orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

gendered voices are a social construct and whenever I bring this up to anyone they always have a story about some cis extended relative being misgendered over the phone and yet they still try to figure out someone's pronouns based on the pitch of their voice

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let's have a moment of appreciation for the reddit post where a ancap wanders into a greek anarchist squat and gets his ass beat (1/2)

me: meows at computer bc it's not paying attention to me
me:
me: i wonder why people keep comparing me to a cat

"The Mother of All Demos"
1968: Douglas Engelbart explains the foundation of user interface to the world. How to make computers responsive and useful, mouse pointer, hypertext, etc.

In school I read about it often, but TIL I can just WATCH the thing!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhEh3tEL1V4

1 megapixel! Ten photos per floppy.

Morticia and Gomez are Goals except my wife and I are both just Gomez - stupid in love w/ each other: none elegance with left DORK

I go hahahahah but you don’t know from where

Because I think this one is undershared.

I just remembered that Aubrey Beardsley was basically the Joker

thinking about how scientific skeptics would criticize Reagan for having a court astrologer that he consulted, and not literally everything else he ever did

Bowl with Human Feet, Predynastic Egypt, 3900–3650 B.C.[1500x1500]

“A Matter of Inches!”, Munsingwear, in LIFE Magazine, 1940 https://advertisingpics.tumblr.com/post/188418444463/a-matter-of-inches-munsingwear-in-life

oh god the teens are gonna rediscover nu metal

what if you had two cats and they switched bodies and they didn't even realize because they're just cats but you were like "why is this one so much more personable now, and the other ones hides so much" or something

*boomer voice* I'm worried about children becoming addicted to changing their gender pronouns