The Atmosphere Is One Giant Chandelier, Lit Up Every Morning By The Sun From The East, Scattering The

made this tiny edit to this work by @​mxsparks@oulipo.social, so now it's a very convoluted dual language pun

guess this is an art blog now /j

ended up demotivated for months on a personal project... but we're so back, exciting things are happening. I implemented a functional, fairly readable json parser in 12 lines of code using my new library. more to come. eventually.

It’s really funny to me how this post simultaneously appeals to queer geeks and programming geeks (and those that are both) which is exactly my target demographic!! Also woooo first post to get attention from people that I didn’t know existed! I’m stocking all yall’s profiles — you have been warned

Here I was trying to search for cool people on Tumblr when instead I can just honeypost and let the cool people slowly reveal themselves to me via likes/reblogs

Java is a trash language that should burn in the parts of hell where hitler is

Rust on the other hand is a bratty lil language that should burn in the parts of hell where queers party

Hi I just went to a forest rave in the Oakland woods so uh if anyone else went dm me? I’m just curious if my internet life intersected with my irl life tonight

Eh all programming languages are good for certain use cases (aside from Java - Kotlin is better for android and Go is better for anything else).

Python is good at quick and dirty automation that just needs to get done. It’s very friendly to use and won’t pout at you when you ask it do something. Also once you learn to navigate pandas+numpy combined with Jupyter Notebooks it gets wayyyy faster and easier to use for data wrangling.

For example, I recently used Python to scrape hundreds of thousands of tweets via snscrape without having to use twitter’s API. Once I downloaded all the tweets it took me about 30 minutes to then do some basic analysis/labeling/sorting on said tweets.

Yes pip is terrible. Yes Python has only a hint of types (typescript style type hinting arrived in 3.something). Yes pickle creates so many vulnerabilities. Yes performant Python is basically C in a trench coat.

All that said, there’s a reason Python is many people’s first typed programming language and why I continue to use it whenever I have some data I have to fetch, transform, and analyze or whenever I’m just starting to explore a new field of computer science.

Writing Python is basically like writing pseudo code so I love it for anything that I just need to code up and run once or twice for either a proof of concept before moving to a more “serious” language or just discard the program is for my one-time personal use only.

No one should ever have to maintain more than 1k lines of Python but I will still occasionally write that much Python simply because it lets me explore high level techniques without worrying about being perfectly precise.

Python is not for production but instead for messing around. Python is that goofy ahh language that everyone likes because it doesn’t mind when you affectionately mess with it. Python is the adorable sidekick that makes programming fun again and for that I adore it

Java is a trash language that should burn in the parts of hell where hitler is

Rust on the other hand is a bratty lil language that should burn in the parts of hell where queers party

I've begun to experience something really weird.

When I first questioned my gender, one of the biggest things that led to my certainty that I was non-binary, and not a man, is that I couldn't stand the idea of being intimidating to anybody, as I've always had trouble making friends and want to come across as approachable and kind as possible.

After a while, I kinda had it down. After I made the decision that I didn't want testosterone in my body anymore, and started on estrogen, it got even easier as it's much easier to connect with other women when you are girlbrained. Now that I'm 7 months in and actually appear feminine (maybe even pretty on a good day), I've found that most people really pick up the harmless critter vibe right away.

But lately when somebody is attracted to me, they instead get this like, I don't know, like angelic vibe from me instead?? And to be clear, this is by no means a brag, this has been a problem. Like every girl I talk to on dating apps tells me she wants to fuck my brains out but when I actually ask her to do so she gets all nervous and runs away with her tail between her legs.

Like, I've come full circle??? I'm now back to being intimidating but not because I'm manly but because I'm too pretty??? Man this is so fucked up Alexa play your woman by white town

In my personal case I hope it is given I’m a trans lesbian. Accidental allyship from Andrew Tate? I’ll take it I guess

kind of amazing how many right wing incel types are radicalizing themselves into believing that it’s gay to have sex with a woman

the truth is, i do not think that it is useful nor helpful to treat rape and sexual abuse of any kind as singularly evil things that will damage and destroy victims forever and leaves them unworthy of life, and whose perpetrators are also singularly evil people who were born evil and need to be erased from society in order to get rid of rape existing at all. i do not think it is helpful to anybody including victims to tell them that rape and sexual abuse has damaged them permanently and that they have less worth as a human being for having been through that specific kind of abuse/assault. i do not think it is useful to treat sexual violence as completely different from other forms of violence, something that must remain taboo and that has no link to any other form of abuse and violence that might be perpetrated. it is especially not helpful when the very existence of transgender women is treated as sexual violence and a violation to protect cisgender women and children from. it is not helpful when victims of sexual violence are treated as damaged goods, when the sexual violence they've been through is either/both so taboo it cannot be spoken out loud, or something that marks them out as a potential perpetrator of said violence bc they have been forever broken by it.

I love how slightly crazier makeup always makes me feel more androgynous! It also has the added bonus of impressing the queers while simultaneously being unappealing to straight men :D