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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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i make music: maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

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if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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oh word, discord is over? oh no, where will people looking for subject matter expert advice be forced to assign themselves a role and work their way up to the main chat ucb style until a basement neckbeard who has the pdf you want gatekeeps it until you bark for him or what the fuck ever

A small favour to ask.
From a Mum with a suicide survivor of 5 years.

Theres an online project which holds a trove of heartfelt messages of hope and love from real humans. Every time you refresh you can read a new one.

If you have a message you would like to leave, you could be the reason someone stays long enough to seek help, reach out, be the reason someone else down the line sees their message and knows there's a way forward.

Have a look. If you think you can, leave message.
If you need a message and the one you read doesnt help, take one breath, refresh, read the next one. Do that and you're already on your way to being a survivor.

You have every right to be here on this planet as I have. And its a far better place with you in it.

If you're feeling the dark, its because you can tell the difference from light.

Hugs. Thanks for reading. And if you go look and leave a message, I guarantee it will help you make the world a bit better.
reasonstostay.co.uk/

Capitalism has convinced people that new always equals “better” so if you want to rebel against Capitalism start to recognize that “new” is often just a way to extract more money from you.

Existing (or “old”) things can be functional and beautiful, and often easier to repair.

The word “old” should not be an insult. Not to things or to people.

kick clap kick clap kick clap kick clap and the soul goes happy

the other songs in re-flex's "the politics of dancing" are also good

What is the most optimal way to make a monthly calendar program? Why, of course pre-render the calendar and store it is a bitmap in the ROM.

How ELSE are you going to use all this massive 2 megabyte ROM?

This operating system is something else.

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Websites should not start breaking and promise to quit working if your browser slips more than one season out of date.

Operating systems should not tie up your Internet connection for an hour with updates and prevent you from doing anything useful just because you left the device it's on turned off for a month.

Every modern website and every modern desktop and pocket OS is guilty.

the computer chronicles tapes are being redigitized into a higher quality than before available. i believe i saw somewhere this will eventually include episodes previously unavailable such as the ones prior to syndication. bless

archive.org/details/@davidga/l

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!