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A successful movement has many different kinds of activism 

There are many many ways to be involved in a movement. Studies show that even posting to social media about an issue has a measurable impact. If you can post a hashtag to twitter (#stopTheCoup), talk to people you know, sign the petition ( petition.parliament.uk/petitio ), go to a protest, but stand at the edges, or stand in the middle, or do a sit in - all of these actions are helpful. Do what you can and it's valid and valuable.

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When PHP is your screwdriver, everything looks like a nail.

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"Ah, Frxz?"
Our alien intern looked up from their workstation. "Yes, supervisor!"
"You added a 'Gender' field to our site."
Frxz beamed, literally. "Yes! Traditional!"
"And the options..."
"I researched. One differentiator!"
"I'm afraid we can't use 'pockets' and 'no pockets'."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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Your password must contain:

At least one upper class character
At least one lower class character
At least one symbolic character
At least one character being punished by the gods
At least one character with a dark secret
At least one character who pilots a giant robot
At least one character torn by unrequited desire and self-reproach
At least one character from the Supplemental Outer Ideographic Plane
At least one space station
At least one instance of the string 'password'
At least one number

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Florida aesthetic

Going for a morning walk before the heat of the day.

It's 80 at 7:30 am with 95% humidity. "It's a nice day" you say to yourself as sweat drips down your face.

You see a storm cloud in the distance.

You pray it comes your way. Maybe then it would be 85% humidity.

You continue sweating.

A gator crosses the road ahead of you.

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Windows 10 GDR-DU will, for me, always stand for "Windows 10 German Democratic Republic - Depleted Uranium".

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Fun fact: each book scanned for the Internet Archive has a unique identifier, usually the title of the item, or its first 16 characters; the volume number, or 00 if there isn't one; and the first 4 characters of the author. So:

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"Are there any monsters under my bed?" she asked.
"No monsters/None," came the replies.
"Then what are you?"
"Eaters/We eat."
"Eat what?"
"Toes/Feet/Anything sticking out"
"I still have all my toes."
"Well/We wouldn't/Not monsters."
"So what do you eat?"
"... socks."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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A customer today asked for a sarsaparilla with extra sass.

So I was snarky to them the whole time they were seated.

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Joulery is going out of business 😱😭 but while they're still around they've got all their science-themed jewelry on sale, so get while the getting's good: joulery.co/collections/shop-sa

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comrades my mastodon is basically dead but can you help me find other anarchists in Melbourne please? Wanna organise and take action yo

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WHAT PEOPLE THINK ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ARE: wow.... we're creating... new life........

WHAT ETHICAL ISSUES IN AI ACTUALLY ARE: techbros worshiping the almighty algorithm, not caring to look at what bad patterns the machines are picking up (racism, sexism, etc) and how to avert them, and overreliance on neural networks meaning that said algorithms are treated as magical black boxes where nobody wants to (or can, really) point out exactly how the equation works (and why it may be faulty)

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"There are people who seem to get really offended about gender fluidity or non-binary folks- but those are just people who feel like their gender is is insecure, you know? and in this day and age it *is* important to keep your gender secure. your gender should contain lowercase letters, uppercase letters, at least one number and one symbol"

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Y'all don't even realize how good I am at being asexual on main.

I've been so good that you don't realize that EVERYTHING I post is asexual on main.

Isn't that fucking rad?

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A lot of Mastodon's users joined in August last year, so now is the time of many fediversaries.

You can find your first post on Mastodon by opening your public profile with ?min_id=0 appended to the URL!

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"Do you have a moment?" the empath said.
"Of course, dear," said the telepath.
"You know I can't help reading feelings?"
"Yes?"
"Please read my mind."
"If you... Oh. I don't love you any more?"
"I thought you ought to know."
"Thank you. I still like you?"
"Yes."
"Enough?"
"Yes."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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