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- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
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Though Surveillance Capitalism is a global phenomenon and a universal term, it is interpreted differently by people from different regions.
Americans see this mostly as a monopoly/anti-trust problem.
Europeans are calling it digital feudalism.
The once-colonized global south sees it as digital colonialism.
All of these interpretations are not only simultaneously true but also demonstrate that this issue is multi-faceted.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalColonialism #DigitalFeudalism
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open for an inspiring speech!
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The comrades at @ruangrupa_ruru are live shortly, tune in to a nice programme and also help load test their self-managed infrastructure 👌
https://tv.lumbung.space/w/d52dacb5-9853-4241-8a4e-b182eca0f835
We're running this infrastructure on @coopcloud configurations which are available for all to reuse which aligns with the lumbung model.
Autonomic is proud to be supporting this much needed intervention into reclaiming digital infrastructure.
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i found a forum post from 2005 linking to the best buy page for this monitor and the URL still works! how? check out this great marketing image with olde timey web sites
Live human event tonight, Minneapolis
To celebrate Ground Zero Nightclub in Minneapolis (finally) requiring vaccination for entry, I'll be doing cool stuff in the back room with computers and Barbie Glamtastic Texters.
Also, there'll be some visuals courtesy of a collaboration between https://cyberia.club and https://livecode.nyc up until midnight cst, so you might wanna check that out, too.
I'll be the nerd with the laptop, crop top and n95 aura mask, feel free to say hi! :)
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lawn signs
the sex forest lawn signs are about as popular as shiela lawn signs here in w8. no Kate or Jacob signs on my walk so far today.
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I've got lawyer bills and apartment cleanup/repair fees to pay so if people would care to commission me, I'd be grateful.
$14.58 is in my bank account and the lawyer's asking for $409.50 and the apartment corporate office is asking for $1076.41
my cashapp is $SorrelTyree
Texas politics, abortion
Yo, there's some real fucked up restrictions that went into place. You might know someone who could benefit from you (yes, YOU) having the substances mentioned here on-hand.
Remember that at six weeks, most people still don't know they're pregnant.
https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion/
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twitch abuse
Twitch Streamers are taking Today off to Protest Hate Raids and Abuse
Twitch streamers boycott the platform to raise awareness for marginalized voices
Twitch streamers are on strike to protest inaction over abuse
These are three different things. 
Protesting bad user behavior, protesting the refusal to listen to complaints about it, protesting against refusal to take action.
By the time you get all three, stuff is really bad and has been really bad for a long time.
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So we're not crossing picket lines on Sept 1st at Twitch, right folks?
Support marginalized Twitch streamers and do not interact with Twitch on Sept 1st. This is to raise awareness for the countless cases of racist, homophobic and transphobic attacks on a platform that has falsely promised improvement.
Here’s Why Black and LGBTQ+ Gamers Are Taking #ADayOffTwitch | them.
https://www.them.us/story/a-day-off-twitch-lgbtq-black-gamers-protest
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Canadians, is your workplace or organization recognizing September 30th, the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation?
If yes, what specifically are you doing?
If no, have you asked your employer why not?
(If Canada lowered its flag for a day, for every child known to have died at your residential schools, the flag would not raise for 18 years.)
(Boosts encouraged.)
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https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/07/29/catl-claims-to-have-made-sodium-ion-batteries-a-commercial-reality/ Sodium ion batteries are now a reality! Not as performant as lithium, but doesn’t require lithium mining and will hopefully be cheaper once production scales
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Fellow retro-perverts, i have good news! My CSS style for Mastodon that styles it like Windows 9x is now complete! #userstyle #mastodon #css https://github.com/GwyndolynMarchant/Mastodon97
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What term best describes when software corps pull features from their free version and force you to pay for them? Especially the case where they take community contributions and put them behind a paywall? "Treehousing" evokes the idea of building a treehouse together but when youre down below, they pull up the ladder on you. "Gangplanking" is perhaps more self-describing ;) other ideas welcome! inspired by @dumpsterqueer and @handle
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Obesity is caused by environmental contaminants, not personal diet/exercise
Incredibly in-depth thread giving a tl;dr, linking to their various well-sourced articles https://twitter.com/mold_time/status/1412827749828513800
All linked articles are on https://slimemoldtimemold.com/archives/
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Since I have no idea what to do of the impulsively-purchased blahaj.online, I am giving away free subdomains for anyone who wants one. Just DM me the IP and the subdomain you want and I'll assign it to your server IP
Boost Welcome
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Hot girl summer is dying
Fat boy fall is waiting to be born.
Now is the time of monsters.
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Spread this to black trans or non-binary people you know: the Marsha P. Johnson Institute is paying $500 directly to black trans or non-binary folks, with priority given to black trans women and those who have experience as sex workers or have been formerly incarcerated
https://marshap.org/covid-relief/
Tired, death (not mine), very bad mental health (not mine), unethical psych stuff, substance use, just real bad vibes and sui****, venting
Friday was a big day. Saturday was a big day. Today, I try to rest.
Today, I cannot entirely rest.
I had a phone call with a friend from college. Another one of our friends died a couple of days ago. We hadn't been close.
He'd been kind of an ass to his girlfriend, who eventually left him a few years ago. He was broke, delusional, and insisted that he was getting sufficient psych help because someone he knew online was ostensibly writing (with intent to publish) an academic paper on his presentation of DID. The friends who were visiting him at the time pushed, but didn't want to actively do something against his will. A couple of weeks later, he was found dead, presumably of asphyxiation or overdose.
Once upon a time, he was really cool. But, more relevantly, he was also an asshole. People tried for years to get him to be less of an asshole. He treated others and himself badly. But he clearly was in need of more help than he got, and his death weighs.
We checked in on him. We did as much work as we could stomach. And he was still an asshole and he is still dead. Sometimes, the world is just ugly.
Be careful about where you're getting your mental health help from, and maybe check in on your friends who are trying to navigate things like finding a therapist or getting competent treatment. And, you know, if sobriety is hard, maybe go talk to someone you trust about that.
If you're dating an asshole, it's okay to stop and leave. This could have been so much worse if his ex weren't elsewhere.
Life is fleeting. Maybe love your friends a little louder today. Big oof day.
- Pronouns
- She/They
- hangs out with people on
- https://cyberia.club
- Gender/orientation
- Demi-femme/Novi gender, demisexual/panromantic/polyamorous
- Hackerspace
- https://layerze.ro
i like kind machines. pro-people-not-dying. anti-nazi. anti-colonizer. pagan, but lazy about it.
I am #HardOfHearing, #nonbinary, polyamourous, into ttrpgs and #tech. Hobbyist #leatherworker, hobbyist scifi author, community builder, and artist.
I like to build #whimsical things that help people to #dream better and form meaningful connections. If you wanna hang out with friendly computer weirdos in Minneapolis, lemme know.
Profile image description: a watercolor painting of a person with pale skin and brown and blue hair laughing. They have a side cut and an audio processor is visible behind their ear. The art style is loose and the eyes are squinched into little crescents.
Joined Jul 2020
