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Here is a must-read post from children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall on how Scholastic offered to distribute her book — all she had to do was remove all mention of racism.

Sure, they're banning books in Tennessee and Texas. But it's not just the books that get published and then banned from the library. It's all the books that don't get published in the first place.

Those banning books know publishers like Scholastic pull this cowardly bullshit. It's their game plan.

prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4

Oh, and also, fuck off with the patronising "lawl, don't you know the NSA monitors you anyway?!" that seems rife among people from infosec circles.

People KNOW this. Just because some three or four letter agency is hard to fight against doesn't mean that the objection against the next tech bro wanting to invisibly index our data is invalid.

Informed, enthusiastic consent, revocable. Or get the fuck out.

.town is almost as expensive as 4 of the other domains I renewed recently combined 😬

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pixie.town renewed.. this shit goes on for another year!

(seasonal) depression 

ok it's definitely harder to feel bad with weather that's this nice

uni 

actually i'll definitely have to do things, but from home at least, and at my own time

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ahhh, tommorow i don't have to do any uni shit and i need a day like that so fucking badly

How about instead of us all having to play a game of bigot whack-a-mole that none of us even wanted to play each nasty little mole only had to be hit once and the trusted people around you also score a point for it? This place could be way more chill, and yet..

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Why is content moderation in a *decentralised social network* still centralised? It's been 6 years of Mastodon already, this should have happened from the start?? Decentralised content moderation should certainly be here and with all the kinks ironed out by now.
We should be pooling eachother's labour towards healthy communities and not having to re-do the same work over and over again per instance. Exhausting and unnecessary.

wish we could condense a bunch of these boring scenes into a montage that leads into character growth or something, this kinda sucks to just live through

mura masa - (nocturne for strings and a conversation)

youtube.com/watch?v=basPlsY4yy
such a beautiful interlude for this playlist

cohost.org, paedo shit 

went to check on cohost again to see if they'd improved their rules situation, but nope. they're still refusing to take a hard stance on loli and other kinds of sexual art of minors. in fact their list of "mandatory content warnings" (i.e. things you must always CW) is essentially exclusively for this! https://help.antisoftware.club/support/solutions/articles/62000226150-mandatory-content-warnings

ah... but shipping from the US is of course prohibitively expensive, costs at least as much as the puppet itself

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adhd questionnaires should just be "how many hobbies have you (tried to) pick up in the last month"

ohhh next up is Adam Savage building a GLURP, which are actually quite affordable diy puppet kits at ~50$ youtube.com/watch?v=TjvX8GiYA5

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meta 

looking at the fediblock hashtag on m.s is quite unusable, good thing we've had worm.pink blocked for quite a while huh

mastodon.social/tags/fediblock

oh man i've fallen down the rabbit hole of Adam Savage puppetry videos and I really want a puppet now. not that'd i'd probably be any good at it lol

youtube.com/watch?v=JYwNuP7cwJ

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