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hey I had a good thought but lost it, please keep an eye out and tell me if you see it anywhere

it's only adhd from the correct region, otherwise it's just sparkling brain syndrome

trying this thing where i put todo tasks on post-its under my monitor, and then fold modular origami things from the finished tasks

mechatronics teacher is always very hyped and he really liked the PCB I designed on my own, even happier when I gave him one :D

anyway the venn diagram of white trans people who used to be alt righters and white trans people who think their transness makes them immune to racism is a perfect fucking circle.

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reminder: if enough of you regularly contribute i can leave my current $capitalistJob and work on gotosocial development full-time. what will this bring you? me having much more time / energy to obsess over gotosocial performance and federation behaviour

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial
https://liberapay.com/gotosocial

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yet another evening that ends in being disappointed by backup software

someone should drop a massive cartoon anvil on my head, as a bit

ice breaker exercise?? we have global warming for that. give me ice freezing exercises

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

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