a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es
Small fairy from Neptune. Bad decision maker. Pro translator. Won't shut up about magical girls, robots, lesbian romances, and wedding dresses. Eats, sleeps, and breathes. Ⓥ
I’m also on twitter: @atinyfaerie
Joined Jan 2018
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Powerful thread on #Israeli dehumanisation of #Palestinians from 2021.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Apartheid #ApartheidIsrael
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My puzzle Butterfly Nebula was featured today on Cracking the Cryptic! My second feature ctc in about a year of setting puzzles. If anybody wants to watch Mark tackle my puzzle here is the link (and there is a link to the puzzle in the video description if you want to try it first)
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@arturo182 printed Dummy 13 and left it on my study desk. I obviously had to make furniture for it. It’s too much fun ;)
Dummy 13 on printables: https://www.printables.com/model/622290-dummy-13-beta-on-runners-easier-to-print
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"new covid" - what you need to know for the illness that never went away, shh
Today I offhandedly referred to covid infections as risking widespread vascular damage and the person I was chatting with stopped and said they'd never heard it described that way before. Which blew my mind a bit because understanding covid as primarily a vascular illness, not a respiratory one, is fundamental to understanding its risks.
But they're absolutely right. That's something you would have learned from following along with research and updates, not from the official messaging and guidance we have received, certainly not from the initial information flood. Even if you saw it, why would you eyeball it and think "that's particularly important"?
People overestimate vaccine effectiveness. They underestimate the damage done by asymptomatic infection. They underuse masks and filtration. They don't understand the effects covid has on the immune system, or the precautions they should be taking against unrelated infections or activity which might impede recovery. They work off a mental model of a far less contagious virus with a very different original set of symptoms.
Covid, ultimately, has a branding problem. What we remember about it nowadays is a jumbled mess, different from person to person.
So I really appreciated this informational list about "new covid." It's tongue in cheek, but if you stop, read it through and imagine you're at risk of a new illness? This is what it looks like today. Just forget what you think you know and prepare for this illness instead. Hopefully we won't just need to look at "new new covid" threads in another few years...
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An absolutely phenomenal #RomHack for Super Mario 3 is coming out next year. Get that sneak peek.
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Hi everyone, would you be so kind and share some things that help you move forward if you feel stuck? It could be an idea, an app, an image, a song, an action or whatever else gets you moving.
Don't hesitate to share things that seem too easy or trivial to you. They might be the biggest aha-moment for someone else.
If you find this helpful, please consider boosting for wider reach.
#ExecutiveDysfunction #productivity #lifehack #work #wfh #focus #gtd #depression #selfcare #adhd #adulting
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I find that the concept of enshittification has really helped my facility designs for ShadowRun.
I tend to over engineer mega corporate defenses, but if I then go through a process of figuring out where costs could be cut, it significantly improves the playability and the immersion.
Who can cover two job roles at once? Who hasn’t been replaced because of the hiring freeze? What systems have not received regular maintenance?
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lol this is very touching! i made it on this list of “40 Developers Who Have Made a Mark in the Indie Game Industry”
https://indiegamereviewer.com/40-developers-who-have-made-a-mark-in-the-indie-game-industry/
and it’s for my work! my work got mentioned! 🥳🎉💕 seeing this it almost feels like things are back to being normal… yes, more normal please. 🥰
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Gotta love how #OpenAI deems that I'm not allowed to know what an image from a TV show looks like because it depicts violence and death. Imagine if I were sighted, but a company had the right to block me and the rest of the world from being able to see certain things because it contained graphic content. That should be my choice, not theirs. This is one reason we shouldn't support game-changing technology being controlled and maintained by corporations like this IMO. #Blind #Accessibility
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To quote the great Eugene Debs:
"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
I really fucking believe that.
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Source code for Infocom’s original interpreters released: with little fanfare, Andrew Plotkin uploaded a trove of newly-discovered source code for various 1980s computers to GitHub https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/11/infocoms-ingenious-code-porting-tools-for-zork-and-other-games-have-been-found/
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Today is #TransDayofRemembrance 
🕯️.
If it's new to you, please research it and the issues, challenges, and threats we face that make today necessary. Remember the dead, and fight like hell for the living.
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you know that quote that's often (erroneously) attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto -- "a late game is late until it releases, a rushed game is bad forever"?
well. turns out a trans woman game dev was the one who said it. huh.
https://www.acriticalhit.com/solved-miyamoto-quote-late-game-bad-forever
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Paris has revealed plans for pedestrianizing the city that include creating 100 hectares of new pedestrian space by 2030 and transforming car lanes to human-friendly pathways and rain gardens.
Love this part: "walking is free, it's emission-free, it's noise-free, it's good for your health and, as we see every time we pedestrianise, it's also good for local businesses."
People-friendly cities for the win! 🚶♀️ 🌳 🚴♂️
https://www.thelocal.fr/20231117/paris-reveals-plans-to-pedestrianise-the-city
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Small fairy from Neptune. Bad decision maker. Pro translator. Won't shut up about magical girls, robots, lesbian romances, and wedding dresses. Eats, sleeps, and breathes. Ⓥ
I’m also on twitter: @atinyfaerie
Joined Jan 2018
