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people be saying nice things to each other on here like its no big deal

@kelerak elon will build it on the moon and then we get to watch the capitalist hunger games when it fails.

@wigglytuffitout and with how awesome you at they are, I might finally get into some fem clothes. Every time I try I'm stymied by my broad shoulders/chest. It's like trying to fit a traffic cone over a stump.

@wigglytuffitout oh, I definitely get that. Functional and quality goods are big for me.

I just got some new boots that I can even rehash the boots theory of inequality with.

So, my old boots cost aground $200. They fit really well, and came with really good tread, didn't have any problems slipping. They had glued soles, though, and so when the tread wore out, I had to give up on them, even though they fit perfectly. So I bought $300 pair with sewn soles that can be retreaded for only $100.

@troubleMoney if you can take apart the battery, it's probably made up of several 18650 batteries. It's uncommon for all of these to die at once. If it's a battery rather than a controller that died, try taking it apart and testing all the batteries in the pack. Find and replace.

Better than buying a whole new battery pack.

@fraggle (no image. Image shows man with many limes in his hands. Several of the limes are slipping from his grasp. He is unable to hold so many limes. Caption: "why can't I hold all these limes?" A shutterstock watermark is faintly visible)

@wigglytuffitout most fem people I've known have made it clear how much of a pain finding clothes with pockets is for them. This looks like a super rad company for obtaining functional and fitting dresses. Super neat!

I'M SORRY EVERYONE I'M JUST REALLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT PRETTY DRESSES FOR EVERYONE WHO WANTS THEM....

having a dress that ACTUALLY FITS was my lifechanging moment of "oh shit... fashion is a thing I CAN PARTICIPATE IN TOO instead of just watching sadly"

also

eshakti dresses

have

pockets.

anyway sweetdisabled.com/sweetdisable is the more thorough love letter i wrote to them, 10/10 highly recommend go get yourself a kickass pretty dress

I don't see why people avoid applebees. Bees are integral to our ecosystem, so who cares if they live in apples, stinging your face when you take a bite? That's their home in the first place.

updated tl;dr of the cop instance thing from yesterday (472 words) 

(I suggest boosting this toot rather than the one at the top of this thread; I believe it is more accurate.)

Yesterday, the instance admin of hackers.town - TheGibson - posted a toot with three slides from a PowerPoint presentation - I think about advertising infosec as a career. (It's deleted now - web.archive.org/web/2019030419 is a copy on the Wayback Machine, web.archive.org/web/2019030419 - cw: glancing reference to prison rape - is a copy of the first slide.) Among other remarks, they referred to themself as a "Proud Member of FBI Infragard".

Understandably, given the large fraction of the Fediverse population who are leftists, social justice advocates, anti-war activists, or any combination of the above, a great many people were very upset at sharing their private correspondence with someone bragging of their participation in an FBI-affiliated organization. We are who the FBI has targeted for decades.

What is InfraGard? Going by my own limited research and what infosec people have said in response to this outpouring of distrust:

InfraGard, as an organization, is a public-private partnership that presents itself as having a broad mandate to share information between (implicitly, in both directions) private organizations like major corporations and the FBI. InfraGard, as an organization, has little in the way of transparency - in fact, what information it shares, it tends to share confidentiality and with a rule that those receiving it cannot cite InfraGard as a source. (This kind of thing is called "Chatham House Rules", apparently.) According to those who have interacted with it and spoken up, said information is no more than "hey, here is a computer security threat we've seen and some things you all can do to deal with it" - basically on par with the FDA sharing advice on how to comply with new food regulations.

This hasn't particularly allayed the fears of people who viscerally distrust the FBI. Like the ACLU said in 2004, from what little is shared with the general public, InfraGard could easily be another organization designed to facilitate the funneling of private information to the FBI without a warrant so they can better spy on the public - something US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have done many times under many names, changing those names but not the practice whenever outsiders find out about one and scream bloody murder. We don't know, and we have every reason to distrust.

And that 'proudly' from TheGibson - the entire tone of the slides, in fact - doesn't foster confidence in anyone that they draw their lines on what they are willing to participate in /anywhere near/ where they'd have to for people to feel comfortable trusting their judgment.

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@genderlessmenace666@queer.party that's basically my music rotation list although sometimes I'll listen to other stuff.

@genderlessmenace666@queer.party Anti-Flag, aggressive anarcho-punk, hated Trump before it was cool (Your Daddy Was a Rich Man, Your Daddy's Fucking Dead), Godspeed You! Black Emperor, filled with 20 minute audio epics, experimental and grim. Streetlight Manifesto, anarcho-ska; Fast paced songs about destroying capitalism, and related stories. God is an Astronaut, dense and melodic, with great crescendos. Marconi Union, I put them on to sleep, and that's a good thing. Extremely relaxing atmospheric.
4/4

@genderlessmenace666@queer.party mewithoutyou (stylized just like that) interested in telling stories or retelling old biblical stories with complex melodic backing. Mates of State, husband/wife duo making Indie Pop, a fair bit of repetition, but it doesn't detract, IMO. Mike Krol, low-fi garage band style music. Sounds like your speakers are broken but that's just what he sounds like. Metric, irreverent and brash feminist music (in my interpretation), doesn't shy away from independence of sexuality.
3/?

@genderlessmenace666@queer.party Mal Blum, down-beat introspective. Caravan Palace, old style swing music mixed with modern dance music. Against Me, aggressive and/or introspective anarcho-punk by the eternal Laura Jane Grace.

@evie I still don't understand who's a cop, but I'll join in on fedbashing regardless.

@shriekingmarxist
Board room guy(brg): what do women like?
Different brg: dresses!
Brg: alright, and what do gamers like?
Different brg: like... Chairs that look like imitations of racing seats?
Brg: alright, we put these together and get... Dresses that make women look like furniture!

Rest of the board room: *golf claps*

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