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

I give up.

good post about how nerd communities' mass-adoption of the closed and proprietary Discord platform will inevitably lead to the long-term loss of (or loss of access to) mountains of special-interest group knowledge and community history

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-popularity-of-discords-worries-me-regarding-future-preservation-of-fan-knowledge-mods-guides.140097/

"TLDR; It is not a very future-proof way of knowledge-building & archiving at all."

see also:
https://toot.cafe/@nolan/102748160187678255

"In Julian Is a Mermaid, a little boy riding the New York City subway with “his nana” dreams of looking like the spectacularly dressed women they see – and ends up, with his grandmother’s help, joining the iconic Mermaid Parade. Author and illustrator Jessica Love, who was partly inspired by a trans friend to create the picture book, never expected it to be published after five years of work.

On Wednesday night, Love was named winner of the prestigious Klaus Flugge prize, which goes to the most exciting and promising newcomer to picture book illustration. Judge and former children’s laureate Anthony Browne called the book “astonishingly beautiful”, saying it was amazing that it was her first attempt to write and illustrate a picture book.

Chair of the judges Julia Eccleshare said the panel were unanimous in their decision: “Julian Is a Mermaid reminds us that picture books can make us understand the world differently and better; that they are for everyone. It is a groundbreaking book,” she said."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/11/i-am-proven-joyously-wrong-picture-book-about-trans-child-wins-major-prize-amid-moral-panic

ugh this soap tastes like cilantro

reminder that most labor-saving products (e.g. pre-peeled garlic) are for people who would (usually due to disability) otherwise have no access to the end result at all

they're only marketed to everyone else because widespread ableism (especially among the capitalist class) means companies don't want disabled bodies associated with their product

are some of them unethically made? yes, they are - capitalism is a hellscape, some of everything is unethically made

are some of them absolute ripoffs? yes, they are - many con artists are eager to defraud desperate people who really can't afford it because desperate people both have less ability to detect fraud and less ability to seek redress for being wronged

but if you ever look at something and think, "but all you have to do is--" then immediately stop and ask yourself what kinds of disabilities might make whatever remedy just came to mind impossible, because there's probably something

What if instead of calling it "asexual reproduction" we called it "nulltiplication"

shrimpstanbul, not prawnstantinople

Just one #drawing today.

bank of america appears to be freezing accounts based on if they think the owner is an immigrant, please keep an eye out.
you may be locked out of your funds if they do this to you

https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article217567300.html

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to solipsism

I do not want to be free. I want to be dependent on the love of others. I want a community that cares for itself, and builds and maintain infrastructure for itself and those around it. I want to chain myself to a constructed society based on mutualism and empathy and scream, no, you cannot take this from us. We are not lonely creatures in the wilderness. We are a stronger force bonded together.

if comprehensions
leak state for you
you should abandon
python 2

Burma-Shave™

Campbell Award to be renamed the Astounding Award as people finally take notice of what John W Campbell was like.

https://theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2019/08/27/a-statement-from-the-editor/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Chimera does the Manticore Dance
#Chiptune #NES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lugyv8J4gYQ