@amberage@eldritch.cafe
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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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bennett, to cyberpunk
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"Cyberpunk is out and solarpunk is in, according to Figma’s CEO" 🙄

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104890/figma-ceo-dylan-field-cyberpunk-solarpunk-trends-sxsw-2024

amberage,
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@bennett if it comes from a corporation, it's not "punk" at all

vantablack, to random
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reasons wearing my respirator makes me feel good:

(in no particular order)

🖤 it protects me from covid

🖤 it protects me from wildfire smoke

🖤 it protects me from all the pollution in the city

🖤 it hides my facial expressions so i don't have to try as hard to mask neurodivergently

🖤 it hides my perma-stubble

🖤 it looks cool as hell, just generally

amberage,
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@vantablack and protects against facial recognition to a degree

sfwrtr, (edited ) to 13thFloor
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Ch 7 Nbr 18 — Do you ever use parentheses/brackets in your writing?

I use em-dashes in 1st person narrative quite often, mostly in the sense of setting off parenthetical remarks. I occasionally use parentheses, usually in dialogue but sometimes for very short or one word inserts.

I rarely use brackets, except for out-of-context author inserts in essays (see below), for inline author clarifications usually in front or rear matter in a larger work, or for attributions in quotes or epigraphs.

[Author retains copyright (c)2024 RS.]

and


amberage, (edited )
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@sfwrtr I love brackets for 1st person narration, usually with characters who aren't great at structuring their inner monologue (cough ADHD), so new tangents constantly come up.

Dashes in prose, too, in place of parentheses or colons; em or en depends on what style I'm trying to adhere to – I prefer "sentence—other sentence", but that tends to screw with word count software and text rendering, so I begrudgingly use "sentence – other sentence" usually.

And of course em dashes for when someone suddenly stops spea—

amberage,
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@sfwrtr when you use em dashes like that, en dashes have mostly one use: to indicate ranges and connections. Like "we're open 9–5", "the Liverpool–Manchester Express leaves in ten", "the Madrid–Barcelona match ended with a tie", etc.

At least to my knowledge, I'm not typesetter.

amberage, to thinkpad
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Ok so for the second time, my Thinkpad T570 touchpad just suddenly stopped working. The last time, only a reboot fixed it. This time, it intermittently accepts touches, but mangles them awfully.

The red joystick still works, as do the mouse keys.

Any ideas?

amberage, to Fashion
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and fediverse, help me out here, please.

A while ago, I saw a comment somewhere (not necessarily fedi) that boiled down roughly to this:

"The British aristocracy made their (edit: male) servants recognisable as such by dressing them in formal clothes, but in mismatched combinations (i.e. tailcoat with a black bowtie, long tie with a wing collar)."

This was (roughly speaking and to the best of my knowledge) about the Victorian through Edwardian and early Modern periods, i.e. when formalwear as we know it (morning coat, tailcoat, etc.) already existed in roughly the form we know it.

I can't find that comment anymore, and I don't expect I ever will, but it would be fascinating to read more about this subject, very specific and niche as it is. I've tried googling around for it (i.e. "historical british servant dress codes"), but found very little.

If anyone has some reading material on that (preferably online or books buyable online, if not I'll have to see if my library can get foreign (english) literature), I would be super grateful for any links or the likes.

@histodons

amberage, to random
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Say you have a shitton of documents on paper, regularly need those digitally too, and don't have the physical strength to regularly lift heavy folders to go looking for the physical copies - what's a good way to keep track of both the physical and digital copies? Like some sort of inventory system that stores a digital copy of the document and with it the location of the physical original?

I'm sure document management software like that exists for companies, but I have no idea about consumer-grade software. Ideally, I would set up a few categories and then each time I get a new document, I'd scan it, fill in some metadata, and the software would file it away for me.

Of course this would also be doable manually with folders on my disk and a spreadsheet or something, but then I'd have to give each doc an ID myself and fill in everything into the spreadsheet and by then it's not worth the effort anymore.

Anyone been in a similar situation and how did you solve it?

girlonthenet, to random
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Because it's , every woman is allowed to propose one (1) new law. It must be a silly, low-stakes one which has little impact on society other than to solve one of your pet peeves.

Mine is: 'make it illegal to illustrate articles about female pleasure with photos of someone fingering a piece of fruit.'

