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geraineon

@geraineon@sakurajima.social

she/her; 30+, aroace, fujo

I'm into #anime (recent: Gundam: The Witch from Mercury), #danmei (recent: Panguan; A Sword of Frost), #games (current: Honkai Star Rails; Genshin Impact), SFF books (recent: The Traitor Baru Cormorant; Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang)

Boosts/likes =/= I am in this fandom/know this media/like this media.

I generally only boost posts with pictures if alt-text is included

(for non-fandom account: @geraineon)

Avatar: Zhongli dragon biting his own tail, by @Entity616

Note: If my post is public/unlisted, feel free to engage with it even though we do not follow each other. Sometimes I interact with people I do not follow/who do not follow me. If you do not want this, let me know. Thank you.

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villainousfriend, to random
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The village of Mibeizhuang produces 90% of China’s funeral supplies, but “civilized memorial” regulations and trends towards more eco-friendly funeral ceremonies are leading to a downturn in the village’s economy.

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1015244

skinnylatte, to food
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A list of Indigenous restaurants in the U.S. This list should be so much larger.

https://sweetgrasstradingco.com/2022/01/19/a-guide-to-native-american-restaurants/

villainousfriend, to random
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Infinite flow/timeloop conversation has reminded me of Kill That Groundhog by Fu Qiang (translated by Andy Dudak), which iirc was on the Hugos shortlist last year: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/fu_12_23/

I really enjoyed it! It’s definitely more on the concept-based end of the scifi spectrum, rather than the character-based, but imo it really pulls it off. Recommended.

(Also, no groundhogs are harmed.)

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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My friend Annie H has an excellent piece on the overlaps of Thai and Malaysian cuisine, that defy neat national borders and national myths

https://www.eater.com/24165529/thailand-malaysia-border-food-national-cuisine

villainousfriend, to random
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Hey, Reactor has an article about unlimited flow novels! https://reactormag.com/unlimited-flow-beyond-the-horizons-of-genre/ (and it mentions Global Examination and Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint).

The author is 墨客hunxi and it is the hunxi of hunxi-guilai linguistic meta fame, @aegtx confirms. Good on them getting bylines!

chikorita157, to random
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Seems that wildcard support for antennas in Sharkey is finally added. I will eventually update the software on Sakurajima Social to add the most recent updates

https://activitypub.software/TransFem-org/Sharkey/-/commit/dc0bd3c2eea7fb4d2196f1e613a1930552abeafb

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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This person makes miniature art of Malaysian street and food scenes and it brings me so much joy

https://www.picoworm.com/

skinnylatte, to food
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Exciting book: Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, now translated and with beautiful illustrations

https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-voices/shahu-patoles-new-book-serves-up-a-powerful-critique-of-caste-through-the-lens-of-food

https://theprint.in/pageturner/how-the-food-in-dalit-kitchens-is-shaped-by-exclusion-leftovers-scarcity-bones-horns-monitor-lizards/2104648/
#Food #Caste #India #dalit

randomvangloboii, to linux
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distros in few words

UBUNTU
The distro that invented user-friendly Linux, now the most hated in the nation.

MINT
What Ubuntu should have become.

ZORIN
If I had to convince someone that Linux distros are modern too, I'd show them Zorin first.

POP!_OS
I can't wait to finally try their Cosmic DE, but since they've developed they've been in a limbo, and this project can only mark their rebirth or their death.

FEDORA
The perfect mix between stable and updated, no wonder it has powered my laptop for almost four years now. If only it wasn't based in the USA and was forbidden to release out of the box so many patented, but essential, packages...

ULTRAMARINE LINUX/NOBARA
Luckily, you can easily just fork it to make a version of Fedora that is based in countries where such patents don't apply and make it even more user-friendly.

ARCH
It's more a meme than a distro.

STEAMOS
Yet if Valve chose Arch as a basis for its own portable console, it has undoubtedly something good.

GARUDA
If I had to convince a GaMeRz that Linux distros are CoOl too, I'd show them Garuda first.

MANJARO
It was so popular four years ago, what happened?

ELEMENTARYOS
How they achieved the closeness of Apple despite being FOSS is a mystery.

DEEPIN
Like a pug: its only purpose is looking cute, while inside it's a mess.

