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Fondly remembering how fucking hard the advertising went for Wolfenstein II the new colossus where their catch phrase was "make America nazi free again"

kinda want to do a writeup too but i'm too tired, so some quick notes will do

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migrating took around 3 hours (excluding all the prep work), it went mostly according to plan but definitely a few unexpected things I had to solve...
only really realized the stress after it was done

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kind of bad how I can spend *days* tinkering with system configs now..

Eris is lying. I did not demand that 'based' not be used. A Black user commented on one of their mutuals' posts that the meme usage of it is antiblack, said mutual took the information well, then some White Leftist™ jumped in to 'splain how it's good actually and it became the meta du jour. In that context, I connected it to my longstanding criticism of irony poisoning and attempts to "declaw" right wing and fascist memes and explained how 'based' was mainstreamed via gamergate.

going to migrate the .town irc bridges one after another, follow along at home: pad.pixie.town/ircbridge-migra

DOOM OST is the only acceptable soundtrack for making bad code cooperate

every time typescript gives me an error i have to find a way to communicate that I could not give any less fucks

i have NixOS based replacement infra for Mastodon and matrix-appservice-irc running now.. but the really scary part is actually migrating the old systems (and turning them off)

@tobi @goat@hellsite.site oh! it might be version dependent indeed, fetching the toot from glitch-test-fe.pixie.town (glitch-soc v3.5.3+glitch) did drop the image

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