cara ‘presumed dead’ ellison @caraellison@mastodon.social

Hey! My lovely geniusfriend and all round renaissancemansdude @matthewseiji made ambient sounds for my 90s style girlhackertopia. Have a listen: http://caraellison.co.uk/

For example, here is the apex of Glasgow tweet https://mobile.twitter.com/AGlasgowGirl/status/924242700307783680 note how effortlessly funny it is, and how Scots Punjabi is just completely normal. This is what you are attempting to impersonate. Just don’t even bother

So anyway: unless you really want to hurt the core of me, stick to laughing at the tweets our Glasgow brothers and sisters make. They’re pretty funny as is and they know how to phoneticise their own language (unbelievably, there are rules about how it should look written down. Imagine us barbarians *writing*).

I should say HOW uncomfortable it makes me: I no longer use Scots! And I grew up with Doric dialect! Why? Because I went to university and universities do not look kindly on Scots language. Even the Scottish university I went to. That’s how much colonisation has ruined our culture. Our institutions wipe it out systematically so that we can lose that class marker and ascend to not being a filthy Scot.

My friend Harry Josephine wrote very well about it but I don’t think they quite conveyed how painful it is to witness this. It feels like it’s ‘white coded’ as a language but it is across the board a language that people of working class of a large diversity of skin colours speak today - it does not belong to middle class or upper class people - and I feel super uncomfortable about bad impressions of Scots or even Belfast Irish

It is unbelievably painful as a (previously?) working class Scot to read this impersonation of a language that has historically been beaten and genocided out of us???? Please do not do this

‘Hi do we have the resources to-‘
*every producer kicks u down the stairs*
I guess i will do it with only words then, that won’t be good enough

@ja2ke hey check 1:19 for HOT DOGMOUTHING ACTION https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v27LZivpffQ

Our video game is the Dark Souls Of making Dark Souls using only a PS4 (scrub to the end for the result) https://youtu.be/SHUpqwuhMy4

@jennatar jenn are you writing anything you are enjoying lately

Ultimate Spinster Lifestyle

probably more than anything I wish I could live in a house by myself. like, totally alone. and hack bits off it and paint it how I like. and have a garden

(My egg cells are always embarrassing me)
(tbh I want to get rid of them)

Like, this tshirt model is probably the hottest man I’ve ever seen https://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/t-shirt/men/mastodon-t-shirt/924252/ if I ever met him I think my egg cells would burst through my flesh in an attempt to smother him, embarrassing me completely

I thought the mastodon tshirt modelling guy was eugen and almost fucking shat myself

By far the silliest structural thing about Alias is that they sometimes do Sarah McLachlan-style acoustic music over SLOMOS OF PROTAGS AKing FOREIGNERS TO DEATH when one of the characters is making an emotional run to freedom *the stars and stripes billows out*

@austin_walker hi Austin I see you are here for the Content

''It isn’t advocacy, it isn’t activism, it’s pure performance.' Interesting musings on how soc media can be structured to just be bad all the time by @xoxogossipgita https://kotaku.com/we-cant-fix-the-internet-1828463761

ugh, I need gin