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Brexit, trans stuff, shitpost but also very real 

Seen on birdsite :

A transgender friend has told me the UK should be required to live "as" an independent nation for two years before making the irreversible decision to transition out of the EU

mobile.twitter.com/davidalleng

Lovecraft, filk, old joke 

are ye ready kids
AYE AYE CAPTAIN
I can't heeeeer you
ohhhh
who lives in a sepulchre under the sea
GREAT CTHULHU
all rugose and squamous and bloated is he
GREAT CTHULHU
that which is not dead may eternal lie
GREAT CTHULHU
and with strange aeons even death may die
GREAT CTHULHU
GREAT CTHULHU
GREAT CTHULHU
GREAT CUH THUL HOO
*nauseating piping*

Regarding that last boost:

Yes, I'm the one playing @millimax@high.cat in a wonderfully mutant Eberron campaign. If you're interested in hearing a pony ramble about the trials and tribulations in her quest for self-embodiment, take a look!

Bram Stoker’s How Dracula Got Her Groove Back

"For the love of god, Monstrosaur!!"
"RAAAAAAAAWRGH!"

Oh my gosh though, related to this, everyone should learn the NATO Phonetic ("radio") alphabet.

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc. It doesn't take too much practice. It's *invaluable* when trying to communicate precise text, especially over the phone. Nobody wants an "m as in mancy" situation.

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boss: your mission, should you choose to accept it,

super hacker: this better be good

boss: is to write a program that takes in valid DD/MM/YYYY dates and outputs milliseconds since epoch,

super hacker: below my pay grade old man

boss: in brainfuck

super hacker: Now We're Talking

paranoid frothing socio-econo-political edition of Shit What Keet Says 

"Health insurance wants to keep us too sick to punch fascists."

why organize tech workers? 

> why organize? don't you, as a software dev, get paid enough?

1. no, i don't
2. without my knowledge or consent, things i've made have killed people, and my only options were to shrug or quit
3. work should not give you PTSD
4. worker rights and communal welfare is about more than pay. it's about power dynamics, accountability, representation, and taking the craft back from the profiteers who readily dispose of us

I still call the string of posts on Mastodon "timeline" but I think we need a term distinct from birdsite

May I suggest: toot chute

Luncheon in three. 

Tofu bánh mì,
Thai iced tea,
and Rarity.

(No, I won't be consuming that last one.)

A couple of friends of mine have recently been experimenting with mentioning CALLIGRAPHY PENS a lot around their laptops with browsers open on Facebook.

They don't talk about this otherwise, in any form or medium. Sure enough, they're getting calligraphy related FB adverts now.

There's no way big ad-based companies aren't helping themselves to data from your mic. Your phone and laptop are listening devices. For most of us, this will never have serious ramifications, but still, act accordingly.

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Treating two groups of people equally when they don't start out as actual equals merely perpetuates the initial inequality.

True equality requires addressing and rectifying the initial inequality (at minimum to the satisfaction of the less-advantaged party).

I have perfectly serviceable vision and sometimes I zoom in webpages just because doing so makes it easier to read them.

Let your webpages zoom, guys.

Telling friends to get off of corporate-owned social media feels increasingly less like the stereotyped preaching of the virtues of veganism and more like suggesting that we please stop flavoring food with Sugar of Lead just because all the cool Romans are doing it.

okay, some albums?

Studio Killers (self-titled)
Air - 10,000Hz Legend
Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
Daft Punk & LSO - TRON: Legacy soundtrack
Kesha - Rainbow
Skids - Days in Europa
Mike Oldfield - Amarok
Queen - A Kind of Magic
Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight

"Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough."

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