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You can't mourn the decline of interest in theater or live orchestral music or opera while also jacking the price of said things up

You want to bring them back into the cultural zeitgeist? Make them cheaper than the cinema, remove the unspoken dress codes, advertise them on TV and billboards and streetlights.

If it's a Saturday night and I've got nothing to do, I should be able to say to my friends "Hey let's go see a play and stop for drinks after!" and within 30 minutes we should be on the road in whatever we were wearing.

Zoom acquired Keybase today.

Keybase helped me to identify a trend in the software industry: using a pretty UI to cover up the disruption of an open ecosystem with a closed, centralized replacement. Keybase seemed cool on the face of it - making encryption easier is a laudible goal, and PGP certainly could use the improvement. But, thanks to Keybase, now I ask different questions upfront.

Beware the Keybase formula:

1. Integrates with an existing, open ecosystem
2. May have open-source clients, but server is closed source and does not federate
3. Pretty UI and good marketing
4. VC funded

I painted a ton of pride potions the past couple days
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call me a commie but i think if having cool rope physics meant a programmer had to sleep under their desk for 5 months... maybe it isnt worth it?

People love to say that prison labour is a "loophole" in the 13th Amendment instead of admitting that it was the intended outcome

*me, loudly chewing gum staring at a straight couple*

‘So, which one of you is the “well actually” and which one is the “I’d like to speak with the manager”?’

its wild to me that people think mark zuckerberg must be a big weirdo because of armchair diagnosing him with autism and not because he is a shitty asshole who became unfathomably wealthy because he made a shitty PHP website to rank girls on their hotness when he was 19

see how the gaslighting works? people are being told they're suffering ‘re-entry anxiety’

Reminder that I was advised to age down the characters in BOOKS & BONE to children because it was too silly and light-hearted for adults.

This was, of course, nonsense.

Please write more fun, light-hearted fantasy for adults. Make it cute and sweet and funny.

Because my book is light for its content matter but it's not *that* light.

And the idea that when we become adults, we must only consume the dark and gritty is both ridiculous and sad.

the venn diagram of people who say US voters are """apathetic""" and people who aren't made to stand outside for five hours in November in order to vote is a circle

animorphs is available for free and ka applegate is a trans-supportive parent, so there's no excuse for letting your kids read harry potter

all these cis showing up in city streets for BLM need to get beyond their cissexist hangups and start having Tony McDade’s name shouted in *all* their protests, on par with George’s, Breonna’s, Ahmaud’s, and so on as Black folk murdered by cops,

BUUUUUT somehow being trans shoves Tony’s name by a rung into obscurity and i am really, really NOT OK with it

i mean, Tallahassee cops must be thrilled to fucking death about there not being national-level scrutiny on their arses