Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

The
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
has launched a crowdfunded challenge to the Supreme Court and their abominable take on trans rights. Donate if you can, or help by spreading the word far and wide. Boost, repost, do your part. We won't let the bigots win.

https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/supreme-court-human-rights-for-trans-people/

If you make a point and click adventure game (or a more modern, first person puzzle game) you MUST follow the golden rule:

Be VERY CAREFUL when adding a sledgehammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, or a shovel. Players will try to use these on EVERYTHING THEY SEE, and be confused when they can't.

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use,

has no venture capital investors,

has no shareholders to answer to,

has no growth targets,

with a web interface with zero cookies,

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in.

Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.

I've just released !EliteNet, my first #RISCOS application in 30 years.

It allows #Archimedes #Elite to transmit to an #Econet multiplayer scoreboard (see Yoda’s score in the second screenshot, for example).

I’ve loved every minute of this little side project!

Here's the repo: https://github.com/markmoxon/elite-over-econet-acorn-archimedes

If you want to see this in action, we’ll be playing multiplayer Elite at the National Museum of Computing’s LAN Party on 7-8 June.

You can find more information about the party here, including ticket details: https://www.tnmoc.org/events/econet-lan-party-2025-1b

See you there!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #tnmoc

WIP reference pic for a someone i've become very close to lately :)

#furry #furryart

"Transgender rage is more powerful than the courts.
Transgender love is more hopeful than the law.
We have always been here and no "ruling" can eradicate us!"

Seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Regardless of PewDiePie’s personal #politics (which clearly, at the very least are problematic), it is fairly well known by anyone who has been following him for any number of years that the vast majority of his fan base are enthusiastic fascists.

Now #PewDiePie , who’s content centers around PC gaming and Windows, has decided to switch to #Linux and published a video encouraging his followers to do the same. This means a very large number of his #fascist fan base is going to be switching to Linux.

Now many Linux communities are going to be forced to more explicitly choose their politics. Like the parable of the Nazi bar, if the community remains politically neutral, it will become fascist in short order.

A few things to be wary of:

• People asking you not to be “too political” or to “focus on the technology, not the politics” is a classic and highly effective fascist ruse to get moderators to lighten up on fascist elements posting in their community.
• People complaining about free speech rights. The #Internet and the #Fediverse is already a domain where people can speak freely about their politics by running their own server and building their own community with few to no government constraints. You don’t need to compromise on whether fascists have the right to free speech in your community.
• Arguments over your code of conduct (CC) and “safe spaces.” Keep them up-to-date. Research other people’s CCs, learn about the history of why these CCs came to be, learn about what the function of each clause of the code is included and phrased the way it is. These were usually designed to make explicit the fact that a community wants to be a safe space where underprivileged people can feel comfortable expressing themselves, and it is very easy to make people afraid to express themselves. Fascists understand these CCs and the concept of “safe spaces” were explicitly designed to exclude them, and often attack these ideas.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉 GAME DAY 🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Last VI Nations matches are today ! 🥺

Go on Scotland ! 🩵🤍🫰

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#fursuitpictures #furryfandom #asone

seen yesterday at birmingham, UK.

yes it’s capitalism. but i give this one a pass, for now.

and, writing the whole alt text brings tears to my eyes.

I need to be very clear, that the push towards "vibe coding" - that is, deliberately deskilling people - is because AI code assistants are an (increasingly expensive) subscription service.

If you know how to code, you can just write Python, C, Java, R, PHP, whatever for free and make things. You may not own the tools of production, but at least you're not renting them.

If you have been deskilled so you only know how to vibe code, you will be paying for that privilege forever.

This also goes, by the way, for researchers who are starting to be convinced they don't need to learn how to be scientists anymore, because "the AI" can just do the science for them. Nope.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793 is up to 72k signatures.

I do...have very, very meagre hopes of this doing anything meaningful. The UK Petitions system is mostly a way for the government to say "ah, no, see, let us explain our position again because you clearly don't understand" in a way very familiar to anyone who's tried the same through corporate employee feedback/Q&A channels. But conversely if you're a UK citizen or resident the actual data requirement you need to give is small in scope.

This is the most helpfully packaged box of screws I've ever seen, by a large margin. I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate whomever was responsible for such a triumph of utility and empathy.

Nearly started crying in the middle of the high street when I saw the window of Lush today.

Meanwhile on the train.

#furry #furryFandom #fursuit #cosplay #fursuitMaker #protogen

In better news, Lush is standing up.

I even bought a bath bomb - I don't do baths... And there is a leaflet I will look through soon. I said thanks to the staff for having the display

#Queer #Warrington #Trans #UKPol