Daily reminder 0683, dass uns SPD, Grüne und FDP das #Selbstbestimmungsgesetz im Koalitionsvertrag versprochen haben.
Daily reminder 0667, dass die #Ampelkoalition jetzt die Regierung stellt.
Daily reminder 0046, dass das vorgeschlagene #SBGG beschissen ist. #TSGabschaffen.
@RickiTarr
My best friend once told me that when you're trying to figure out whether or not to say something, you should ask if it's any TWO of True, Helpful, and Kind.
Der var en kort overgang, hvor jeg fik skrevet korte anmeldelser af alt det bras, jeg lader fylde mine øjenhuller — men så snart jeg havde dumpet min backlog på superkultur.dk, gik rutinen i stå.
Er det noget, I kan holde ud at læse her, hvis jeg giver den vane et nyt forsøg, eller skal jeg holde det til Superkultur-sitet?
Billys nye kæledyr tåler ikke skarpt lys, og må hverken blive våd eller fodres efter midnat. Alligevel bliver småbyen Kingston Falls denne jul rendt over ende af små, grønne øglemonstre…
I en verden hvor folk argumenterer for "Die hard"s status som juleklassiker, burde "Gremlins" rangere langt højere på repertoiret. Den spænder fra hjemlig hygge, køkkenulykker og sære gadgets til frydefuldt kaos og dybe familietraumer.
What he's done is prep his followers to believe, at such time as Fox gets arnd to reporting he lost (they haven't, yet), he lost for reasons he "predicted" he wd lose: bc judge & the Black Woman Prosecutor ganged up on him
If last wk's judgmt & this trial were (or is--they still cd be) reported w 1/2 the attention reporters pay to Hunter dick pix then it MIGHT lead some ppl to realize Trump is a fraud, always has been
But thus far Trump has utterly dictated storyline.
As the day drew to a close, Trump seemed to take great issue with testimony from David Bender, an accountant at Mazars who spent years preparing Trump's personal tax returns.
At times, he appears to be very upset, with his face turning beet red. At one point, Trump turned to Cliff Robert, the attorney for his adult sons, and whisper-yelled at him, while pointing and waving his finger.
@dancinyogi
I actually had a manual typewriter. You really had to push each key down hard (and as an 11-year old, that took strength). My Mom saw I was serious at writing and got me a Smith-Corona that had switchable cartridges, one for ink, one for white-out. I really needed that! The keys had a nice feel. My recollection is that I wrote my first novella and my first novel on the machine. After the novella, I was a touch typist. Never took a class.
Soon it was on to a terminal with a typewriter keyboard and a 56K Cat modem to use a time-share computer at university. That seems like so long ago that my memories should be in B&W and sepia-toned.
Like, cool. Free stuff.
Im actually hesitant to accept. Idk if I really like the idea of assimilating a computer even closer to my person than my phone already is.
It will probably just be a distraction. But idk. It might be useful.
Wondering what other #smartWatch owners might have to say.
I know @benjaminhollon has a smart watch. Made by frameworks maybe??? :thaenkin:
> green phosphor has the longest afterglow (remains on the screen for the longest time)
> green phosphor was the first available
> The human eye responds to the green color the best, so it looks brightest
I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
Here's what Eugen Rochko's Mastodon gGmbH organisation now controls:
-The Mastodon server software & API (though the current version is FOSS)
-The mastodon.social server, which has 1 in 7 of all Fediverse users
-The official Mastodon apps, now telling people to just sign up on mastodon.social
-The official website at joinmastodon.org
-The trademark for the word "mastodon", which lets them dictate terms to any server which uses it
This is a tempting package for any potential buyers.
➡️ IF mastodon.social becomes more than 50% of the Fediverse, either by total users or monthly active users, the rest of us should defederate it.
Sticking with mastodon.social because "that's where the people are" is pointless. Centralised growth will simply cause the governance problems we've seen on Twitter and Facebook to be replicated on here.
Growth has to be decentralised in order to protect the independence of all Fedi servers.
@lightweight
It's really past time those of us who are educated, and independent of the "professional-managerial class" (as Graeber politely describes it), launched a serious campaign to re-democratise our universities, and put them back in service of independent research and academic freedom.
"Universities are—or, better said, until recently have been— among the only institutions that survived more or less intact from the High Middle Ages. As a result, universities still reflected an essentially medieval conception of self-organization and self-governance; this was an institution managed by scholars for the pursuit of scholarship, of forms of knowledge that were seen as valuable in their own right."
You may wanna bear in mind that this Squirrel was the instigator of the great Tootmageddon of Spring ‘23 !
