a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es

Friendly reminder: this isn't Twitter.

If you're mad about something? Use a content warning.

If you want to write a long post? Use a content warning.

Don't share screenshots of toots that make you mad, and don't follow people that make you mad.

You've left the swirling fire vortex of rage birdsite created to keep investors and advertisers happy. Live free! Live well 👍

Today we found a Violet Coral Mushroom (Clavaria zollingeri). I've been wanting to see one of these forever #fungi #mycology

Aww man a super weird unfolding drama in the physics community, as yet unresolved and involving :

* very surprising claims of room temperature superconductivity!
* datasets that look super faked!!
* some hacker spoofing emails from respected scientists telling investigators to lay off investigating the research group with the super dodgy looking data!!!

You want cyberpunk? Here's cyberpunk!

https://mobile.twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1027717419400392705

a reminder that some CD drives in the early 2000s reached high read speeds by just spinning CDs so fast they would sometimes shatter in the drive, and some manufacturers compensated for this with reinforced fronts

http://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm and these magnificent people ran an experiment on when various media would shatter

tl;dr, if you want shards of plastic fired at you at half the speed of sound, old 50+-speed CD drives are where it's at

┏┓
┃┃╱╲ In this
┃╱╱╲╲ house,
╱╱╭╮╲╲ we
▔▏┗┛▕▔ advocate for
╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲
decriminalization and destigmatization of sex work
╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲
▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔

One cool thing about how fast memes and slang come and go these days is how easy it’s gonna be to date texts. The English subtitles for Yakuza 0 contain the word “butthurt,” so in the absence of any other context I can date the translation to between 2014 and 2016.
#linguistics #gameing

do you feel that the word "trans" applies comfortably to you? if not, are there other people who identify as NB that you mentally consider to fit that label?

i don't necessarily mean in a self-gatekeeping way or anything, but the conflation of those two terms seems to vary from person to person

i've been sort of iffy about where i fit into the whole "cis"/"trans" dichotomy but i've also still felt aimless about pretty much everything about the NB identity

I'm looking for artists who can draw mice for a TTRPG inspired by films like The Great Mouse Detective, Rescuers Down Under, etc. Small commission for promo art (the rest depends on successful Kickstarter). POC and other marginalized folks encouraged to apply!
Please boost!

fun reminder: if you watch streams on twitch, and want to support people

don't use bits. don't buy bits. do not, under any circumstances, buy bits on mobile.

if they have paypal or something, use that instead. because good fuckin lord.

Drew some ridiculously complicated shit. I still like Homestuck.

losing it at this fucking sponsored link

Unicode’s Japanese codepage contains 12 kanji with no pronunciation or meaning, known as the “ghost characters”. These appear to be the result of an administrative error at the JIS in 1978:

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

Left: pre-HRT
Right: 24 months HRT