Day 5 of the Gender Census and things are good! It always slows down after the rush of the first few days.
We’re at 6,300 responses, and still climbing. :)
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2019/
If you’ve got followers whose genders are binary-rejecting, please consider spreading the word!
Just one #drawing at a good stage to share right now! Stopping to investigate is probably a terrible idea!
reasons you might buy games from the early 90s
* you like pixel art
* you like chip tunes
* you have interest in the history of the medium
* you're sick of modern games for a little bit, with complicated pre-order schemes, microtransactions, and State Farm Insurance sponsorships
* you have a computer that's also a potato
* you appreciate that time has faded out a lot of the less-notable games
* you like game design trends that are not profitable in the current game market
* you know that good design is not a matter of technological obsolesce
The Gender Census 2019 is now open until 25th March!
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2019/
It's for anyone whose genders (or lack thereof) aren't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and the results are useful in academia, business, and self-advocacy.
A Cricket Wireless made into a chicken restaurant. Nice sign recycling, there. https://i.redd.it/ndfqbdvucmi21.jpg
My TMS provider just did this to me—
Except it was a PDF. The header text with my name and person-and-not-just-a-number number – the info I already had – can be selected and copied. The long series (30!) of session appointments is, of course, a screengrab of a spreadsheet-style grid widget from a Windows app.
"Thanks, I hate it!"
do you think like
samus naps in the morph ball form in her ship somewhere
just like "welp, on a deep space cruise for a bit, just gonna... curl up in bed" and she pops into the morph ball form and just hops up onto a little shelf and sits there recharging her power suit looking like some kind of google home shit.
In the 1980's, personal computers displaced mainframes. It was a revolution.
Now, we need a new revolution: for personal servers to displace centralized servers.
How can we make this happen? Check out this presentation to learn.
📺WATCH: "Creating a Computing Revolution: from Personal Computers to Personal Servers - Danny Haidar, FOSDEM 2019"
https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/52fb6887-9627-46b0-936c-bf9f635bdcd2
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I 🦄 ponies
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and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
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