Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
I'm thinking it might be fun to wear my unpairable socks and treat them as free radicals that can break up another pair.
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Saved @naomikritzer 's new @clarkesworld story "Better Living Through Algorithms" for a quiet Sunday morning https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/ . It's as charming and inspiring as others have said.
In a similar spirit to her "Cat Pictures, Please" short story and Catnet books; also engaging with some of the same ideas as https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/maneki-neko/ Bruce Sterling's "Maneki Neko" (a story I find way less engaging) and Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age".
Youtube and Nebula are both set to 50% zoom here because the thumbnails in video listings are too dang big and there'd be like 3 videos to a page at the default zoom.
@SpriteGuard Does anything sound good on phone speakers?
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Incomplete thread of recent/current (AFAIK) information on long covid probability, prevalence, and prevention.
Because the gaslighting is getting to me.
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looks like the votes are for the debugging manifesto poster (this one: https://wizardzines.com/images/debugging-manifesto.pdf). I'll set up preorders once we figure out how much it'll cost to print & ship them.
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If you are a cis woman, and you think anti-trans legislation does not impact you, you need to wake up. Your performance of femininity will be policed. You should care because others are being hurt, but if that is not enough, realize you too will be hurt. This is a sub toot for someone in my life who is not on the Fediverse, but I’ve said as much to this person.
Neurospicy ramblings
@Sophie [Cedar] we can do more than one thing, but how is it that people can have houses and cars and families/pets and have time to take care of all those things?
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Neurospicy ramblings
It’s fucked up that I get to do at most one thing per day, and how sometimes that one thing puts me out of commission for multiple days.
It is OP that some people can do multiple things in a single day. “Autism is a superpower!” Bitch you can’t say that to me when you’ve showered, done the dishes, and been to the shops all before lunch.
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SCOTUS rules publicly funded charter schools in North Carolina can't force girls to wear skirts as part of the dress code. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1183781580/supreme-court-dress-code
Where the Heck Did I Put Down My Glasses?: The Movie: The Game
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All this conversation about #Meta on #Fedi feels like the worst parts of geek culture. So technical, without understanding context or what strikes can actually do. My thoughts:
Meta will make a great app for Fedi because it has more money to throw at the task. People will start using that because it's better. It will have QTs and an algorithm. People they want to follow will be there.
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@zigg I guess it's passed now but this might be the sort of thing goblin.tools is for?
@hergaiety What if you touched grass with your bare feet?
No, that would probably be too powerful.
"barefoot time" is surprisingly helpful for recharging
Thoughts on meta that no one will read because everyone is tired of this shit
@minego My experience with Facebook is that it *doesn't* let you talk to people on Facebook, and that's why it sucks to use Facebook.
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I think it's really funny that Apple's HQ is a literal walled garden
Joined Aug 2018
