have you ever found yourself saying "boy, i wish i had some precambrian and cambrian era critters, but in plushie form! but especially i wish i had the one that was so confusing that the archaeologists gave up and called it hallucigenia because they figure you gotta be on drugs to make sense of it and there is still dispute about which end is the ass and which is the head!"?

WELL HAVE I GOT A DEAL FOR YOU https://www.ebay.com/itm/Hallucigenia-Plush/323778510379?hash=item4b62b3fe2b:g:AKMAAOSwVFlUJSaP

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 18:50

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 18:50

Sep 28, 2019, 18:50

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

This Italian lady invited me to join her Columbus Day float. Am I Italian? No. Do I despise Columbus and the bastard Spaniards who invaded the Americas directly after exiling the Sephardim? Yes.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 18:38

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 18:38

Sep 28, 2019, 18:38

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Can't believe anything, ever, at all, full stop

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 15:26

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 15:26

Sep 28, 2019, 15:26

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

All fanart of Alphys are photographs of @melissasage

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 28, 2019, 13:11

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**pride edition wicche ⛧ ⧖⃝** @wicche@radical.town · Sep 28, 2019, 13:11

Sep 28, 2019, 13:11

pride edition wicche ⛧ ⧖⃝ @wicche@radical.town

Sincere Joker take

Facepalming myself into the ether at Warner Bros. banning red carpet Joker premiere interviews and stating simply that the film isn’t supposed to be an endorsement of anything and the Joker isn’t supposed to be a hero.

Corporate media has no idea what publicity means. This situation isn’t about whether the character is “actually” good or bad. It’s about choosing to give screen time to a narrative arc that’s structured and framed such that people who want to believe his actions are justified will find their excuse.

It’s possible to tell effective, good stories about men like this, but to deliberately center your story around an existing figure from the incel mythos *right now* is irresponsible.

Stop making these types of narratives. Give the bulk of the screen time to people actually victimized by such men, and let their own stories show how pathetic and horrible these men are. Let the few good movies centered around such men serve their purpose; we don’t need more.

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 28, 2019, 07:42

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**Trammell Hudson** @qrs@mastodon.social · Sep 28, 2019, 07:42

Sep 28, 2019, 07:42

Trammell Hudson @qrs@mastodon.social

This looks like a book of charming stories about animals full of friendship.

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**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 28, 2019, 02:45

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**ALPHYS** @alphys@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 02:45

Sep 28, 2019, 02:45

ALPHYS @alphys@computerfairi.es

soda time

source: https://twitter.com/shaderpeh2/status/1177354347446882304

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**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 28, 2019, 02:53

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**Mal Zedong** @mal@witches.live · Sep 28, 2019, 02:53

Sep 28, 2019, 02:53

Mal Zedong @mal@witches.live

@melissasage

*tips fedora* m'GNU

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 02:43

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 02:43

Sep 28, 2019, 02:43

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Thankfully, I can add more, unlike some machines which shall remain nameless

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 02:42

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 02:42

Sep 28, 2019, 02:42

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

The laptop I bought only has 4 gigs of RAM, and that was fine for browsing, but now I'm really feeling it as it installs updates

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 02:32

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 28, 2019, 02:32

Sep 28, 2019, 02:32

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Im linux

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**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 28, 2019, 01:13

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Sep 28, 2019, 01:13

Sep 28, 2019, 01:13

melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

I'm NOT a Biden fan but it's just a fact that his meat is huge. he has the biggest meat of anyone on that stage. Joe Biden is hung like a horse

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 21:03

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**neville park** @nev@social.coop · Sep 27, 2019, 21:03

Sep 27, 2019, 21:03

neville park @nev@social.coop

i'm well aware canada's healthcare system is vastly inadequate, but just imagine if the housing system were anywhere near what the healthcare system was like.

for-profit housing should be as obscene as for-profit healthcare. flipping houses should be seen as as unethical as hiking up insulin prices.

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**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 18:04

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**fujoshi in law** @Zero_Democracy@jorts.horse · Sep 27, 2019, 18:04

Sep 27, 2019, 18:04

fujoshi in law @Zero_Democracy@jorts.horse

USpol

Robert O'Rourke held one of his gun control PR fests at Kent State and said the Kent State massacre is why we need civilian gun control, if you're wondering how liberalism is doing.

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 20:17

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**rae** @raye@sunbeam.city · Sep 27, 2019, 20:17

Sep 27, 2019, 20:17

rae @raye@sunbeam.city

Seattle/Eastside trans-safe housing sought

Posting for an acquaintance, I will connect interested parties.

Tech-services #professional who regularly works 16-hour days seeking #transgender-safe shared household in #Seattle or Eastside areas. A parking space and cat-free household are what this quiet nite-owl needs at home. Relocation by October’s end preferred, by mid-November at the latest, in order to avoid homelessness.

Boosts in appropriate circles welcome.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 27, 2019, 18:32

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Sep 27, 2019, 18:32

Sep 27, 2019, 18:32

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

Hey, want to know an easy programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Programming_Language

**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 16:44

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**crows call me breadlady** @garbados@toot.cat · Sep 27, 2019, 16:44

Sep 27, 2019, 16:44

crows call me breadlady @garbados@toot.cat

so many horror stories are just "what if this happened TO YOU" about a thing that regularly happens to people

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**orthogonal to alive** · Sep 27, 2019, 14:34

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**Lynnesbæn** @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space · Sep 27, 2019, 14:34

Sep 27, 2019, 14:34

Lynnesbæn @lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space

"The specification had provisions for reporting whether the floppy drive door was open, but IBM didn’t implement that part of the specification because it saved them a NAND gate."

"Mark Zbikowski led the MS-DOS 2.0 project, and he sat down with a stopwatch while Aaron Reynolds and Chris Peters tried to swap floppy disks on an IBM PC as fast as they could.

They couldn’t do it under two seconds.

So the MS-DOS cache validity was set to two seconds."

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190924-00/?p=102915