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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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do you think ofcom would accept leisure suit larry style questions as a form of age verification

one of the reasons i really enjoy dungeon meshi is how people view it as "oh the author must really like unconventional dishes and sexualizing older men as a counterculture to mainstream media's scantily clad women" and on both accounts ryoko kui has replied "what? no i think it's weird lol"

if you're afraid of doing something be more afraid of doing nothing at all

My site argylewerewolf.com is a work in progress, but it now supports light & dark modes (with a monstery flair), and WCAG-compliant colours (using named CSS colours only).

Hand-written #Elixir + #PhoenixLiveview guts, #Sass (no Tailwind!) theming, & vanilla JS for light/dark mode.

PS: hire me!

I just published my first Elixir + Phoenix LiveView package: Phoenix SVG Sprites!

Easily merge all of your SVG assets into a single file and display them individually, just like you do with <.icon />.

more info: argylewerewolf.com/code/sprite

GitHub: github.com/ArgyleWerewolf/phx-

#elixir #phoenixliveview

Uk pol, - trans rights, allyship 

Barclays are first to hop on the bathroom bandwagon, and allies can send a powerful message.

Money talks. Removing your money from them is a massively effective step and can be done relatively easily with the account switch service guarantee. Been thinking about moving because of their general nefariousness but lacked the oomph? Please, now. Some banks pay you to switch, and you could even donate that to a pro-trans charity.

Then let the bank manager know why.

she's a reclusive woman who eats the same online-ordered pizza every night, IRCing in between bouts of malware reverse engineering.

for the bulk of the film, nobody believes her when she asserts her identity, except for her jerkass ex-boyfriend.

the villain is a chaser and a catboy. he gives her a fake prostitution and drugs rap.

also, her mother doesn't recognize her as her daughter.

trans allegory.

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we've mentioned this before in replies, and on the birdsite, but the 1995 Sandra Bullock film "The Net" is a trans allegory

sick thought: the vending kiosk thing in the office breakroom is just a barcode scanner (among other peripherals) connected to a Windows machine that runs the vending application fullscreen.

It has been demonstrated by someone before that there is no input sanitization to that barcode scanner and putting the EICAR test file in a QR code will cause the system's dodgy antivirus to shut it down.

can you QR-ducky one of these? like, can you put ctrl+esc or the scan code for the start key in a QR

whenever someone tells me irc is empty or forums are dead i imagine they went around doing this

it occurs to me that a large portion of the #fediverse might have my home instance computerfairi.es silenced so i figure an announcement from here might get more traction:

i've recently released #ditherinator, a tool for real-time palette-reduction and dithering of images:

maple.pet/ditherinator

i've wanted a tool like this for years and i'm glad i can share it with you now!

please post cool pictures you make with it tagged #ditherinator so i can see them!

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