roboticanary

i have to say cats or my cat will kill me

not a lot of help i can give from what you have told me

only advice i could give is just see how things go for a few years, take some time to work out what you want from life, how you want things to go, what sort of relationships you might be comfortable with, then go from there. 

hi!

enjoy the vibes

nice

being in the UK, i would only use seniors as a term for, like, really old people

so i just get a class of cackling grannies causing  utter mischief, sounds great

next person wins a beef wellington boot

On 1/25/2023 at 7:35 PM, KoconutBounty said:

IDK, no picture size limit ig

I'm going to keep some form of size/upload limit, just because there is a limited amount of storage space from hosting (well, you can up that limit to the point it doesnt matter but that would cost a lot more), so there will still be some form of limit. But over this weekend I will have a look at where we are and what we have used over the lifetime of the site as i suspect at least for individual posts the current limits are quite small. we can probably easily be ok bumping them up a bit

Hi! 

17 minutes ago, the more the merrier said:

Do you know 'Rome: Eternal City' by Ferdinand Addis? It's a pretty sweet intro! 'Emperor of Rome' by Mary Beard is also coming out in September and it sounds like it's going to be top-notch.

Vaguely heard of it  cheers for mentioning it though, sounds like something I would enjoy.

18 minutes ago, the more the merrier said:

@roboticanary, as our Glorious Leader and a true Brit, will you be the one to write 'Aromantic Britain: A New History' for us?

Hmm, there's an idea.

Trouble is us aros haven't invaded Britain and subdued the local populace yet so I might have to wait a bit

3 minutes ago, KoconutBounty said:

*slides you one*

hewwo

oh wonderful, thank you so much

Hi,

Peppermint hot cocoa sounds lovely

25 minutes ago, the more the merrier said:

How did this proficiency develop for you? Was it gradual, and did anything in particular (perhaps necessity?) spark your rise to nom mastery?

Are you working on any of these experimental projects at the moment, too?

mostly just being single for a long time, i needed to be able to feed myself and was surrounded for a year by students eating some really shoddy food, so i just kept trying new things just so i could eat some decent food.

after about 8 years of cooking for myself pretty much every day i have things sorted out. Also i moved from a fairly small city to a big city for uni so i got introduced to a lot of food from places outside the UK, so i ended up trying to learn how to work with ingredients i had never heard of just out of interest. 

as for science bits, not a lot at the moment, currently i have one thing i am getting the bits to do which is making a barn door tracker, now i have a half decent camera i want something so i can take some better photos and that seemed like a simple thing i could do fairly quickly.

It didn't matter what a bunch of deranged romantics thought. Facts were facts.

terry pratchett: feet of clay

Im currently reading 'Roman Britain a new history' by Guy de la Bédoyère.

Really interesting book, sort of gives a good overview of things i sort of half remember from school or vaguely learned about from tv or visiting places,

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Just now, saucewisdom said:

the search bar still remains a pesky problem but i suppose yall are already aware and working on it, otherwise it's perfect i think

search bar is a really weird one, It doesnt look great in black and I havent worked out how to change the text inside it, but if I change the bar to white the searchbar is easy to see but looks really glaring against the background

i'll work it out at some point but that one has me stumped for the minute

food

Im a bloody good cook now, so its not just me being greedy

also physics has kind of grown into a passion, although its nice that its an area of knowledge that can pay the bills i do also do a fair bit of experimental messing around in my spare time, usually astronomy related.

5 hours ago, mivoei said:

idk if anyone even see this but ill recommend this here again lmao

cheers for bumping that up, I'll have a look at it

think I've worked it out, should be a pure black background now

2 hours ago, saucewisdom said:

i think this looks really disorienting. having a consistent dark color would be nice

ive went for plain black what do you think?

welcome

also, yes, frogs are best

the superbowl is better than the alright owl

lips

On 1/16/2023 at 1:34 AM, hemogoblin said:

I'm not sure if this is true or just what it seems like to me, but I've found the amount of struggle with self-loathing and internalized arophobia a lot more prevalent/loud in the aro community than I ever found it in the ace community, and it's definitely really heartbreaking to know people feel that way about themselves.

theres a bit of me that wonders if this will change if aromanticism grows as a community

say someone is ace but not aro, as being ace becomes a more commonly known thing and the community becomes larger the odds of finding people who are aware and ok with the relationship that they want becomes better. there are a fair few major cities in my country where they could find a local group of people to talk to and work things out.

i think there is a feeling in the aro community that the sort of relationships that people want are seemingly unavailable because no-one really knows what you are asking for and the community is just too small to find people to talk things through with.

welcome!

1 hour ago, Storm_leopardcat said:

Oh, sheesh, I am so sorry, I did not realise that her account could be traced back to her!

No worries.

To be honest I keep forgetting that sort of thing. Its only because that therapist would know she had been collecting aro resources for her. Maybe also that im being a bit paranoid but oh well