clarity flowers

🌸 a strange sort of fairy 🌱 makes things ✨ let's be friends 🏳️‍🌈 trans lesbian, 32 🏞 lives two bends up the willamette river

here: thinking out loud, works in progress, selfies.

https://clarity.flowers: notes to myself, unfinished ideas, things I've found interesting

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projects: #swordgame, #towngame

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2026-04-17 19:41:10 GMT

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ohhh wait I get it now. that's very neat

2026-04-17 19:35:55 GMT

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can you explain what exactly the "'[y^x x^y]/[x^x n]" rule means?

2026-03-13 20:56:53 GMT

Your regular reminder that "the rich" aren't people who earn large paychecks. They are people with capital that generates returns: investments, property, company shares. "High income earners" are not an intrinsic enemy of "the working class" – many of them are a member of it!

2026-01-05 20:23:35 GMT

what are yalls favorite albums/songs/artists to listen to while working?

2025-11-20 17:49:00 GMT

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rotating the phrase "plastic has been absorbed by unity" in my mind

2025-10-06 21:30:04 GMT

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very interesting. I feel like given english's tendency towards having a comical number of synonyms compared to most languages it's always revealing to find the places where it falls short in that regard

2025-10-06 21:19:35 GMT

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wait I'd love to know what vocab you're referring to here (I'm still beginner-intermediate level at japanese)

2025-07-27 17:24:38 GMT

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we’ve been doing a small Three Sisters plot (old indigenous technique where you plant corn beans and squash) and it’s been doing better than anything else in the garden, it’s awesome

2025-07-24 01:00:48 GMT

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the footnote about politics makes me so mad tho

2025-07-24 01:00:03 GMT

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ugh. as an alum, it’s disappointing to read. tho also seems inevitable bc I don’t think their funding model would survive a idealistic stance here.

2025-07-19 18:31:03 GMT

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oooh if there’s a working language server I should take uxn for a spin again 👀

2025-06-24 00:54:10 GMT

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with every day I more and more just become these guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7qT-C-0ajI

2025-06-24 00:52:12 GMT

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So much more becomes politically possible when you don't start from the premise that obviously you're so much better than those filthy peasants. Instead you can engage in intersectional solidarity not only across space and culture but also forward and backwards in time. As Walter Benjamin said: if the enemy wins not even the dead will be safe. We have tasted victory before and we will taste it again.

2025-06-23 20:44:29 GMT

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erase all debts, destroy the records, redistribute the land. kill the rich if they fight back and use their bodies for compost. end landlordism, transfer businesses to worker ownership, start renewable energy cooperatives, turn every lawn and every golf course into community gardens and teach permaculture principles to whoever wants to maintain them.

2025-06-23 19:26:10 GMT

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The standard demands for a peasant revolt for thousands of years of human history have been: erase all debts, destroy the records of their existence, and redistribute the land. Did you know that when you say "tax the rich" that you're asking for something half-assed and moderate in the grand scheme of history?

2025-06-23 19:20:13 GMT

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Did you know that the transition from peasant life to wage labor was considered so obviously and immediately unpleasant and undesirable that it could only be enacted at gunpoint?

2025-06-23 19:20:03 GMT

The more things I read about "the dark ages" the more radicalized I become. Like hey, did you know that slavery was abolished in Europe during the dark ages and in order for the merchant class to justify bringing it back they had to invent racism, thus kicking off colonialism?

2025-06-07 03:07:11 GMT

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it's perfectly reasonable for capitalists to be arguing for AI-driven software. "reducing labor costs" is the thing capitalists do. but being an AI stan as a worker is some serious class traitor shit. this isn't gonna advance your career, buddy.

2025-06-07 03:04:27 GMT

sitting with the AI apologist take of "you may like the craft of traditional japanese hand woodworking but it's not what will make a profit anymore, so save that for your hobby"… the thing is, old-school joinery produces higher-quality products and uses less (& more sustainable) materials. The reason it's "not profitable" is that the labor is more specialized and expensive. So what they're saying is "I want to get paid less to make worse software".

2025-04-07 21:10:27 GMT

I want a systems level programming language where the community isn't founded around how superior they are to everyone else. I like hanging out with esolang and catlang and apl people because they understand the inherent absurdity of it all and just wanna share ideas with each other.

2025-01-31 19:31:21 GMT

If someone demonstrates skill or craftsmanship (ie, drawing), some good compliments are: praising the quality of the work ("I love the linework here"), praising the person for the skills they've developed ("wow that's so cool!").
Some bad compliments are: putting yourself down ("I could never do this"), othering the person ("people who can draw must have a different special kind of brain"), attributing their skill to something innate/unearned ("you're so talented, I'm jealous")

2025-01-13 18:05:47 GMT

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"then a threw himself down in the chair opposite, and drew up his knees until his fingers clasped round his long, thin shins" this is such adorable autistic body language tbh

2024-10-30 05:33:16 GMT

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hmmm what if “click” (without dragging something) was something you could match against. could make buttons 🤔

2024-10-30 01:32:21 GMT

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this is SO cool

2024-10-15 23:22:02 GMT

what it is about the 10th and 11th months of the year that every single "do ___ for a month" activity happens on them. is it literally just that the names pun well?

