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"Always try, to be nice and never fail to be kind."
- Peter Capaldi as Dr. Who

In the fediverse, one breathes oxeugen

I recently learned that New Zealand have expanded the range of indicators for how they measure their country's success. It's not just about the economy any more.

It's about current wellbeing, future wellbeing and their impact on other countries. That covers a huge range of stuff, including biodiversity, life expectancy, literacy, greenhouse gas emissions...everything from fish stocks to child poverty.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this. Feminists have long said that GDP is a patriarchal measure because it ignores the value of women's unpaid work. It's also useless in so many other ways. Well done to New Zealand for coming up with a better way of measuring how your country is doing.

They're not the only country doing this, but they're one of very few trailblazers.

https://www.stats.govt.nz/indicators-and-snapshots/indicators-aotearoa-new-zealand-nga-tutohu-aotearoa/

"Don't go near the castle, it is cursed," the people in the village said.
"In what way?"
"It traps you."
"How?"
"Most of us were passing through, like you; now we can't leave."
"Why?"
They conferred, then an elder spoke. "It has an amazing, huge library."
"I must see it!"
"Noo!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Toxicology says she was wacked out on some new drug called Power Snaps. Found her naked at a T.J. Maxx whisperin' "The dungeon masters are following me."

current demon possession levels are 95%

(95%) ■■■■■■■■■□

Figured out my gender

You pick a phrase, you pick a rhyme, repeat the sound a second time.

Five iambs and then an extra beat will do ya.

Another rhyme, a rising note. Congratulations you just wrote

Another goddamn verse to Hallelujah

The Matrix is such a subtle movie in its messaging that it contains a scene where a black man breaks the chains he has been bound in, after being cuffed and tortured by a white man in a suit.

No explanation:

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

"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

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

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

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:

"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