Also that a number of Care facilities have had to be opened for those who shared my TL & suffered a catastrophic loss of their nuts ! (Not those nuts !!!!) 😜 😂
👻 ✒️ Phantom Ink (⚙️ Mary Flanagan & Max Seidman | 🖌️ Spring Yu | 🖨️ Gigamic).
J'en avais eu des échos mitigés, j'ai beaucoup aimé. Ca créée des vibes à la Decrypto, en plus accessible en terme d'explication (mais en moins fou quand même), et avec une vraie mise en scène dans la transmission des infos. Plutôt à jouer à partir de 6, pour créer les discussions entre les médiums, ce qui est très amusant à observer en tant que fantôme.
I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
@reginasbread And for bonus points, a middle-aged woman who is NOT a mother trying to directly protect her kids.
As much as I loved Everything Everywhere All at Once and the Terminator films (and also Alien), the "mother saving her child" thing all the freaking time makes it like that's the only possible motivation a middle-aged woman could have. Miss Marple and Captain Janeway... and some other Star Trek characters are about it.
Also, there's a heavy emphasis on films & TV above, not books.
In 2023 I'll share 365 songs on lefty themes (for want of a better description). I've got around 200ish to go at as I write this. Fingers crossed this time next year I'll be posting the last one! They will come in different shapes and sizes and genres and levels of overtness. My hope is that you find something to mix into your own playlists like a secret ingredient and share them about to radicalise yer mates x #ToTheLeft, #ToTheLeft, every lefty song in the box to the left:
Let's get this show on the road ✨
🎵 Nakhane - Tell Me Your Politik (feat. Moonchild Sanelly & Nile Rodgers) 🎵 https://piped.video/watch?v=R_Sa1crmEek
Topic: "I wanted it to sound like a pack of wolves barking, saying 'unless you get your politics right I’m not gonna fuck you'" #ToTheLeft
Reworked all the bridges on the ESD diodes that I found during initial visual inspection, and tidied up a few bulk caps.
Did continuity tests to sanity check on each power rail and nothing is shorted.
Gonna start populating the front side after the little one goes to sleep. Should go faster than the back since it's mostly large ICs not hundreds of 0402s.
Cool observation from high resolution power rail monitoring: the STM32 internal voltage reference drifts slightly with temperature, so as the die warms up after having been off all night the regulated core voltage slowly increases.
Oh I'm sorry you wanted less cable spaghetti? i swear you said you wanted more. I even bought a new roll of ESD tape to wrangle it all.
Got the baseT test fixture cabled up so I can troubleshoot g13's link issues after work, but didn't have time to collect any data yet.
If you haven't seen it before, this is a handy dandy little gizmo consisting of two RJ45 jacks connected back to back by dual directional couplers.
This gives me 16 SMA outputs with 10 dB attenuated views of each of the 8 wires in the twisted pair cable, seen from both directions. I'm using an 8 channel PicoScope 6824E to look at all 8 lines coming out of the DP83867, ignoring the inbound data from the other side.
@Eamon1916@RickiTarr I tried reading The Hunt for Red October and gave up when I realized it's 60% Russian submarine technical manual by weight.
(I will say I had a similar experience to yours with Clive Cussler: I loved his books as a teen, but when I tried to read one in my 30s I was struck by the straight-up xenophobia.)
#PennedPossibilities 18 MC POV: Tell us about a time you had to let go of something you loved or wanted.
Kira: "Dad & mum as they died, my dad as he died. I lost contact to my mum. Tanja as she went away. Anika as she went M.I.A. No I don't think she is dead.
It feels different more like with mum not with the others. I know it in my guts."
A.S.H.L.E.I.: "Commander the facts paint another picture & your guts aren't scientificly proven. I am sorry."
Inside Ashlei. If your weirded out by that sentence, scroll through my previous posts and see, that she it is the AI on board the Goz'Tarc. Which basically means the Goz'Tarc is A.S.H.L.E.I.'s body. I could have phrased it different but where would be the fun in that. 🤪
Basically imagine a genetic engineered hull on a ship in the size somewhere between the Normandy SR1 (#Masseffect) & The Enterprise NCC 1701 refit (#Star Trek TMP).
3/3 Writing reliefs our soul and brains from words we may have never spoken, writing makes us care about words, opens our minds about how words are used or could be understood. Writing is the first step to talk to strangers about your inner world for so many, writing is a window to so many worlds we carry insight us, that otherwise would fade away unseen. Writing is passion, love, frustration, guilt, the wings that carry us through thoughts of others.
