diff --git a/home/-shrc b/home/-shrc
index 6da3b77..0c6c0eb 100644
--- a/home/-shrc
+++ b/home/-shrc
@@ -76,9 +76,10 @@ alias crawl='screen -dR crawl ssh crawl@crawl.develz.org -i ~/.ssh/crawl'
 alias crawla='screen -dR crawl ssh crawl@crawl.akrasiac.org -l joshua -i ~/.ssh/crawl'
 alias revend='objcopy -I binary -O binary --reverse-bytes=4'
 alias fucksystemd='dmesg | grep -v audit'
-alias gd='git diff'
+alias gd='git diff -U2'
 alias gds='git --no-pager diff --stat'
 alias gl='git log --oneline'
+alias gs='git status' # rip ghostscript
 alias aur="BUILDDIR=$HOME/src $HOME/sh/aur -jj"
 
 # providing extra functionality