👨 okay just... just a little bit
🧠 muhaha

the strongest criticism i have is that the trope "character is mid-sentence in revealing crucial information but entirely by coincidence is interrupted" happens about a hundred times,

i wish the author would just hang a lampshade on it so we can laugh at it

could even be a literal lampshade

considering we're not above having characters somehow accidentally quoting eminem lyrics at least ten thousand years in the future

the first time through i was feeling "lost and retconned for half the book"

the third time through i'm appreciating once again how this author can be ridiculous at times yet internally consistent and coherent, all the pieces click, the reread is a whole new experience

even if it turns out to be difficult, even if i have to reread five times to Get It, i can't fricken wait for the next book in September, and the promised book after that

even though all the press and the reviews and the blurb on the cover is like "lesbians lesbians lesbians!"

—something i have complex feels about because it feels borderline voyeuristic if not for the absolute dearth of queer representation in scifi—

i implore you, yes even you who look like me, to read the locked tomb trilogy, it's so fricken good

realize that "but is it not written for me?" is what everybody who is not a straight cis white dude must have felt for all the other scifi you love