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I got a letter from the Origami Association this morning. I don't know what to make of it.

@amberage @FediPact but so many people will see gargron being referred to as the creator of mastodon, so he's basically the ceo right? and therefore all credit goes to him, because great man theory

we're facing the waves of capiralist/neoliberal thought, which is unsurprising, given its all in service of a giant corp. the people wanting to come in bring their neolib values in. those who invite them aspire to be the neoliberal elite

fuck that. the fediverse is about the users and developers

Ok this caught me off guard...

I was having an internet search for "adult tinker toys" and came across this online shop. Ah! Pro tinker toys. Cool. I look around, and it's not what I want - mostly memorabilia.

And then there's the **FAKE MASKS** section.

Ummm, what? This is something people are doing? They're PAYING for a pretend mask?

Just... what?

protinkertoys.com/en-ca/collec

#covid19 #covidIsReal #germsAreReal #covidDenial #whatTheFuckHaveWeBecome

Sentences should have two punctuation marks at the end. One for grammar and one for intent. Like how when you put on a hat and look towards your friend saying "This one fits.?" as an expression but with a questioning tone to incite a response. If both puntuation marks are the same only one is provided, so it's minimally invasive and fits right in between language norms!.

re: project stuff 

(dlayer, my GraphQL-like-that-doesn't-suck abstraction, now has a thing for auto-generating a schema from a relational database with foreign keys)

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project stuff 

Who needs an ORM when you already have a graph API with a database source mapping

reference to abuser, re: bad sleep 

@jerry It's been plagueing me for like a week now. For me, it's likely the result of an anxiety attack that was instigated by someone else's abusive behaviour, and that knocked my sleep off balance...

re: bad sleep 

Hello from "have slept maybe 2 hours last night if I'm lucky, and then spent several hours in bed trying to fall asleep again to no avail"

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Remember, before getting into a frustrated debate with that relative, if their absurd points which defy any sense of reason count as valid arguments then so does "counterpoint: no."

@ben @alilly I'm reminded of the article by Yahoo's tech team about why they never do redesigns and instead super gradually change the UI over time, a border width here, a button shadow there, so that people never get lost, taking years to end up at a new design

... and by the rest of the tech industry promptly ignoring and forgetting everything that article explained

I find it outrageous and incredibly offensive how often subtitles are censored.

I've experienced it on broadcast TV. On Amazon. On YouTube. And elsewhere.

Deaf people do not need swear words hidden. Those of us with hearing loss don't suddenly decide, "Ah, yes, because I can't hear fully, I don't want to experience swearing anymore."

Stop censoring our content!

#Subtitles #ClosedCaption #Censorship

Every time you redesign your app, you vaporize all the experience built up by everyone who's been using the current version. It better be fucking worth it.

@cda I'm just amazed that this guy running this antarctic research station thought "Huh I'm changing the timezone I should email the internet to let them know" and found the right people to tell and the first reply is basically "Are you fucking drunk"

hackernews, sort of meta 

HN commenters are very busy deliberating over how weird it is that all of the alternative social networks are just Twitter clones, and nobody is doing more experimental UX stuff

In the same thread where people are complaining about how fedi stuff and federation and all that is just so *difficult*

Gee I wonder why you're only finding Twitter clones

Heads-up: I will likely be gone from fedi and Matrix for a few days, as I try to unfuck my sleep schedule.

Redux, bonus hot take 

Composability that only works with first-party code is not really composability

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