FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

what pizza club would you subscribe to?

care instructions for femme fashion:

• this care instructions tag is load-bearing and must not be removed
• even if it's poking you
• especially if it's poking you

• no end user serviceable fabrics inside
• or outside
• even reading the rest of this tag voids the warranty and puts you on a watch list
• but if you must:

• wash with like colors only
• we know there are no like colors in your wardrobe, because you picked this as a unique accent piece
• in fact, we have added color blocks and/or print panels, so that it can't even be washed with *itself*
• why yes, we are proud of ourselves

• turn inside out before washing
• both yourself and the garment, if you can manage

• do not dry clean
• do not machine wash
• hand wash cold
• cold. we said *cold*. way colder than that. go empty out your icemaker.

• no soap
• no detergent
• no bleach
• no ionizing radiation
• no non-ionizing radiation
• no harsh language

• line dry
• clothesline and backyard and sun absolutely not included
• you live in an "apartment"? what's that?

• if damaged, this garment cannot be replaced, or even approximated, because:
• it's no longer made
• the entire style is passé
• the vendor went out of business
• the manufacturer went out of business
• the animals, vegetables, and/or minerals we made the fabrics from are extinct, depleted, and/or illegal
• also you don't remember where you got it in the first place

• instruction codes for laundry service follow:
• 𐘐 𐘑 𐘒 𐙓 𐘵 𐘶 𐘷 𐘸 𐘰

Does this mean that stuff like GNU/Linux and supporting Right-To-Repair laws is Cyberpunk, now? I dunno about that. But its at least an application of that other part of that Pondsmith quote, which is, "It's about how people use things..."

Its not just the tools that make you punk.

Maybe the issue isn't that mainstream productions like Cyberpunk 2077 are, "betraying" the Cyberpunk genre as much as that the actions and ethos of self-described Cyberpunks in the real world can be wildly different from those who produce Cyberpunk fiction.

In other words, maybe there's now a sizable difference between Cyberpunk as consumption and Cyberpunk as Ethos, more than there was 30 years ago in Gibson, Pondsmith and even the Wachowski's heyday. And while your mileage may vary on how helpful that has been for people so far, there's potential there IMO.

pleased with the release of the news about Madeline from Celeste to be able to confirm that yes, trans people can dash in the air in the 8 cardinal directions, we’re just modest about it and so only use it for saving kittens from trees or to kiss our tall wives