mastodon 4.7.3Wikimedian (User:Tamzin), tokiponist (wan Tansin), tattoo enthusiast (5), polycule LLC member (kulupu olin), proud denizen of not-America (2025-04-30). When you say "I made a Wikipedia", you're using the word "Wikipedia" wrong. When I say it I'm not.
In an extremely heterosexual relationship with @spamcan.bsky.social. Partners-as-in-best-friends with @V@tabletop.social. Partners-as-in-worst-enemies with Julera, who was silly and let her Mastodon get deleted.
I've never seen a feature in a programming language as simultaneously intuitive, counterintuitive, clever, stupid, and useful as: from pathlib import Path; print(Path("foo") / "bar")
Like I hate that this exists and I will use it from now on now that I know it does.
Thank you, unsourced paragraph in an economics article on Wikipedia, for explaining that whether someone will want less money now or more money later depends on whether they want less money now or more money later.
Don't you hate when you think some interesting thing might happen in geopolitics, and then TLDR News does a video suggesting that it'll happen, so then you know it won't?
Got a spam comment on an @tamzin@essays-by.tamz.in essay that uses the older random-synonym form of filter evasion instead of an LLM, and I just picture some spammer out there teaching his apprentice and being like "We follow the old ways here. More elegant spam scripts from a more civilized time."
Someone listening headphones-free to a video of some kids singing off-key is drowning out the generic Spotify AI popslop playing at this café. This sort of thing seemed way cooler when William Gibson was predicting it 40 years ago.
Desperately need someone to subtitle a work "... and the Case of the Dysphoric Bishopric".
Hot take: Cascada's "Everytime We Touch" does a better job capturing the feeling of falling madly in love than almost all "proper" love songs.
It even does a slightly better job than Maggie Reilly's song of the same name, from which it's adapted. The lyrics are very similar, but why is it that everyone always feels like love songs should be soft and slow? An up-tempo eurodance beat is exactly what the words "every time we kiss, I swear I could fly" need.