orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

i bought a lavalier mic and it seems to work pretty ok with a preliminary test- i have to record a test video later to make sure it works

if it does i'll be streaming Smash Bros with @shoofle tonight!!

underappreciated feature of mastodon is that it doesn't require a third-party addon like xkit or socialfixer or reddit enhancement suite to be a usable website

seed phrase: Buffalo Leopard Chinchilla Cormorant Skunk (HQ: http://aka-san.halcy.de/quasi/112443889.gif )

It’s a fantastic evening in the neighbourhood, and you are a bubbly persian cat.

video game graphics review channel but the reviewer thinks it's all practical effects

RT @AnneWHilborn@twitter.com

Growing up in the 80's, bread lines in communist countries were used to convince kids like me that capitalism=superior.

I now work at a university food pantry. Graduate students line up for veggies, pasta, canned goods because under capitalism they aren't paid enough to live. https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1189265096817725440

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AnneWHilborn/status/1189296515606630400

How to fix the world step 1: forget the Alamo

@andi @Spacedrake @cenobite_party_bus like as cyberpunk transformed into just an aesthetic without an inherent political mindset, we started getting more genres called "whateverpunk" that also just describe different aesthetics without a clear politic behind them

I’ve been quiet for too long and it needs saying: there’s absolutely nothing punk about solarpunk

alvin and the chipmunks are the mcelroy brothers' fursonas. not going to elaborate on this

every now and then i remember that Google Books basically scanned every written document in existence over a decade and with a few keystrokes we could release all of that knowledge to everyone in the world but instead we have lots of dumb complex DRM and other revenue schemes

boomers for literally my entire young adulthood: millennials and their selfie sticks!! get a job!!

millennials after a decade of this: ok boomer

boomers: *pops an artery from rage*

the thing is that everyone understands that economies are planned when they're going about their daily life, but it's only when they're asked to think about it that they go into this mode where they regurgitate the propaganda they've been taught in school

every single libertarian nerd who goes on about the virtues of the free market and the evils of central planning has a PNG saved to their hard drive that describes the next ten years of Marvel movies