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

Reminder that nobody should be using "mom" or "grandma" or "girlfriend" as a generic non-technical person example. It is hugely problematic and sexist (and can even be ageist too for "grandma").

This is *especially* important to keep in mind in communities where there's already a huge bias of boys and men (like FOSS, gaming, and tech in general).

Element killed the room description, so what happened is that people are putting the relevant info in a pinned message instead.

YouTube has been treating video descriptions badly, and I've seen channels paste the entire description down in a pinned comment.

The design churn treadmill must go on

@jon This is why train travel in Germany is great: high stakes gambling with limited information.

i was looking through a parts catalogue for ideas and i liked them having to explain what a mug is

Found in my archive:

"Denny, what are you doing? You should be asleep by now, not reading. Didn't you think I would hear it, you're reading out loud?"
"But, mum. There's a monster under the bed and one in the closet."
"There is no such thing as monsters. Give me that book, and go to sleep."
"But, mum, I promised. Please, just to finish the chapter?"
"Promised?"
"Guys, tell her!"
"Sorry, mrs Denny's mum. Could Denny please read some more to us? He promised."
"..."
"I think she fainted. Read, Denny."
#MicroFiction

Nazis in the sense of people who bought into a fascist government out of fear and insecurity and personal weakness and are likely to commit atrocities based on that fear and insecurity.

Not Nazis in the sense of some mythological evil that must be destroyed at all costs and cannot be understood.

I take issue with people conflating the two, not in calling something what it is.

One is human and can be overcome. The other is reactionary bullshit.

@ireneista @jrose i liked the way that cohost reposts put the reposter's content *below* the original rather than above. it's not a perfect solution against directing unwanted attention, but it seemed like it set up the interaction as the reposter adding to a conversation, rather than setting up a post to be gawked at by taking the first word

texted from a friend, authorship unknown

Happy Pride everyone!
Be proud of who you are ^^

The 🦨 is @Kooda
#AroogiArt #Furry #FurryArt #Pride #CommissionsOpen

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@xgranade Fun sidebar about that, Tulip mania wasn't actually a thing! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/

I like how the last couple of generations seem to have tacitly agreed that it’s objectively unreasonable to expect people to iron their clothes and we should just accept a few wrinkles instead.