Rachel Greenham
strangenoises.org
Rachel Greenham
@strangenoises.org
she/they; I quit my career as a software developer so I could spend more time coding.

Also at https://mastodon.social/@StrangeNoises
#flexmark seems sadly to have fallen moribund, but it's also depending on features of its forked parser than the OG #commonmark #java doesn't have. because you need contextual awareness. Seeing what I can do with SourceSpans but it might need to be a PostProcessor instead.
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
if i had to find a positive thing to say about him, i suppose i might say that, unlike many of his peer group, we don't especially worry about where those hands might wander off to.

that's it. that's all i got. you can tell me why i'm wrong now. 😉
December 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Rachel Greenham
the reactionaries get it because they ultimately defined it, but liberals have deluded themselves into thinking being straight means purely that you're attracted to the opposite sex. they cannot conceive of the systems they are trapped in, to them it is immutable universal law like gravity.
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
my, she was yar
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
they can't. it would criminalise what Streeting's doing to trans kids in the NHS. and for some reason he must be given everything that he wants.

seems this should be a line of attack. why not conversion practices bill? streeting. nhs practice right now.
December 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
i credit them with less good faith than that. i think they're trying to wear you down, to make you averse to reporting the stuff they don't like. so i was more serious about the ignoring them bit than the telling them to sod off bit. 😀 let them cry into the void.
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
tbh the most tedious thing about Controversy Corner is the eternal efforts to be diplomatic to the ones complaining you're reporting on the administration being corrupt fascist shits (as it pertains to Apple which is extremely restrained IMHO). tell 'em to sod off once then ignore them forever. 😉
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
and people wonder why we never seem to have enough spoons...
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
my understanding is the debate is on whether they're *alive*. but they're definitely a hugely important part of Earth biology; transmissible packets of DNA. they have to co-opt a living cell to "live" but surely they're "biological".
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
yeah, it seems to me it doesn't *give* them legitimacy. They're just stealing it anyway because they have the megaphone.
December 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
it's exactly the sort of thing that's made me stop trusting them, in particular the BBC, on *everything*. I *know* they're lying about us. Who else are they lying about?

Used to be such a news 24 junkie too...
December 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
how can we be a virus? i thought we weren't biological!
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted by Rachel Greenham
Your colleague Labour MP Joani Reid just described trans people as a 'virus'.

Because she was upset that a vexatious case brought by a racist, transphobic nurse didn't go her way.

Tell me again about Labour's 'progressive policies'.
December 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
oh i'm far too lazy to make them; luckily the supermarkets around here sell them. i just haven't thought about them in literally decades. but now the mind-virus is awake...

omg waitrose have sourdough crumpets.

(waitrose would.)
December 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
crumpets, omg i haven't had crumpets in *years*. childhood memories, like the Kimberly biscuits granny would bring back from trips to ireland.

hot butter tips: melt butter on them when they're hot. that's the tip.

i have to have some now...
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
of course the second paragraph is completely true, though she presumably doesn't mean *those* activists...
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
youtrack.jetbrains.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
How do I make the green "Start Free Trial" button in the corner go away without starting a free trial? It's distracting.
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
well, i guess Saudi-compliant feminism pays the bills...
December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
never mind, here it is 😉
December 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"No updates available" in toolbox still...
December 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM