FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
LB: just as an aside to my last boost, I really dislike dynamically inserted podcast ads and walled-garden platform exclusive "podcasts"
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technical question, advertising
I'm listening to a podcast from the BBC, which says "this podcast is supported by advertising outside of the UK" and then plays an ad.
Except the ads have all been specifically for Australia. I assume they're not just spamming all listeners with ads for Australian banks, but then my question is this:
How do they know to send Australian ads to my podcatcher?
How do they insert specialised advertising part-way into an mp3 file?
Also @mavica the chain you've made in my new avi is beautiful! ⛓️ ✨ 😍
But there are some things that haven't changed I'm glad to see that on my DeviantArt I was using she/her pronouns already back then
ps. and that is why I love that the new one you've made for me @mavica is a bit different
It reflects a change in who I am ✨
The word dogtag (wait is it two words? damn! I've got it wrong this whole time), anyways, The word dog tag has multiple meanings, or at least it's used in multiple contexts, it's either a small metal tag attached to a dog's collar, usually for identification, or it's a similar tag attached to a necklace worn by military personnel for the same purpose
I feel like since 2010 I've moved from using one sense of that word to the other 
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Around that same time I had a DeviantArt account that I had forgotten but recently stumbled upon again, and I had a hexagonal dogtag as the avi there, here is what it looks like
Why a hexagonal dogtag? Because of Battlestar Galactica! I used to watch that show and the spin-off show Caprica back in 2009-2010-ish
New avi by @mavica
It's a hexagonal dogtag with an 'S' inscribed, the S stands for Sara which is my name (I have not had it changed legally yet, but I will soon enough)
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rowling, transphobic bullshit
Trans healthcare is not conversion therapy, telling trans kids that they aren't trans, as you advocate, is, you fucking ignorant disingenuous transphobic bigot.
This is an organised fucking dangerous narrative being pushed by transphobic far right hate groups, and it seems to have gained traction with the UK government, with big name feminists, and even with parts of the supposed left.
I'm scared of what happens to trans people if this isn't pushed back on hard. And we don't have the reach to do it. Those of you who aren't trans, if you really believe yourselves to be allies to trans people, you need to step the fuck up.
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Currently listening to The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives
"I could have been anyone, anyone else
Before you made the choice for me"
"We could been anywhere, anywhere else
Instead I made a bed with apathy"
Drive name proposals this far:
DiskGoSpinnySpinny
GearGirl
StarDrive
TheWisdomCore
CuriosityCylinder
Prism
Or perhaps something silly like, disk go spinny spinny 🤔
I need help picking a name for an external hard drive, I'm looking for a cute robot name
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the best part of this completely absurd crisis is that the most simple law of economics is that a commodity is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. all of this theoretical value in the real estate market is completely fake because there is no way most of these houses could actually be paid for at their asking prices. capitalism: the most rational economic system
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imagine explaining the housing crisis to someone who didnt live during capitalism
me: there are hundreds of thousands of people who sleep without shelter in cities every night
guy from 1000AD: that sounds bad. is there not enough construction material?
me: no theres actually a surplus of houses but a few people own most of them and refuse to rent or sell them at affordable prices for 99% of the population because they think the houses will be worth more money in a few years
guy from 1000AD:
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
