Kit Sunny @roadriverrail@signs.codes

After a lot of deep listening, I've concluded that "Strange Trails" by Lord Huron deserves to be on my list of perfect albums. There's simply no part of it out of place. Nothing misses.

My work life lately has been a death of 1000 paper cuts. It seems like every week I trade of one more little piece of self care to cover for another work pressure. We're talking things like regularly washing my hair.

Today on the Internet I saw some TERF referring to preferred pronouns as "compelled/coerced pronouns" and likening them to being compelled by law to call your monarch "your majesty". That, of course, is astoundingly irritating, but I guess I'm to blame for knowingly reading something a TERF wrote.

Legit question-- what free software organization other than the FSF would do good work with my membership dues and a bequest in my will? I've looked around and the FSF still feels like it's fundamentally the Only Game In Town.

I put "they/them" in my Slack and Zoom handles. I tell everyone before a public-facing meeting that this is the first job where I've come out as non-binary and that, I'm very chill about it in private, but in public events, it's important to me that people see my correct pronouns used. Everyone agrees this is important and that everyone should introduce themselves with pronouns. I show up to the meeting in femme-ish clothes and makeup. Mic fails. "He'll be right back folks." Doh.

@matthilde I hate to keep using you as my site status indicator, but it's looking like traffic isn't getting through to unix.lgbt?

Is there a single defense of Stallman that focuses at all on his capacities to be an effective board member? That discusses what he brings to the table other than "he coded good back in the day"? I haven't seen it.

Reading the various Internet chatter in opposition to the open letter calling for RMS' removal just makes me want to vomit at the notion that I might work with or share projects with these people.

Trying to pull down my Youtube Music library so I can organize and DJ with it, and...wow, none of these mp3s have tags in them! I'm 90% sure they did when I moved them off iTunes into Google Play Music! It's all an undifferentiated, untagged mess that can't be easily organized. A big, jolly "fuck you" to Google again!

I wrote a "Hello World" boot sector for the Apple iigs in assembly, no OS involved at all. Not too bad for a couple hours work and a couple nights deep reading the Disk II controller and AUTOSTART ROM. #6502 #apple #retrocomputing

Having now read a book chapter on the inner workings of the Apple II disk controller, I am scarred for life and will never understand how in the hell we didn't just jump straight from tape to solid state storage.

Right now, I am reading a schematic-level explanation of the Apple II disk controller. Why? To avoid a very simple and moderate 45-minute boxing workout. That's basically me in a nutshell.