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- suffered by Black folk, makes light of a culturally important and significant part of Black history.

If your argument is 'but language evolves! English is full of words borrowed from all kinds of different languages!', work on getting rid of that colonial, white, mindset. We do not own everything and have no inherent claim to everything, and that includes other peoples' cultures, including when part of that culture is a specific language or dialect.

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Since *many* people are unfamiliar with what AAVE is (African-American Vernacular English, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-), and thus could not identify it in Dansup's posts that I linked to yesterday, here are the snippets of AAVE he used in each post;

From h-i.social/@poisonous/11374281 , quoted at the top:

'they in my mentions', 'it be kinda' . Note the missing 'are' in the first example, and 'it be' instead of 'it is'. These are strong examples of AAVE.

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So to answer the question can you CNAME¹ the apex of a zone is yes²

¹actually cname, not aliasing, or fake cnames that services like cloudflare provide

²if you don't care about RFCs, write your own dns server and your clients are ok with weird things happening, cache poisoning and some resolvers exploding.

All of the drama around Wordpress is poster child #1 for why Open Source is not adequate to assure good governance -- forking is expensive and hard, and allows a lot of sins to be swept under the carpet.

After transitioning was the first time in my life where the puzzle that was myself, my life, my future, actually fit together. Before transition I couldn't image my future. Not because I though I wouldn't live to see it, but because I couldn't image it. I could not image myself being a middle aged man one day. But now I can imagine a future for myself. One that fits, that feels right.

@CadeTheCat @schratze

Its a weird antisemitic trope that's long running. There's never any logic in antisemitic tropes, so it doesn't make sense. It just is.

Zuckerberg will never see your federated posts using this trope, but Jews will, so please don't. I know its a meme, but not everybody making memes is a comrade.

health update, transplantation 

Transplantation day today! Here's to hoping it all goes well.

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Love it when journalists provide context when reporting news.

"Mastodon’s announcement comes at a time when the WordPress open-source project and its cofounder have been embroiled in a months-long legal feud, and Meta’s Zuckerberg has made headlines for stripping back Facebook and Instagram’s fact-checking and content moderation before lying about it to Joe Rogan."

theverge.com/2025/1/13/2434260

#mastodon #news #TechNews #MastodonNonprofit

As I was lazily contemplating the yellow enamelled kettle, which was boiling water, I noticed its bottom was darker yellow, it was more orange. It was actually clearly orange, one could even call it red. A dark red, bordering on purple. In fact, the entire kettle was more orange than I had realised.

Only then did it dawn on me that yes, I had put the kettle on, but forgot to fill it with water.

"smart" hospital adventures 

Also the TV runs an Android(?) TV app but has Windows scrollbars

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"smart" hospital adventures 

My IoT app crashed when I tried to close the curtains and @Peetz0r's room tablet seems to be a hand-me-down from an entirely different hospital - coincidentally, the hospital I normally go to

health update, transplantation 

As things are looking right now, I will be getting a new kidney tomorrow!

Ugh, I'm not a fan of this current wave of genai proponents positioning people who see through the hype as trying to keep the rest of the team from being successful, and themselves as the Reasonable Adults who don't want your Negative Energy 🙄

beseeching small businesses to post their hours on their websites. not their facebooks. you have a website. please. use it

“Why Agile Is Losing Steam - by Charles Lambdin”

thelaterallens.substack.com/p/

> Clients do not want you to maximize value as much as they want you to make them look successful—and those are often two completely different things.

I say 'inspiring' but really I am just looking for literally anything at all

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Does anyone have any inspiring menu bar designs for UI toolkits that are *not* flat design?

if photomatt ever calls you trying to get someone fired you are required to go interrupt him and into the most over the top “do you have any idea who the fuck I am dickwad” routine you can manage and then tell him to go whine to someone else and hang up on him. that’s the gig. don’t let me down.

Just a pigeon taking their daily commute to do their best at working 9-5 at the seed factory. They've got an important message to put in their boss's pigeonhole. #BirdsOfMastodon #birds #pigeon

Artists discover a new glowing #mushroom in Switzerland phys.org/news/2025-01-artists-

Is the #bioluminescence in many #Mycena species overlooked? ― A case study from M. crocata in Switzerland jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mycos by Renate Heinzelmann et al.

"the decaying wood M. crocata grows on can also emit a green glow when split open, lasting up to 4 hours... While some glowing #mushrooms might attract #insects to disperse spores, the bioluminescence of hidden #mycelium does not fit this hypothesis"

#Fungi

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