afreytes, 👁️🗨️
of🇵🇷
Nunca digo mentiras pero escribo mucha ficción
#PuertoRico Born and living in the oldest colony
#GameDev Old enterprise programmer trying to make small games
#FlashFiction Dreams are my favorite literary device
I lean left, but as the product of Reagan era colonialism, lack appropriate education in the matter. Money makes us inhuman. I believe only in hugs. Both science & empathy are important, I don't want one without the other. I'm just a dude and I will get distracted by boobs.
#mdMT
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷Hi!
I follow most everyone who interacts with my posts.
I hope you follow back, but feel free to unfollow me if my posts are not your jam. No hard feelings.
Likewise, I freely unfollow accounts that don't interact or only promo stuff. I also unfollow accounts that are: "AI" slop or into that, bots, celebrities, cryptobros, fashos, mansplainers, marketers, trolls, or zealots
Most of my posts are in English, but expect Spanish now and then.
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷Feels like "AI" will indeed destroy us, and it didn't even have to be smart.
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷I know you do not know me. But I would like you to do something for me. I am serious:
The next time you see your mom, please give her a hug for me. Yes, for real.
You don't have to actually say it is from me. Say nothing if it makes it easier to do. Or say a weird dude reminded you hugs are great and moms deserve as many hugs as possible.
(thanks for boosts!)
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷Happiness
I wish you happiness.
No restrictions, conditions, or limitations. You don't have to pay it forward. And you certainly don't have to pay me back.
I wish you happiness, bro. I wish you happiness, lass. I wish you happiness wherever you are.
No need to question it. Don't even have to accept it. But you can be sure I wish you all the happiness I possibly can.
And to your family too.
#happiness
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷🥺
FTA: exodus was only 3% of the 300k+ federal workers who exited last year... but represents 14% of the total number of PhDs in STEM or health fields
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷This is not my story. I do not have all the details except what I have been told.
I have a childhood friend, much smarter than I, but with perhaps even less resources than I had when we were growing up.
Like many many many and many more boricuas my friend found that his way to go anywhere was to join the USian armed forces.
Perhaps one of the main reasons we remain a colony of USia, and are granted USia citizenship is that the island is an everspring of recruits.
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷So do all Windows 11's latest patches require a restart?
I've said this before, but this makes it inconvenient to dual boot PCs and not have the defult OS be MicroSlop crap.
I "wonder" (/s and 😉
) if this is MicroSlop purposely making life difficult for users who dare not obey MicroSlop's hegemony.
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷I wish I could work 23 hours and sleep just 1.
When I say work, I don't mean office work, but trying to write, and do gamedev, and maybe work on myself.
This "you have to sleep" thing... It's awful limiting.
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷If I ever finally make my own RPG game it will have a type of enemy called tpyo
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷Saw the video of the murder... Seems they wanted, if not kill Pretti, then at the very least cripple him for life.
And somehow, that was NOT the worst...
There is another video, not about the murder. But the OUTSIDE of an ICE facility, and you can hear children screaming and crying.
Yeah, that's my cue to stop dooming today...
Edit: and maybe this is what they want, for us to not be witness, to not pay attention, to make it easier, you can't remember what you never saw...
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷I hugely dislike sports talk. I do NOT hate sports. Just the culture in general about them, especially in America.
And so I have said often, that I filter all sports toots. That's my boundary. I want to read the people I follow, but no the sports stuff. That's how I roll.
But I would NOT go to someone tooting non-stop about sports and tell them how to use CWs, or tags.
Maybe, maaaybe, I could ASK them for tags, but not TELL them. Asking a favor is different from an order. Savvy?
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷Same thing with ALT text.
I think I put ALT text in all my images. And hopefully I haven't failed.
And when people post images with no ALT I just don't favorite or boost. But I will probably copy the image and post it myself with ALT.
But I think I don't need to ask them to add ALT text, whether it's that one image, or all their images.
I can just tell them my boundary. No ALT? No boost, no likes.
Do you see where I am going with this?
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷I think there's more important things than this, but...
I think it's important to set boundaries, and to be clear and direct concerning them.
But telling someone else how they should do a thing, so that you remain comfortable regardless of whether they are as well is not cool.
For example...
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷I hugely dislike sports talk. I do NOT hate sports. Just the culture in general about them, especially in America.
And so I have said often, that I filter all sports toots. That's my boundary. I want to read the people I follow, but no the sports stuff. That's how I roll.
But I would NOT go to someone tooting non-stop about sports and tell them how to use CWs, or tags.
Maybe, maaaybe, I could ASK them for tags, but not TELL them. Asking a favor is different from an order. Savvy?
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷I think there's more important things than this, but...
I think it's important to set boundaries, and to be clear and direct concerning them.
But telling someone else how they should do a thing, so that you remain comfortable regardless of whether they are as well is not cool.
For example...
afreytes, 👁️🗨️of🇵🇷Not certain about the order of events, but:
More ICE funding is approved by the government
Another white person is assassinated
I don't know what to tell you except that I don't think the events are accidental.