2024-10-11 15:34:10 GMT

once you realize that the core dream of language model AI proponents is “owning a slave” you really can’t unsee it.

2024-09-10 13:30:44 GMT

NOW WE'RE TALKING
https://beocijies.com/
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2024-09-04 20:28:01 GMT

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that makes a lot sense given the context of your environment and your work! It's certainly fundamentally incompatible with sailboat life.
I go crazy being cooped up and depend heavily on coworking buddies so I'm very interested in anyone who's daydreaming about computing as a room-scale communal makerspace/library environment.

2024-09-04 19:29:43 GMT

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to each their own, but I’d recommend really sitting with the computing concepts behind realtalk before throwing it out just bc of the projector/camera thing dynamicland depends on. There’s a lot to learn there for everyone

2024-08-27 03:22:27 GMT

wrote the first-draft outline of my #xoxofest retrospective blog post :xoxo:
apparently I haven't touched my blog since I started it with four great posts in 2021. where the hell have all these years gone, anyway.

2024-08-25 17:33:24 GMT

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“Pandemics are collective problem. you can’t make then into a hero’s journey, it won’t work”
“Whether we fail at pandemics or not is a choice”
Ed Yong (former Atlantic pandemic columnist) at #xoxofest
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2024-08-25 16:35:36 GMT

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“If you want my opinion, I think largely games should be hornier”
“The private support was great, but the public silence was deafening.”
“You can monetize a hate video, but there is no hazard pay for harassment”
Kim Belair of Sweet Baby Inc at #xoxofest
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2024-08-25 16:01:17 GMT

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Dan Olson at #xoxofest really struck a chord with me talking about his anxiety spiral as an artist dealing with envy: “I could do that. Why am I not doing that? What could possibly go wrong?”
So many projects I’ve never finished because of this consistent blend of envy and arrogance and discontentment. Trying to make projects Good like the Good Things I admire instead of just making the thing for the sake of the thing!
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2024-08-25 15:53:11 GMT

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“10 minutes is just not enough time to break down the nitty gritty of a problem or propose solutions so I’ll leave you with this: it got better. For a handful of you, maybe like two or three people in the audience, you should hear this. It does get better. This did not define me.”
Sarah Jeong at #xoxofest on the years-long harassment campaign she faced
Was really glad to see her saying this. Lot of xoxo talks about how viciously bad the online harassment gets. But it -does- get better.
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2024-08-25 15:34:39 GMT

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“Each day’s work is an act of faith in the dark, putting down a little more knowledge to stand on. We still can’t see the other side.
“If we want better networks, then we need to understand—as concretely and as close to ground as possible—what has actually happened to us, and then we need to use that knowledge to try new things in a deliberate and purposeful way with painstaking attention to the human costs of our experiments.”
@npub1sac…kcpe @ #xoxofest
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2024-08-25 15:31:59 GMT

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“There is a real crack in the foundations of the current order right now. and I genuinely believe that if we each brought our weird talents and gifts to bear on this problem and treated the problem of making better networks our problem and not something we’re just hoping someone else will figure out, we would have this in the bag.”
@npub1sac…kcpe at #xoxofest
this was my favorite talk!!
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2024-08-25 15:30:17 GMT

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“I’m so grateful that we were able to do what we did. We should never have needed to do it. It’s a mark of institutional failure to leave your public health data crisis in the hands of amateurs and volunteers.”
@npub1sac…kcpe at #xoxofest, on the Covid Tracking Project
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2024-08-25 15:26:57 GMT

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“These systems have such a stranglehold on our work and our lives and our reputations, and just our ability to understand what’s happening around us, and they have this because we gave it to them, 10-15 years ago in exchange for what they were offering us.”
@npub1sac…kcpe at #xoxofest
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2024-08-24 19:33:33 GMT

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“I feel ridiculously optimistic about the future and I find that really embarrassing”
Gita Jackson at #xoxofest
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2024-08-24 19:32:16 GMT

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“I used to dream about working at gawker. I used to dream about a job, right. I used to dream of labor. And that’s whack, don’t do that!”
Gita Jackson at #xoxofest
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2024-08-24 19:28:51 GMT

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“The people who make the website run are the workers, not the bosses”
Gita Jackson at #xoxofest
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2024-08-24 19:26:33 GMT

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’s #xoxofest talk (a reprise of his 2014 talk I that I quote constantly) was a gut punch and reminder that when we’re talking about making a living as a creator, we’re also talking about plugging right into capitalism. Was too engaged to get a quote!
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2024-08-24 19:20:53 GMT

“The platforms have installed themselves in a position of power, but they are also vulnerable. They must do everything perfectly to maintain that position of power”
@npub13qd…hau6 at #xoxofest
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2024-08-19 21:31:47 GMT

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honestly your talk in 2019 and subsequently following you has been such a rabbit hole for me that ended up getting me so much more excited about computers than I'd been in a long time.

2024-08-19 21:17:38 GMT

So surreal to be preparing to go to #xoxofest again after a 5-year hiatus, especially since this will be the last one. Hard to overstate how much this event transformed my life over 2017—2019.

2024-06-26 17:16:38 GMT

landfills were invented within human memory. the trash can as we understand it is a 20th-century invention. disposability as a concept had to be invented. none of this is inevitable or necessary.