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amberage

@amberage@eldritch.cafe

The transsexual dyke your liberal columnists warned you about.

Part-time woman, full-time nuisance. May contain traces of neurodivergence. Cisn't. Now you say ‘pronouns in bio’ because you have no other jokes.

Anti-fascism. Intersectional & queer feminism. Prison abolition. Liberation for all. International solidarity. I've been around long enough to see every discourse several times over, so spare me the bullshit.

Thank fuck not American.

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sfwrtr, to escribiendo
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Question for the and , and the rest of us who fancy themselves a or . Do you think this is possible? If so, are you going to try?

and .

https://www.tumblr.com/novlr/751365388319801344

amberage,
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@sfwrtr I believe it is possible in general. Possible for me, not even close.

I'd love to try it some time, with the NaNoWriMo-esque caveat of "you can prepare and plan in advance", but this weekend? I don't think I can.

amberage, to random
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I propose that all new cars in the EU (new models and models currently in production as well as new imports) are to be electronically limited to 150 km/h top speed.

For the 26 countries with speed limits, this changes nothing. For Germany, this effectively enforces a 150 km/h speed limit on the highways, which is less restricting than the 130 km/h limit proposed by environmental politicians and organisations.

And as a bonus effect, this would drastically reduce the amount of new cars bought each year, as people would be hurrying to buy a used, pre-limit car instead, so it would be good for the environment, too, and prolong the life cycle of used cars while cutting down on excess new production.

amberage, to random
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shirts for angels

foone, to random
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It's kinda depressing how tumblr is imploding now and I'm seeing half my follow list go "man, after seeing both twitter and tumblr do this, it's really showing how it's a bad idea for a social media network to be run by a company who can make arbitrary changes without user consent.

anyway, here's my bsky: ..."

amberage,
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@foone I've been extolling the virtues of community-run moderation, distributed administration, fewer single points of failure, and moderators you know and can talk to personally, and people have been very, very silent, but very vocal about "Bluesky is so cool please don't ask about how they handle reply guys hatespeech ornominally fine speech underpinned by nazi ideology or anything else just let me enjoy my corporate walled garden"

amberage,
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@foone fucking yes. I've been lobbying for the fediverse on Twitter for two years now, offering help and tech support and explanations to anyone wanting to migrate, I've been emphasiszing that there are software (softwares?) other than Mastodon and pointing out GoToSocial, PeerTube, Pixelfed, etc.; I've been pointing out that Bluesky originated as a Dorsey-led Twitter spin-off, I've been highlighting Bluesky's tech and moderation failures, etc. etc.

...and I've gotten zero. Nothing. People either bring up superficial discourses like "but the admins read your DMs!", follow influencers who came to "Mastodon" and ragequit when their attempts to impose their Twitter habits on the network didn't work, or at best people signed up to mastodon.social, had bad experiences because it's mastodon.social, and quit.

But people hand out Bluesky invites left and right. Even people I know are on the fediverse and enjoy it here.

If a corporate platform restricts who can join, it's "exclusive", when they impose bad rules, it's "growing pains", when they have technical failures, it's "innovative".

When we do it, it's "elitist", "censorship", and "only for nerds".

We just can't win.

amberage, to newyorkcity
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Ok, writing question!

Where in New York City would a young person live who has two part-time jobs that don't pay particularly great, but who (for magical plot reasons) doesn't have to worry about healthcare expenses, appliances breaking, or other such stuff that poses a major financial risk for real-world (non-magical) people?

Small apartment, solvent parents who can help in a pinch, the character is, for lack of a better description, a liberal, intellectual, scientifically-minded young person (20s).

I've never set foot anywhere in the US, let alone New York, so I have no clue.

amberage,
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Related: it would be amazing if there were a website for writers where they could collaborate on maps of their home towns, describing areas (i.e. "the poor quarter", "the filthy rich white people quarter", "the quarter where students live", etc.), giving descriptions of land marks, party streets, vacation spots, hospitals, etc. – everything a foreign writer would need to plausibly enough describe a character living in that city without huge mistakes like placing a poor character in the "ivy league DINKY trust fund" neighbourhood.

amberage, to random
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official NCR post

mina, (edited ) to random
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Did you ever have the nightmare of not getting dressed/lost your clothes before going to or and having to go ?

My partner has never, and I find that strange.

Best stories get a boost.

amberage,
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@mina nope. Never. I thought that only happened in fiction.

amberage, to random
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Another problem with writing is that I would love to write stuff set in a modern world, but I don't want to write about Germany (boring, shitty country, too close to home, German names are ugly) but don't have enough knowledge to write about America or the UK.

Writing anything set there would put off my readers within ten pages by being grossly inaccurate.

Writing anything set here would put off my readers within ten pages by being grossly German.

