Chocolate Rain was a bizarre thing to meme on. I think even one of the guys from Green Day made a joke video...about how funny it is...that some slightly awkward kid is recording a song...?

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:41

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:41

Dec 27, 2019, 18:41

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

I don't even think that Newt guy from Pacific Rim is a real scientist. He has very odd ideas about what dinosaurs were. I think he just snuck in and pretended to know biology.

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:38

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 18:38

Dec 27, 2019, 18:38

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

idea

Griffin McElroy, but more openly gay

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 18:19

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**Ellie** @noelle@elekk.xyz · Dec 27, 2019, 18:19

Dec 27, 2019, 18:19

Ellie @noelle@elekk.xyz

@mint

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 17:54

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**Lord Guysbert de Fieri** @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space · Dec 27, 2019, 17:54

Dec 27, 2019, 17:54

Lord Guysbert de Fieri @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space

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

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:27

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:27

Dec 27, 2019, 17:27

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

christmas

I mean, thank goodness, but why? The Gregorian calendar is even named after a pope. It's not like he was thinking, "If I made the secular year start on Christmas, it would make all those people I consider below me/outright evil feel left out."

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

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**Penny Merman** @idesofmerch@mastodon.social · Dec 27, 2019, 17:20

Dec 27, 2019, 17:20

Penny Merman @idesofmerch@mastodon.social

Skamble Skanks the Rude-Boy Cat

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 17:11

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**melissa is on monads** @melissasage@radical.town · Dec 27, 2019, 17:11

Dec 27, 2019, 17:11

melissa is on monads @melissasage@radical.town

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

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:12

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 17:12

Dec 27, 2019, 17:12

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

christmas

Hey.

Since Christmas is supposed to be the birthday of Jesus, and the Gregorian calendar counts years in an AD/BC system starting from the birth of Jesus...why doesn't New Years Day coincide with Christmas?

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 15:08

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**Janelle Shane** @janellecshane@wandering.shop · Dec 27, 2019, 15:08

Dec 27, 2019, 15:08

Janelle Shane @janellecshane@wandering.shop

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

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 07:11

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 07:11

Dec 27, 2019, 07:11

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

In order to afford such a domain name, the Cherry Poppin Daddies must have bought www.daddies.com in 1998, which coincidentally is the same year they had their big hit, "White Guys Singing About Mexican Teens Being Beaten by Sailors During WWII"

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**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 07:04

**orthogonal to alive** @avi@computerfairi.es · Dec 27, 2019, 07:04

Dec 27, 2019, 07:04

orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

To-day I learned that www.daddies.com is not a porn site.

It is owned by the Cherry Poppin Daddies.

Even tho that may still sound like porn, it actually is just a bad 90s ska band.

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 05:12

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**Ben Lubar (any pronouns)** @ben@lubar.me · Dec 27, 2019, 05:12

Dec 27, 2019, 05:12

Ben Lubar (any pronouns) @ben@lubar.me

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

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 24, 2019, 05:59

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**☭JD☭** @JohnBrownJr@radical.town · Dec 24, 2019, 05:59

Dec 24, 2019, 05:59

☭JD☭ @JohnBrownJr@radical.town

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

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 03:42

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**patience, doing up live 🎧🎚📻** @patience@cybre.space · Dec 27, 2019, 03:42

Dec 27, 2019, 03:42

patience, doing up live 🎧🎚📻 @patience@cybre.space

murder of a trans woman in toronto

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/

**orthogonal to alive** · Dec 27, 2019, 04:22

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**r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖** @cypnk@mastodon.social · Dec 27, 2019, 04:22

Dec 27, 2019, 04:22

r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 @cypnk@mastodon.social

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."