Soreth @Soreth@awoo.space
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Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.
Joined Jun 2017
Assuming movement through a perfect vacuum with standard pressure, if you have two objects, one moving at .5c relative to Barnard's Star and beginning at ref point {0,0,0,now} and moving directly south, and the second object moving at .95c relative to Russell's Teapot from {12,19,65295,6 hours ago} toward galactic north, and a privileged observer with telescopes trained on both of them but a headache from trying to understand this problem, what crime has the privileged observer been framed for?
Elf. Lizard! Wizard!!
I appear to be awake and working. Obviously a terrible mistake has been made somewhere.
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One way to really work up a sweat is to be the tattoo artist for a dragon.
For starters, some scales are much harder to ink than others; the sensitive spots you need to keep in mind are often very different from humans, and they can potentially spit fire when flinching, making this an outdoor or cave-call situation.
Then there's the non-zero chance of being eaten.
On the other hand, they pay well for the craftsmanship, and tip well.
Art I need to get:
* Me as big-busted snakegirl
* Me as big-busted wyvern
* Sudden apotheosis from really good burrito (probably with big bust)
It's almost like there's some kind of pattern but I can't see what it is.
cordyceps joke, late stage capitalism
"If at any point in your first 90 days with the company you feel an urge to climb to the top of somewhere very tall, good news! We have an elevator that goes all the way to the roof."
Nov shmoz ka pop?
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Hi I have shiny ace things now. https://shop.sevenishmagpies.com/
What if work.... wasn't awful?
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LGBT rights, Poland, please boost
* talking about LGBT ppl/issues in schools;
* Pride marches and any other LGBT-related public events;
* public endorsement of same-sex marriage or rights;
You read that right. If you say "I think gay people should get to be married" in a public setting, the new law states that you'd be committing a crime.
I know not everyone is equally passionate about LGBT activism, but this is actual insanity.
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LGBT rights, Poland, please boost
(Reposted from Birdside, thread)
Today, the Polish parliament will read a proposed law that makes it illegal to "promote homosexuality", including - I am not exaggerating - pretty much ANY positive talk of LGBT+ people and their rights in public settings.
And foreign media seem almost entirely silent on this.
The law was drafted a while ago, but didn't get into the Parliament for procedural reasons.
It EXPLICITLY bans e.g.:
internet impact
I see people on birdsite are talking about their biggest impacts on the internet today. So why not, I'll say it here too.
For multiple years in the early 00s, a picture of me was the top result if you did an image search on AskJeeves for the word "author". It was just a JPG named "the_author" on my website.
To this day I've no idea why. My guess is image rank was based partially on file creation date? It was an old picture.
Eventually I got tired of it and blocked search crawlers. My picture stopped appearing in search results. I do wonder sometimes exactly how long it would have continued if I hadn't done that.
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semi-evergreen vent toot, long (~1750 chars), re: FOSS, 
FOSS is amazing and important. But the FOSS community as it currently stands is toxic to an insane degree.
News flash: Not everyone who uses FOSS programs is technical enough to make their own.
If someone complains about something they find inconvenient or inaccessible about a program they otherwise enjoy using, the correct answer is NOT to respond with "Why don't you just code it yourself?"
To only offer that response is to willingly ignore the fact that plenty of users (ourselves included) don't have the technical know-how to build something so complex, even if they fork your code. Whether intentional or not, you're implicitly gatekeeping so that the only people who can enjoy the same programs you do are the ones who can build their own.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's leaving out a HUGE portion of potential users.
If you really do care about FOSS becoming mainstream, then it's in your best interests to make it as accessible as possible to everyone, not just the people who think like you do.
The only way to dismantle Big Tech's de facto monopoly is to work together to find a better solution. And refusing to objectively improve your precious source code is not the way to do that.
And guess what? Thanks to the Steam Deck, soon there's gonna be a bunch of non-techie people trying out Linux. You can't keep gatekeeping forever. If FOSS is to survive, it must adapt. Not exclude.
If you disagree with any of the above, YOU are the problem with the FOSS community. YOU are the reason FOSS isn't mainstream yet.
The block button's right there. Save yourself some time and use it. Nobody wants or needs to hear your rebuttal. Goodbye.
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DRAGONS HALLOWEEN PSA
BEWARE
Dragons!!! Sending your kobolds out for rocks-or-treats can be great fun for everyone, but be sure to check their pails!!
Uninformed parents or even malicious people may hand out nuclear fuel pellets! These are NOT ROCKS, they are made of highly enriched uranium that may make your kobold sick!!!
Check their pails when they get home!!
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Weird commission idea floating through my head - dragoness in her ritual room, tons of paraphernalia all around, stacks of tomes, searching for apotheosis. It's finally struck - she's resplendent, partially fused with infinity, Ascended - and she's staring down in disbelief at the thing that let her make the leap. Not a tome, not a ritual, but...
...a really really good burrito, still half-uneaten.
Weird commission idea floating through my head - dragoness in her ritual room, tons of paraphernalia all around, stacks of tomes, searching for apotheosis. It's finally struck - she's resplendent, partially fused with infinity, Ascended - and she's staring down in disbelief at the thing that let her make the leap. Not a tome, not a ritual, but...
...a really really good burrito, still half-uneaten.
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was published 42 years ago today.
blaseball, comparison with boring normal baseball
Each game of Blaseball contains the maximum amount of Blaseball that a game can contain and is thus far superior an experience.
Except when a Blaseball game is in the state of Maximum Blaseball, when there is obviously more Blaseball per Blaseball than is normally present.
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You don't need a job to survive.
You need clean water, healthy food, and safe housing to survive.
Under capitalism, however, all of those things have associated price tags. Hence the popular myth of "needing" a job to survive.
Survival should not be a subscription service.
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Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.
Joined Jun 2017