WOMEN: what's yours?

amberage,
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@girlonthenet every author who uses "meat sword", "sheath", "pleasure cave", or "pleasure stick" to describe genitals will be sentenced to no less than a month in the pillory on the marketplace

Andres4NY, to nyc
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Do you think NYC officials understand how stupid it sounds to, well, EVERYONE when we have to do things like physically move a bus lane because the NYPD refuses to stop parking in it? https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/03/05/to-combat-nypd-lawlessness-dot-will-move-2nd-ave-bus-lane-over

amberage,
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@Andres4NY "we don't have our own cops under control" is something no city should have to say, ever, and yet I can guarantee you the same thing happens, or would happen, all across the country.

How any government can expect us to place our trust in the police when said police openly defies the law on a daily basis and no attempt is ever made to reign them in... what's the difference between cops and criminals, except that cops are being accommodated?

amberage, to random
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I just realised the upcoming US election is basically the trolley problem. So if you ever thought that's hypothetical and a pointless exercise, well, here's a real-world application.

amberage, to StarTrek
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Do you make a flicking motion with your wrist when you press the dial button on your phone or have you never dreamed about Star Trek communicators being reality?

zaratustra, to random
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i joined all the social networks and now you can know which one is best for you

amberage,
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@Sylvhem @zaratustra twitter, not very horny? cohost, very horny? we must be going to different social networks

amberage, to random
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Cute Mannerisms and UwU Speak Among Trans Women as a Pre-emptive Measure to Dispel Bio-Essentialist Accusations of Inherent Abusiveness and Perversion and Retain a Minimum of Friendly Social Interactions Without Having to Expressly Prove Harmlessness Over and Over and Being Held to a Much Higher Standard of Acceptable Behaviour

in this essay i will

(I didn't plan to, but actual thread follows ⬇️)

raph, to Israel
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The Israeli playbook:

  1. Create a man-made humanitarian crisis
  2. Let in tiny amounts of aid
  3. Shoot at starving people as they scramble to get aid
  4. Tell the world "it's their own fault"
  5. Repeat, over and over again

amberage,
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@raph see also:

Associated Press: Cumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say

“What struck me yesterday was the miles of backed-up trucks. We couldn’t count, but there were hundreds,” Merkley said in a briefing with Van Hollen to a group of reporters in Cairo.

[…]

Trucks carrying aid cargos can wait for weeks at the border for their turn to be processed, they said they were told by aid officials. […] During the process, cargos are unloaded and reloaded several times. If inspectors reject a single item in a truck, it must return with its entire cargo to be re-packaged, starting the weeks-long process all over again […]

[…]

The two senators said they saw a warehouse in Rafah filled with material that had been rejected in inspection. It included oxygen cylinders, gas-powered generators, tents and medical kits used in delivering babies.

Aid workers told the senators the tents were refused because they included metal poles, and the medical kits because they included scalpels. Most solar-powered equipment appears to be barred — though it is vital in Gaza, where central electricity has collapsed and fuel for generators is in short supply.

ramsey, to random
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Open Collective has had a naming problem for a while, which causes much confusion.

The Open Collective Foundation is dissolving. This is NOT the same as Open Source Collective, nor is it the same as Open Collective.

Read here for more details: https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/regarding-the-announcement-to-dissolve-open-collective-foundation

amberage,
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@ramsey people's front of judea called…

amberage, to FiberArts
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The sewing machine nonsense continues to happen… this time, I took some good pictures of the lower thread massacre in action, at least.

404mediaco, to random
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NEW: Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to internal documentation we've reviewed

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

amberage,
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@aral remember a while back when Tumblr promised ActivityPub integration? And we all hoped maybe there was one slightly less shitty tech company? sigh

sfwrtr, to writing
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Safe way to eat a bar

  1. Take a bite.
  2. Go into another room.
  3. Savor the bit as it melts in your mouth.
  4. Go back and take another...

Oh, screw it... Nom, nom, nom...!

amberage,
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@sfwrtr 😂

amberage, to random
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Well, that's Win10 set up, and hopefully opted out of all the surveillance crap I can opt out of.

Pretty dystopian that Windows tells me during the installation that I will see ads on Windows, huh?

And "leave everything to us" while the setup finishes? Also dystopian.

amberage,
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On the bright side: I can watch 720p60 videos and get sound that isn't distorted to death by broken speakers.

amberage,
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Well! Let's find out if I still have DVD blanks!

amberage,
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Wait… no… I can't install from a DVD if the laptop doesn't have a DVD drive…

🤦‍♀️

amberage,
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@sfwrtr are you trying to make me feel old? 😭

Seriously though, when optical media eventually dies for good, I will mourn the fuck out of it. All my life, I've never had a computer without a disc drive (or two) until today 😭

amberage,
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@sfwrtr speaking of which, did that "engrave digital data in glass" project from a few years ago go anywhere? That seemed promising for archiving.

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 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,
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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"

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