gbear605 @gbear605@mastodon.greenwichmeanti.me
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@velexiraptor it’s hard to believe, but some high schools really are better. Source: am a college student who enjoyed their time in high school
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@Pixley thanks so much! I might be making this tomorrow night
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@Pixley Do you have a recipe or did you make it by instinct? That looks sooo good
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Dwarf Fortress has announced that they are working on adding trans dwarves, and they'd have added then already of he hadn't overcomplicated his thinking.
.... last time when he added gay dwarves he rewrote a large chuck of the personality system so that gay, lesbian, ace and bi dwarves would all arise naturally from the system, so that kinda makes sense.
Link: https://twitter.com/Bay12Games/status/1107118932077346817?s=19
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Armok is a unique combat class with only two abilities:
create entire universe
destroy entire universe
The player in Dwarf Fortress plays as Armok.
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concept: "gender rehearsal" parties where you can go for an hour or two and try out being a different gender. no commitment or anything, just a good space for answering the question "what would it be like if i was a dude" etc
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love figuring out that you can read theorists and agree with some of their takes and vehemently disagree with others, and that that's not contradictory
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why is being a person so hard maybe I wanted to be a duck nobody asked me
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@Are0h "Shouldn't be political" is just code for "should be white". They know exactly what they're doing. It was political to suspend a player for saying "Free Hong Kong" to a human-rights abusing government. It was political to make video games using the labor value extraction in capitalism. It was political for them to have the power to sway an audience to their side about it all.
They make millions from their deals with Chinese corps and are terrified to let Hong Kong be a thing on their platform. I'd like to point out the white boy they suspended for using the f-slur got a shorter suspension and they took more time to "investigate" and "deliberate" the matter; also the announcers in his case weren't also immediately banned for simply being near him.
@melissasage Putting pronouns in article infoboxes would be an amazing change too though.
@melissasage Unfortunately, the problem with Wendy Carlos' picture isn't their grognard status (although that's an issue too, given the dead name in the first sentence of the article), but US and international copyright laws. We need a reform of both.
Hmm, not sure who needs to fix their software, but Mastodon push notifications (Toot! iOS app and Firefox on MacOS) and the notification on the Notifications screen in Toot! are minorly bugged. The notification I got for a person with a Hebrew name (ie. written right to left) following me were phrased as "followed you רבֿקה". I know Unicode is hard, but this kind of thing is still important. @tootapp
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thinking about the academie francaise declaring that gender neutral language is putting french in "mortal peril". your fucking right!!
@fluttergirly let’s go wasn’t a main line game, so it didn’t count. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon didn’t have all the pokemon either, but no one particularly cared about that either.
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Fuck the mainland government, actual Nazis of our generation. White power groups are fucking small-time. I stand with Hong Kong. Tell your own government so if you feel the same way. Not CW'd because it's your responsibility to know about and act on this problem.
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The Washington Post's motto is "democracy dies in darkness".
A subscription to the Washington Post's digital edition costs $100 per year.
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos.
BusinessInsider estimates Jeff Bezos makes $2,489 per second.
The Washington Post reports 86.6 million unique visitors.
Jeff Bezos makes enough money in a little over than 40 days to buy every single one of those 86.6 million people a subscription.
So it's clearly not lack of money that causes the Washington Post to have a paywall.
Which means there's only one possible reason for their tagline to be "democracy dies in darkness".
It's not a foreboding warning. It's their mission statement.
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in case you've ever wondered why the "techbro" stereotype is so widely despised, here is a handy set of four images demonstrating why
@CalmByte@cybre.space some other CI tools also let you but make it so difficult that it’s easier to clutter the git history (Jenkins, for example). I like how Sourcehut’s is so easy to use that it’s natural to do it directly
@sir it probably wouldn’t make sense for you to switch to it now, but Mnemosyne (https://mnemosyne-proj.org/) is a good open source software equivalent to Anki that makes it much easier to self-host than Anki does afaik
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A programmer working in the service of the future of humanity.
Joined Jul 2019