SOLUS
A rising star in 2018, now barely anyone has ever heard of them. Making a completely independent distro is not easy nowadays.

GENTOO
When Arch is no more enough to be an elitist, and you have even more time to waste in compiling the whole kernel.

DEBIAN
Your nice grandpa you can always count on.

SLACKWARE
Your distant grandpa you have barely ever met because your parents migrated.

ENDEAVOUROS
When you like the idea of Arch, but also want to get shit done quickly.

VANILLA
No, immutable distros don't really make sense for a desktop usage, sooner or later you'll WANT to modify something about how your system behaves.

KALI
No, you're not Hackerman, you're just some kid who needs an identity for themselves.

ohmwu, to random

Retrogression by Dazai Osamu
Translated by A. L. Raye via Yobanashi Café

📚 A collection of intertwined autobiographical tales
📨 Letters, diaries, newspaper articles and obituaries
🏆 Specifically about losing the Akutagawa Prize
🗡️ “I’ll stab him! What an absolute scoundrel!”
☕️ A scandal ensues, Dazai vs the world

Arriving June 19th!

Now available to pre-order: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D58JT2HX

18+ pixelate, to accessibility
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Subtoot. Alright, look. My disability isn't your disability. My blindness, is not your autism, or Deafness, or others. My blindness means that I need screen readers to access digital technology which has screens. So, when we, blind people, say that it's hard for us to use Linux, or that the command line can be difficult because of some commands using a table layout, like top, we um, I don't know, actually fucking mean it. When we boot up your Linux distro of choice, and find that Orca, the Linux screen reader, isn't even available on the install media, or that it cannot read the installer, that's Linux, and foss as as a general whole, being ableism. Clear and simple. If someone with low vision can use Linux well, that's great. I sure as hell wish I could just pop in any distro and get something that I can at least use like a sighted person, but no. If someone with Autism finds that desktop environments allow them to make things the way they need enough for them to get their work done more easily, that's great. Be glad you don't have to use a screen reader on top of that, okay? Next time you go distro hopping, I want you to try something for me. Shut down your computer, then put in the flash drive, press the power button or do whatever you need to to start the computer, then close your eyes. Then, set up your new distro. Then tell me how it went. I thought about just letting this kind of shit go, but damn it it's bad enough when we fucking get this kind of shit from non-disabled people, but when other people with disabilities pile on and basically accuse blind people of lying and that Linux is fine, no. I get that all disabled people have a disability. But just because you can see, that the world is made for you, doesn't mean everyone else has that privalidge. And right now, Windows is still usable by people who are blind, mainly because Windows is so open that we can have screen readers that can grab just about anything they want, and the Windows foss screen reader is amazingly scriptable. Wayland kills accessibility in the name of security. Orca doesn't support addons yet. So what's that about Linux being customizable? Linux distros only come with one, extremely barebones, sound theme. Orca still doesn't have sounds for important events, like when it enters browse or focus modes.

This isn't even getting into the fact that a lot of people with Autism on Mastodon seem to do really well with programming and techie stuff. Blind people? Most of us live on our iPhones. Oh, try browsing the modern web on that CLI that you say works so well for us. Try reading output of the top command using a screen reader. Do you like Ascii graphics? Screen readers sure don't! Like damn, do we need another label just for people with sensory disabilities? Because "disabled" is really getting crowded, and it's almost like blind people don't belong anymore.

https://mas.to/@libreleah/112486130165417827

18+ pixelate,
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And I'm one of the maybe 5 blind people, on Mastodon even, who use Linux at least once a week. And I use an old fork of Gnome 2 called Mate, as my desktop. Why? Because it's well, as accessible as Gnome 2 was in the day, pretty much. Even other techie blind people would rather not deal with it and stick to Windows where they can get things done. And Orca is more reliable these days. Imagine a year ago, your screen just suddenly goes dark for no reason and you have to restart it to see your computer again. Every 30 minutes or so. Even better! You like games? Got a Steamdeck? Imagine you buy it, and it turns on, but your screen is blank. Nothing there, and you can't figure out how to turn the screen on. Well I mean you could install Windows on it, but that's just, so much extra work! That's ableism. That's discrimination. But oh no instead of helping us, instead of fucking using that talent for programming and shit for good, people would rather just go "meh it works for me stupid blink blink" instead.

