a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es

One of the thing I’ve learned about the consequences of bullying is that when people tell you things like “I’m pretty bad at math” or “computers aren’t for me” or “I don’t really get art or fashion” and you talk to them for a bit what you often find - not always, but often - what that really means is “somebody treated me like shit for trying to like this when I was 9.”

For avoidance of doubt:
IPR supports trans rights and BIMPOC creators and gamers.
Fascists, Nazis, and TERFs can all fuck right off.

I surprised someone again yesterday by saying that I legitimately don’t think technical issues are the hard part of shipping projects.

I find the constraints are almost always about how to navigate conflicting points of view, deadlines, organization, planning, and budgets. People, planning, and money are the hardest topics. The technical parts seem far less difficult -sometimes even trivial- in comparison.

This is a brilliant way to do gamepad identification and my fellow fairy friend has given me permission to share their process

And here I was considering one of those monolithic device lookup tables, hah

2023 marked Draknek's 10th anniversary making games, and before the year closes we wanted to put all of our games on sale across all platforms where they are available.
The different stores have different discount guidelines and promotion dates, so it doesn't happen often that we can get them to all line up!

Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.

free language learning tip from someone who absolutely 100% has had The Struggle:

take a text that’s somewhat too difficult for you and write it down. Make a copy, by hand. If it’s long just keep going until you run out of time.

You can look up a word here and there if you’re baffled but don’t get sidetracked, keep writing.

tumblr will forever be the greatest evidence that social media and corporate interests are completely incompatible (tbf most everything is)

apple's purity culture bs
automattic's shiny new unoriginal features no one wants that only get in the way of the "core experience"
yahoo's whatever the fuck they were doing

desire for constant infinite growth is hostile

New puzzle new puzzle

Still exploring interesting logic in standard killers

Playable link https://tinyurl.com/mvzb4mzx

The counter girl hopped right up when I walked in and was clocking in to help me.

Me: were you on break? I can wait until it's over I'm not in a hurry.

Her: no, we're supposed to clock out when there aren't customers

Me: oh no, honey, no. That's illegal.

Her: 😳

Me: not for you, for your manager or whoever told you to do that.

Her: it is?

Me: it's called wage theft when your boss doesn't pay you what you earned. when your boss requires you to stay here, he needs you pay you for your time.

Her: oh.

Me: here, this is the office number to an employment lawyer, call her and tell her you need to come in to talk about this

Her: I don't have any money

Me: we're gonna get your money, you already earned it sweetie.

I don't (ever) post Tumblr screenshots I found on other websites, but this is, the correct shit

"Death of the Author" never originally meant "ignore the problematic aspects of the author" or "forget about the author."

It meant that the author's opinion of their own work was not authoritative and, in fact, that there could be no "definitive" interpretation. It was about how each individual's interpretation could be considered authoritative in its own right

It wasn't supposed to be about "we can ignore the author being terrible or trying to push a narrative." It works at a different level

Hi friends, I made a new puzzle :) Give it a try if you've played and enjoyed some of my other puzzles before, I hope it bends your brain a little but most of all I hope you have fun playing it. Playable link and rules in the replies, let me know what you think if you try it.

