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also fucked up little detail I found while testing with TalkBack (android screenreader) is the Mastodon toot's info line goes "May 4th, middle dot, (the privacy icon, nothing is said), middle dot, 0 (link), middle dot, 0 (link), middle dot, 0 (link), middle dot, Open in web (link)

(at least on 3.5.3)

wii shop bossa nova cover has been playing in my ear for 30mins now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37cE20pFwwQ

pixie.town has been invite-based with only the most quality posters for years now, where is all our FOMO-fuelled hype, and massive investments

"nature calls" i say, excusing myself to the bathroom only to receive the tragic announcement that they will be denying all my submissions going forward without so much as a cursory reading, and that, were I to try, I'd also have to submit said papers as evidence in court

in other news im considering designing my own 2s quadcopter lipo charger 🤔 🤔

like this emax one is decent, but it only has 2 ports, and the other 2 ports are for 1s so i never use them. so a nice 4 port multi-charger with a similar design would be great, probably usb type-c too

hollywood adaptation of The Dispossessed

the studio execs are on board but they insist on making a few changes. nothing too severe!

really minor things, you'll hardly notice most of them. the main one is instead of the main character being Shevek, instead he's Shrek

I had big issues introducing profile fields to the existing design, just nothing looked quite right. So after lots of pondering and experimenting I tried out this layout on a whim (it's similar to mastodon 3.x profiles) and actually quite like what I ended up at

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politics, petitions 

Your periodic reminder that government petitions are absolutely useless. Yes, even the ones that promise it'll be discussed in parliament or whatever. It'll be superficially "discussed" for 5 minutes and then discarded, to tick the box.

The real purpose of government petitions is to redirect people's anger about harmful policies to an "accountability sink" - something that *looks* like accountability, but really only serves to satisfy people emotionally and sweep the issue under the carpet.

TL;DR: You'll feel like you've "done something", so you won't be an actual threat to the government's position anymore.

You create change by organizing and *demanding* it, with whichever degree of severity is necessary to get there. Not by asking for it.

spent my first 3 hours this day (i skipped morning class to catch up on some sleep) getting a bunch of important tasks done, so excited to just sit down and get some coding done now

And calling it externalities as though it's just a little minor quirk of an otherwise logical system is part of the gaslighting. It **is** the system, because racialized and economic power and privilege gets to determine what "counts" and what (or who) doesn't.

Yields per acre are so much higher and thus production costs so much lower with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Except for the dead zones in the oceans. Except for the loss of fishing livelihoods in the dead zones. Except for the reliance on distance sources of fertilizer.

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