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Every town should have a cable depot where everyone brings the cables they aren't using and they sort, test, and store them, and when you need some random cable you simply drop by the cable depot to pick it up. And if they don't have it they'll request it from the next town over, like inter library loans.

Today's project: npmjs.com/package/dlayer-knex

It even has some documentation!

(Although the documentation for the thing which it is built for is still incomplete...)

-> Intel inside
-> Looks inside
-> No briefcase with information, only chips and wires

:blobcat_ohnoes:

i love how common it is to go “oh that would be a fun domain name” and then look it up and there’s already a fedi instance there

occasional reminder to folks with pronouns in bios to double-check if the ones they have written down still spark joy

@scy@chaos.social The real question is, does the presence of a dog change the answer?

Why do we always say happy Sunday, instead of "I’m sorry it’s Sunday and you work tomorrow"?

actually, shit, here's a few very basic changes you can make for better #GameDev #Accessibility :

1) please explain the graphics settings in language that people who barely know what a GPU is can understand, and in terms that aren't just about performance.

2) you know how Minecraft has a bunch of really specific audio sliders and not just "music" and "sound effects"? that's really helpful! you can even make it an advanced toggle or something.

3) for the love of god just let me drag resize your window. "fullscreen" vs. "borderless fullscreen" will not cut it. there are seriously so many more games that I could play without motion sickness if I could just make it not take up the entire screen. I cannot emphasize how confused I am that this is a problem to implement.

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I like alt text because it lets me understand memes that are 7 levels removed from any reference I had any chance of getting

re: kagi but more meta 

@Byte Reference to an older meme, where something that initially seems cool turns out to be tacitly (or sometimes not so tacitly) racist and kind of spoils the whole thing

re: kagi but more meta 

@Byte Subscription search engine service that did a milkshake duck

(This isn't really a stand-alone thing; it's meant to be used as a component of a bigger schema, potentially combined with other non-database data sources, using dlayer which is a sort of GraphQL-esque system but much less complex)

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Today's project: npmjs.com/package/dlayer-knex

It even has some documentation!

(Although the documentation for the thing which it is built for is still incomplete...)

Ok mastodon, (or at least the part of it currently going through a big freeze), show me your strange ice pictures, your weird ice spikes, needle ice, hair ice and frazil ice, your beautiful ice crystals.

Is #icetodon a thing yet? It should be. I'll start.
#NeedleIce in the park today.. typically forms.when ground is warm (above zero) and air temperature cold (well below zero).

#Ice #BigFreeze #StrangeIce #IceSpikes

re: kagi but more meta 

(There are definitely more supposedly "small web" things that this applies to than just Kagi, they're just less obvious about it so far)

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kagi but more meta 

I guess the whole thing with Kagi is a good example of how something proclaiming itself "small web" is not automatically ethical

The violence of erotic language and why it is dangerous, sexual violence, thread 

This is not to say there is not room for such situations where we can experiment or where folks can express this with consent and aftercare etc, I just think that the normalisation and widespread usage of it is harmful because then we tend to think of it as the way to be.

It also leads into larger discussions around patriarchy/kyriarchy and how certain groups of people are taught to suppress their emotions/softer sides else they look 'weak' etc.

In conclusion, I am not saying that this language should never be allowed or some such, just that its normalisation and thus setting it up as the expected way to talk about such things can have a chilling effect upon how we do certain things and what we expect and sexualisation of people in situations that shouldn't be.

I think we need more connection, potentially normalisation of softer language and more of a promotion of consent and caring, whatever these things might look like. 2/2

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The violence of erotic language and why it is dangerous, sexual violence, thread 

I am watching a video about someone being a prison abolitionist and one point she brings up is that in court when she tried to talk about the violence that happened to her in an emotional and violent way rather than straight forward one is she felt herself being sexualised.

She says this is because a lot of the language we have around erotic situations is already violent and I wholeheartedly concur with this sentiment. I have heard and seen it in various media, person-to-person situations and spaces set up to be 'erotic'.

I have a strong distaste for this being the norm around erotica and erotic situations etc. Not just because it leads to this normalisation but because it then also possibly leads to the softer and potentially what might be thought of as the more mundane side of erotic language and situations around this as either not being seen as interesting, or folks not knowing what to do with such language or in such situations. 1/2

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