Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

#meme #cute #moe #emo #punk #lesbian #yuri

Credit https://vxtwitter.com/G_R_S__/status/1752069628715581457

🎨 Inkblot is a queer BIPOC owned & Artist made community space, with no AI, crypto ,or NFTs or investors,
and is now asking for help:

https://inkblotart.substack.com/p/an-unfortunate-but-important-update?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1331653&post_id=138895213&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=24x8x3&utm_medium=email

live in WA? like wildlife? dislike wildlife becoming roadkill? please consider going to this page https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=House&mId=31829&aId=157982&caId=23735&tId=3 and registering yourself as "PRO"! the bill is about making safe passages for wildlife across roads and highways, and for some reason it's getting a lot of "CON"s. it's being considered in the legislature today (1/29, at 4 pm), so if you have a few seconds, please put yourself down as a PRO! you won't be contacted, no followup is needed, it takes just a few seconds. 💚

CVE-2024-02184: an attacker can exploit a buffer overflow in pokémon red and blue's battle system to execute arbitrary code on the victim's gameboy when connected via link cable

severity: critical

businesses running critical infrastructure on pokémon red and blue are advised to migrate to firered and leafgreen

What if we put Bub's head on top of Frog's body!

A reply said her head canon was that Sabrina Online and Xenia Linux know each other, so yeah I had to draw it
#furry #furryart #comic #xenia

Got some kobolds making their way onto our store this Monday!

#kobold #ttrpg #dnd #pathfinder #dungeonsanddragons

I never had an Amiga, but I recently discovered the "Topaz" monospaced font used in the original Amiga 500 is actually pretty great - it's got that lo-fi pixelly crunch, but it's also high-contrast, consistent, and visually clear. The only problems keeping it from being a good terminal font in 2024 are:

* It doesn't include box-drawing characters, block graphics, or any other fancy Unicode glyphs people expect these days
* It's a bitmap font, and modern operating systems tend to only support scalable vector fonts

So, I fixed those things.

https://gitlab.com/Screwtapello/topaz-unicode

#retrocomputing #typography

It took a bit over two years, but I have finished finished this little video project!
The title screen for Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 has an incredible music track to it, but all the screen shows is the static title and a blinking "Press Any Button."
So, I decided to make my own opening cinematic using sprites from the game!
Please watch and tell me what you like about it!
And share with your friends!
https://youtu.be/FVawY8LAUPA

Musicians, I know an autistic kid who’s passion is music and they’re already creating music in basically any way they can. I was thinking I’d buy them a dedicated device and I want to get one that is good for creating music. Any hardware/software recommendations?

@technicat Oh, nice! Don Norman's *The Design of Everyday Things* is on the Internet Archive! Anyone who hasn't read this book should go check it out; it'll change your life, or at least change your relationship with your entire built environment. #UX #UXDesign

https://archive.org/details/thedesignofeverydaythingsbydonnorman

Con or Bust has received 5 badges for CapriCon, Feb 1-4. If you're eligible for CoB grants and would like to receive a free badge, please submit a grant request! These are 1st come 1st served! Feel free to share this elsewhere with folks who might be interested.

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Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing personal against Eugen because I don’t know the man. I will always maintain he deserves credit for building Masto initially because it was a significant moment in the mainstream adoption of independent social media and pushed the conversation forward. He should get respect for that.

But in combination with his obsession with growth over improving the experience of the platform, unilateral decision-making that is constantly at odds with the community that brings more attention to the project, and his historic resistance to listening to common sense features for safety and moderation, he has shown repeatedly he is one of the biggest bottlenecks in Mastodon becoming what it should be: the defacto experience for social media.

Mastodon is in a unique position where it is popular, AND it can adapt quickly to its community’s needs, which is something corporate alternatives cannot do. That gives it a supreme advantage on a littered landscape of social tools.

However, as evidenced by his latest decision to change a critical part of the UI language that has been defined and accepted with virtually no community input and then his subsequent mishandling of the justified backlash, he has shown, again, that he does not possess the leadership or vision to push Mastodon to where it should be.

The project has stalled to the point where people are returning to Twitter or trying Bluesky, which Jack Dorsey, the former untrustworthy and duplicitous head of Twitter, backs.

The software isn’t the problem. Eugen is the problem.