FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@thomasfuchs That "I always check" has the same energy as "It's open source so I can audit the code"

hey if you missed it yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynp9B6pHeyQ

watch the shoujo Super "Sonic Saves The World" World speedrun

it's 1 trans woman playing a really cool kaizo mario hack while 3 other trans woman (including the creator of the romhack, Maddy, who you might know from fucking Celeste) heckle her and make the stupidest jokes imaginable

it's absolute perfection

him being too old to do the job doesn't really matter to me as much as the fact that he's been doing the job badly the entire time he's had it. he didn't stop building the border wall, he funded it more. he's escalated the trade war with china. he's allowed the cdc to become all but a nyt-run homeopathy advert vis-a-vis covid policy rollbacks. 25+ million people were kicked off medicaid under his watch. the white house expressed concern about gender affirming surgery for minors *last week*

on the one hand i think biden's age is clearly showing and that's not a trivial thing when it comes to running the most trigger-happy nation on earth. on the other hand i think it's fucked up that *this* is what disqualifies him from the office of the president in the commentariat's eyes, and not the fact that his administration has largely been trump 2 (sometimes worse) with like three exceptions. sorry lads but a good nlrb, ftc, & climate legislation isn't a free pass for genocide

I have been sending out this resource all year, but I'll send it out again. From the US Department of Energy:

Creating a Cool Room for Extreme Heat Events

"Given the reality of global climate change and the increasing likelihood of extreme heat events, designing and retrofitting homes for resistance to extreme heat and power outages should be considered in all climates. Extending the "hours of safety" that a home can provide when air-conditioning is not available can be life-saving...."

https://basc.pnnl.gov/resource-guides/creating-cool-room-extreme-heat-events#edit-group-description

#heatwave #survival #cooling #disasters #disasterprep

Just did a call out in an old persons block of flats and everyone on this floor plays a game where they hide a little wooden mouse in the corridor and every time someone finds it they move it somewhere else. Very cute 🐀

mistake: letting @puckipedia and us near a thermal printer

contributing to open-source is fun

i feel like this guy

@yonabee 20 years ago Sony produced CDs with music and owned the rights, marked them as copyrighted and do-not-copy, produced CD copying software that ignored those bits, produced CD writers and CD recordables that would perfectly handle copying those CDs.

Large enough companies do not know what they are doing.

🕷 What would you do if I as a spider grabbed a sniper rifle with each hand and then used my 8 eyes and managed to achieve massive DPS?

28 DAYS

until Kitsune Tails splashes onto Steam and itch.io!

wishlist via https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

"no politics zone"

generally speaking,

winds up meaning "no politics the dominant group dislikes zone"

and in some cases,

the dominant group in question considers whole-assed identities to be "politics" for whatever bullshit reason.

it's fine to have places to decompress from the onslaught of dire headlines. just be sure that's what you're doing, and not that other thing I just described.

⚠️ you are entering a GEMA-free zone ⚠️
⚠️ all my homies reject the GEMA-presumption ⚠️

When I was growing up, I was promised, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that if I followed the rules that the authorities told me to follow, the system would grant me a comfortable life.

What I discovered was that the rules are arbitrary and variable and impossible to follow perfectly, the authorities are arbitrary and variable and impossible to understand perfectly, and the promises were lies they told to prompt my compliance with the system.

Stolen to add #alt

so in summary: INSM made an agitprop installation about how bureaucracy wastes your time, with the clear theme that bureaucracy is a government thing, but in order to enjoy it, you are subject to federal-government-tier bureaucratic inefficiency from the private sector!

booking an appointment with the fucking meldebehörde in berlin was a much less bureaucratic process by comparison lol

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