salith @salith@computerfairi.es

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 3: "Are dialogue tags flexible?" laughed John.

Sure. Flex them. Flex them hard, otherwise your dialogue looks samey.

❌​ he said, she said, he said, over and over
❌​ different verb every time
✅​ why not both?
✅​ sometimes before the quoted speech, sometimes after
✅ replace dialogue tag with speaker doing an action
✅ no tag at all, speaker obvious from context

anyone in UK who hasn't responded to the NHS consultation on banning puberty blockers for EVERYONE except children who agree to be part of a clinical study, you have until Tuesday to do so

https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation/puberty-suppressing-hormones/

Respond here!

#trans #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #NHS #ukpol #ukpolitics

Yes, Private Eye is a UK-based satirical magazine. But when it matters, they often stop being funny and start telling it like it is. And in the current climate, this front-page splash was a brave move. 👏🏽

In a major win for transgender people in Japan, the country's high court has struck down a law requiring sterilization for gender change. #japan #unseenjapan #ujpost #news
https://unseen-japan.com/japan-transgender-sterilization-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=japan-transgender-sterilization-law

Just saw that #Etsy has had three articles about how they mistreat their sellers in as many days. As an independent #artist myself, I've been struggling to find purchase (and purchasers) on the platform, which is why I started building #magpiemarket - a #federated Etsy-alternative. These articles just go to show how much we need a new space that helps #artists rather than uses them. Please #boost this to help us spread the word.

Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware

Oh, hai tiny floppy disk organizer but for micro SD cards.

⚠️ A very wet start to the weekend, particularly in Scotland

Here's Saturday's #4cast 👇

🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1715435294701314403
🕐 20/10 19:30

Stop using #Mailchimp.

Mailchimp (a proprietary mailing list and customer CMS platform) has updated its terms of service.

Mailchimp is planning to feed your email content and customer contacts into its AI models.

Mailchimp's email generating AI might spit out content that infringements on another person's copyright. And the new Mailchimp terms of service say you are legally liable for that copyright infringement, not them.

See section 30. Generative AI Features: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/

how to choose a linux distribution, a small guide

you want a system that just works
⇒ mint

you want a system that just works but cooler
⇒ fedora

you are scared of the commandline
⇒ ubuntu

you are not scared of the commandline
⇒ debian

you would like to capture the flag
⇒ kali linux

you are very good at following how-tos
⇒ arch

you want arch but somehow worse
⇒ manjaro

you like to watch unreadable letters float by like you’re in the matrix
⇒ gentoo

your computer is old enough to vote
⇒ alpine

“by the way, i use…”
⇒ nixOS

You take an arrow to the knee, and you're not an adventurer anymore.

Years later you still limp, but the arrow? Long gone. It did its work in an instant.

This is #LongCovid. You no longer test positive for the virus, but you're not an adventurer anymore.

"Long COVID" does not mean "having COVID for a long time."
It means the virus disabled you.

Yes, that's a thing viruses can do. Don't give this one the chance.

I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

MP3 is supported by everything, everywhere, and is now patent-free. There has never been another audio format as widely supported as MP3, it’s good enough for almost anything, and now, over twenty years since it took the world by storm, it’s finally free.

https://marco.org/2017/05/15/mp3-isnt-dead

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