kalayo

kalayo, 7 hours ago

three of us tested holoreading together and the results show that even the shittiest books are tolerable when you have a hologram to read it with 💀🫥

kalayo, 16 hours ago

@gil the two genders

kalayo, 16 hours ago

@aura inhale. I tend not to look up books before I read them, but

1. Writers & Lovers by Lily King
   Suggested mostly because it's next on my reading list haha. As far as I can tell, it's about a woman who is trying to be an artist, but life sucks and she's not writing as much as she wants to? Coming-of-age but for adults lol. It doesn't sound like much, but it's recommended by a friend whose taste is excellent and I can always trust them. Apparently this one is sad and funny and hopeful, in the way life is.

2. Babel by R.F. Kuang
   Yes I already read this a few months ago yes I would be happy to reread it with friends. She's thick but she's delicious. It's historical fantasy set juuust before the first opium war, but England has ✨magic✨. Magic specifically powered by translation. The book follows an orphan plucked from China and groomed to study as a ✨translator✨ in Oxford. This one is about friendship, colonial resistance, how shitty academia is, and a lot of nerdery and politics about language and translation. CW for racism; parental death; physical, emotional, and colonial violence.

3. The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
   Another reread for me lmao. It's a frame story, a story within a story within a story. It shifts between first, second, and third POVs on a sentence-by-sentence level. It's kind of a lot to keep up with, but really fun once it's got its hooks in. It's about two outcasts trying to transport a dying goddess across the country, on the run from the emperor she escaped from. It's also about the Inverted Theater, where the lovechild of the Moon and Water performs. It's also about a man during something that's WW2 but not, thinking about the stories his lola used to tell. CW for graphic violence and death, imprisonment, and all that people go through under a tyrannical emperor

4. Queer Phenomenology by Sara Ahmed
   I don't know much about this one, but it's non-fiction and othe title seems self-explanatory? Might be cool if anyone is in the mood to get brainy 🤓

5. Any of the Terry Pratchetts. We can probably spin a wheel to choose and it'll be fine? 💀

kalayo, 16 hours ago

@jammy @aura ack these all sound so good 🥺 im adding them all to my reading list lmao

for now tho I think I'd vote for welcome to the hyunam-dong bookshop first... I've been craving slice-of-life-y reads

kalayo, 20 hours ago

@gil why must u torture me so /lh
(send pix?)

kalayo, 20 hours ago

@gil exploded empanada is so funny. I mean I know what you mean but I just keep seeing it vibrate and expand until ​:eoc_explode:​

kalayo, 20 hours ago

@gil another one succumbs to the pipeline ​:cat_happy:​

kalayo, 21 hours ago

@gil turns out I don't have collections either :< but watch me participate anyway

I collect specific pixels on pet sites (flight rising and pixel cats end). I have a very selective criteria for what kind of pets I want to acquire, but honestly it's less about taste ane more about "I have to give myself limits otherwise I will end up with an undifferentiable mass of blorbos bc the truth is, all the pngs of dragons and cats are lovable and I simply cannot choose".

I think I'm like that irl too. I build groups by excluding, not by collecting. It's easier for me to manage ^^

kalayo, 21 hours ago

@webnotbombs hello! welcome to holo ​:ablob_hologram:​

web not bombs sounds so cool!

kalayo, 21 hours ago

@gil meowayong adnyaow (can anyone even understand us anymore)

kalayo, 1 day ago

@Kyebr if you look up linux troubleshooting, most results will assume ubuntu, so there's that I g. but idk. I think all I really had to get was why dnf instead of apt, and rpms and flatpaks instead of snaps and debs?? ​:eoc_spiral:​ other than that I think the problems theyd face are universal to every distro

kalayo, 1 day ago

@squeakybeaver ohhh, youre right, there's that. but idk,, i think touching the terminal is unavoidable. there's always something that doesnt have a gui option, in my experience ​:pensive_cowboy:​

im hoping having someone personally help them will make the magic black hacker box less intimidating ^^

kalayo, 1 day ago

but also this is on me for not curating my feeds better like. do I really need all the goddamn product listicles from the verge and wired?

kalayo, 1 day ago

@pencilears I could do that, but I'm weirdly completionist about this ?? Like, I need to at least read the headline of all the things I fetched every time I check

I think I should look into whether there are separate feeds for different news categories per site, and then only add the ones I care about... like, I don't want to see any sborts articles, or national politics from the non-ph sites. I'm just waiting for my brain to decide we have the energy to do that lol

kalayo, 1 day ago

@gil real and valid and true

also. gil. @jammy @ree and I have been beta testing holo book club HAHA. I have Thoughts. we should talk abt it fr fr!

kalayo, 1 day ago

@pencilears omg also. not to ask out of nowhere. but do u have favorite feeds you might wanna reccomend? (I see the irony in me wanting to have even more HAHA)

kalayo, 2 days ago

would b nice to not be scared of taking a walk alone ,, would be real cool

kalayo, 2 days ago

@gil @kern aaa sorry! I didn't consider that this would make yall worry too, but im grateful for the concern 🥹 I got back safe. My family called to keep me company on the way.