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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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closing the computer fairies tab to open another computer fairies tab

one big scoop sugar. one big scoop instant. fill with milk. have a terrible time 👍

I have not updated my Starlink numbers in a while, and great flying fuckballs, is it ever bad. We are now up to 9,422 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 14,046 total active satellites.

1,446 Starlinks have reentered and added their 500-1500kg of computers, batteries, solar panels, and aluminum frame to the upper atmosphere (and at least one has hit the ground).

Proud to confirm that I am bringing back the Diamond Viper VESA Local Bus graphics card. The 2D acceleration is out of the world! The color depth will blow your mind! Doom has never looked or felt better!

RE: mastodon.social/@alienmelon/11

it’s been a few days of trying (not counting the waiting when i flagged the bigoted reviews but the mod cleared it) and they are still up…
how would i actually escalate this?
do i open a ticket, or contacting people at Steam / Valve unrelated to moderation?
what do you do when reporting doesnt work?

these are obvious violations of community guidelines and i’d like to know why these guidelines exist if they are not enforced.

wildweasel.itch.io/set-the-con - a couple of days ago I had the opportunity to join a 2-hour MegaZeux game jam, which I haven't done in a very long time. In those 2 hours I produced this short narrative game.

isn't it crazy how nobody has ever made a good fps ever since serious sam 2

It came to me this useful circuit I designed SPECIFICALLY FOR WALES ! It's a rain detector, the led turns on when it's about to rain or it's raining. You can easily build it with these components. VERY OCCASIONALLY it may give a wrong indication but it has a very strong percentage of accuracy .. 😅

i think i found it!

web.archive.org/web/2003112520

the layout is what i remember, and there's a link to a comic, which tracks with what i remember from the site.. but all images are broken, sadly

chatpoint was also used by other websites as i remember, and it looks like today it lives on in a remake: chatadventure.nl/

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CW: suicide, big conference thing 

I don't know how to mourn someone I never knew but god I hope she's at rest now, I'm so sad that this keeps happening because as trans girls we're expendable, abusable fuck dolls for everyone else, trans girl refuse to be your sex toy? Say something you don't like? It's fine, just bully and ostracise her until she jumps off a bridge and say something vague about suicide hotlines that will treat us as men

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CW: suicide, big conference thing 

I wish I could say I'm shocked that a trans girl committed suicide because of bullying endorsed and enabled at but it's not even mild surprise, of course these cliquey in groups that refuse COVID measures and welcome abusers would let this happen

i've tried looking for it in display.archive.org/nl but if i search for "chat" i can only see one of the 327 results whereas the next 326 are black. "avatar" gives 6 results all unrelated

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the avatars had a pretty distinctive look to them, sort of 3d rendered, made with shaded shapes. you could mix and match clothing for your avatar to customize it

it was fairly simple in operation, the background was generally just a photograph and you could pick a place to stand around in it. it all ran in the browser, maybe it needed an applet like java or shockwave

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