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I'm posting this because they haven't been getting many donations. They have a chronic injury they need to heal from, and need money so they can take medical leave.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-me-from-destroying-my-wrists

Idk if anyone else is watching the CEO of Microsoft feed AR Minecraft chickens, but holy shit

"Bring Minecraft to the real world"

My family is doing this thing where they send me a panicked, cryptic message about someone/something I love, then don't respond to any follow up questions online because they want me to call them.

Over the past 3 days, I've requested twice that they message me back. But they don't like it when I'm setting boundaries. They want me to call them.

I am over it.

If you say you love me, then treat me like I'm not allowed emotions or preferences or boundaries, you don't love me!

Why do I keep dating ppl who are into tentacles?

[avatar on lastfm since 2005 is literally a tentacle monster]

@Nine They're fun for cats to play with while you're trying to talk on the phone, tho.

Any trans named "John" ~obviously~ named themselves after John Homestuck, the main character of Homestuck.

This thread brought to you by someone stating that "Keith" is the kind of trans masc name that is ~obviously~ inspired by a fictional character, thereby forcing me to look up the name "Keith" and find out that he's some guy on Voltron.

Anime nerds are simultaneously extremely self conscious that not everyone is into anime...and completely unaware that not everyone gets their references or slang, because they come from anime.

Btw, it's not an iPhone, because fuck Apple's overpriced walled garden.

Honestly, none of the devices I own nowadays are Apple.

I had to crowdfund for a Macbook to push shit to the app store, and the damn machine broke twice on me within a year.

In 2015, I started teaching myself how to code.

In 2016, I got accepted to a tech bootcamp. They had space for me in the iOS cohort, so I was, like, "Sweet!" even though I had been focused on web up until that point.

I spent the next few years learning how to be annoyed with Apple.

I actually like Swift, but I wish I could use it on non-Apple hardware, for non-iOS things.

Anyway, I was broke until a few months ago, which is why I got my first cell phone in 2010 & first smartphone in 2019.

Wow, a smartphone is really useful.

~ Me, the mobile dev who owned a flip phone until last week

Hey are there any extensions for VS Code that number the "columns" -- vertical line numbers, basically?

I have a very long doc right now, where it would be a useful feature, to ensure lines on the same heading level are even length

Wildest fantasy: Nonprofits having any solidarity, at all, with labor

Oh, I'm sorry.

I overestimated.

It's half a percent.

Wtf is wrong with these nonprofits?!