ilobmirt

Took my HRT - I totally needed that.

https://bsky.app/profile/kadytimberfox.bsky.social/post/3mncyothdrk2r

Not even one day into pride month and I find myself reminded of why we hold this month for queers like ourselves.

I worked with her personally at ANE and they always were good company. They were a kind and generous soul known for their love of chainmail and being a part in their local Boston community. I know the people who were more directly affected by her loss. It has really hit a nerve in me.

Her loss reminds me that this society is a machine built by facists who would be happy to see us queers piss off straight to hell. They built the machine of a society that has brought us nothing but pain and suffering and this cruelty is by design. The gears of this violence are not shown but can be felt by each and every story of every murder, suicide, or arrest.

I know I'm lowkey depressed, the days are starting to blur into one another for me, and I feel always exhausted, but I understand that's by design. Fucking off into the sunset is exactly how the bastards win. I know I promised I'd grind to more immediately make local politics one ounce better in the next two months, but I think the message of this story is that we also need to be more visible if at least to show those hateful fuckers that their vile sensibilities are not going to shut us up and that we queers are going to be here tomorrow and the day after. We will thrive again and come together to be a strong community. Our love and hope will break their machine.

Def always in the mood to be held like the small doggo I am

I really could go for a bottle of buffalo hot sauce. Idk why. Just drink a whole shot glass of it like it's a fine liquor

Finally, Sunday I did one more session of DnD.
I hung out with the incredible cast of people who made my first DnD possible. Got to enjoy all the changes the DM did to the Third Book of the module, and had a Q&A for the story. I'm thankful for how everything managed to work out in the end.

That said, I really wish I wasn't living in history right now, but I feel the basic call to do more than sit out of things. So by next week, I'll get my ass ready to work towards deposing AIPAC funded representatives in the state of Connecticut as this state is holding a primary for all sorts of seats. The primary ends August 11th.

I understand that there's more to things than calling your representative and doing electoral politics. But also I'm here to acknowledge that I'm currently doing nothing to change the world I face tomorrow. Hey me, let's change that instead of freaking out about tomorrow. Let's do the small thing, lock in with this project of getting better candidates to represent me, and after August, maybe I should join a local socialist group. That would be nice.

Saturday... I had a hangover. Oops. Well, I took care of that. But for the rest of that day. I dedicated my time to project work.

Of course, there's my time developing the Release Build Environment for FreeDOS. And I have become sentient enough to understand that it's a congealed mess. So, I have started work on ̶t̶u̶r̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶s̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶b̶l̶o̶c̶k̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶c̶o̶d̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶r̶e̶a̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶i̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶b̶y̶ ̶s̶p̶r̶e̶a̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶o̶l̶e̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶r̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶g̶e̶r̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶i̶e̶r̶ ̶m̶e̶s̶s̶ adopting the unix philosophy of segmenting things into more basic components, which individually do a single thing incredibly well, and are designed to be used together with other things to make a more complex, rich, and dynamic project. So that's what I set off to do.

I am starting off on that by making a single repository that focuses entirely on the software that gets used for FreeDOS. It has a ci-cd that keeps that software up to date daily, adds new submodules that get added to FreeDOS, and prunes old submodules that no longer exist. That's it. That's all it does.

Here's that repository:
https://gitlab.com/ilobmirt/FreeDOS_project_assembly

The next few projects that I wish to build:
* Something that makes a directory holding a customized FreeDOS file tree
* Something that takes a file tree directory and turns it into a live disk image
* Something that hosts a web service to all of this
* I somehow roll all this back up into another single project that can be run locally or as a container service

And I have obsessed over FreeDOS RBEv4 why? Because the hell am I going to want to do future DOS software development in DOS-Box and not a full-fledged FreeDOS container for CI-CD that leverages:
* qemu for full virtualization
* libvirt for interface customization
* vncdotool for testing out things that require user interaction or a GUI

RBEv4 is just a stepping stone to a dynamic FreeDOS container for dedicated CI-CD and General Purpose personal use and I think that is friggin cool. :floofCool: I just have to...get there :floofCry:

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Oh yeah, and sides that, I have also spent my time making Satisfactory videos that look like they came out of a Sony Handycam. I probably could do better with being a more entertaining commentator for these things, but feel free to check all the videos out here :

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2gzbSBMKBk-PE2iqWyTSykkeCwFpFaeb&si=34fJU5HaVeqmIwtE

@dancrescentwolf@pounced-on.me with incredible works of art like this, I truly believe we can make Xenia the default mascot for Linux.

@rowan rawer XD *waggles and pets*

@Leviamicky@meow.social no kidding. And what kind of syrup we talking about? Maple? :ms_pencil: :ms_spiral_notebook: Seems like a drink that will mess with your senses and I totally could mess with that