Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

English speaking chess players: "it's called a Knight not a horse! Calling it horse is not dignified!".

Every other language: "horse".

German: "jumper".

When I was active at the wikipedia there were a group of other writers who would follow me around and mark my articles on women and black people for deletion. They marked my edits CN even when there was a citation. They reworded everything I wrote to minimize the contributions of minorities to history, and hint at theories of racial inferiority. I'd just go to the library and bury them in more citations. It was kind of violent TBH. #threads #wikipedia #moderation

Apparently Namecheap is now selling blockchain-based domains, and unless you hover over the illegibly low-contrast "i" icon there's no indication that you're buying something "not compatible with DNS" throughout the rest of the checkout process.

Hey any paleontology people know what happened to fossilworks.org and where something like it exists, please and thank you?

Signed, an armchair paleontologist who's finding a lot of broken links on Wikipedia

#paleontology #science #wikipedia #fossils

i'm trying to think of a person to whom this wouldn't come off as vaguely insulting and i haven't thought of them yet

I live in the deep south and don't have any other #trans people to ask questions to. I know there is no "right way" to be trans but I have so many questions about others' experience. I think I'm gonna ask questions here since I've never seen a more supportive group of people. Please feel free to boost for visibility and feel free to let me know if I'm too much.

If anyone sees this bus – it's just been stolen in Vienna, and is important infrastructure to a lot of people, including a few times to me myself, but most importantly to @bus_klaus@twitter.com who lives in it. Details and more pictures: http://salon.leobard.net/2022/12/10/our-burner-bus-has-been-stolen-share-immediately/

1. Crows are super smart.
2. Crows can remember faces.
3. Crows have regional dialects.
4. Crows investigate the cause of death of the deceased.
5. Crows make & use tools.
6. Crows hide their food.
7. Crows have the largest brain to body ratio of any bird. Their brain to body ratio is bigger than humans.
8. A group of crows is called 'a murder of crows'.

Picture taken at Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh.

#BirdPhotography #corvids #Crow #WildlifePhotography #WildlifePhotographer #ScottishWildlife

An important reminder at this time of year:
You are under no obligation to maintain a tradition that you do not enjoy or cannot afford.

Found this in my images and thought it would be useful to someone else/ they might also find this interesting.

#nature #bird #feather #wings #wingmakeup #reference #artreference

people keep spending too much time thinking about what a technology *is* and not enough about *who owns it and how they profit from it.*

and even less time thinking about *how they can destroy that property relation and liberate the underlying technology* if it's useful

Just learned of this giant adorable fox sculpture in Rotterdam and now I must share it with everyone.

@joepie91 This is not an answer, but I really hope there *is* a good answer.

I'd love to have an "internet" VM that simulates a (small scale) global internet, with packet losses, variable latency, etc., in a configurable way, along with a way to hook up individual client VMs to the fake-internet (with simulated NAT etc. like you mention). A turn-key solution really ought to be possible, but I'm not sure one exists.