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meta, a clarification on what I think other people are talking about 

@zardoz@cybre.space I think if it was just "here's a list of people who have blocked you, on request", it would be fine. But it's actively letting people know on the fly when they've been blocked, which some people think could be used for targeting people?

(idk enough to make any informed opinions myself)

Mario maker fuckery: Polyrhthm cells! 

@melissasage oh my gosh this is great

microtonal music 

I've gotten back into microtonal music again, and Sevish's album "Harmony Hacker" is so so good

sevish.bandcamp.com/album/harm

broke: calling MSF "medicines sans frontieres"
woke: calling MSF "doctors without borders"
bespoke: calling MSF "mdoctors swithout fborders"

Birdsite crosspost 

@RhiaCat@snouts.online I can't imagine playing cards against humanity with my _family_, that would be terrible

windows, terrible 

I'm scrolling through this list of apps, and there's even more games here!

no wonder my hard drive keeps mysteriously running out of space

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windows, terrible 

Excuse me, windows????

When you updated your apps, why did you also install 1gb of games that I never asked for???????

news media 

@typhlosion yes!

It's something I've been trying to talk about for years with people in meatspace, but I've never been able to convey it properly.

Version Control Software (VCS) complaint 

every VCS: don't add binary files to your list of tracked files! It will make the size of your history-storage-folder explode!

also every VCS: *makes it really easy to accidentally add binary files to your list of tracked files*

also also every VCS: *doesn't provide any easy way to say "woops this file was a binary file and I should never have tracked it, please remove it"*

christmas, Mari Lwyd, picture of a tweet, alcohol, caps 

Transcription:

ME: Why is there a creepy skeleton horse outside?
THE WELSH: IT'S CHRISTMAS! 🍻
ME: But why?
THE WELSH: CHRISTMAS!!!! 🍻
ME: But—
MARI LWYD:
[A picture of Mari Lwyd, a skeleton skull with a sheet and christmas decorations, on a Welsh hillside. Mari Lwyd is looking at the camera.]

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