diff --git a/home/-shrc b/home/-shrc
index ce0b534..25bb1bc 100644
--- a/home/-shrc
+++ b/home/-shrc
@@ -122,12 +122,13 @@ alias gb='git --no-pager branch'
 # being specific {{{2
 
 [ -e "$HOME/python3" ] && alias py="~/python3" || alias py="python3"
+alias maybesudo="maybesudo " # allows aliases within the alias
 alias pip="maybesudo -H pip3"
 alias revend='objcopy -I binary -O binary --reverse-bytes=4'
 alias aur="BUILDDIR=$HOME/src $HOME/sh/aur -jj"
 alias clone='maybesudo rsync -aHA --info=progress2 --no-i-r'
 alias aligntabs="column -t -s$'\t'"
-alias pippy="maybesudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed"
+alias pippy="maybesudo py -m pip install --upgrade --upgrade-strategy only-if-needed"
 alias crawla='ssh joshua@crawl.akrasiac.org -i ~/.ssh/crawl'
 alias crawlz='ssh crawl@crawl.develz.org -i ~/.ssh/crawl'