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Hey all! Our son's boyfriend is working on a project to develop a compendium of Transmasc Comfort Characters from books, movies, TV, and video games.

He'd love it if you'd fill out this survey with your favorite characters! Whether their transmasc status is canon or not - if that character comforts you, please include them.

Please BOOST! :)

Edit: Fixed - you can now submit multiple characters!

s.surveyplanet.com/jovbb2xv

#TransMasc #Trans #TransJoy #TransSurvey #TransFic #TransStories

can we please reclaim the meaning of the word "love" and adjacent language as not exclusively romantic thing (for non-family members)?

i love my friends dearly

and it might have nothing to do with any romantic feelings

and i hate being scared of this being misinterpreted and having to clarify this, especially when i want to express these feelings for the first time

;_;

I'm not really sure what happened but I brought my bike away to get a tire fixed a few days ago and since then I've been discovering more and more things that have been fixed that definitely weren't on the invoice, including re-tightening the bolts on my 3D-printed bike light clamp. Did they just give it a full service...?

Saw a discussion on Bluesky about how web devs end up having no body of work as sites disappear, companies fold, and agencies shutter

This first happened to me in the 2000s. Almost every project, large and small, I've worked on since has disappeared. Even most of the ebooks I made for a publishers have been replaced. I've been doing this for almost thirty years and my body of work exists only as screenshots and vague memories

I had to deal with a freshly unboxed Android phone, and the flipping *clock* app, that was installed by default, came with a privacy policy.

I discovered this because the clock started crying that it couldn't work properly without Google Play Services.

I don't care what the privacy policy was for. I am tired. A clock app does not be into a position to have any privacy policy more involved than "we collect and report no data".

The clock is now disabled.

I am so tired of this.

So, lots of technologies have emerged over the last couple of years to make hot-rodded 3d printers really fast but somehow nobody has taken those innovations and put them into a matrix printer. Why? Please, some youtuber, make the worlds fastest matrix printer using controllers and tricks from the 3d printing space! Make that ink ribbon smoke! #3dprinting #retrotech

I also experienced my first case of "alt-text-driven-development".
I made revision 1 of the image, when to post it, and while writing the alt-text I realized I described something inconsistently, and it was because the image was missing an element I had forgotten to actually create. So I had to go back and edit the image further, so the alt-text (and the image) would be correct.

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When I updated my homepage yesterday, I accidentally published a blog post version of my trip report on crossing the US by train. And it went viral on Hacker News. Oops! :D

It always wanted to edit it/flesh it out a bit more. But oh well.

I guess many of you folks following me here will have seen the thread back in August, but here's the blog post: blinry.org/coast-to-coast/

@schratze i really hate this idea that an artist has their creativity stem from their mental struggles and agony and only those who have it are true artists. people who say this stuff don't understand that creativity is merely an outlet for these feelings and not the source. just because we experience adversity doesn't mean it's inherent to creation or art

unscheduled reminder that being around great people, especially great queer people can change your life for the better

calling people who are anti-woke “the racism community” is very funny and good, I will do that more

TIL the CW counts towards the post length limit

@joepie91 (and for the latter case, it's more helpful to explain why something is more difficult than it seems, so someone who wants to go ahead anyways knows what to watch out for)

like, "okay. this is a hard problem. generally things fail because they don't consider X, Y, Z"

which then leaves room for "oh i have a solution to X"

"Telling someone that something is impossible" is a good habit to unlearn. It's easy to find reasons why something cannot work; much harder to find ways in which it *can*, and insisting that it cannot will do nothing but demotivate people and sap away energy that could have been spent on finding solutions you weren't aware of.

There's one exception: if you are very experienced in a topic, and you feel that someone is underestimating the difficulty of something (especially if it's common for people to do that); it can be worth warning someone about it. But if they indicate that they understand this, you need to take a step back.

shitpost, hyperbole 

»System determinant files (formerly known as #Nix Flakes) are named `determinate.nix` at the top-level of your repo.«

In May 1909 The Netherlands created their own time zone. We named it the Amsterdamse Tijd, and was... 19 minutes, 32 seconds and 13 milliseconds later than GMT/London Time. This was the exact time of the tower of the Westerkerk in Amsterdam, a church that later became famous in the dairy of Anne Frank.

The Amsterdam Time proved not to be very practical, so in 1937 it was improved, and the time in The Netherlands became 20 minutes later than GMT/London Time, also known also as Gorinchemse Tijd or Loenense Tijd, because both towns had a church tower almost exactly on that time longitude. This didn't survive very long. After the invasion of the Germans in May 1940 they abolished the Dutch time zone on 16 May 1940. It never returned.

Hmm, Preact is looking like a much better option today than in my last evaluation of it

police, shooting 

If you believe that "they were scared and responded in self-defense" is a legitimate justification for a cop to shoot someone, then I have one question for you:

Why, specifically, do you believe that a cop is inherently more qualified to carry a gun than any other random person?

(If you do not believe it's a legitimate justification, then this toot is not aimed at you)

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