c.d.m. rørmose @body@mastodon.social

"The Animorphosis" by K.A. Kafka

I’m actually a very simple person: I just want to morph into a gender-nonconforming dragon-form and build a relationship with a macho-but-nontoxic industrial dude

My left synthesis is “The American radical left is so willfully backwards and compromised that I’m just hoping China develops Strong AI and annexes everyone soon”

Now practicing "tantric snacking", where I will look at a bag of cookies for 12 hours but never consume them

Might have found the actual solution:

The chip I'm using to test this is ATMEGA328-PU, while the chip inside my alpha prototype is an ATMEGA328P-PU. The extra "P" stands for "picopower", which means the chip on my breadboard may not be able to drive MIDI.

So now I just need to... figure out whether I have any of the right kind of chip laying around anywhere.

Figuring this out was like a two-day-long psychological horror movie IRL btw

Are you a Casual Gamer or a Formal Gamer

Casual: “Hey”
Semi-formal: “Hello”
Formal: “Greetings, hu-mans”

Greetings hu-mans, your world is making me feel like garbage, I have lost the reins of my internal narrative, my sleep is restless, and every day I wake up so filled with intrusive nonsense-thoughts that I get convinced it must be a degenerative brain disease

Just imagined a scenario where any non-socialist group gets to write the history books about this era and made the Mr Yuck face

(Futurism needs to seriously take into account the idea that things that seem like ridiculously over-the-top cliche brutalities tend to become the new normal)

Political youth movements in the 2020s will center around hunting and impaling anyone who has ever displayed any of a series of "cringe" attributes that are defined with an ever-increasing granularity, and then dancing in a circle around their twitching body while everyone's maskphones blast Spiderman Elsa Finger Family (CryoSynth Remix). These will be called "water circles" because their participants receive water rations

THERAPIST: You can do this. You can still be a sincere furry.
ME: I... I just can't. I'm too irony-poisoned
THERAPIST: I believe in you. Just say "Anubis" with me. Anubis
ME: An... an... an boobus

Alright: after having an existential crisis over this breadboarded MIDI-splitter circuit, I have come to the conclusion that the only thing that could possibly be causing this not to function is either:

* My breadboard isn't gripping the MIDI ports right

Or:

* The ATMEGA chip that I'm testing this with has had its TX port subtly fried at some point

So, today's first task is to eliminate both of those variables

Engage Gamer Mode

The more I think about my ideal tech setup, the more it's like:
* Linux tablet with a large screen-res
* ASETNIOP-like keyboard, but organized by letter commonality, and with a couple extra buttons to toggle special characters / chorded commands; plus a toggleable "gamer mode" controlled by a big honking safety-switch. Divided into two half-units connected by two DIN-5 cables of course
* Tine sequencer (finished version)
* Maximum of 4 desktop synths (PreenFM2, MicroGranny/Xor, MPC500 probably)

If I do indeed have globus pharyngea (a disease that involves intermittent irritation of the esophagus, with no known cause), maybe it's being caused by a psychosomatic process, since I did used to get full-body psychosomatic stress-rashes when I was a kid

Generally my neck problem has been getting worse as my dysphoria gets worse, and it cleared up when I thought I was going to be seeing an informed-consent clinic, only to return with a vengeance after my family stopped me from doing so

Love feeling dizzy and sick because my dad sprayed a massive amount of bug spray without reading the instructions