**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 18, 2019, 22:54

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orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

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Trans, guy of center, well over 18.

I'm in tech and it feels weird.

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 18, 2019, 22:54

Dec 18, 2019, 22:54

Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

somebody every few seconds about something they aren't oppressed for: this is the LAST refuge of bigotry. all the rest are gone. as soon as you stop laughing at me, bigotry is OVER

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 22:44

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 22:44

Dec 18, 2019, 22:44

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

I write for a living and I don't give a damn shit about grammar or punctuation or typing or style or

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 18, 2019, 22:38

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**Mads "Out of Service" Viande** @byttyrs@radical.town · Dec 18, 2019, 22:38

Dec 18, 2019, 22:38

Mads "Out of Service" Viande @byttyrs@radical.town

"this author never mentions that his father and mother ever had sex so they were probably just platonic friends"

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 22:08

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 22:08

Dec 18, 2019, 22:08

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

murder, fugitive millionaire

AcAfee is like, if Mavis Beacon were real and on an active crime spree.

However Mavis Beacon is 1. Fictional and 2. an angel sent from heaven

whereas Mr. McAfee is 1. nonfictional and 2. a tax-evading millionaire murderer who wanted to run for president on a cryptocurrency platform

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 21:57

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 21:57

Dec 18, 2019, 21:57

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

murder, fugitive millionaire

Having a brand of major security software named after John McAfee in 2019 is fucking wild.

https://www.cnet.com/news/john-mcafee-released-from-confinement/

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 18, 2019, 20:47

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**Antillion** @Antillion@myasstodon.xyz · Dec 18, 2019, 20:47

Dec 18, 2019, 20:47

Antillion @Antillion@myasstodon.xyz

Hot take, The Grinch was the good guy all along

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**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 18, 2019, 21:28

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**Aura V.** @auravulpes@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 21:28

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Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Car discourse

Not got much to say other than I feel "ban cars" and the subsequent backlash shows the need for us to not try to compress politics down into as small a soundbite as possible. Like, I doubt anyone saying "ban car" wants all cars gone tomorrow without properly implementing public transportation everywhere. But, the nature of politics today is to have compressible soundbites, so even "ban cars *after we get good public transport*" is too much to say.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 18, 2019, 20:48

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Dec 18, 2019, 20:48

Dec 18, 2019, 20:48

melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

under communism everyone will be given an Edsel and it is the only car anyone is legally allowed to drive

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 11, 2018, 01:33

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**laser** @laser@radical.town · Dec 11, 2018, 01:33

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laser @laser@radical.town

Remember a month ago? That was two and a half years ago.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 19:10

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 19:10

Dec 18, 2019, 19:10

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

English, but everything is spelled according to a phonetic alphabet @melissasage

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 18, 2019, 17:52

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**experimental and subject to change** @Dee@fedi.underscore.world · Dec 18, 2019, 17:52

Dec 18, 2019, 17:52

experimental and subject to change @Dee@fedi.underscore.world

When Python 2.7 is fully deprecated people are just gonna release them into the wild and it's gonna be Florida all over again

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 18, 2019, 18:15

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**John-Pierre** @johnpierremaeli@mastodon.social · Dec 18, 2019, 18:15

Dec 18, 2019, 18:15

John-Pierre @johnpierremaeli@mastodon.social

Cars are really the hill some people want to die on???

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 18:23

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 18:23

Dec 18, 2019, 18:23

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

cold take

Trying to fit "Person who doesn't drive" into a privileged/not privileged framework ultimately doesn't make much sense outside of further context.

A homeless person living out of a tent and a celebrity with a valet are both non-drivers.

An impoverished person taking the bus in Brooklyn is not "outsourcing driving to the poor" when the MTA driver is making an order of magnitude more than they are.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 17, 2019, 19:04

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**JoeyBuckaroo** @JoeyBuckaroo@vulpine.club · Dec 17, 2019, 19:04

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JoeyBuckaroo @JoeyBuckaroo@vulpine.club

re: a potentially 🌶️ political thought

@wigglytuffitout In some ways it is mirroring it and yet in others it's like, for some people, they actually don't have a choice to use a car.

There's like a mix of being on either the privileged side of the spectrum or the non-privileged side all using the same public transport system and as someone who outright is too terrified of getting a driver's licence because I'm too autistic to trust myself driving a car, I see that some of the silicon valley "solutions" to public transport are basically gentrifying a system that's supposed to be MORE, not LESS accessible to disabled people

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 17:39

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 18, 2019, 17:39

Dec 18, 2019, 17:39

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I know these studies are underfunded, I don't have a better solution, I know the system is designed for this sort of outcome -- it's just that I've probably done a dozen or so at this point and it sucks!

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