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I'm violently hungover and just discovering about the donkey kong rock opera, is this hell?

hypothesis: it's not possible for the person who designs the software to give it a good UI

you already know how it works, so it's literally impossible to know how discoverable it is

and this is 90% of why open source software UIs are from hell

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nursing a sick puppy I love very much back to health today.

for the purpose of an upcoming zine, I invite you to reply to this post with a :valid_lgbt: valid reason to transition your gender.
your reply will not be associated with you in any way in the zine. your reply may or may not make it in to the zine due to federation or space or artistic reasons but send it anyway :valid_lgbt:

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@t54r4n1 knowing about both mens and womens clothes is helpful if you’re ever on jeopardy

funny thing about transition is when the white cis middle-aged men in my neighborhood who used to cross the sidewalk when they saw me, are now saying hello to me, keep your racist hello away from me

some context about what might have led to the UnitedHealthcare ceo shooting (long) 

with this seeming more and more likely to be a person who is angry of a denied claim... there was a series of events that occurred earlier this year that shook the healthcare sector in the US. and i think pointing it out is vital to understanding what likely transpired to what caused this.

nearly a year ago now (i believe?), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth experienced one of the worst cyber attacks to occur against a medical institution. this subsidary held the data of a large portion of UnitedHealth policy holder data. nearly 100 million people had their data stolen in a ransomware attack.

UnitedHealth paid nearly 22$ million dollars to the ransomware group and they took the money and ran instead of giving the keys. and UnitedHealth waited. and waited. they explicitly were as incompetent about it as possible.

for further context here, UnitedHealth holds contracts in medicare and medicaid plans and are some of the biggest providers for those who receive those. some of the most vulnerable people, they were some of the most impacted by this hack and the incompetent reaction of UnitedHealth.

people were denied claims en masse, and UnitedHealth sat on their hands and did nothing as the entire system collapsed in on itself. Doctors and pharmacies began to struggle, especially those within network for the company. United claimed the problems were being addressed but it just went on, and on, and on. as the CEOs got more and more wealthy in spite of this and faced little to no consequence for their shitty security infra that led to this attack happening in the first place.

Time went by, and doctors offices and pharmacies began to struggle and begged for help. UnitedHealth decided to offer short term loans. With interest of course. They paid out nearly $9 billion in these shady short term loans, that functioned akin to payday loans.

Of course, these places started to go bankrupt. And UnitedHealth started to buy them out.

Wtf is up with this area, the driver crashed *again* when I tried to cast speak with the dead o.o

I'm starting to be worried that my GPU is on its last legs or something 😬

Does anyone know of a way to tell if that's the case? Like, this has happened before with other games (well, with Crusader Kings III), and it always happens the same way

Everything freezes except sound, the fans turn off, the screens shut off, then they turn back on with these weird green and pink squares and a "static"-like pattern, still frozen until I do a hard reset

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So apparently the bigots who hate me bought the old Fipamo blog domain that I let expire to put up more hate speech about me.

Apparently Im a cop now that wants to kill the fedi… with open-source optional moderation tools.

LOL, well ok then. mastodon.me.uk/@utterfiction/1

🌟 < we are deeply sad to say þat John Exploder, who explodes people for a living, has been stabbed to deaþ. Killing is never okay 🌟

(intended to be read like Panic! At the disco) Classism! At the furry convention

Welcome to Emacs rewind-mode!

You opened: 19,609 buffers
Out of those, you immediately killed: 12,001

Let's see the language breakdown:
1. 10,720 swift-mode buffers
2. 4,203 org-mode buffers
3. 2,210 emacs-lisp-mode buffers

Out of all the interactive commands you ran, this one kept coming back: magit-status

You wrote 9,792 lines of code this year! Only 32% were solely newlines.

Your favorite key combo was: C-n
You tweaked your init file: 253 times

This year you only installed: 15 new packages

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