Dry Up and Tumble On.
An NES tune I wrote a few years ago. I think it's the one piece of music I've written that means the most to me, but it's really hard to express why.
covid-19, mental health industry, ~
5 fucking years I'm asking therapists if they will do phone sessions bc disability and always get told no, we can't, insurance won't cover it, you need to get out of the house, yadayada yada.
NOW these fucks are asking ME to do phone sessions.
Guess is wasn't so impossible after all.
Y'all know I'm gonna hold this over their heads for fucking ever.
covid-adjacent, uspol, longish
after this is all over, be sure to remind people, as often as they'll allow you to get away with it, that:
telecoms did not need data caps, had plenty of capacity to donate to low-income folks, and were never in danger of going bankrupt because of the lack of data caps or the additional usage
folks who work on computers all day can do that wherever computers are; most tech offices are merely trophies to show off to other tech offices.
the government wasn't concerned with helping people, it was concerned with helping business. it was people who were helping people and often the government merely got in the way of that.
trillions of dollars was found to allocate as soon as they wanted to; every time anyone asks how anything will be funded it's merely to shut down the conversation.
keep a running list of your favorite facts and get them in front of as many folk as you can, as often as you can, and maybe, just maybe, we can get more folks on board for change
Happy Pi Day!
Irreverent guide to USB connectors.
USB-A: The original rectangular one that you always have to turn over twice to fit into the slot. There's one on nearly every USB cable that isn't USB-C.
USB-B: The kinda square one used for every cheap long-abandoned printer ever so there are always a bunch of them in the way whenever another type is desired.
Mini-B: The one with the highest ratio of "confused for Micro-B" to "useful for anything other than last-gen videogame controllers".
Micro-B: Where did all my Micro cables go? Everyone borrows them, nobody returns them!
USB-C: They finally got it right! And with any luck, the cable's the right type and won't fry what it's connected to. The future is bright!
#drawings today in an attempt to stay afloat. I’m fairly happy with my newfound willingness to fill the page largely with ink. Beautiful furry art and song lyrics!
hey, since it came up earlier today, i have a small page on my website explaining the monty hall problem. it was written for the audience of people who know what the solution is, and can maybe even prove it's true mathematically, but who can't understand it intuitively. i think there are a lot of bad explanations out there (or at least explanations that didn't help me), so i approached it a different way, breaking it down into cases and showing what happens if you do or don't switch in each one
i've posted this before, but today i touched up some of the wording i was unhappy with and also made the css nicer
In D&D the other day we found out that the community we were in didn't have good access to magic and weren't able to defend themselves from the people in power, so my character wrote down all the spells they knew and gave it to someone they trusted to teach the magic to other people so they could at least protect themselves better
The only good use for gathering knowledge is to share it freely and make it widely accessible
Quote from a Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan Text about animism, emphasis mine
"If we believe that plants and animals, mountains and rivers are alive it shifts the ways we view our responsibilities to to the earth and each other. It doesn't mean we never use them to our own ends, but it does mean that such use is often approached with deep respect and examined for its necessity."
Loving this book already. Anprim pagans GTFO, this person gets it.
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Xander (They/Them)
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I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
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and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
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