misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

Huh. So the robo-caller asking for Cop Association support interprets "can you help cops learn not to gun down black people?" as "put me on your do not call list".

Hey, today's likely gonna be emotionally turbulent no matter the outcome. Make sure you take a moment to check in with yourself and do something that makes you feel good, okay?

You deserve it. <3

"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable"

-- Leslie Lamport, 1987

"your son is hyperactive. is he seeing a child phycologist?"
"do you mean psychologist?"
"no. your kid is a colony of algae. he's currently experiencing a bloom, which results in bodily growth and a change in pigmentation. i recommend watching his phosphate intake"
"i guess this is what i get for being married to the sea"

French toast and mashed sweet potatoes is a deconstructed chip butty.

Behold the Stabacus!

@orrery The Gender Interchange Format is a wire protocol for communicating gender identity. The information is delivered as part of a dedicated data stream in a subconscious side channel that complements perception.

With the Gender Interchange Format, people wouldn't need to rely on squishy meatspace cues to guess at someone's gender; they would know with ironclad certainty what an individual's gender is, even if it is complex, multi-layered and highly specific.

Gender Interchange Format

For Halloween, I'm going as the scariest thing I could think of: a trans black Millennial in a hoodie with a smartphone.

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?835849-New-Ban-Do-Not-Post-In-Support-of-Trump-or-his-Administration
"This is because his public comments, policies, and the makeup of his administration are so wholly incompatible with our values that formal political neutrality is not tenable. We can be welcoming to (for example) persons of every ethnicity who want to talk about games, or we can allow support for open white supremacy. Not both."
I am so fucking glad to see a major tabletops community take this stance

Someone who says to you, "there you go contextualizing everything" does not respect your perspective.

Someone who says to you, "you don't respect the way I show love" does not respect how you wish to be loved.

Someone who says to you, "you and that damned brain of yours" does not respect your intelligence or your independence.

Someone who says to you, "You can't blame me for lashing out because I was in pain" does not respect your safety.

You deserve to be treated like a person.

I think I've finally figured out the, like, core cause of my distaste towards transphobia in general and the leaked memo in particular.

Gender issues is one of the last bastions of birthright caste systems in our society. There's probably a real word, but what I mean is, like, you're born into X, your role is X, you will die as X because you are X kinda thing.

Moving away from apprenticeships, feudalism, slavery, etc., has done wonders to fight that in many aspects of life, expanding (say it with me now) equality of opportunity to a greater and greater population. Expanding the human right of self-determination.

The memo, and transphobic pushes in general, are people crying for the old system, when people were born into certain roles and "knew their place".Well, pardon my English, but fuck that, and fuck them. Self-determination is a goddamn human right.

Hopefully we'll soon have a society where it's a universal right.

Proposal: Instead of talking about "finishing" video games, talk about being content or satisfied with them or about having concluded with playing them.

Help free yourself (and others) from the assumption that one can't be "done" with a game without 100% completion. Doing so takes on increasing importance as the mounting prevalence of DLC, MMOs, and achievement inflation further screws with our brains' hardwired need for closure.