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Sorry heteros, but pride month isn’t ending. We’re heading into pride month 2 baby

modern web rant 

Yes, I just experienced a completely blank page while my browser was:

> Waiting for cloud.typography.com...

to time out.

And of course, once it did finally time out, the excuse of a page instantly appeared as a misaligned, completely unreadable mess overlaid on other misaligned & completely unreadable messes.

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modern web rant 

Hey, fancy Web CMS creators!

Did you know that you can ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE your shortest, smallest, & simplest pages take OVER 180 SECONDS to load?

All you have to do is rely on 3rd-party cloud services to REINVENT EVERYTHING under the mistaken belief that they have better than 2-nines uptime or that they will outlive your CMS & won't sunset tomorrow!

IT'S THAT EASY TO SCREW EVERYONE TODAY!

(This message brought to you by the foundation to yeet techbros.)

So far, this is the longest video I've found spending the most time showing off GEOS 2.x for the Apple II-series computers.

"A GEOS for Apple II bemutatása": youtube.com/watch?v=McB7NF6UC9 (11:42)

Holy shit racism, Donald Trump 

Perfectly normal America :)))))))))

"What’s The Deal With Snap Packages?": hackaday.com/2020/06/24/whats-

Ubuntu's new package manager seems like a nice potential with insurmountable design flaws.

Obviously the soviet Union was gonna fail I mean how did no one notice all those huge red flags

don't you just love it when your favorite app stops being developed because of the goog™ web.archive.org/web/2020030717

I went looking for images to make an editor wars joke. Ed and V.I. are easy enough, but when I went looking for E. Max, I was assaulted with pages and pages of teeth and ceramic dentalwork. That really creeps me out.

uspol, facial recognition, Santa Cruz, + 

"As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.

“Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disproportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said on Wednesday."

reuters.com/article/us-usa-pol

birdsite, glinner (+) 

Today just got better. Twitter finally agreed that the transphobe Graham Linehan used their service for hateful conduct, and they booted him off.

:flag_transgender: Support trans people and stand up for trans rights, even if you're cis, and don't give transphobes the time of day. :flag_transgender:

Today, June 26, is the gayest day in US history.

2003-06-26 (17 years ago): Lawrence v. Texas, striking down no-gay-sex laws nationwide.

2013-06-26 (7 years ago): US v. Windsor, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

2015-06-26 (5 years ago): Obergefell v. Hodges, legalizing gay marriage nationwide.

:flag_rainbow:
Happy LGBT+ pride month, folks!
And don't forget the "T" in there!
:flag_transgender: :flag_aromantic:

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