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#London #Transport #advertisement from 1980:
"If it takes one man one gallon of petrol to get to work. How many gallons will it take 68 men?" - London Transport - the fuelsavers
#Urbanism #Buses #Travel #fuel #oil

Apropos of nothing, it continues to be immensely frustrating how some people just don't want to believe that there are people who deliberately and knowingly cause harm to others, and how that refusal to acknowledge it actively contributes to that harm being caused

As a counterweight for the frustrated grumping, though: I'm happy to see that several other commenters are actually making an effort to understand the problem, when it wasn't previously known to them.

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Congratulations to the tildes poster reading through my posts, who completely missed the point of this post, and seemingly interpreted it as evidence that I must be irresponsible and that another commenter was right about that.

Like, you realize that this was a frustrated subtoot *of* that other commenter, right? Have you considered actually doing the introspection I've proposed in the toot? It was not rhetorical.

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reusable response 

"I don't see how I'm being unreasonable"

I don't need you to see that, I just need you to stop when asked

If you're wondering why there are so few news stories about the rise of #Mastodon, it's because nobody is getting paid to game the media about it.

There's no publicists, no cozy ad deals, no suits, no coercion: Nobody is getting rich off of Mastodon

... that's also why it's so enlightening and fun to participate here

is anybody willing to house my friend and his mother anywhere around Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, or anywhere inside Wisconsin??

he is HIGHLY LIKELY to end up homeless and I am getting desperate

he is a disabled queer person and because of that he can't work

please

someone help

EDIT: WE CANNOT AFFORD HIM TO STAY AT THE MOTEL ANYMORE. WE NEED IMMEDIATE HELP TO FIND HIM STABLE HOUSING IN 2 WEEKS. HIS LIFE IS AT STAKE. WE NEED TO ACT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

#mutualaid #wisconsin #help

Itch.io is having to switch hosting providers sometime in the next three months, and that's going to act like clearing your browser storage: you'll lose your current saves.

So if you're playing long-form #InteractiveFiction or other web games that save to the browser, here's a little thing that should let you download your data and restore it after the switchover... crocmiam.itch.io/itch-localsto

(Itch's post on the subject is here: itch.io/t/3099694/notice-for-h)

#GameDev

(Edit: to be clear, this isn't mine; I'd like to think I would have seen it eventually but Florian Cargoët spotted the possibility and implemented it almost immediately)

tomorrow he will end up on the streets and I don't know what to do

he applied for section 8 housing but the queue is so long it might take months for him to get a place to live in.

is there anything, any way for me to save him from dying on the street? please. I don't live in the USA myself, which means I am limited in my options. I can't afford to lose him. please. you're my only hope.

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We hebben een nieuw woord nodig voor “overprikkeld”. Iets zwaarders. Iets dat minder klinkt als “teveel cola, beetje buikpijn” en meer als “alles is nu een mokerslag, morgen kan ik niet denken en de rest van de week moet ik overal van huilen”.

(Nee ik ben nu niet overprikkeld, dan had ik dit niet geschreven 🙃)
#autisme #burnout #nah

I love this ... "Whoever this is, wherever they are, they have a fresh account waiting for them, and they're not subject to any pressure or any data harvesting for doing so. Facebook doesn't know about their Wikipedia account. Google doesn't know about their Wikipedia account. If the government wants to know about their Wikipedia account, they'd better come back with a warrant. Even Wikipedia doesn't know that much ...." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi #wikipedia

We hope that as many people as possible come in drag and at least want to wear colorful clothing, so that it is immediately clear to passers-by what we stand for: liberation and diversity! Come join us!

We ask other organizations to also sign this call.

doorbraak.eu/september-2nd-lei

It’s funny that in the 2010s, any man who paid any attention to their personal hygiene was a “metrosexual”

What a weird time

"Whoa there" yourself, Adobe. I am mildly annoyed by the phrasing that makes it look like it's my fault that a corporation can't be bothered to develop for Firefox.

Wij vinden de voorleesuurtjes van drag queens juist super belangrijk omdat kinderen er een boodschap meekrijgen van inclusiviteit. Ze zien zo op jonge leeftijd al hoeveel mogelijkheden er zijn van de expressie van het zelf en gender. Dat staat natuurlijk in fel contrast tot het beperkte en beperkende binaire idee van man/vrouw en heteroseksualiteit waar extreem-rechts mensen mee onderdrukt.

doorbraak.eu/2-september-leide

> image I recognize in my timeline
> boosted by several people currently
> wanna boost it too
> already boosted in June, need to unboost and boost again

✨ fascism ✨ nlpol (important) 

reminder: counterdemo against "let women speak" September 9 in Utrecht

they'll have fasho thugs with shields, come prepared if you're going

Fedi drama around tusky #Tusky 

The #Tusky accounting drama smells like FUD. The total annual operating budget is $7k for crying out loud! Imo, this means several things but most importantly this:

"No one working on Tusky is making a living wage"

With a budget woefully small I personally just don't give a damn about every penny being traced nor every task being chased down by some self ordained pointy haired boss.

I'm honestly more inclined to donate now, not less.

opencollective.com/tusky

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