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it takes significantly more bravery, courage, and work to be a sex worker than it does to be a cop or any form of military service member hope this offends

mmm I love when `localhost` suddenly resolves to ::1 and then can't connect to apps running on 127.0.0.1

none 

these state transitions are really hurting my brain and im just programming, how are we ever supposed to destroy the state like this

and of course by now already working on a second small fix branch, aaa

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inspirational quote 

"There is a hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags will not wave in a vacuum."
—Arthur C. Clarke, right before the first moon landing

Merged! github.com/superseriousbusines

as expected it's a big one, 69 files changed (nice) +3,120 −2,654

now all the code is cleanly refactored, no more stinky

Every week or two, I go to the admin account for Scholar and then:

Preferences > Moderation > Federation

And then do a search for un-blocked domains that contain "crypto" and then I suspend them all with the public comment "Crypto bs"

It's easy and fun and the cops can't stop you

I'm window shopping for backpacks (again) and god the Peak Design stuff looks so fuckin good (but they're also 300+ euros so)

Holy crap, i just learned some important amazing news: Dr. Sami Schalk's book 'Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction' is now free and open access, FOREVER.

As someone whose been trying to build my syllabi so my students have all open access everything so they don't need to buy books because college is already expensive enough, this kind of accessibility from such a great author with a major academic press is truly amazing.

If you're teaching ANYTHING on ANY intersections of race, disability, gender, technology, popular culture, or social imagination— Hell, if you're just INTERESTED in those things— then Go Put This Book On Your Reading List. Like RIGHT now.
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book

(Basically it's the techbro equivalent of a dogwhistle, a derogatory term for "not a Real Man programming language")

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Reminder that "scripting languages" are not a thing that exists outside of a game development / macro context, and people using it in programming discourse (almost always in bad faith) are typically either necrocomputing enthusiasts or your typical toxic-masculinity C bros, or both

oh nice, my (heated) palm rest is arriving this afternoon

work~ 

almost 4 hours over estimate for this milestone but it's pretty much finished now!

also not too worried about compensating this with some of the milestones that'll probably take less time

grumbling, activism 

If you feel that radical folks are "too radical" and "scaring off others", but "you agree with them in principle", why aren't you volunteering to do the job of explaining this to liberals/centrists/etc.?

Why are you instead demanding that the radical folks moderate their speech, look friendly, and generally shut up about the incredibly taxing and frustrating experience of constantly getting the same milquetoast subtly-bigoted shit thrown at them masquerading as progressive politics?

Why are you expecting the people who are *already* bearing the brunt of abuse and doing most of the work for social change, to do *even more* work to look less scary and more appealing? Why aren't *you* the one doing that?

did you know that Mastodon has a secret RSS feed for your account? Are you _also_ unhappy with that, as I am?

Annoyingly, that is not something that users can control, but you can block it at the webserver level if you don't like it.

There are two URLs per user: /users/username.rss and /@username.rss.

This stanza in nginx.conf blocks both for me.

location ~ username.rss {
return 410;
}

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