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Blue Pill Arcade 3 book is up in my shop! It's the book I was really looking forward to having at conventions this year, before, you know, EVERYTHING.

I printed Blue Pill Arcade 3 as a limited run for those that bought parts 1 & 2. One day I might put it into one big book, but if you're craving unexplained vaguely post soviet settings and VR therapy right now, I guess this is a thing that exists?

hellovoid.online/product/blue-

This June €2 from every BPA 3 sale will be donated to lgbtnet.org/en, a Russian LGBT organisation.

if more than 2.5 people find this funny i will vectorise and make it available for anyone to use
im such a sad nerd

that new transfem bottom surgery thing everyone's on about, medical abuse, forced surgery, intersexism 

the more I see this whole thing about that "new amazing surgery for trans women that came from experimental techniques on cis women" the more I feel sick

this surgery technique was developed by nonconsensually experimenting on and mutilating the bodies of intersex people with MRKH. This surgery comes at the cost of intersex people -- some of whom were part of those experiments and are taking about it right now -- literally being labeled test subjects and subjected to genital mutilation.

Remember that when you talk about how great this advancement is for trans women. It is, for sure, but please don't ignore the violence that was enacted on intersex bodies so trans women can have that surgery.

publishers sue the Internet Archive 

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

As a scientist and teacher, I will not write or peer-review for any journal from these publishers, nor will I use their books in my classroom, because their emotionally immature stunt risks the collective memory of the Internet.

Whether or not the "National Emergency Library" is ultimately a reasonable idea, there are good ways and bad ways to approach the issue, and Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley and Penguin Random House have chosen a bad one. For two decades, scholars have been asking, "What value do publishers actually add?" Answers vary, but a bitter "not bloody much" is prominent among them. Undermining our social and technical infrastructure in a time of global crisis only gives that view more weight.

Also while I am at it:

- Trans rights

- Fuck terfs

- Put Crash Bandicoot in Smash.

sysadmin is just corporate-business-speak for server maid

consider: instead of making neural nets, you could make super simple chat clients not take up an entire gigabyte of ram

@ida I've had Telegram climb up over 10GB if I leave it open too long.

accessibility, all developers read this 

You as a developer need to test and improve your applications support for assistive technologies. The simplest way to do this is to install Orca or NVDA and use your application as normal with a keyboard. If you want advice on this, please direct message me to ask me questions about improving your applications.

HOW DID THIS INDUSTRY OF FULL STACK DEVELOPERS COME UP WITH ‘HAMBURGER’ AS THE DESCRIPTION OF THREE HORIZONTAL LINES INSTEAD OF ‘PANCAKES’?

I MEAN, IT IS IN YOUR SELF-ASSIGNED TITLE!

Clearly they were all half-stack devs.

@wizard $5 per user per month, so $60 per year.
I want a cheap offsite backup for my server, but I'm currently using almost 19TB. A lot of that doesn't need to be backed up, but it'd be nice to have important files backed up somewhere. The platform doesn't really matter as long as the backups are encrypted.

new bit: person who saw people talking about 'fursonas' and thought they were just talking about pets they have, so now they keep posting pictures of their cat like "check out my fursona"

@witchfynder_finder I discovered this by mistake at work when I was trying to press Alt + ; to comment out text in emacs.

@wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net I've found that large finger trackballs work better for games and precision movement than thumb balls. Thumb balls can be comfier though. I have a CST that I use at home, a Kensington Expert that I use at work, and an MX Ergo that I keep in my backpack to use with my laptop. I alternate between using my thumb and fingers on my CST depending on what I'm doing.

look if MS-DOS is so great then how come there’s no MS-TRES?

@thufie I use transmission-daemon on my server. When I set it up, I liked the transmission-remote-gtk client better than Deluge.
It would be neat if there was something like popcorntime that would work as a frontend for other torrent clients, to keep everything in one place.

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