Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

“A sysadmin’s rant about feed readers and crawlers”

Unfortunately tyhis, isn’t new. I remember reading near-identical blog posts over 15 years ago. Programmers think a library absolves them from learning HTTP. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/03/07/get/

Hundred Rabbits and #uxn feature on The Verge this morning https://www.theverge.com/22935074/hundred-rabbits-uxn-roms-preservation

I read the most wonderful book this weekend!

LEGENDS & LATTES is the cosy and good-hearted story of an orc who gives up her adventuring to fulfill her dream of starting Thune's first coffee shop.

It's sweet and fun with a touch of romance but mostly a lot of friendship. It's very much a story of someone struggling to remake themself and succeeding through hard work, kindness, and the support of their friends and community.

I adored every second of it and wish it could have kept going forever!

as a metal rarely found in its pure state in the wild and thus a representation of human artifice, iron was eventually displaced as a metallic dryadotoxin by aluminum, which is never found pure in nature. by the time of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the fae, aluminum had been joined by titanium, tungsten, and other high-performance structural metals requiring ever more intensive low-carbon and low-oxygen processing.

in theory, the actinides would be the most problematic pure metals for fae, but there have been few studies done on the battlefield areas contaminated by depleted uranium dust, due to the local extinction of indicator species-equivalents even before the use of DU impactors and armor.

in practice, alloys and semiconductors far exceed the dryadotoxicity of single refined elemental metals, with one notable incident being the death and subsequent dissolution of the Ambassador of Helena (an individual long-acclimated to brief exposures to human jewelry, even that of a clockwork nature) caused by an intern diplomat who neglected to remove his Apple Watch.

interest in the management of inorganic dryadotoxicity has waned in general due to the overwhelming volume of organic dryadotoxins in human society. while not as potent per unit mass, hydrocarbon products are everywhere, and bear the additional weight of their once-living origins; the Ambassador of Lake Winnipeg once attempted to describe the appearance of a human woman "cloaked in a shroud spun from aeon-old liquid death, cocooned in transgression, unbearable, abhorrent". it was later determined that an eleven-year-old participating in Bring Your Daughter To Work Day was wearing a dress made of imported fabric with an undisclosed polyester content.

#tootfic
The Queen Under Poppy Hill will trade you one of her flowers for a favour. Each has a different colour, is a different medicine, poison, potion. Be careful to chose the right one!

“Please donate to initiatives that are helping queer refugees from Ukraine. We are expecting about 100,000 queer refugees in the coming weeks, entering Poland, Hungary and Romania, but in the past, refugee camps have proven not to be safe spaces for LGBTQ persons.”
https://www.forbidden-colours.com/2022/02/26/support-ukrainian-lgbtiq-refugees/

https://social.tchncs.de/@phr/107903310389800686

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