misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space
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I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)
Joined Apr 2017
I'm not an ottery sort, but I gotta share this comic.
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Introversion, COVID mention
Just a reminder that our global circumstances are, counterintuitively, probably rougher on introverts than extroverts.
We haven't been getting the truly private time we need to recharge because our families and roommates are always home. Nor are we getting the structured social time that we do want. If we're working remotely, our calendars may have been filled with Zoom meetings that are even more exhausting than the in-person ones they replaced.
Please check in on your introverted family and friends. They probably feel very, very tired.
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I believe powerfully in the capacity of earnest self-expression to change the world. Maybe not the whole world, not all at once. But it can change your corner of it. It can change the people and places near to you. And it can change you, too.
You can always choose to be something other than what you're 'supposed to.' Always; that option is never closed to you.
You can be more than what you were made as.
@hystericempress This is part of why I consider roleplay gaming to be one of the healthiest hobbies out there. It's a chance to let one's inner discourse fly free in the shape of a character that expresses inner fascinations. One can (carefully) bring back the important bits there, test out ideas and develop them before jumping in with both feet in the outside world. And doing that with others helps break down the anxiety surrounding such personal development!
tired: stuck in a meat body
wired: AOAB (assigned organic at boot)
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I will always have spots in my ideology that are missing important theory or action. And that's okay. Because that's what comrades are for, to watch my back while I watch theirs.
salty nerdposting
@LexYeen@snouts.online Gotta admit, I've been extra attentive of this sort of thing in basically all media fandom. It's one thing to love the look and style of villains – they're so often coded gay and who can resist that? – but rooting for bad behavior is a huuuuuge warning flag.
This is why I only make jokes about serving Queen Chrysalis' hive among those who really know me!
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Housemate needed for June 1st, greater Seattle area (boost OK)
Hi, folks. @Leucrotta and I are looking for someone to take over a vacant bedroom in our 3BR/2BA apartment. We live in Shoreline, a bit north of the Seattle city limit.
Rent would be $736/month, water/sewer/garbage ~33/month. Electric heat & air conditioning.
We might be able to supply it furnished, if you need that.
If interested, send me a direct message.
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Today I released the first edition of Riot Medicine, a public domain book to help street medics in the struggle for liberation, autonomy, and dignity for all. You can download all 466 pages for free here: https://riotmedicine.net/downloads
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currently enjoying the 90-second-long period of time that occurs only twice per year, where the sun shines at exactly the correct angle to go through the front window of our flat, through the living room, into the hallway, down the small set of stairs that goes to the back, and into the kitchen, where it lands exactly in the 20cm wide gap between counter units next to the sink (which is impossible to clean behind) and illuminates, with glorious intensity, a plastic hose and 1 piece of dry pasta
@xinjinmeng Right back atcha! We can get through this.
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me: i'm strongly opposed to the police. history is a record of their crimes
my therapist: of course
me: but also, i love it when a detective uses their superior powers of observation to catch a murderer inside one of their own contradictions, dismantling their entire web of lies with a single sentence
my therapist: who doesn't
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This totally non-canon edition of Qwerpline brought to you by the Mandalay Rondelet Andele! The Euro-Burmese speed poetry slam held monthly at the Nsburg Sumpworks. The Mandalay Rondelet Andele!
This event needs a better sobriquet.
How many old videogame consoles ran at 60 FPS?
Zero.
That's sort of a technical answer, though. The NTSC television standard refresh rate is 59.94Hz for interesting reasons (that are maybe another post some other time) so we're already 0.1% off of 60Hz. That's not even the real issue, though!
Most consoles timed video output using oscillators and dividers, none of which had anything to do with NTSC television standards except through approximation. They displayed without dropped or skipped frames because unlike LCD screens, CRTs work off of whatever signal they get (though accepted tolerances differ). Furthermore, the spec is set for interlaced content and most consoles output non-interlaced video using a timing trick to get it to be non-interlaced at half resolution, so any console that can switch has at least two different refresh rates, neither of which will match!
Thus, consoles ranged from 1.08% below spec (the first PlayStation, which used dividers on the CD audio sampling rate!) to 0.26% above spec (the venerable NES, with the SNES just a hair behind). The closest were the Sega consoles and a few others, only 0.03% below spec.
Now, the C64 actually used the NTSC color carrier frequency... but with dividers that make the end result not quite match. Well, the newer ones were only 0.19% under; the older ones used different dividers that ended up a whopping 1.76% over!
Amusingly, in the PAL 50Hz regions the Sega consoles rank worst (0.6% under), the Nintendo consoles are nearly spot-on (0.01% under), and the old Playstation in interlaced mode is almost perfect with a deviation of only 0.0006% over!
And now the punchline: Due to weather, temperature, and other such, even an LCD monitor running at 60Hz will shift refresh rate slightly... so it's basically never perfect, but usually close enough.
...and now you know!
@pendragon That Mastodon account isn't actually duolingo.com. You can tell because if they were, I'd be publicly insisting they find a way to make a packed archive of their emotionally manipulative bullshit that they could break into large but easily-handled pieces and then shove up their own assholes.
And then I'd set that owl free, because clearly they're not happy being stuck in a corporate beg-mail.
It's been.... (cw: birdsite)
...well over five years since I simply stopped using the birdsite. No fuss, no muss, no big announcement or anything, just... stop going there. I don't even click on links to the place.
A couple e-mails showed up while I slept. Someone tried to log in! And because I didn't verify it was me, the account's been locked.
shrug ok twitter
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Remember: If someone tells you that you aren't educated enough to understand/appreciate a painting, tell them to jump up their own butts.
They're just trying to leverage class to make themselves feel better about their own bullshit. Everyone can experience art and if you think something is stupid or doesn't work, you are not only entitled to feel that way, you might actually be right.
@pendragon I accidentally picked a bit of that up into my own speech.
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trans positivity, recent history (kind of secretly a subpost about a meme that's been resonating with a lot of people)
Did you know that Harry "hbomberguy" Brewis's Donkey Kong 64 stream - the one raising money for a trans charity, Mermaids, in the UK; the one that made saying "trans rights" and saying "trans rights are human rights" an internet-wide meme, normalizing and encouraging explicit statements of support for trans people during a time when we are fighting for our rights around the world - was literally only just last year?
Like, it was January 18 to 21, 2019.
I feel like it's worth remembering that good things have happened, are happening, and continue to happen.
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horrible British folk music, violence & death, Ren Faire?
@Leucrotta "Gee, Billy, why does your mom let you have two homicides?"
- shortname
- Keet
- pronouns
- they/them
- species
- some kind of pony thing?
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)
Joined Apr 2017