Damned if I do, damned if I don't...

amberage,
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@stevendbrewer maybe it's something everyone has with their native language, but I absolutely detest mine. It's as unappealing as it gets, to my ears, and I feel like no German city I've been to has a fraction of the appeal that foreign cities I've never been to seem to have. I'm unable to look at Germany and see anything but rural conservatives, clichéd TV shows, and public agencies with too long compound words for bureaucratic processes nobody should have to go through. At this point, despite living in Germany, I speak more English every day than German.

amberage, to StarTrek
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Can't tell me I'm wrong

amberage,
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It's a fucking shame Dwight Schultz turned out to be a nazi nutjob. Sorry if this is how you found out.

sfwrtr, to 13thFloor
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#PennedPossibilities 322 — What piece of advice, as an author, did you once receive but hadn’t followed? Looking back on it now, you might wish that you had.

Advice: Don't only write novels. Write lots of shorter pieces.

When I started I saw that you could only make a living if you sold novels, so I wrote novels. That completely discounted the fabulous practice you get completing lots of smaller stories. Completing a novel takes lots of time and there's a mounting anxiety that in the end the plot will fail or no publisher will be interested. Yeah, true with short fiction, but the investment is far lower (or should be if you're doing it right). There used to be lots of magazines you could sell short fiction to... for pennies a word, but it was something, and it offered a chance to build a brand name and a following. Such notoriety could help you sell novels, too.

Today, I'm writing lots of short fiction.

[Author retains copyright (c)2024 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool

#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
#RSdiscussion

amberage,
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@sfwrtr do any such magazines still exist? I'd love to try that some time, but I wouldn't have the faintest where to start.

amberage, to ShareYourMusic
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Any ragtime enjoyers here? I wrote some pieces in an attempt to learn ragtime and I'd love some feedback.

The first is simply titled "Testing Rag" because that's what I was doing.

amberage, to random
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Here's a cool post I came across the other day: how much of the (american) left's feuding and purity culture is rooted in calvinism, and how many people denounce christianity, but never unpack all the cultural assumptions they've soaked up along with a christian upbringing that continue to do harm.

"I genuinely believe that a lot of the reason that the American left is so ineffectual and self-sabotaging is because of how deeply and unrepentantly calvinist it is. "

chriswho, to random
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amberage,
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@samueljohnson @yunchtime @chriswho not true. There's tons of advertisements on the TV and radio for drugs (congestion, cold, painkillers, etc) in Germany.

whitequark, to random
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Firefox will implement WebSerial after all https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/720#issuecomment-2113627711

amberage,
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@whitequark is that good or bad?

BinGanzBrav, to random German
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Kurze Frage: Hat wer von Euch schon mal was von SoZo gehört?

amberage,
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@BinGanzBrav nope

amberage, to twitter
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That's gotta be illegal, right?

"Is known to cause issues" says the company which apparently decided to stop serving users who refuse third-party cookies.

That's gotta be covered by some law on misleading customers, anti-trust, whatever?

amberage,
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See, what gets me is the "is known to cause issues" banner.

One, no it isn't.

Two, that's not a standard feature anywhere. They added that themselves.

So this must be intent. The only "issues" Firefox's strict mode causes is for advertisers whose cookies get blocked. Which should not, and never has in my experience, stop Twitter or other websites from functioning correctly.

amberage,
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Alright, /r/firefox speculates (and console readout supports this) that because they moved Twitter to X.com but were too lazy to move pictures and other assets from twimg.com, Firefox correctly sees they're trying to load from a third party and CORS-blocks them.

Which is Firefox's strict mode working as intended and the issue here is Musk insisting on this absurd name change and being too lazy to go all the way.

So the error banner is still misleading.

Freyja, to random French
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RIP ma veille sur Twitter

amberage,
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@Freyja so I'm not the only one?

BinGanzBrav, to random German
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Ihr erinnert Euch an Teil 1 🧵 https://bkramer.noblogs.org/teil-1-anmerkungen-zur-glaubensbasis-von-ead-und-pfingstgemeinden/.

Hier beginnt Teil 2

  1. Die Geschichte, die ich erzählen möchte, beginnt 2011.

  2. In diesem Jahr gründete die christlich-fundamentale Pfingstkirchlerin Gaby Wentland den Verein Mission Freedom. Ein Verein, der gegründet wurde, um „gegen Menschenhandel und gegen Zwangsprostitution aufzustehen“,

  3. verbunden mit dem Auftrag „Aufklärung zu leisten sowie betroffenen Frauen Hilfe im Ausstieg anzubieten.“ [7]

amberage,
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@BinGanzBrav bitter, dass so ein Verein "gemeinnützig" ist, Attac und Campact aber nicht, weil sie zu politisch seien

girlonthenet, to random
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Google Maps has rolled out an update which shows which parts of your journey are on marked cycle lanes! I might be slow off the mark, I’ve not cycled in a while but... this is cool isn’t it???

amberage,
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@girlonthenet me too, but a different country (Germany).

Maybe they got it from government data that's not available here? Or it's a new feature they haven't done the work of mapping out for all countries yet.

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