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COVID hot take 

A normal cloth mask will not protect you. If you want to protect yourself, you need a proper N95 or better respirator.

This does *not* mean you should not wear a normal cloth mask. If your choice is a cloth mask or nothing, WEAR THE GOD DAMNED CLOTH MASK. THE FUCKING THINGS WORK AS A GOD DAMN GROUP EFFORT.

Seriously, we could have had this fucking pandemic under control if everyone had just worn the god damn masks in the first place.

Aura V. boosted

dear manufacturers of anything that has LEDs:

stop making the LEDs painfully bright, painfully blue, and painfully always-on

some people like to put things in the same place they sleep, and when your damn LED is always on, it makes it hard to sleep

Aura V. boosted

The eighth annual international Gender Census 2021 is now open until 10th March!

smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercens

It's for anyone whose genders (or lack thereof) aren't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and the results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Aura V. boosted
Aura V. boosted

No context 

Remain bless in the lord

Aura V. boosted

Younger sister walked into my room, asked if I wanted “a crabapple”

Lewd (butt!) 

I gots some niiice new panties. The number of tails is off, but hey, it's not like they asked.

Ya know, I get why an edit toot function isn't much of an option here, but I wish mastodon had a way to add a caption to an image after the fact without having to outright delete-redraft, especially for things that might've gained traction before you realized you forgot a caption.

No context, ec 

(Redraft, because I forgot a caption)

Aura V. boosted

haskal tech tip!

despite what Big MPAA will tell you, there is nothing morally wrong about piracy

So, yeah. Your fun fact of the day: the Casio CTK-2550 does not have a very good soundfont. Similar to this, "Whistle" is just a sine wave. And, well, in the synths, they have a bunch of "Square" and "Sawtooth" synths, but no pure square or sawtooth. I actually joked that the Ocarina setting was a better square wave than the actual square waves. But, hey, what do you expect from a $100 keyboard?

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And, okay, maybe you don't believe the scope. Well, here's the audio:

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So, I recently bought an oscilloscope and I decided to scope my keyboard. Check this out: here's some traces. The first is from setting 168 "SqrLead3". The second is from setting 164 "Ocarina". Notice anything peculiar? Is it just me or do those waves look awfully similar? (Spoiler alert: They're awfully similar"

Gender oof 

Alright. Crisis averted. There was no one in there.

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Gender oof 

I have never had a moment of "Oh, shit!" greater than realizing I needed to use the bathroom and the nearest gender neutral one was too far away

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Gender oof 

Hey, so guess what I didn't think through when I decided to wear a trans pride shirt to class today! Using the bathroom! So, anyways, I'm now writing this to buy enough time that the women's room will hopefully be empty.

Aura V. boosted

Thinking about her…. <3

Credit goes to cathodegaytube over on bird site :)

Aura V. boosted

Survivor bias, mental health, people getting hurt, misc violent content, gendered violence 

thinking about survivor bias, where some guy thinks recent issues that people are now having discussions are "new" simply bc they didn't affect him

"in my day we didn't have mental illness. We just toughed it out." (but they did know a guy who seemed healthy and happy, then suddenly killed themselves "for no reason.")

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