Gordon Freeman 🖲️ @theonefreeman@pixie.town

Layleen, a beloved Afro-Latinx trans woman, was incarcerated and killed by prison guards, all because she could not afford to pay bail. This is horrifying and to heap more on this tragedy, she was dead-named by the Bronx DA.

Layleen's death was preventable. Incarceration and detention must end. Prisons and jails are unable to keep people safe at any time, and now more than ever in the midst of a pandemic. We must work to end all forms of state violence.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-bronx-district-attorney-rikers-island-layleen-polanco-20200605-tpuks2n3q5fmpli5kzoaoqmcwy-story.html

Troy begins her tour of Stradania in this week's Drugs & Wires update
https://www.drugsandwires.fail/dnwcomic/chapter-7-page-7/

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?

https://www.hellovoid.online/product/blue-pill-arcade-3

This June €2 from every BPA 3 sale will be donated to https://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

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!