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Een stem voor de Piratenpartij-De Groenen is een stem tegen transgenderrechten. Wees verstandig, stem wat anders progressief.

Sometimes I go into Street View and go on virtual "walks" around the city where I keep flipping between the current images and the oldest ones they have

And the biggest thing that pops to me is how much *less* billboards and ads are strewn around :o

Like, genuinely, great job on this

Remember: malicious bigots rely on people’s latent bigotries coming out when they’re stressed, overworked, triggered, or otherwise having an issue as a cornerstone of perpetuating -isms/-misias. Don’t get defensive or victimize yourself if you find yourself in that situation — reflect

This #IntersexAwarenessDay we're celebrating Jemma Redmond, Tallaght bioscientist who pioneered research into bioprinting organs so intersex people like herself could have children. Awarded Silicon Valley prize shortly before her premature death in 2016. Jemma didn’t believe in binary approaches to gender: "Raising children in some stupid binary way is harmful... children should just be allowed to be themselves. They know who they are"
📷 MakingQueerHistory.com
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemma_

Nix: the package manager that brings you deterministic suffering

A lot of white people look at the mountain of work it takes to become a reliable accomplice and nope out. Which is a shame. Like fighting toxic masculinity is something we can all do to help anyone with gender, fighting racism helps everyone, even the people noping out.

Another thing white people do is they look for algorithmic rules and rule books to try to memorize and learn how to be antiracist. But I need to tell you, those rule books don't exist. They can't be written. White supremacy makes sure by changing the rules, by existing at almost all layers of social intercourse, by living also in myth and religion and oral history.

One thing I do think works is developing a practice. Making it a priority to Do the Work.

It's easy to hear a BIPOC or advocate/activist saying that being careful of language helps. But actually being careful? Looking up the etymology of words and phrases in your parlance before using them with strangers? Doing the work every time you aren't sure or can't remember? Being responsible and responsive when you misstep and someone calls you on it? That's gold. That's where the better future lives.

Do the right thing and Do the Work. Don't just consider it done by knowing about it. Do it.

I love bitrot. You find things on Wikipedia, you click the references, you get a page which links another relevant article, you click that one, it's a Google+ post that redirects you to Currents or whatsitnow and that one redirects you to the obituary for the platform.…

Ah, here's that original post! Or at least a screenshot of someone else posting it...

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@sungo It's a brilliant idea. The fact that they can get the equivalent performance of a copper antenna could give us more incentive to utilize carbon-based circuits at an even wider scale

This is so cool.

"the team has devised a chipless, paper-only version of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. ... [the] design requires no other material than paper. The company simply uses a laser to mark a circuit onto its surface, with the laser settings tuned so as not to cut or burn the paper but to change its chemical composition to make it conductive."

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/10/25/pulpatronics-paper-rfid-tags/

machines should never be economically productive. technology belongs where it can't be sold, like in free health care

It's been a really fascinating experience, watching every tech CEO that I've worked with (or for) over the last few months be reduced to an incoherent shill, incapable of talking about their company or mission without constantly singing the importance of "adopting AI to stay competitive."

It's really replaced "virtual property/NFTs/Crypto/Blockchain" etc as something you sprinkle onto a shareholder meeting to convince 65 year old hedgefund managers that barely touch computers you're making the Next Big Thing and deserve their money. It's a whole new tech bubble just waiting to burst, again, lol.

I just got an email saying that shitpost 28K words vampire novel I wrote in December of 2020 might get turned into an audiobook and I will pass away if this is how I peak. I literally spent 30 days of effort on it and it's the mostly popular thing I've made, and it was a shitpost :a_thisisfine:

A rule where if a corporation goes bankrupt, it has open source its entire codebase

Sega Swirl is such a shareware-ass looking game. :blob_laughing:

Owlbears are terrifying but Owls are so incredibly silly, I'm sorry, Owlbears should one hundred percent be little doops, angry birbs who would rip your house apart but also will not get up, is naptime, leave alone, go away, no time for rip and tear, hibernation has been officially extended.

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