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hannah online

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

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sleepy fox in a weighted blanket
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Terrana ΘΔ&

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

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Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis

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

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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

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packbat is a social construct

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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Jaycie

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*

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Aradia, EverScarlet

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

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Alexis

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.

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Trysdyn, Jolteon Aspect
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.
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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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perfectly normal (horse) beast

the ISO 2848 metric toot

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packbat is a social construct

oh hey, matrix.org/ features sponsorships from three separate cryptocurrency firms on their front page 😑

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(*checks* correction: four separate cryptocurrency firms - Tendermint is one, too.)

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biodiverse wetlands

did you know! there’s a trans writers union! their FAQ makes it really clear that if you think that sounds good for you, you can join!

transwritersunion.com

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Shy bunny

The filter wheel on #JWST's MIRI (mid-infrared instrument):

mpia.de/news/science/2021-18-j

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What the undersea volcanic eruption near Tonga looked like from orbit, courtesy of GOES-West and Himawari-8:

independent.co.uk/news/world/a

nitter.42l.fr/wonderofscience/

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Kookie 🍪🇵🇸

"In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority ("Datenschutzbehörde" or "DSB") has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR."

"This is a very detailed and sound decision. The bottom line is: Companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore."

from noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-

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zx3

hey yall am i doing this wordle thing right

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Where the hell did I go? (social anxiety, mh-) 

Once upon a time, I was a regular on several IRC channels and MUCKs. I could pop in and out anytime with zero obligations, and I was unafraid to participate.

Nowadays I'm down to small Telegram chats with folks I've known since forever, and those tend to be brief because I guess don't have what it takes to keep a conversation going anymore.

I can't seem to make myself dive into anyplace where I don't already know at least a couple folks. Even if I do know some folks I'm anxious because I feel so far out of touch and I might:
• step on toes and give myself more intrusive memories of awkward encounters;
• get overwhelmed by walls of text and then feel bad about not keeping up;
• have to deal with willfully ignorant shitheads that everyone else tolerates;
• or have to dodge popular folks that I stay away from for serious reasons.

Heck, all of this is why I don't even toot much. It feels like too much risk.

I do not know what the fuck to do.

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