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When it comes to content warnings, they're more of a liberation than a censorship. They allow you to say things into a crowd that would be difficult to say normally without a pre-warning

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“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.

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kids these days will never get to experience the expectant excitement of this screen ever in their life. not the tense sound as it reads your disk or the clicky sounds of your harddrive as the game is installed, or the celebratory drive opening as you finish... soulless downloads is all we have left. pour one out for....
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I have robots on my mind.
"she may feel cold to the touch. but snuggling against her metal frame sparks me with joy"
,🔌⚡

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I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

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I have had to continue my studies, sign up for a new school year, which has also meant a whole new visa process and paying for paperwork to be filed.

Also, my accommodation is not as stable as I initially thought & now have to leave in two weeks.

I still need help as I have not been able to keep up with the mounting bills.

Thank you so much for sharing and boosting, all the help is greatly appreciated!

gofundme.com/f/help-marcia-get

#GFM #mutualaid

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Managed to get it all set up where I can display a level with sprites!

Now I can do something like this: youtube.com/watch?v=spVwBD6NOV
But I'm sure there's lots of other cool things I could do with it! Like have some sort of character displayed on the mode 7 layer who rotates and zooms as they interact with you throughout the level?

I like that this is a fancy special kind of level that doesn't require extra overhead everywhere because the game logic has no reason to know or care that the level is being rendered differently.

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femoral sketch 15, for moonbutters, featuring a creature called Summer Selene who seems to have claimed this spot

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femoral sketch for girlmeat5557 in which something curious seems to be going on.

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uspol, texas, trans + 

protestors stopped the vote on a ban on care for trans kids, for a second time this week!

the legislative session ends may 29. that's a long time but i believe in us :ablobdundundun:

it feels good to share something nice.

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I decided to make 16x16px plants to occupy my mind but they were actually so easy that it didn't work.

#PixelArt #MastoArt

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