FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

average trans girl's relationship with tech:
- smartphone she hates
- old laptop she loves
- childhood console she's emotionally dependent on

More of spring in Helsinki ^^

📷️ Lumix DMC-GX80
🔎 Lumix 20mm f1.7

to be even more blunt: the Left has a bad habit of spending all its emotional energy on outbursts aimed at the Left over very minor things

angry? understandable. but before you send an angry @ to a stranger on social media about politics, maybe double check:

get off twitter, get on your bike, walk through the park in endless circles until the tears flow and you get that song out of you, and don't tweet it

#foxesInLove #comic

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This is important

How to Start Running

> discussion of the 2 ALDIs and which non-German countries end up with which version

> "im imagining the pokemon red/blue boxart but its aldi"

Me: your imagination is conjured forth from my reality marble: Unlimited Shitpost Works

Oh, look -- *yet another* UBI test that worked as intended with none of the down-sides critics worry about. It's almost as if every one of these literally hundreds of UBI experiments all telling us the same thing are on to something.

https://www.wbez.org/cook-county/2025/04/08/cook-county-leaders-are-touting-the-success-of-their-guaranteed-income-pilot-program

cat ears are mandatory for lecturing

Obsessed with the amount of spite it took to make this map:

if Cereal Killer from Hackers had a fursona what would it be

<Nim> florida man wrecks economy, vows to make it worse

<Nim> florida man drills yellowstone for oil, only finds lava

would you believe me if i told you that getting an icon to appear in this dropdown menu involved several hours of reading GTK forum posts, documentation, and examples in both rust and C, with more than one null pointer dereference along the way

highly professional UI mockup vs the final thing

@ireneista No, nobody does. The best that modern tech culture can hope to do is be fertilizer for whatever comes next.

And TBH that goes for largely corporate-backed "open source" and sterilely ideological FOSS too.

Creativity, learning, joy, acceptance, and multifaceted interpretations of identity were what I saw in the first inklings of the public Web. I know the plantings of the next bloom are out there just waiting for the next thaw.