a.k.a. dullbananas
I'm writing a novel. I started writing this one in July 2026. The protagonist Peter is born in the future. The story begins with uniquely wholesome slice-of-life + romance, during Peter's last year of college. Eventually, while exploring an abandoned NASA building, he accidentally time travels to the present and will never return to the future. He grieves the permanent separation from the people he knew. To make matters worse, the present world is worse at being helpful and inclusive to people who are socially awkward, including Peter. This alone is enough to horrify Peter and is the novel's core premise, but Peter is horrified by other things too, and I'm still figuring out the differences between the present world and future world in this novel. Peter has to discover a path from deep emotional agony to happiness.
I'm creating a Catholic dating app called Water. Instead of being completely built from scratch, it's a fork of Duolicious. Water will be libre. See Richard Stallman's ted talk for an introduction to the libre software philosophy (also known as "free software", which uses the word "free" in a confusing way, but is the term used by Richard Stallman). Water will also not be funded by anything other than donations. No ads or paid features. The first version of Water will be extremely similar to Duolicious, but I intend to make Water become the world's best dating app in later versions. Some notable planned features of Water include a "Jesus, 100% match" non-interactable item in the profile list, speed dating like in Candid, and the best compatibility questionnaire/formula ever.
youtube (mainly funny ytp videos)
I'm Catholic.
In April 2023, during an all-school retreat, I suddenly went to confession and started practicing Catholicism again. It felt like a dream. I took initiative in starting going to Mass again despite my family stopping long before.
I named one of my Rust libraries "i_love_jesus". It's unrelated to Jesus.
The existence of Hell is somewhat difficult for me to accept. I believe that Hell exists, but I really hope nobody goes there. Not even the worst people.
mbti personality type: infp
i want to change the world
i'm described as: smart, funny, a safe space
The top priority right now is to end the first-past-the-post voting system. That's what will enable someone like Peter Sonski to win some day.
Deportation is rarely or never the right choice.
No one deserves the death penalty.
Today's monetary economic system is repulsive, even if it's the best system so far. Nearly everything the government does to it is bandaid solutions, and it's hard for me to know which bandaid solutions to support. I am interested in The Venus Project (founded by Jacque Fresco) but my opinion of it is complicated. The government should stop doing things that unjustly hinder progress away from use of money, such as property tax and patents.
Politicians are obligated to declare and pursue a goal of abortions never happening. "Safe, legal, rare" is not okay. Abortion bans must be carefully designed to not make doctors afraid of getting in trouble for something other than abortion.
Medical schools should be required to teach about alternatives to unethical things, in order to prevent situations such as doctors falsely thinking an abortion is necessary, doctors recommending birth control pills in too many cases, doctors yelling at someone saying to get sterilized, etc.
We have a duty to vote in every election and fill the entire ballot.
Being able to send kids to Catholic schools instead of public schools is important, so I'm in favor of allowing ESAs in Arizona to be used for private school tuition, and I'm against returning to the original four eligible groups and against Brett Newby's proposal to require 100 days of public school attendance before ESA eligibility.
Improving public transit and walkability is important.
I don't know how to label myself, other than independent.
favorite pet: bunnies
favorite novels: "the giver" by lois lowry, "behind the clouds" by abigail thompson, "the hobit" by j.r.r. tolkien
favorite movie: the giver
favorite programming languages: rust, elm
favorite christian song: soon and very soon
favorite software license: gnu affero general public license version 3 or later
favorite dessert: vanilla or strawberry ice cream
favorite subway sandwich in terms of taste: 6 inch, white bread, turkey, shredded cheddar cheese, mayo
favorite chips available at subway: lays baked
favorite restaurants: chick-fil-a, subway
favorite trips: disneyland, seek conference
favorite disneyland rides: it's a small world, thunder mountain (during late evening), pirates of the caribbean
favorite non-fiction books: "the most precious gift you have" by lia nicole (about the eucharist and mass), "free as in freedom" by sam williams (biography about richard stallman)
favorite musical activity: singing in a choir
favorite exercise: walking
favorite bible quote: jesus then said to the twelve, "do you also want to leave?" simon peter answered him, "master, to whom shall we go? you have the words of eternal life..." (john 6:67-68)
favorite saints: saint john paul ii, saint carlo acutis
favorite colors: pastel colors
favorite desktop environment: gnome
favorite class in high school: vocations (about marriage, priesthood, etc.)
I graduated from St. John Paul II Catholic High School in 2024.
Currently at Arizona State University (class of 2028, Polytechnic campus) for software engineering degree.
During Reddit's API controversy, I started contributing to Lemmy's server code to help it compete against Reddit. Got promoted to maintainer. (I worked my way up from "I dont see how this improves anything" to "we want to give you write permissions to the repo"!) Still unpaid. I improve performance, improve code style, review others' changes, implement part of new features, provide requested assistance, etc.
To reduce traffic, costs, and emissions, I avoid having premarital car. I usually use feet, bicycle, or bus. Occasionally I use someone else's car.
I was recently part of Outreach Choir at ASU. Members sing to elderly people at assisted living communities.
I'm sometimes at improv jams at Holy Smoke Comedy. One time we were playing party quirks, and I was a gun, and when I entered I said "oh shoot".
I'm single and called to marriage. I'm open to dating now. I mention that because I previously said I'm not.
dull.bananas0@gmail.com
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