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Folks, I *hope* you have no idea how many horrible contracts I saw when I was researching contracts to create our standard contracts.

(And let me give a shout out to Kristine Kathryn Rusch, without whose wonderful blog I wouldn't have recognized why half those things were horrible. Seriously, if you want to get published, go read that woman's stuff! Caveat emptor applies to publishing too! kriswrites.com/)

#amwriting

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discord on desktop/in browser seems to be working okay, but the mobile app still isn't connecting for me. how does this even happen

Concept: Zeroes of Improbability

Like the Nines of Uptime/Availability (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_ava), Zeroes of Improbability are a measure of how improbable an event is, using classical probability.

The Zeroes number for a probability is the number of left-sided zeroes in the probability when presented as a decimal <= 1:

1.0: zero zeroes
0.9: 1 zero
0.0000000001: 10 zeroes of improbability

the difference between mascots and fursonas is that people have fursonas and brands aren't people

How to Do Nothing, by Jenny Odell 

“...the “nothing” that I propose is only nothing from the point of view of capitalist productivity”

“...question what we currently perceive as productive.”

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I now have Python code which can take uploaded save data from a Dreamcast browser and produce the raw save file. Working on the metadata sidecar now!

I believe I’m be the first person who’s written a set of tools for this stuff with tests and a real open source license 🤔

wow there are a lot of bostonians on mastodon. i'll have local friends once i move it seems

this is ten percent luck
twenty percent luck
fifteen percent concentrated power of luck
five percent luck
fifty percent luck
and a hundred percent reason to remember the luck

Surprise, surprise, Raspberry Pi 4 has been launched!

Faster CPU, dual 4k HDMI support, up to 4GB RAM, USB type C, USB3 and (finally!) no more bottlenecking the ethernet port over USB2: full gigabit speeds!

Also: same old price 😍

Did Mastodon's stance on "No nazis" appeal to you when joining?

re: forza horizon 4 

i'll say it one more time for the people in the back:

Blueprinters, Do Not Make Courses With Fucking Eight Minute Race Times. i have other shit i would rather be doing

Game Designers, Do Not Feature These Courses As Good Examples Of Skilled Course Layout Work. you should know better

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re: forza horizon 4 

also, shoutouts to the thing that happens every few races where a car with absurd top speed and acceleration starts in first place so by the time you claim second place they're already 5s ahead and gaining

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re: forza horizon 4 

advice for course planners: no circuit needs four minute lap times

advice for turn 10: don't pick out these fucking courses and say "yeah these are excellent, let us showcase them as a seasonal event"

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re: forza horizon 4 

okay, strictly speaking it's a three-minute circuit that you're asked to do twice, but if anything that makes it worse

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forza horizon 4 

this season's community showcase is an excellent demonstration of why the ability for players to blueprint their own courses was a mistake. shoutouts to the 7-minute course where half of it is extended sequences of very tight turns around city streets

Reminder!

Non-binary -is- trans!

Non-transitioning trans folks are trans!

The “trans” umbrella includes us, whether we are transitioning or not!

The middle stripe of the trans flag is -for- us!

The idea that it doesn’t include us is -exclusionary!-

(Though anybody can opt out of the label/community if they personally find that important)

(Signed, a transitioning non-binary person, because lots of those exist as well)

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