Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

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.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/publishers-sue-internet-archive-over-massive-digital-lending-program/

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

this image has such a good energy tbfh

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.

installin gpu

torrents are great

The bisexual in me would THRIVE in this chair

I've come to the realization that we need federated Git hosting now.

Is there any Git hosting platform that supports federation of things like pull requests and issues?

It'd look something... like this!

aw dang i gotta my hands on some of these

Petite patate cramée qui sait pas dormir ✨♥️

unusual pronouns but I support your right to pick what fits

fedi people need to chill tf out in discourse rn, its so heated that me, an anticapitalist anarchist, got called a racist capitalist pig in a thread about environmentalism where I agreed with the OP, and a stalker for accidentally sending a second follow request to someone once!

Can discourse exist on fedi without turning into instant hateful misinterpretation and gaslighting? I hope so, because it makes it harder for neurodiverse people who can't pick up on y'all's signals to not get yelled at for trying to add a mild amount of nuance to somebody's take when we AGREED. I know at least three other people who've left because they were ostracized by your bullshit craving to cancel someone once a week when they didn't even do anything wrong. Can we save cancelling people for, y'know, transphobes and such, rather than our comrades who have trouble reading your mood over the internet? Frankly it is ableist, and yes, using slurs isn't the only form of ableism that exists. Thanks for listening instead of cancelling me less than halfway through reading this post, you've done a better job than most lately.