FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

just walked past someone wearing a shirt that said “always hungry, never satisfied” and: same

ME: [interviewing for a job at Intel]
INTERVIEWER: so, what are your base expectations for salary?
ME: well, if you were to speculate, what's the highest you could go?
INTERVIEWER: well, if I were to speculate… 1 million. wait, no, you didn't hear that. let's try that again.
INTERVIEWER:
so, what are your base expectations for salary?
ME: 1 million
INTERVIEWER: [looking like they just saw a ghost]

MySQL apparently has a type that is a 3 bit integer called MEDIUMINT and that seems like a strange type to have

I’m so glad I stopped doing frontend development years ago.

Men would rather invent a whole JS framework than learn CSS.

Waiting for the Apple authorized reseller to open, what will he buy?

As Bedford points out, the opposite is also true:
"A good sustainability and quality of life indicator: the average amount of time spent in a car."

(Elevated time car-commuting time also turns out to be a reliable metric of social isolation and general life dissatisfaction.)

"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived."

*reading about zip bombs* oh wow that's a lot to unpack

"i bet, since the books got *so* popular, the publisher put pressure on the author to water down the end for a larger audience appeal. unlike art, the real world can't always win against the iron chains of authority. that's my theory anyway" -connie

straight up drawing attention to the phenomenon of studio interference in the creation and ongoing production of serial art, here in episode 51 right after the ruby and sapphire reveal. i just think that's an interesting thing to keep in mind

Love this. Dozens of trans men are entering the Miss Italy pageant.

"Miss Italy has historically allowed only people who were assigned female at birth to enter".

So to protest trans exclusion, dozens of trans men are entering. To quote one entrant: “They are so focused on biology and bodies, and it’s often forgotten that there are people inhabiting those bodies.”

#trans #transgender #LGBTQ

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trans-men-enter-miss-italy-pageant-droves-trans-women-are-told-cant-co-rcna96727

You may be bored, but are you "drew a fake screenshot of a Yahtzee clone in a fictional OS in Kid Pix on a Mac Plus" bored?

@kouhai and I are releasing a pride flag emoji set to the public domain!

https://gitea.treehouse.systems/treehouse/emoji

The source of all flags are SVGs and can be re-themed in your favorite text or graphics editor.

We would love to see your custom palettes and how community use them!

Please boost so that more instances adopt pride flags 🦊 🙏

#treehouse

unexpected Windows activation error in the bagging area

"Computer, show me pictures of girls"

*computer transforms into a girl*

"Oh, that's better"