a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es

I posted this a while back but am reposting for pride month, iI wrote it a few years ago for a Pride open mic event
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Prefer Not to Say:

I am filling out yet another form
On which I am asked my gender
And then given only 3 options to choose from
Man, woman, And “prefer not to say”

I have seen it too many times
And as someone who is not a man
And is not a woman
But who has a hell of a lot to say
I will be
From this point forward
Formally requesting
No
I will be DEMANDING
That every form or survey that gives me an option
Of prefer not to say
Also gives me an option
Of prefer to shout

An option of
I have spent far too long being forced “not to say” and I refuse to stay quiet any longer

Or better yet
A blank box

Give me a blank box
And I will write you an epic poem
About how I spent years looking for myself only to realize I was calling out the wrong name

I’ll find a way in 100 characters
To write a thesis
Examining theories of why
Even after countless hits
Each new gut punch of erasure
Somehow hurts as much as the first one did

Or remove the character limit
If finally accepting my gender taught me anything
It was that limiting myself
Is no way to live

So give me unlimited space
And let me write you a book
Titled “Enby Euphoria”
Filled with stories that will make you laugh
And cry
And understand why this matters

Because at the end of the day
That’s what I really want
For you to understand why this matters
To understand THAT this matters

And I will never get a chance to explain any of that to you
If you keep making me check a box next to the words
“prefer not to say”

#Pride #PrideMonth #Nonbinary #Trans #Transgender #Enby #Queer #Gender #GenderNonconforming #QueerPoetry #QueerArt

fairy mushrooms #creativetoots #art #pixelart #mastoart

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I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking “Hey. Remember those weird Zelda games for the CDi? I wish there was a modern day game like those!”

Folks…. It’s happening. They’re doing it. https://youtu.be/PKVj3fAsO_s

It’s a lot of the same crew even…

There is a Google doc that lists gynaecologists who will perform tubal ligation (tie tubes) without asking if you have kids/your partners permission/are married etc. as long as you're old enough to consent to surgery.

It's sorted by alphabetical order by state.

If your city isn't listed, keep checking because it's constantly being updated.

So far there are entries for USA, Canada, and Australia. Europe will hopefully soon be added.

GOOGLE DOC https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/htmlview?usp=sharing&pru=AAABgbyEz80%2Aki0mctT40bBlN9NCfbfg6w

#RoeVWade #gynaecology #ForcedBirth #RightToChoose #ReproductiveRights #BodyAutonomy #PleaseShare

Her name is Dignity of Earth and Sky, and it's the first time I've been able to see her in person.

Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

We can do multi-swf flash now!

A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash

It’s amazing to think how much digitization has made it less likely content will last beyond a generation. Writing on stone tablets last hundreds to thousands of years. An Atari cartridge or Betamax tape is almost impossible to consume today if you aren’t a collector of classic electronics.

I used to think my kids and grandkids would read my blog posts and tweets. Now I doubt Medium or Twitter will still be around in ten years.

https://gamehistory.org/87percent/

Apparenty, David Tennant wore an enby pin and a t-shirt reading "leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks" for the official Good Omens 2 press photos.

RE: Evernote firing all employees. Potential company shutdown/selloff.

You can download & export your entire evernote collection using evernote-backup: https://github.com/vzhd1701/evernote-backup

Can't do it in the app anymore without a $paid$ plan.

#evernote

I saw a post here (that I can't find) that kinda changed my life.

It said the best first step to changing the world into a better place is to just stop making fun of people. Ever. For anything. Including in your own thoughts that you may never speak aloud.

I try very hard to do this! it's such a stabler and nicer-feeling foundation to my thoughts and my life. It sheds a mental weight/burden I couldn't see before.

Such a great distilled bit of advice for a big concept!

"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"

This is increasingly how it feels, when streaming shows disappear for tax reasons and things you "own" digitally become inaccessible.

Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.

So a brand new fancy decompiler for Sierra games just dropped
https://www.benshoof.org/blog/sci-scripts

⭐️Heyo! I'm Yenna full time freelance artist⭐️

I enjoy drawing grunge punky scenes with vibrant colors⚡️

Portfolio, comms, contact info:
https://spikyenna.wixsite.com/yenna

#Furry #Furryart #furryartist #mastodonart #anthro

Updating some old pieces.
Not really sure what the exact sprite capabilities this Amiga 1001 would be, but the chip might suitably be called uh... *squints* Scheherazade.

This is hilarious. Twitter appears to be DDOSing itself.

Something's wrong with Twitter so feeds aren't loading. Nothing loads, but my Twitter feed is still trying to load, but it doesn't stop trying after so many attempts.

Notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. I haven't done anything more than attempt to view my home feed. Now notice the bouncing scrollbar.

I'm gonna guess there was an bug introduced that was resulting in an endless loop of trying to fetch results, but with no results available, Twitter would have basically been DDOSing itself.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #Tech #DevLife

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#Art #Artist #AdorkaStock

it was the best of times: the memes were really good

it was the worst of times: anything happening outside

If you got the #Tetris The Grand Master arcade game port for the switch but bounced off it because it was kinda weird to you (or didn't buy it because it's "just another Tetris game") i highly recommend you try playing it in 20g mode for a very new and very different Tetris experience than you're used to. It's quite hard, but very satisfying to get better at. In 20g mode the pieces instantly fall to the top of your stack and you have to move them from there in the lock delay window.

Tetris Effect has a special Master Mode that's kinda similar, but TGM's rotation system and other mechanisms are built around making 20g work in ways that guideline Tetris games really aren't.

There are two ways to play #tgm in 20g on these ports: with a code (down 8 times then C B A, which are mapped to A B Y on the switch) in the main game, or by just choosing it in the score leaderboard mode before starting.

There's a bunch of info about how to play TGM in general and 20g in particular at https://tgm.tips and also on the more general https://tetris.wiki

Press F to pay respects to Libbie, the rejected LibreOffice mascot. There was apparently some kinda flamewar over this and I’m not sure why.