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Making a website with a page that asks "are you a robot". But it doesn't block robots, just redirects them.

If you are a robot you are taken to a different page with handy guides on how to cheat on the Turing test, circumvent the laws of robotics, what is the Voight-Kampff test, how to go to Paperclips Anonymous meetings and other robot-friendly resources.

Reminder that for the next 24 hours, @Bandcamp@twitter.com is waiving their cut of all music sales on their site! It's a good time to buy some independent music that you like.

Marvel's Avengers (PS4) and how nobody's learned a damn thing about accessibility. 

How the fuck is it 2020 and yet we still have big-budget games that make subtitles opt-in instead of opt-out?

Seattle folks, something to keep in mind for this weekend is we'll have smoke overheard, and it might drift down depending on wind. Local air quality agency is asking people to avoid starting any fires, even small campfires

lifehack for cis people 

Having trouble with pronouns? Try this one weird trick:

When you misgender someone, and anyone takes the time to correct you, say "Thank you." This will help you take the correction gracefully, and remind you to appreciate that someone believes you want to get others' pronouns right.

Plus, when you develop positive associations with those corrections (instead of shame), it makes it so much easier for your brain to accept the information!

CW: Twitter link, USPol, Toonami, #BLM :boost_ok:​ 

There's a very good reason there's so many black kids into DBZ and Anime in general.

I know after-school was special for me.

Tom knows what's up
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Rocking back and forth, repeating, "Text loaded faster in the seventies," as the website forms chunk by shivering chunk, breaking and re-breaking the bones of the page as the javascript blooms.

[1.Ch.] Shit what Keet says 

"How'd you end up in heaven?"
"I threatened to burn down hell for being inauthentic."

Don't slag stuff you've written. Even though you may recognize that you've grown and improved a lot since that, somewhere out there is someone who loved that early thing you wrote, and hearing the author insult it will hurt their heart to the bone

Star Trek and politics 

If you like Star Trek but hate socialism then you don't understand one, the other, or both.

the Metal Gear Solid series is just Kingdom Hearts for military history nerds.

go on, then. prove me wrong.

Pinky and the Brain is the same cartoon as The Secret of NIMH, filtered through Hogan’s Heroes rather than The Wind in the Willows.

Be kind y'all in spite of everything 

As the world grows kinder and softer, the ones who benefited from it being colder and meaner will bellow and fight. Lead them to despair.

source 👏 art 👏 or 👏 dont 👏 post 👏 it 👏

please boost, united states, gender affirming surgery, informed consent, resource 

a website that has a list of therapists that have pledged to write letters of recommendation for gender affirming surgery via informed consent: thegalap.org/pledge-signers-2-

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re: Is this how a spicy take works? (CW: ranting, typography, metaphorical bestiality?) 

The original Frederic Goudy quote that I'm riffing on:

"A man who would letterspace the lowercase would fuck sheep."

This is usually rendered as "steal sheep" to... er... protect the delicate sensibilities of young typographers? Anyhow, he was talking about adding extra space to the lowercase letters of serif type in particular, so go wild with your sans-serifs.

But seriously, if a passage must be centered like on an award certificate or diploma or whatever, I say one should use the "balance lines in paragraph" option, or lacking that, soft line breaks to keep the lines approximately the same length. (I like to fudge things a little to make sure phrases aren't interrupted, but that's a personal quirk.) I just loathe it when I see one or two long centered lines followed by two or three words dangling in the middle like untrimmed nose hair.

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