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“I am so distressed by people who call themselves ‘radical feminists’ but are anti-trans. I could weep. I don’t get it. It’s beyond me,” she says. “When the feminist movement started in the 60s and 70s, lesbians were often excluded, because we were told that we would make the movement less palatable. I have been excluded myself, so how could I do that to someone else? It fills me with rage.”

inews.co.uk/culture/comedy/san

#LGBTQ #Trans

the problem with "social media as addiction" is that it has a second layer of addiction for people for whom the addiction isn't social media itself but the friends who are only accessible through the social media. if those people leave the social media they no longer have friends.

"then why are you here synth" buddy let me tell you about something called rat park,

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if you ask me "how do we fix mastodon/activitypub/the "fediverse"" my answer is "social media is a mistake from conception"

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people get uppity about how mastodon's "DMs" are "unencrypted" and "can be seen by any admin" when

  1. no other social media did any different, this is just how it is in a decentralized version of that
  2. mastodon as a company (hello eugen) could do more to explain that this controls visibility only, which "direct/private message" from learned experience implies otherwise
  3. the whole fucking activitypub spec is a fucking mess anyway we're all just in for the ride

what i wanna know is when are the tower unite devs going to make the ufo drinking glass from the arcade real

@andrewt
"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration." -- the late great Stan Kelly-Bootle circa 1980s

And its implementation for Python: github.com/osteele/bootle#

CC: @mavica_again

Sharing my writing for Itch.io Creator Day!

"They Say Don't Get Clocked" is a nasty short about a trans woman who's turning into a werewolf in the back seat of a car stuck in a sweltering traffic jam. A personal account of trans rage & monstrous femininity.

https://argylewerewolf.itch.io/dont-get-clocked

>> Firefox supports a new “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” feature in the context menu which ensures that copied links no longer contain tracking information.

mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.

this is some wonderful writing and digital archeology to find the very first Flash game. it’s quite a dive down memory lane and kind of highlights what was wonderful about this lost internet era. definitely recommended reading!
~
“What was the first Flash Game – Ep 4: Book reviews part two”
👉 museumofscreens.wordpress.com/
~
via @touloutoumou
#IndieGame #IndieGames #Flash #DigitalPreservation

mid 90s tracker jank? mid 90s tracker jank? mid 90s tracker jank

fucking, computer's bullshit, it's fucking sick, it's not cool anymore it's not fun, it's not fun to be on the fucking computer, they changed everything about it, it used to be so cool

"it's not working"
ok let me take a look at it
"oh it's working now"

i'm a miracle worker

36 years ago today was the Max Headroom TV STL hijacking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Head

I regard this incident as the best and purest hacking prank in modern history. The combination of sophisticated, meticulous technical planning and execution, utterly juvenile content, essential harmlessness, lack of financial motive, and never getting caught or identified (or later taking credit) remains, in my opinion, unmatched to this day.

Pure art.

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