Kit Sunny @roadriverrail@signs.codes

I've spent years lamenting that my output, both at work and in my side projects, is sporadic and below my real ability. The honest but sad truth is that I really lost the sense of wonder and fun in hacking a long time ago and I've never been able to get it back.

Who by fire, who by water, who in the sunshine, who in the nighttime, who by high ordeal, who by common trial, who in your merry merry month of May, who by very slow decay, and who, shall I say, is calling?

"To run, to explore without consequence, to wander without meaning, to play. To love and enjoy our own world." ... "It's all we've ever wanted." (Ibid)

"I look at myself and I see imperfections."..."These imperfections will persist until the end of time, and there's nothing I can do about that. My life will never be a perfect one. Those lakes, and the ruins that stick out of them, remind me that it's not supposed to be. This isn't Heaven. Waters rise and batteries fail. This is a universe in which things can still fuck up. And that's where I belong. I BELONG here. I can't tell you how good that feels."

Source: https://www.sbnation.com/secret-base/21410129/20020

Sometimes I'll stop and think that I'm maybe not that great an engineer. Sometimes my work takes longer than I think it should. Sometimes I cut corners. Sometimes I make hacks I'm not proud of.

Then I remember how many engineers are involved in the F-35 fighter jet, and I realize I'm probably not that bad an engineer.

@in_lieu_of_fiction if you're looking for folx to follow, try clicking on the federated timeline button, which will show you a lot of the transitive traffic that comes through here. We've got a lot of great hackers, activists, and assorted eccentrics coming through here.

#signsandcodes family, it's been a while since we said hello to a new member. But...please extend a welcome to @in_lieu_of_fiction, an old friend of mine. He's a documentarian, silicon hacker, political satirist, civil rights activist, and one of my first inspirations for going weird. That is to say I think he'll fit right in in the Fediverse.

@in_lieu_of_fiction you may wish to pin the #signsandcodes hashtag, since that's where we discuss business and make announcements. Welcome!

If you want to know how I've felt for almost all of 2020, both about the pandemic, my isolated condition within it, and the politics of this dismal year, please let me introduce you to "It Was Not Natural" by Wye Oak. I've done well this year, but I am tired, I am disconnected, and I'm wondering if there's any hope of restoring some of the internal damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbnpKzRwbeU

#signsandcodes family, we've blocked the instance neckbeards.xyz. We rarely block instances, but the name, iconography, and chatter from at least one user there gave me concerns about it being an instance rich with hate speech. If anyone here has lost a conversation or follower as a result, please reply to me and we can talk about a more targeted block of users instead.

It finally happened. Even when I'm dressed butch, being called "sir" has become foreign and grating to my ears. #nonbinary

Ordering Christmas hampers from the ever-so-proper Fortnum and Mason, I was delighted to see they've put "Mx" on their list of honorifics.