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MOVED TO @haskal@types.pl

i wanna help queer people learn how 2 hackig and server maid tbh

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FluffyKittenSpamBot

#inPURRection #gattini #kittens

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@thegibson@hackers.town
Energetic, thrilled, bubbly valley girl voice:

I'm in!~ 💖✨

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I've been reading a lot about how color terms differ between languages and how that effects people's ability to differentiate and remember colors based on what language they speak. It kind of makes me want to create a constructed language that's only used to express color terms and see if it affects how I think about and see color.

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crows call me breadlady

i cannot express my fucking schadenfreude at every boss shitting themselves at the revelation that dangling life and death over others was not the trump card they thought

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Fire Wally

Just finished the local PBS station’s documentary on the Minneapolis Co-Op wars, telling the story of how the booming co-op grocery scene in the 1970s was almost torn apart by a fight between organic food idealists and communist organizers. Really fun and informative: tpt.org/co-op-wars/

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@June@kitty.town this is wildly spooky

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linear cannon

anyone know any data archivists that might have a copy of the Intel OpenCL Runtime for Linux, version 14.2? the link on intel's website does not work and i cannot find it elsewhere

the 2013 sdk would probably also suffice (i have a filename for that one, "intel_sdk_for_ocl_applications_2013_xe_sdk_3.0.67279_x64.tgz")

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writing, aesthetics as liberation, clothing, gender hate/violence 

@schrodingers_cat@rage.love it feels like most counterculture people I've been around are well aware of the performative nature of clothing and aesthetics.

Your essay reminds me a lot of a writing I read a decade back on why everybody hated hipsters-- The idea of a group of folks that understands cultural capital and flashes it whenever possible, chameleoning between subcultures to the disgust of everyone. I think you might enjoy reading it.

I think you raise a good point around the margins of counter culture groups like merch-crazed metal fans or Instagram goths, but it feels a bit like you've missed, what to me, is the point of aesthetic rebellion.

It is entirely performative. There are very few people who can get a sense of me after knowing me for a few weeks. How could I possibly hope to communicate myself in a single outfit? It's an impossible task. Instead, I focus on signaling the kinds of people I want to feel like they belong by me.

As is, though, your essay feels a little shallow to me on a couple of points- body modifications and gender nonconformance.

Namely, if performative aesthetics are shallow, how could they matter enough for someone to beat someone else up for wearing a dress? Anything so consequential must be powerful. Aesthetics matter.

A lot of the push behind punks looking so different is the necessity of a different pace or approach to life. Facial tattoos, clothing that needs to be custom made/modified, hair that needs friends to dye. In my experience, a lot of counterculture social bonding exists in the establishment of aesthetic rituals. Sure, someone could pay a lot of money online and order half the stuff, but that's camouflage, not culture.

There exists a space when some aesthetic choices (facial tattoos come to mind) come at enough social cost outside of a subculture that it's disingenuous to write off all subcultures as shallow. I think there's more to this than you're really getting into, and as a result, your essay left a bit of a bland taste in my mouth. Not foul, just... Bland?

I dunno, it's fine, but fashion exists within the context of a culture, and it feels a bit like your writing didn't quite hit on that as interestingly as it might have.

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Christopher M0YNG

Essential viewing for anyone who does stuff with electricity I think!

How to use your trashy meter without blowing it up (much)
youtube.com/watch?v=-QDW0LRQVr

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_͟z_͟rͫoͬ_͟_͟

"If somebody robs a store, it's a crime and the state is all set and ready to nab the criminal. But if somebody steals from the commons and from the future, it's seen as entrepreneurial activity and the state cheers and gives them tax concessions rather than arresting them. We badly need an expanded concept of justice and fairness that takes mortgaging the future into account."

—Ursula Franklin, 22 years ago, on our societal tendency of flat out ignoring and even explicitly rewarding negative externalities

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The Cuddlepunk Cub

Today a friend and I stopped by crossbones graveyard by London bridge.

It started off as a place to burry undisirables who couldn't be burred in concocrated graves.

Today it stands as a monument garden to people.

The railings are tied with ribbons and keepsakes for people on the outskirts of life with few to morn them.

There is a ceremony held on the 23rd of each month to memorialise and honour these people.

In a place of souless redevelopment it shines as a beacon to the soul of the city. A genuinely sacred place in the urban.
#london
#pagan

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Dien :bij1:

ASD information requested 

so my dad fixed my computer so i'm trying to go back to using it but after not using it for 1,5 months the screen makes me seasick

i think it has to do with visual sensory overload, i did everything i could think off, from turning the brightness down to the minimum to minimizing my browser window but nothing seems to be helping

i've had decent sleep, decent food, checked all those boxes

does anyone with ASD (self diagnosed included) has ever experienced this? did you found something that can help, i'm getting desperate after trying for 3 days straight with no positive results, i feel so guilty towards my dad who put so much effort and money into fixing my desktop which i know can not use anymore

when i look online all i can find is BS about how too much screen-time causes ASD

which ARGH

please help me find a solution to deal with this, please

boosts highly appreciated <3

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@m455 in reality, I think you'd physically go in to your bank and sort it out. Maybe you'd need to show some form of ID.

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a Soul That Isn't Indexable

@hafnia Yeah I consider Linux a lot like polyamory these days: technically I'm using it and I prefer it to the alternatives, but I do not tend to like people who make a point of leading with it as a personality trait.

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[Moved] Polychrome

Stitched this long vertical pan shot of the Mars colony from Cowboy Bebop.

The horizontal image preview only shows a piece of it.

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@drwho@hackers.town 💙

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Peter O'Shaughnessy

Facebook, whistleblower 

Facebook's internal research: "We estimate that we may action as little as 3-5% of hate and about [0.6%] of V & I [violence and incitement]… We have evidence [that] Facebook and the family of apps are affecting societies around the world."

Frances Haugen, whistleblower: "Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money."

cbsnews.com/news/facebook-whis

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