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Also I'm reading @GarethDennis's #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture on my train journeys today because it seemed the most appropriate book to bring with me. :)

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For reasons no one is clear on, English people say someone is "sent to Coventry" to mean ostracised: not talking to the person, avoiding their company, and acting as if they no longer exist.

Today I'm technically being sent to Coventry for work, but it's because Coventry is a city where a thing is that I need to go look at.

The idiom, and its cathedral (rebuilt after WWII after being famously bombed to destruction), is all I know about Coventry so far.

Literally every public health effort that helps queers not die from STI's will be met by people who want to shit on it or second-guess its efficacy or appropriateness or something

For "non homophobic" reasons ofc

Also had stickers of some of my other slogans done. Let me know if you want one. #stickers

Darn. I don't know if my laptop can handle this level. I'm dangerously close to the minimum system requirements to for this game!

it needs at minimum 8mb of RAM (with 16 MB suggested), but this laptop my roommate fished out of the ewaste for me has a mere 16GB of RAM.

my thought is that right now it's all or nothing in terms of when you use a "CW" your post will be hidden

if instead people can choose that only certain topics are default hidden and the rest aren't, then there's a lot less "but i don't want to hide this" stigma against using a subject line

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not sure if this has been thought about before or if some other flavour of activitypub does it this way but i wonder if "CW"s would be better utilised if they were treated as email subject line and only defaulted to closed if a word in your custom blacklist appeared on it

i think that would push people to describe the content of posts much more if they're not implied to be opt-in, though this would also need a defacto "standardisation" of subjects, for example "uspol" vs "us politics"

My Fediverse Advice:

* Follow more people. No, even more people than that. Basically, if you find a real person and their posts are good follow 'em
* If you get a good reply to a post boost it. If you make a good reply to a post boost it. Replies are not visible in the feed unless you do this. As long as the post is an OK start to a conversation or interesting boost it.
* Write thoughtful replies. And if you put effort into a reply boost it or probably only the people tagged will see it.

Why is it called vampirism when neck romancer is right there

cleaning old electronics 

taking apart wii remotes to properly clean them since there's some really gross gunk at the seams

and reading the ifixit guide, I should have read a bit further ahead:

Unattended children get an IBM System/370 and a Cobol starter lecture.

Sorry, the marketplace of ideas is closed. Welcome to the pawnshop of delusions.

why does tech not look like this anymore, we need to start giving sony engineers infinite budgets again

Born to boot
EPA pollution preventer
开始 them all 2001
I AM ENERGY STAR MAN
433,124,641,145 working computers

"We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them." - Jaron Lanier

Fun fact: you know that then where you go back to programming language A after doing a lot of work in B, and accidently use B syntax in A?

That's how the English language got the letter "H" in "Ghost".

from alex (dremenec.com):

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Just bought a typewriter.

You can tell it's old because it's got neofetch on it.

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