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social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

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i make music: maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

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if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

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The head of Anbernic R&D has a long standing beef with the guy behind ZPG/GKD & it is admittedly kind of funny sometimes. He said Anbernic would never do a 1:1 aspect ratio handheld because it was stupid but then the Unicorn was announced and suddenly they can't make one fast enough

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@eloy (don't ask about software licensing, programming languages, text editors, and source control systems)

hackers are really rational people who truly think for themselves, unlike all other people

(don't ask about Club Mate, Lenovo ThinkPads, Engelbert Strauss and Paulaner Spezi)

Fosstodon meta 

in case folks haven't been following along, new Fosstodon instance owner Gina has, at this point, repeatedly doubled down on the idea that instance founders Kev and Mike were victims of "harassment" for the innocent little oopsie of openly sheltering a fascist on their moderation team.

yesterday, she escalated that rhetoric, calling it "outright abuse at worst."

those of you who defederated from Fosstodon can rest assured that the new boss is the same as the old boss.

#fosstodon

midas touch? no no i said mid-ass touch. everything i touch turns mediocre

re: hypothetical, violence resulting in death, silicon valley 

@navi play to their FOMO by showing scrolling linkedin headshots of their colleagues who already consented

hypothetical, violence resulting in death, silicon valley 

When the revolution comes for the Silicon Valley tech industry, they will make sure the CEOs have consented to their beheading by asking them:

Do you want to be beheaded?

  • Yes
  • Maybe later

i have written a post. it's long, entirely personal, and it makes me feel very vulnerable.

on socialization, social media and emotional maturity, or: how i learned to stop worrying and become the change i wanted to see in the world

maple.pet/blog/on-social-media

midas touch? no no i said mid-ass touch. everything i touch turns mediocre

i feel like people don't take it seriously enough when i say that my life is online and think i'm just being cute

the internet was never a tool or a distraction for me

the internet is my home and my home is being taken over and destroyed

that is perhaps another blog post i should write

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i have written a post. it's long, entirely personal, and it makes me feel very vulnerable.

on socialization, social media and emotional maturity, or: how i learned to stop worrying and become the change i wanted to see in the world

maple.pet/blog/on-social-media

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Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!