This Present Darkness @thsprsntdrknss@metalhead.club

Public PSA to anyone it may concern: if I’ve requested to follow you more than once, I promise I’m not being a stalker, I just have the memory of a goldfish with Alzheimer’s. Sorry for bugging you if I’ve done that.

I'm not normally the type to ask for money, but my girlfriend suffers from painful gallstones and it turns out the surgery is insanely more expensive than we expected (like 3 times as much). We are adjusting our budget to save up, if but if you're willing and/or able to help speed that process along it would be immensely appreciated.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/1vsrj79f1c

You can also donate to my Liberapay and I promise to set those funds aside for her.

https://liberapay.com/nicolaewallace

Is it bad that I identify with the scene in Stranger Things S3 where Nancy tells Johnathan "you don't know what it's like" and he says "yeah well neither do you"? Sometimes I think nobody can relate to anybody. I'm cis & white, I can't relate the struggles of POC or women, but I once dated a girl who came from a nuclear family. She can't relate to my broken home. Nobody can truly relate to anyone, I think. The best we can do is go easy on each other and support each other.

Sci-fi trope I've been seeing a lot lately: the whole "host takes over one person at a time and slowly invades the whole town" thing.

It's very counter-intuitive that in America, you are guaranteed a right to peacefully protest by the Constitution, but you need a permit first. That's classic control, and it's a classic example of the government selling you back your rights.

Figured out how to make changes to my disposable VM’s default Firefox so now I can use DDG and UBlock by default. Dope.

I always forget how cancerously infuriating Reddit is, then I’m on it for like, a minute and I remember. I need a shower. In bleach.

Finished Mr Robot. Am sad.

Apparently all the shows I've been jamming lately harp pretty hard on the multiverse thing. Synchronicity?

@thsprsntdrknss on the other hand, all the money in the world, depending on how you define money, equals $1trillion. Divided by 8 billion people, that’s $125,000 per person.

Just did the math. If Trump’s estimated net worth was redistributed to every American, each person would get just over $10.

Chromium on Qubes is absolute dogshit.

Pretty stoked to work from home tomorrow. Gonna wake up late, drink cold brew all day, take my time making breakfast, and write a master class on network infrastructure for churches.

@write_as my girlfriend has expressed interest in leaving Tumblr but she relies on the reblog + comment feature that Tumblr provides. Any plans to add any sort of similar feature in the future?

So not trying to diminish the severity of COVID-19, but:

My company falls under the category of "necessary industries" or whatever that allows us to keep operating, but we're also in lockdown, so basically unless there's work that can only be done in person, stay the fuck home and do whatever you can from home, and honestly this is how work in all areas SHOULD be. Fuck space heater bullshit, if there's nothing to do, I got better shit to do on my own time. Or let me at least save gas.

I’m so ugly Clearview is removing me from their database.

I’m so ugly the NSA is deleting all their pictures of me from their records.

Random thought of the day: did they ever catch the "bed intruder" guy?

Current mood:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=5dmQ3QWpy1Q

Goals

https://high.cat/@archillect/103879763824794906

PSA to people who use their car's stereo to take phone calls: we can hear you very clearly.