Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

TFL took away the bus stop countdown sign.

So we installed our own.

"Color Dance", acrylics on 30x30cm canvas. I made this #art by hand, as all of my art - this one was made with help of my #artSpinner

#Painting #HumanArt #NoAI #BuyIntoArt #QueerArt #AbstractArt

It is fascinating to see two companies duking out in public over which of them owns creative work that was.... let's see... written, curated, moderated, and edited by community users for free.

At the end of the day, it isn't even that the fight is over whether or not AI companies should have to pay for training data *per se*; it's about trust, and about who owns owns that work.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-and-reddit-are-fighting-about-why-bings-crawler-is-blocked-on-reddit/

Elon Musk was kicked out of the Bay Area Babyfur community.

Much respect to the furries for recognizing how much of a toxic piece of shit Elon is, and giving him no quarter. Even if this may have led to him acquiring twitter so that he could avoid being kicked out, it really shows the power of furry communities to maintain a healthy environment.

https://x.com/denimneverdies/status/1817441645236772931

https://x.com/HYENAFREQUENCY/status/1816661175037268201

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1ecshvh/elon_tried_to_enter_the_babyfur_community/

Aspiring manipulators of public perception take note: this is how you guide a narrative away from harming your own communities.

One option would be to ignore it because, even if it's about someone you hate, it makes fun of your own community. To do so would give up control of the narrative, and it's going to come out anyway. To suppress it would align your interests with his.

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"whenever we are rotating the parent, we are also rotating the child" is a cursed phrase outside of gamedev context

#godot #gamedev

Top tip on German trains: if something is unclear with your ticket *seek out on board staff before they find you* - that way you’re being the helpful and proactive one, not being evasive or hiding

Due to a partial cancellation of a later train I wasn’t entirely sure I could take this earlier one

Find train manager, ask, explain - and now it’s all fixed

openSUSE 10.2 in the mid-2000s was BRINGING IT. Just sublime.

#linux

o.O getting a restraining order to not get your certs revoked https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68995396/alegeus-technologies-llc-v-digicert/

LB: "SSL certificate restraining order" is one of the fuckin' weirdest phrases I have ever heard

Meanwhile, the web's putting an increasing amount of trust into CloudFlare to make sure I'm "a human" and I hate really everything about that.

You know what I fucking love? That point in a person's transition that they forget their dates. Their hormoneversery becomes a thing that they realise was a week ago. It's become normal. It just is. It's not a thing to celebrate. They fought the battle, they won, and now they are living in the body they forged and it's so normal that they forget the date they won. Like a forgotten victory day for a war distant ancestors fought

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/757606720046514176
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

i feel like a really dangerous part of transmedicalist rhetoric is the idea that you have to have yourself figured out to be trans. Think of all the stories that always come up with trans people in the media about how "they knew they were a (woman/man) since they were a young child". I'm sure this is the case for many trans people but it's also not reflective of many other trans experiences and creates the narrative that "true" trans people have their gender figured out, thus restricting others from figuring themselves out and getting the care they need. Plus as many others have pointed out it invalidates non-binary people. Transmedicalism is just another arm of the patriarchy used to enforce gender roles and should be treated as such.