ich bin rhiaro @rhiaro@toot.cat

What's the opposite of FOMO? Choice paralysis? It's such a weird relief that I'm now in a place with nothing to do and no reasonable way to get anywhere else for a while.

And it rained torrentially this afternoon so my choice to stay in bed and not go hiking was totally vindicated. (Also I have a cold bleh.) #travel

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/opposite

I can't lie, a hotel room ever once in a while is a niiice luxury. Just one night before my ferry out. Especially after a few weeks of hostels and couchsurfing.

(There are no hostels in Kavala.. but I still booked the cheapest thing I could find and I did NOT shell out for a sea view room with a balcony.. yet here I am.) #travel

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/hotels

It's official. I found one christmas thing I enjoy. The only one.

Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas.

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/christmas

Some part of me still thinks all my problems are going to go away when I make it to an island but intellectually I know that's only going to happen if I leave my fucking computer on the mainland.

Still, I live in hope. The ferry sails tomorrow evening!

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/some-part

Madness also involves talking to yourself right, because I just said "oh haha that's fucking hilarious" out loud to this docker container in a restaurant* in like a regular conversational voice.

* The same restaurant in which I was cry-laughing at tumblr (RIP) screenshots earlier, but fortunately there has been a complete staff and customer turnover since then.

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/madness-also

Madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But this is also the only way I've figured out how to work with docker.

(I swear I must be a fucking idiot, this happens every week, please nobody hire me to do software development oh oops.)

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/madness

Me: Okay I should find something intelligent to read while I eat lunch.

Also me: *opens twitter, immediately finds a 100-post long thread of tumblr (RIP) screenshots.* okay I'm set

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/read

I finished the third of NK Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy last week. For me it was just so much about love, the diversity of love, how there are so many possible ways and reasons to feel and express and perform love (or not). We see familial love as a core theme of course, and reluctant love, unrequited love, love for [...] Sure it's about magic and rock-people and apocalypse. But it's the most thorough and detailed and diverse exploration of love I've ever read. https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/broken-earth

Week in review: 3 - 9 Dec: #travel Belgrade -> Thessaloniki. Hacking, wandering, writing, eating. https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/week-in-review-2

Posted 62 photos: Unreasonably good views from the Heptapyrgion fort and Byzantine city walls in Thessaloniki. TWO vegan friendly surprises. What a day. #travel https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/photos-thessaloniki-3

Posted 60 photos: A day of ambling around Thessaloniki, looking at old stuff and new stuff and the sea. #travel https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/photos-thessaloniki-2

Posted 41 photos: A few days of cafe working in Thessaloniki. The city is huge and sprawling; chaotic in a nice way. [...] Streets are pucked with excavated old shit; Roman amphitheatres, Byzantine towers. Churches are varied and extravagant and quite a few feet down from the pavements, roads and blocks of flats. This is a city of layers and layers. #travel https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/photos-thessaloniki

Fiiiiiinally. Now my problem is sun glare on my screen, which I've gotta say is a tremendous improvement over freezing to death. #travel https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/problems

Oh good, a bug on the staging server I can't replicate on my local machine. My favourite kind of bug. https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/bug

"Society must learn that every combination of gender and gender expression is possible." - https://www.intomore.com/impact/femme-trans-men-on-what-you-should-know-about-gender-expression

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/12/gender