FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"One of the most real scenes in modern television. Representation is so so important. We need to see the realities of living with disabilities and we need to see disabled actors featured as complex characters." - Brains and Spoons

My flight at gate 404 is delayed because... the plane isn't there.

I am not making this up.

Lifehack:

Instead of wondering if something is normal, ask if it's harmful.

Dressing up as an anthropomorphic animal character isn't normal, but it makes a lot of people smile.

Being exceptionally talented isn't normal, but it sure offers a way to enrich your life as well as the people you care for.

To hell with normal. To hell with being afraid of being called weird. Furries figured this out decades ago. Many anime fans and gamers, too.

Yet, I hear people ask things like, "Is it normal to feel the way I do?"

I dunno.

Does it make your life harder? Then you might want to do something about it. Does it cause harm to others? Definitely do something to correct it.

But to cry when you watch movies? Or to want to cuddle so much that you lose any interest in actually having sex? Or to hate the world we inherited so much that it hurts, and so you channel it into helping others suffer a little less?

Who gives a shit about normal. That's human.

"SMASH THE ORBS" is an incredible rallying cry

There is a certain company that, whenever I used its service, would constantly nag me through the entire experience to purchase a subscription. (It charged for the service, of course, but only when I used it; subscriptions incurred charges on a regular basis.) At one point I thought about it, decided that it would actually be worth the money.

Now that I am paying for a subscription, the advertising emails it sends me are different, and every time I use the service it constantly nags me to upgrade my subscription.

The corporations can never extract enough wealth from you to be satisfied. They will always want more. Never forget that.

Re-posting this 🐤 thread from 2018 which, sadly, is still relevant:

#WomenInSTEM who talk about #harassment and sexual misconduct get a lot of antagonistic & unhelpful replies.
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. #9ReplyGuys

THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

#1: THE LIFE COACH

so it may be worth mentioning that ALL of the toxic reactions described in the #9ReplyGuys thread above are used by white people (including WW) against people of color all the time, especially against Black people who talk about racism. None of it is exclusive to gender harassment/discrimination.

Mastodon can be a safe place for everybody, or it can be a comfortable place for white people, but while #racism exists it can’t be both.

The idea behind #9ReplyGuys is that, if you wish, you can use the 9 images in the thread above to quickly categorize & dismiss sexist replies. Misogynists *hate* being called unoriginal.
Thanks from me and @shrewshrew for your support, suggestions, boosts and encouragement 💕

"firefox only has a 3% market share"

bruh that's 150 million people

Oh, that thing I’ve been putting off for days? That insurmountable, torturous task? The thing that’s been haunting me with every step like a malevolent wraith? It took two minutes. I will not learn from this

lots of people talking about Zoom training AI on audio/video/messages without opt-in — bear in mind that legallly this is a definite no-no because of the way the European Electronic Communications Code (#EECC) modified the #ePrivacy Directive in 2020 to apply confidentiality duties to over-the-top services like #Zoom.

Have a silly little TUNIC doodle
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#tunic #tunicgame

crochet

Stop doing phones

Humans were not meant to be reachable 24/7

Years of calling yet no real-world use found for transmitting voices over distances

Wanted to reach someone anyway for a laugh? We already had that: It was called letters

"Yes, please call me at 3 am. Please spend hours with a strange device attached to your ear"—Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

They have played us for absolute fools

Sips monster energy out of this

just watched a video about the lack of bicycles in hollywood productions. e.g. there are post apocalypse shows where there's no fuel or they can't use engines for other reasons, and the characters are shown walking or riding a horse. they never try bikes even though it's the most popular mode of transportation on the planet. Daryl from TWD on a bicycle? uncool. if a protagonist is doing it, it's a comedy. riding a bicycle is seen as a ridiculous thing to do unless you're a child. I am stunned.

Good morning

Why is it always "eat the rich" and never "grill a hambourgeoisie"?

I'm following the devastating news from Slovenia, where one month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours. It's the biggest natural disaster in the young country's 32-year history. Large parts of the country are flooded. I can't even begin to imagine the time and money needed to recover from this.

But it's hard to find non-Slovenian coverage of this disaster. Press agencies like Reuters and AP are reporting it, but newspapers in, say, Germany or the US aren't picking it up.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/floods-hit-slovenia-forcing-evacuations-disrupting-transport-2023-08-04/