@drahardja there is a distressing tendency to reward those who respond to a disaster, while ignoring those who do the difficult work of preventing a disaster. The latter is so much harder to see, and also so much more challenging...
wtf a huge ice block just almost crushed me??? that's not very osha compliant im gonna go complain
The fascists love to demonize queer ppl for "making everything about sex" or "making their gender their whole personality" but every time I go to a queer event I am struck by how precisely they have this backwards. Cis society is profoundly sexualized, and literally every interaction is pre-coded with assumed gender. In a queer space, you purposefully never make assumptions about who someone is or what they're up to, so interactions are much *less* coded by gender and *less* intronsically sexual
2875. 2024
title text: It wasn't originally constitutionally required, but presidents who served two terms have traditionally followed George Washington's example and gotten false teeth.
(https://xkcd.com/2875)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2875)
I timed AFTER THE THIN MAN on Max (formerly HBO Max) so the new year would strike simultaneously on film and in real life.
After it did, I paused. When I restarted, I got this message.
A good reminder for 2024: physical media doesn’t disappear at midnight.
new on the #linkcache
Internet Artifacts - An online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including a working browser and Flash emulation.
Museum of Obsolete Media - A unique online museum of physical media formats showcasing developments in audio, video, film and data storage.
Wiby - An indexing search engine harking back to the early days of the Web. Make sure to go in the settings and disable the display of HTTPS sites to find some real gems!
need to walk into a house where it is immediately established what type of architectural style it has and whether the doors to the rooms can be locked #光ハルヒHoliday 10
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess