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morix

@morix@loci.onl

Geeky, politically lefty, queer, sometimes occultist, roleplayer, unix sysadmin type woman.

Alleged cat girl and occasional werewolf.

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rysiek, to random
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Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔

So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯

It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️

👉 We could call them: textcasts!

And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss

morix,
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@rysiek but would you include awkwardly worded sponsorship adverts as obvious inserts halfway through each "episode" (script?) of your textcast?

morix,
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@rysiek I mean that's very effective but there's something I find charming about some of the absolutely cheesy wooden reading of adverts in podcasts and I was wondering how best to replicate this level of "Oh look I want to talk about my favourite <checks notes> toothpaste <checks notes> Colgate which <checks notes> always helps keep my teeth in good shape" its just like absolute chefs kiss levels of - someone paid for this? Does it work???

morix,
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@rysiek urgh, less charming, more awful

aral, to random
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Spare a thought for this poor little one tonight. He had a lump removed from his leg today. It’s breaking my heart to see him like this.

Close up of the bandage. The vets were lovely and made him a blue band with a red heart on it.

morix,
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@aral That is one of the saddest looking dogs I've seen in a long time :( I hope he has people giving him sympathetic pettings

morix, to shitposting
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Based on the famous XKCD "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/) I am now proposing the inverse idea - every day there are also an unlucky 10,000 - those people who find out about something absolutely fucking cursed that day and their brains are made immeasurably worse by having the knowledge they now possess.

morix,
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@anthracite eesh, I was just thinking about horrifying TERFery and channer shit (as that sort of nonsense is what came up in conversation) I hadn't thought of the kinds of things you must have seen from people who were very enthusiastic and happy to share.

Also I now kinda want to ask about that but also I really really don't.

morix,
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@anthracite thank you, I figure my brain will stop thinking about "what is the cursed knowledge?" in a few days which feels like a merciful blessing in comparison.

smitten, to random

can you write a macro that runs vim inside of emacs?

morix,
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@smitten (I know this is a shitpost but also for anyone reading it https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil is really rather good)

morix,
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@timorl @smitten true true, although I've never really tried it much

morix, to music
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAPxtxyri94 Apparently Dolly Parton just covered "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This" and its really rather good :)

cstross, to random
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Welp, looks like I blew up my mentions and replies for the rest of the week!

Been nice talking to you, see you on the other side.

(Mutes entire Fediverse for the next few days.)

morix,
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@cstross not wanting to teach you to suck eggs or anything but if this is concerning a recent thread you made about economics then it should be possible to mute all the notifications coming out of it https://fedi.tips/muting-conversation-threads-in-mastodon/

inthehands, to random
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For the past year or so, I’ve been using and enjoying the search engine Kagi. Its search results are…fine, no worse than others, and it’s ad-free, stated privacy as a primary goal, and seemed to have a better ethical sense than its competitors.

Or so I hoped.

1/

morix,
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@inthehands I just got inspired to meme by this awful statement.

morix,
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@Itty53 @inthehands yeah the angry goose is an excellent one, its something I've often seen used well to call out unspoken goals in political action.

morix, to keyboard
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Fedizens! Now in this darkest time of the year it is the time I urge you to give any keyboards, mice, and other input devices you have laying around a bit of a clean if you feel they need it. We use them every day to communicate with the wider world and we deserve to have the nicest user experience we can give ourselves and that includes nice clean boards and mice :)

morix, to shitposting
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Tag yourself. I think I'm mostly oscillating between True Baby, Cat, and non malicious Rat Bastard because biting people.

morix, to DOOM
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John Romero (the man, the myth, the legend) is once more returning to Doom level creation.

His first large return was Sigil I, released 2018 for Dooms 25th anniversary, and now freely available https://romero.com/sigil - and now he's following it up with Sigil II for Doom's 30th.

It's getting released on 2023-12-10, a little after midnight, and costs €6.66 for the digital edition, including soundtracks by THORR and James Paddock.

https://romero.com/shop/games

cstross, to random
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GOOD MORNING!

Your thought for the day is:

Muppet Yiffing

morix,
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@cstross this lead to me discovering the existence Muppet Burlesque with videos existing on youtube.

cstross, (edited ) to random
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My answer to the baby/parachute problem:

I pull my ripcord and let the baby die.

Its god—if they exist—will know their own, so baby goes to heaven ("Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius").

If god doesn't exist—baby's trying to blackmail me, so fuck you, baby.

That's the same reply I'd give an adult evangelist who pulled this stunt: they chose to die on that hill, I didn't impose a choice on them. I admit I may be flying my ASD freak flag here.

(EDIT: It's an abortion alegory.)

morix,
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@cstross if I'm an atheist in this experiment surely those are just random words to say so I can say them, land, and then just walk away.

morix, to solarpunk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s DamiLee who does architecture and design stuff doing a video on "SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?" which is a nice overview/summary including the interesting point that cyberpunk has a well known core brutalist aesthetic which, along with our negativity bias makes it easy to latch onto as a future, but Solarpunk is more individualised making it harder to spread as an easy idea to imagine in the future - kind of an interesting point maybe?

morix,
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@anthracite yup when in doubt big building slabs and a few holograms or bill boards and it seems to work okay as a short hand. (my brain went to kinda Evangelion transforming cities routine as a kinda of instant cyberpunk, just add chonky buildings thing)

I feel a lot of the more punk aspects are being missed in a lot of the more modern versions that invoke it but ah well.

bitterkarella, to random
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1
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: i'm back from genussspect con '23
Stephen King: from what?
Clive Barker: it's her terf convention, steve
Rowling: IT ISS MORE THAN JUSSST A TERF CONVENTION
Rowling: we had nazisss there too

morix,
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@bitterkarella the terfsona with the katana just fucking killed me, that was glorious

anthracite, to random

thanks brain I really did not need a hypercompressed version of "one of the cats got bitten by a giant spider and we went to great lengths to try to save her but it failed" right before I woke up, but here we are I guess

morix,
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@anthracite Boo :( Good luck dispelling any residual vibes from that, I hate those kinds of dreams where my subconscious puts innocent fuzzy idiots into peril.

morix, to Wikipedia
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Maia Arson Crimew delivering once more (holy bingle!)

kcarruthers, (edited ) to random
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My adorable cat nephew Oscar (he is an ancient)

morix,
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@kcarruthers eyeliner game on point there Oscar, good look :)

morix, to animals
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Today in this particular cutie refuses to sit in my lap when I'm at my desk, but she'll sit in a box on my lap

morix,
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@anthracite its very adorable but sadly I have no pics.

She knows she can request it be steered by intently looking at the place she wants me to take her, but gets frustrated when I won't fly her to forbidden high places she's not allowed to go to.

I have been informed that apparently I am far too soft on the kittens for this kind of behaviour, but also if I had a giant person who looked after me and offered to fly me places in a box I'd totally do it.

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