it looks like Gumroad is refusing to pay out any remaining balance to users deleting their account below their standard $10 minimum https://twitter.com/inverts/status/1490841791029194753
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trans community heads-up (twitter link, sorry)
Beware the so-called "Gender Unity Project." They're a front for Matt Walsh and Justin Folk, known-quantity shitwagons, to try and trick people into taking part in an anti-trans "documentary" with it.
More info here: https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/1490799028401020932
ME: This song is about childhood sexual abuse.
ROGER SMITH: My uncle used to tell bedtime stories about a spider man what ate children.
ME: This song is about animism during an age of widescale extinctions.
ROGER SMITH: Oh, it's about animals fucking m8.
ROGER SMITH: When I was a child I used to be terrified by nightmares of being lost in the woods.
ME: This song's about werewolves.
This is the largest such discovery since the beginning of the 20th century. The items called "ostraca" were cheaper than papyrus and often used by the common people, for shopping lists, recording trades and the like.
fluffy rambles: My comment on COLC-2021-0009-0001 https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/677-My-comment-on-COLC-2021-0009-0001 #FluffyRambles #Governance #Copyright #EFF
RT @itchio@twitter.com
A few have asked about our stance on NFTs:
NFTs are a scam. If you think they are legitimately useful for anything other than the exploitation of creators, financial scams, and the destruction of the planet the we ask that please reevaluate your life choices.
Peace ✌️
capitalism vs games (wordle bought by New York Times), The Verge article
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-times-free-word-game-acquisition
"The smash online word game Wordle has been bought by The New York Times, which will integrate the daily word puzzle into The New York Times Games suite of word games, creator Josh Wardle announced today.
Wordle will “initially remain free to new and existing players” once it moves over to the Times’ site, and Wardle says that he’s working with The New York Times to preserve players’ existing wins and streak data once the game heads to its new home. That said, The New York Times’ announcement leaves plenty of room for the company to decide to put Wordle behind its paywall in the future."
Capitalism just can't let a good thing go un-monetized.
That Time Satan Showed Off What Was Up His Arse in The Canterbury Tales
One of my favorite Canterbury Tales is the Summoner's tale. So Chaucer, the dude who wrote the Tales, hated Friars because they ran the Indulgences scam where the church would forgive your sins if you had the cash. In fact, we apparently have the court records from the time Chaucer beat up a friar (1).
So in the Summoner's tale, an angel takes a friar to hell to show it off. The friar is relieved to see no friars in any of the angel's visions, and asks 'have friars such a grace/That none of them shall come into this place?'
At which point the angel tell Satan to lift up his ass, and a host of friars fly out of it like bees. So yes, Chaucer sold a popular book that said all friars live up Satan's arsehole.
http://www.librarius.com/canttran/summtale/summtale019-044.htm
(1) "since a 16th-century report implies that, while so engaged, he was fined for beating a Franciscan friar in a London street" - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Geoffrey-Chaucer
wordle, ny times
Wordle, the Mastermind-style word guessing game, has been sold to the New York Times: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-times-free-word-game-acquisition
The reports say it will remain free "initially".
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@hazel "the natural numbers are countable" buddy i do not have that kind of patience
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