blind folks, we sure as shit ain't the worst population there is. Believe me. You, reading this, think you're bad? You, general blind population, think the audiogames forum is bad? Nah. There's definitely worse out there. And there just comes a time where we have to just speak our feelings, speak what's true for us, about tech, about life, about having a sensory disability, that other communities will never face. Honestly, I doubt me ranting about this will do any good in the wider community, but more validation for other blind people will never hurt anything. Just because some smart people on Mastodon makes you feel like hey maybe I'm just too disabled, or too stupid to work Linux, remember, you're not. Linux is just that freaking hard.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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I am a:
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 bear

looking for a:
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to add to the sauce to give it more tackiness

anianimalsmoe, to Anime
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Good Job Perle的魔女手札, a Taiwanese artist who did a popular Delicious in Dungeon Laios X Marcille doujin, and somehow managed to get contributions to the latest episode.

capriciousvisage, to random
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Does anyone have any fun local multiplayer Switch recs? For 2 people, and ideally with only 1 joycon (as opposed to a pair). Besides Mario Party and Kart!

skinnylatte, to food
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I’ve been on the lookout for tacos with Sonora style flour tortillas and I’ve found a good one in Oakland!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/WBrdzNjmFZjwVaGdA?g_st=ic

jasonli, to random
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Boost pls 🍉🙏🏼🍉 a close friend here in Toronto is raising money for her Gazan cousins, niblings, aunts and uncles to evacuate Gaza and resettle in Egypt:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/gaza-family-evacuation-fund

skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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If you’re in San Francisco today, there’s a punning competition

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/64th-ever-bay-area-pun-off-may-23rd-tickets-882716146757

#SanFrancisco

modulux, to random EN

I'm having a few thoughts on social norms. I'm used to IRC and Usenet, where a channel or group is understood to be an open forum and, when people make a statement, it is seen as normal for anyone else, acquainted or not, to respond to it, even tangentially.

But on more social-network-style graph-based communications where the flow is determined by a follow edge between nodes or something like it, a lot of people find it disturbing or invasive to have strangers pop into their mentions to rebut, add, or jump off from their point.

I think this causes a lot of friction and expectation mismatches. I don't think either norm is wrong, though it is useful if people make it clear which one they're expecting.

For the avoidance of doubt, I'm an IRC-type person. If I'm posting public or unlisted, I do not mind strangers to disagree with me, add their own twist, or give their own reaction. I will also respect the desire of graph people who don't want me to do that to them.

#fediculture @irc #cyber #SocialNetworking

soph_sol, to random
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On Paper, by acernor

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55636537

➤ svsss au fic where as part of peace efforts between the human and demonic realms, marriage has been arranged between lqg and lbh

➤ nobody's pleased with the thought of the marriage actually taking place and everyone expects a duel rather than a completed marriage ceremony

➤ stands alone as a fun glimpse into the world of this story, but author hints at the possibility of it being the first chapter in a longer fic (that would probably end up bingliushen)

➤ 1.7k words in length

skinnylatte, to random
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Chinese sms spam is funnier when you can read it (‘Good morning! The clouds in the sky are so white and calm, I hope that’s how you’re feeling too’)

When did spam become the astrology and weather service in one

aral, to windows
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Folks who might be looking to move from Windows to Linux: another option, if it’s financially feasible for you and you don’t want to mess with installing Linux, is to sell your Windows machine and buy a Linux one.

Yep, they exist.

Folks like @starlabs in the UK, @tuxedocomputers in the EU, and @system76 in the US sell Linux machines that just work out of the box.

AnarchistArt, to random
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animefeminist, to random
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“Queering” Heteronormativity: Biological essentialism in genderbending manga

With the #hanakimi anime announcement, it's worth looking back at how cross-dressing rom-coms of its era handled gender play.

https://www.animefeminist.com/feature-queering-heteronormativity-biological-essentialism-in-genderbending-manga/

skinnylatte, to animals
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Almost a month ago we thought we were saying goodbye to Cookie. Cookie was like, not today (if you’re ever in SF needing an emergency vet, Dr Winnie Ybarra at SF AMC is incredible and I believe the reason why Cookie is alive today)

A video of Cookie running

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