Isn't that magic? #PennedPossibilities extra
This has mostly been reported as "trans women banned from women's chess" but it's much more sinister. (as if it weren't already.)
ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
If you play or know anyone who does take a stand on this. It's ugly.
This news has caused some people to ask why "women's chess" even exists -- women can compete in the open tournament. The women's competitions were a recognition of just how far behind chess is when it comes to cultivating and welcoming female players.
Not that shocking they are even more far behind when it comes to even knowing what that would mean. (eg not excluding trans women.)
But all this misses the bigger point. They don't want any trans people at all in their games.
I think there are some obvious reasons why thats true.
My brother was pretty good at chess and won some trophies on the school team so I tried to join. (he told me when he joined he didn't even know how to play.)
This ended up being one of the most explicit experiences with sexism in my life! The first time I showed up they pretended I was in the wrong place. "This isn't the chess club it's the Anime club."
I told the advisor who now resented me for making him come to the meetings. 1/
The "official" @Mastodon app now sends new users to overloaded megaservers by default.
Don't use the official app, and don't recommend it to new users. It's turning into a dedicated mastodon.social app, and isn't good general Mastodon experience, by design.
EDIT3: i'm going to close this to new submissions since they've slowed to a trickle now
new to mastodon? do you make cool shit? if you've got under 100 followers, reply to this with 1-4 images of stuff you've made and i will boost you to my 5.8k followers, because i want people who do creative work to find a place on mastodon
please note i will be spacing out boosts to not spam my followers too much
EDIT2: if you're a composer (or do similar non-visual work) you should probably drop a link to where people can listen to your work. maybe add cover art if you have any
EDIT: if i miss your post it's likely you're on an instance mine has muted, I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do about that
@eniko Well, narrat is a game engine that helps people make narrative games and I want more people to know about it and the games people made. Most of the games made with it so far have been made by queer people, too 🏳️⚧️
Speed is something demanded of by capitalism. Speed has altered our whole world and not always for the good. Speed is time and time is money for capitalists. Specifically your time, their money. And the faster they can make you go, the more they crack that whip, the more speed you need to survive. You need that newest fastest thing to 'compete'. To look like you are in the race.
They have you on the run in their machinations.
When we should all just STOP running the machine for them.
The faster they make you go, the less likely and the less time you have to learn differently, to research, to develop real understanding. The faster you go, the more tired you get, the more control they have to keep you there. The bar keeps getting lower as they make you more dependent on them. And of course quality or care in everything goes down.
It is no longer about what is made or why, it is about occupation and exploitation of human & planetary resources. Occupation in both meanings.
@JoBlakely Their rationale for this is gaslighting as well: “what, you want people to do nothing and live on handouts? If no one works quickly or efficiently, how will society survive?”
Political hypocrisy. They do nothing other than fiddle with the corporate machine while everyone else slaves away—and in addition to indulging in the basic rights and comforts we could all otherwise have right now, they also use their excess wealth to play vain political games and live out morbid fantasies.
Hi, I'm stuck waiting on laundry to finish and am bored, so why don't I come on here and write some hot takes about YouTube?
I mean, I can think of several reasons, but too bad I'll do it anyway.
Knowing the leanings of the folks on this particular platform this is likely to spark some debate, but note that I'm not trying to paint YouTube as a saint - in fact, the first thing I want to talk about is a strategy they've taken which puts me and all YT creators in a weird place:
Seemingly few people know (or understand completely) that YT Premium is a good deal for all parties involved - it kills ads, creators get a cut of the membership, and (in my experience anyway) it neutralizes many of the platform's weird tendencies because serving relevant ads to the viewer is no longer a concern.
I would advocate for it much more strongly (and I say 100% truthfully that Premium views pay me more than ad-supported views do) except YT continues to lump YT music into it.
I have been paying for YouTube Premium since it was called YouTube Red, and I will happily continue to do so.
So many of the "YouTube is getting so much worse" takes I see just... don't apply to me because I haven't seen an ad on the platform in years now.
I would tell you that by signing up for YT premium you should happily think about it as a small Patreon membership for everybody you watch - your money will be sent to those folks split up based on watch time.
We have more condiments in this house than anything else.
The basics:
Best Foods mayo
French's yellow mustard
Heinz ketchup
Sweet Baby Ray's bbq
Sriracha + Cholula + Tabasco
We fancy now:
Truff spicy mayo
Kikkoman sweet soy sauce for rice
Girard's champagne vinaigrette
Ken's buttermilk ranch
Pickled red onions go on everything
