Toots for irina@critter.cafe account

Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-30 at 00:11

if anyone knows how to get a CSS selector for "element that only contains a specific kind of sub-element and nothing else", uhh let me know

because right now i don't have a good way to get "tags on their own line" to work well? an inline tag is some text here #tag, and a tag on it's own line is the exact same as that but without some text here

i am not a webbed developer

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-30 at 00:00

critter.cafe userstyle for phanpy.social!

https://userstyles.world/style/20582/phanpy-for-creatures

if anyone wants to mess about with this; here you go! still some areas i'm not happy with but idk if i'll work much more on it, but the vibes are ok and the font is better

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-24 at 08:40

new hrt regimen

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-23 at 06:43

if i am elected i will make a government infodumping hotline to directly connect cool civil engineers to autistic infrastructure nerds

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-23 at 06:37

like. now i know why the pedestrian crossings with a countdown timer are less common here!¹ fascinating!! i love knowing why things are the way they are!

there were a couple of times during the call where they went on a tangent and apologised and I just said "thankyou so much this is all so interesting please go on as long as you want"

1: because they work best with totally fixed signal timing which isn't common here

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-23 at 06:34

i put in a request to the city the other day saying "i don't think this traffic signal works in a really good way for cyclists" and. ended up in a 30 minute phone conversation with one of the engineers who nerded out with me over signalling and infrastructure and junk! like here's what they're trying and here's why they got stuck here and oh there's this cool new thing they want to try here and -

that was so cool. i love the local government

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-21 at 04:02

there's a good reason nobody makes metro diagrams for suburban bus networks; it's hard and buses do nonsense no rail planner would ever come up with

now if you'll excuse me i have to get 16 bus lines going into a single bus stop to look good and readable

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-15 at 11:25

who was gonna tell me about capital numbers

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-13 at 20:35

less sane but also less possible: media queries in a YouTube video to change the background and text colour depending on theme

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-13 at 20:34

sometimes i have truly deranged thoughts like "what if i put a media query for theme in an svg bus map"

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-10 at 06:19

me playing mini metro: everyone has a right to be connected to efficient rail transport

me playing mini motorways: no im not connecting your house to a road. not my fault you built it in the Stupid Zone.

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-05 at 06:17

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-05 at 06:06

this is the same company who counts time from 1990 instead of 1970, sometimes and also sometimes only stores the lower 16 bits of the timestamp

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-05 at 06:03

my friend found another cursed coordinate format: fitness tracker storing latitude as signed integers, 0-2³², where 0 is the prime meridian and 2³²-1 is... -1/(2³²) (so back at Greenwich)

counting up as you go east or north, basically. the formula to convert back to decimal is apparently n / ( 2³² / 360 ).

but it's a signed integer, so you can go forwards or backwards around the globe, so in theory every point on the globe could be marked by 4 distinct sets of coordinates?

i can imagine a reason to do this - if I'm running around Wrangel Island, then the tracker can keep it's head on and not think I'm teleporting all the way around the world. but it didn't actually do that! it caps the values in software to -90/90 or -180/180! so why have this insane format‽

gotta wonder who comes up with this stuff. don't make me tap the sign, garmin

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Written by irina 🐇🌷 on 2025-01-04 at 05:19

don't think i've ever met someone who doesn't like hot chips¹, but i reckon if you didn't like hot chips, you'd keep your mouth shut to avoid an endless torrent of "what do you mean you don't like hot chips"

1: hot chips meaning pommes-frites or belgium fries

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