threads/meta meta
So this is something I've been wondering about the whole "defederate with Threads" thing.
Obviously, *using* Threads is a huge privacy hit. It enables Facebook's surveillance of how many milliseconds you spend looking at which brand adverts and who you've called on the phone and how long and how long you browse each day and when and etc etc.
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poem about nonbinary erasure called "prefer not to say"
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
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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.
#RoeVWade #gynaecology #ForcedBirth #RightToChoose #ReproductiveRights #BodyAutonomy #PleaseShare
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.
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.
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.
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
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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.
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