solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es

Six years on Mastodon this month, and not once have I told you about this neighbor's daily visitations, bargaining lap time for the power of beans. ​ ✨​
Happy #caturday to you, and happy #fediversary to me! 🎉​

Reading up on the late Rachel Pollack.

https://www.polygon.com/23269050/dc-comics-trans-supehero-doom-patrol-rachel-pollack-coagula-kate-godwin

🌸​​ Worth the wait! 🌸​

#florespondence #hanami

Tagesspiegel mobbt uns auch noch die Romantik weg

Two major takeaways for #comics people on Substack like Jonathan Hickman, Molly Knox Ostertag or Michael Avon Oeming from the Decoder interview with #Substack CEO Chris Best:

1️⃣ Your platform does not consider it appropriate to moderate overt racism like “all brown people are animals”.

2️⃣ Your platform allows you to leave at any given moment and take all your subscriber information with you.

Draw your own conclusions.

#Ghost #Steady #WriteFreely #Friendica #WordPress #BlackMastodon

Today I already smashed three paywalls with my favourite casual game:

1) Load a paywalled NYT article in the browser

2) Watch the progress bar grow until the text appears

3) Quickly cancel the loading before all pop-ups and restrictions can kick into gear

4) Too slow? Reload button = extra life

5) Cheat: Tor Browser's loading speed is your friend here :)

Happy Smashing! 💥⛏️

2011 I was in the middle of a weekly published #comics correspondence with a Japanese #mangaka, Matsuoka Waka, when the #Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster shocked the world.

Despite all the chaos, we decided to keep our exchange going. It was remarkable to watch Matsuoka-san’s cute manga characters pack their emergency backpacks to flee from radiation.

I am relieved beyond words that this weekend, the last German nuclear power plant went off the grid.

This I drew days after the catastrophe:

Actual flyer for yesterday's "Let's Make Our #Cemetery Beautiful" campaign in #Berlin.

It was pretty rainy, I hope the merrily dancing skeletons weren't too disappointed... 💀​🌧️​💀​

Und auf Deutsch, wer möchte, nochmal zum Hören:

Ilse Aichingers „Spiegelgeschichte“ (1949) – Formexperiment und emotionaler gut punch in einem.

CW: #Abtreibung

(Quelle: Vera Teichmann, DLF Kultur)

Finally found an English version of “Mirror Story”, a powerful and haunting short story about the consequences of #abortion bans by Austrian poet Ilse Aichinger.

Remarkably, time is completely reversed here: A woman raises from her deathbed, revisits her fatal illegal abortion, grows estranged from her boyfriend, turns into a child again and eventually gets born.

This should be required reading in every state with an #AbortionPillBan.
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#Bookstodon #RoeVWade

https://ia601406.us.archive.org/21/items/BVBT_penguin-parallel-texts-german-short-stories-1-deutsche-kurzgeschichten-1-edited-/Penguin%20Parallel%20Texts%20German%20Short%20Stories%201%2C%20Deutsche%20Kurzgeschichten%201%20Edited%20By%20Richard%20Newnham%2C%201964%2C%20London%20-%20Penguin%20Books%2C%20London.pdf#page=31

Almost...

#florespondence #hanami