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If you ever find yourself creating a fantasy species and building their society based around specific biological evolutionary characteristics, remind yourself that humans are the ultimate pursuit predator and yet we have developed a society built around sitting or standing around in small rooms

Skamble Skanks the Rude-Boy Cat

it's very funny that they call him "Avdol" in the dub, bc "Abdul" is a really really common Arab name. imagine changing a character's name from "John" to "Jom" bc you're afraid that the estate of John Lennon will copyright claim it

Powerful argument for why gender detection algorithms are bad and nobody should be making them
https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/43211/1/trans-algorithm-machine-learning-bias-discrimination-chelsea-manning-edit

holding a seminar entitled "some people are different than you are. these are called 'other people'."

mads is the queen of both #shortkings and the #asscommunity, a venn diagram that looks like a big, beautiful #ass

her name was Julie Berman, and she was murdered in the Annex on Sunday night

i didn't know her, but still there's a hole in my heart anyway

[the included story link is stripped of tracking]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-activist-who-raised-awareness-about-transphobia-murdered-in-toronto/

Theory: Older people aren't worse at discovering or using new technology. UIs are just worse at conveying function/intent

Some evidence:
https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/

"Beginning users and many intermediates relied almost exclusively on visible cues for finding commands. They relied on (and found intuitive) menu bars and tool bars, but did not use pop-up (or “context”) menus, even after training."

"All but the most advanced users did not understand how to manage overlapping windows efficiently."

my sister once joked that I'm her very anxious cat's emotional support animal and it's one of the nicest things anyone's ever said about me

do you think alphys has a humansona

things are starting to come together in Outer WIlds after a homestuck

is my skeleton a mech? it's humanoid yet visibly mechanical