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on podcasting platforms and propagandists (mentions of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson) 

Spotify chose Joe Rogan over Neil Young.

I do not have an opinion of Neil Young other than "musician who doesn't want to share a platform with a known right-wing propagandist and entry point to fascism."

Joe Rogan, if you are somehow not aware, is a far-right propagandist who recently featured on his entry-point-to-fascism podcast none other than known shithead, transphobe, and bullshit artist Jordan Peterson.

Therefore, I suggest not using Spotify and telling everyone you know to do the same. Cancel subscriptions if you pay for it, stop feeding content to them if that's a thing you do.

just read monday's dinosaur comic and uh

this is the most relatable panel of all time?????? holy shit

The eternal "do I have adhd or is modern life just bad with too much bullshit and pointless paperwork arbitrary deadlines and endless bloody process instituted as an expression of unjust power relations" debate.

I remember being disappointed that all ten years that could conceivably be 200X came and went with no Mega Man in sight.

Then I realized that the X could mean that in the future, numerals are written in dozenal (a.k.a duodecimal, base 12).

Now I'm waiting for the year 3466. Crap.

QFWAWAWAOSE (Questions For Which A Wrong Answer Was Accepted On Stack Exchange)

Linux: update polkit now 

If you are using #Linux, regardless of which distribution, update Polkit (PolicyKit) immediately.zdnet.com/article/major-linux-

I like the haudenosaunee flag because u look at it and think "why is it pixelated" then you learn it's like that because it's based on the hiawatha wampum belt, which is made out of purple and white shell beads

Diacritics are little accessories for letters to wear if they want to dress up for a fancy sentence

We live in a society so exploitative that it's considered normal to have a stimulant addiction just to function.

So there's this person who takes photographs from inside musical instruments and I want to live in the 1970s Movie Future where the interior of a Steinway piano is the Community Transport Central Hub or whatever.

charlesbrooks.info/architectur

Trailer for Seattle BLM Exploitation Movie 

So if you hadn't heard, director Steven Soderbergh made a movie called "KIMI" which features re-enactments of the Seattle 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, including scenes of protesters dragging the main character out of a van and doing other scary violent lib-threatening actions which are absolute lies. This movie exploits most libs fears of protest movements and please do not watch it when it comes out.

youtube.com/watch?v=67S8ru4K4x

thinking about how garbage NFTs are 

so like, if I had a dollar bill and you had a dollar bill and we traded them, we'd come out even - they're just dollar bills and equivalent as far as buying stuff goes

but if I drew a cartoon on my dollar bill, then my dollar bill is different than yours because it has a cartoon on it - nothing to do with it being a dollar bill, it just has a cartoon on it

NFTs are like that, except the cartoon is nothing but a URL and the paper is made of global warming

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...I just realized we made this post about "Non-Player Character" without linking to the actual book: vicorva.itch.io/non-player-cha

Thinking about it some more, part of what's really special about the book for us is that it makes us feel normal. Autistic people are normal, anxiety is normal, disability is normal, queerness is normal. We're not used to being so much a part of a story's normal, and it's really nice.

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Neurodiversity, snark 

Allistic people: How can autistic people be so bad at reading social cues?

Also allistic people: *creates entire genres, like Romantic Comedy, based around entirely avoidable miscommunication*

People who live in the US can now order 4 free COVID tests shipped to you from the government at no cost: usps.com/covidtests

corporate merger news (gaming), Polygon link 

Microsoft has acquired Activision-Blizzard, at a reported cost of $68.7 billion.

polygon.com/22889270/microsoft

Remember kids, no corporation is your friend. Especially if they make that thing you like.

A Shadowrun plot where you're trying to track down the guy who has the only surviving dump of a NES game prototype and is hoarding it for nerd cred.

Peeking into Affinity Publisher. 

Positioned as a replacement for Adobe InDesign, Affinity Publisher holds several advantages:

• Much, much less expensive
• Doesn't extend tendrils into every crevice of the operating system
• User interface isn't a laggy shitshow
• Pretty good importing of the IDML format that InDesign happily exports
• Might be coaxed to work in Linux?

The biggest disadvantage I see immediately is that it lacks what InDesign calls "GREP styles" – regular expressions within paragraph styles that automatically apply character styles to matching text. I use these constantly, and they save me an immense amount of work. Doing without means a lot of applying character styles manually, which can be labor intensive but more importantly is very error-prone.

Even so, this might be the software I switch to. I want out of Adobe, and I want out of Windows. At the very least, I want the alternate options to be there, and the sooner I learn them the less painful it'll be if I have to make that move suddenly.

Oh, right, reminder to self to open up all my InDesign files and export 'em to IDML....

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