https://app.crackingthecryptic.com/sudoku/?puzzleid=fpuzzlesN4IgzglgXgpiBcBOANCALhNAbO8QBUAnTAewDsRUBDAVzQAsTCEQBhGHMDKykQmzjDQsAClioBjGAAIGMgCYQA5pjDSAjAFpE08lOkxJ9aRDIGAbjEIBPaYRIB3ZNIkksNALZlnVMvOkAzAAeAdIARiRBAHTSACLKqiZmVC5USjJgnrIksvQZHlRYWNJknmFWSbkyNAAONRU4AGZoLkxkFSSNuVQtEmkyvv6KKmhqfWRkJC2EMPU90g6Y9KbSKX3pUbxKxPIIANp7oOaFNLgAbKgqlmQiMGQSEFgAslSEANZgCKVFAL7IRydcAAWS4Qa63e6PF7vT7wb5YP4A9y4AAcoPBdwez1eHy%2BAgR%2FxAx2RCAATOi7hCsdDcXD8YiiYCEAB2Ck3TFQnGw%2BEM4mnBDqNlUzkwvG%2FQl83AAViFHOxorp4qR%2FPgAVlkPltJ5EqZSHV1K5YoRAF1kIdGST4OSQFdKXKadz6TrLaybWC7RqHUbebq1W6MZ7DYqCcrzvqRVqnaGEDL%2FR6DQrtdG9XH2YHE1GLSrBanhZrHUqs6jw%2Fnvc6VSDc%2FagzzTebJQgUFX05HCw34DnbWmE62Q0WYyWvcGfZbK1280Ok%2F3VYOa5n22jmz2C3329bx9WM23dRclxGVyOVa6Ny2D3Xk36T8uy8nF1f9zfp2P3d2H8Py7hOy%2BJ3Pt5am%2Fepbvsm67fpuvaHrgx5gaej7trGgGTvOO6zluJpmsm0EBtewHTghME4VOa6oRBH4IJeBFvkRup3pRQHUZau6Ib%2Bq66gBdFIX%2BFYkQeZEdjx3rntOX7YVRyGMQJuHtuxon0eJKr4bJnGsaOkkMUeanybgFFKSxkFkppXHFnucm%2FEJ7bPrpaH6Vahkqdmdk2Vh8ZiUZCBMRxel8YpLmmfZxnMdZfEyb5yk2TpoV6eZuo%2Ba%2Bfk2SFcVhXxHlWaRt6OXxImRUFF6Zcmlk5el07OUlXkgY50WWrRaW8XlJnJZh%2BXTolP65dOoG1XBuqFWV7XtqlRV1cJzXwZVpogG8jw4IQ6y4OaUhFLCewgAASuorCkrw62sAEIATe2IDqFtDKLVgy1raSrDqNtATXftqCHeoN2nRw537Jdu23Zt317QduogIgICvUtH2rUCX2oKtUqQ2tZxff9lpHVKwOEmdF2rXdQLfSjUN3WcD3TsjqOgOjYMw1tUPwzdVM%2FYjKpHSdaNvRjG0E1DV2459BP07gxMg%2B98AratV3Mt9Yt46wKKE4dQMCxjV1A5LQO8ywz0kyAZNC2tzI%2FVDut7VDKII49ANy8zoPa6tiB62tNt%2FabSPqAADBrWvCzb2NQzbXPW6wPOOwz6go%2FLYO6%2Bza3G77xsB0T5ukyz5NS9t8MS3Dyeq3g8ea4nVsQ0ra0wwXq3wyrgd88Hbu58Lutp6tuvS0brBi5nICki9FuC8LxvFzbjd26wZdE9LodWzDvswxHJesCjrfqCPE2KGAVBhDg8hYCQKgSPsE1oPwMDjIo8g9DAYAkDUGDkMtxo%2FEAA%3D%3D%3D

Despite earlier worries, the new owners of Bandcamp, though they HAVE fired the entire employee union bargaining unit, are still holding Bandcamp Friday

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

This is great because it means you can buy music without supporting the union busting

Here's my list of over 100 Bandcamp recommendations with micro-reviews:

https://cohost.org/mcc/post/922976-bandcamp-friday-reco

"Over 100 recommendations is too many. I want one recommendation"

Okay, listen to this song

https://chipzelmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spectra

Police nabbed a graffiti artist attempting to flee the scene of committing this (picture) adorable art in the harbor of Visby, Gotland, the large island just outside southeastern mainland Sweden.
The 27-year-old was prosecuted for vandalism, with the prosecutor demanding a fine.

Police's interrogation records said e.g. that "His intention is to offer free art to passersby." and... the District Court of Gotland... agreed.

The court's ruling states that no harm has been proven and that the artist "on a gray and cracked concrete façade which is the short end of a loading dock, has depicted a lamb.", that "The way in which X has illustrated the lamb testifies to an artistic work carried out with a certain amount of artistic and technical skill." then finally "According to the District Court's opinion, the beauty value of the cracked concrete façade - in purely objective terms - has increased through X's painting." so the 27-year old artist was acquitted by the court, which also ruled that the police had must return the spray cans they had confiscated.

Damn hippies. ;-D

Many people argue that Israeli atrocities against Palestinians reflect the ideology of Netanyahu & the far-right, and that we shouldn't blame Israel as a whole.

So to clarify: ethnic cleansing has been going on since Israel's birth in 1948—regardless of who led the country

1/14

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:

A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.

Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply *more likely to file bugs*.

Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA

https://techhub.social/@ozone89/111337250473454154