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Whilst I’m here, kink at pride is fine, because it’s almost always just “wearing kinky clothes and accessories” and is not “I am having an orgy in a public street next to a school”. Stop being a cop.
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Whilst I’m here, kink at pride is fine, because it’s almost always just “wearing kinky clothes and accessories” and is not “I am having an orgy in a public street next to a school”. Stop being a cop.
Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.
The hilarious thing about shopping at Lidl is that pay attention enough and you notice it's the exact same product packaging as the other supermarkets, but cheaper
"'Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live." bell hooks
I still think corporations have Pride Month backwards: this isn't a month to make money off me, this is a month to give me discounts for doing the public service of being this gay! I should be able to walk into any Target and get 30% off by kissing another girl or showing the cute bandaid from where I did my HRT shot! I should get free coffee at starbucks for walking in with carabiners and a fanny pack! I should be able to demand any random driver pull over and become a free uber by waving a rainbow flag so I can go spread my gayness across the city! Strangers should just hand me a twenty because I'm slouching bisexually in public!?! #RainbowCapitalism #Queer #PrideMonth #Pride
I still think corporations have Pride Month backwards: this isn't a month to make money off me, this is a month to give me discounts for doing the public service of being this gay! I should be able to walk into any Target and get 30% off by kissing another girl or showing the cute bandaid from where I did my HRT shot! I should get free coffee at starbucks for walking in with carabiners and a fanny pack! I should be able to demand any random driver pull over and become a free uber by waving a rainbow flag so I can go spread my gayness across the city! Strangers should just hand me a twenty because I'm slouching bisexually in public!?! #RainbowCapitalism #Queer #PrideMonth #Pride
OH: "we had a radioactive source dropped at the swap drop a furry wearing a collar with a shirt showing a furry with the radiation symbol came to dispose of it" most #emfcamp sentence ever
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@rangaku@tech.lgbt if they have filesystem clutter we'll take some

going to the .DS_Store does anyone want anything
The other day at work, in an online meeting, a fuckhead said the phrase “Well, it’s probably because she’s a woman and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about”, referring to an external contractor. I’m not out, but I stopped the meeting and said “You don’t get to talk like that in front of me. Now, I have to call HR.” There was laughter. To which I replied sternly, “It is not funny. Do better.” There was no laughter then. I don’t put up with that shit. Misogyny, any kind of trans- or queer- based phobia, racism. None. That’s how you ally - you speak up. You challenge the notion that these fuckers are in a safe place. You DO have power to create change. Be the voice for the voiceless. Afterwards, two of the other attendees reached out to me to thank for my courage to stand up to one of the “cool kids”. I don’t need thanks, I need people to be better. BE BETTER.
Attached: 1 image I have seen my first Cybertruck in the wild! #emfcamp

Attached: 1 image It’s 2024, we have electricity to the tent; why yes of course we have an air fryer with us #emfcamp #emf2024

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Attached: 1 image If you have people/teams in your org who prefer to build/host their own stuff in a non-core domain, this form I created back in 2018 might become handy. They can sign it with their not-invented-here sweat and blood.

I got let go from my current role. To say I saw it coming would be half true, but I was not expecting to be out in the blinds this soon. Open to a lot right now, more info at https://jacky.wtf/work. (https://jacky.wtf/2024/5/20Fw)
What do you MEAN every single DAY I have to construct a sensory experience that works for me out of clothing 😭
Attached: 1 image '“The union” is an organization you build with your coworkers, not a service you receive. Say it again. And again. And again.' #Union

If all the "you really don't need X" blogs (where X is commonly some technology like microservices, cloud, kubernetes...) changed their perspective to first person "*I* really don't need X", and wrote about their choices based on their own requirements, I'd enjoy reading that. But all too often, the "you really don't need X" posts just comes out as "you don't need a wheelchair, I've managed just fine without one"... and like yeah, me too, but perhaps people have different needs and requirements?
Why I still enjoy using GraphQL after 8 years

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It was 2022, and I knew that I had to make a change. I’d been unhappy for months, avoiding difficult conversations and going with what society was telling to do. Why? Because it was easy and …

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making my car microdose petrol cause i’m tapping my foot to the beat of the music
Things that should burn more calories than they do: -Writing an email to someone you hate but have to work with -Being on the phone with insurance companies -Family gatherings -Cleaning your bathroom -Ennui -Trying to explain yourself Feel free to add more.
Anyone knows what, if anything, that’s holding back the Web Share Target API from Safari and Firefox? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/share_target I would love to be able to install a bookmark manager as a PWA and easily share to it. Right now I would need to do quite some juggling with Apple Shortcuts to get a similar functionality Maybe one of @jensimmons@front-end.social, @tomayac@toot.cafe, @paul@status.kinlan.me knows?
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60 FPS in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart on Steam Deck? Let's find out and dive into its performance and the best settings.

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Attached: 1 image idk why people say funding OSS is difficult

Attached: 1 video This is why you have to avoid social networks with algorithms.

How has no one told me that Ratchet and Clank has a PC port after all these years?!?! BRB immediately downloading and playing it
A concert in Berlin, correcting for tourist bias, and how smartphones own the planet.
Jon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine.
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This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Reshma Khilnani, CEO and founder of Medplum. Medplum is an open source electronic health record development platform, and one of the things I loved about this conversation is that Reshma is so focused on the healthcare industry — a level of...

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If you want to know where tech companies are with AI safety, know Microsoft Recall won’t record screenshots of DRM’d movies.. ..but will record screenshots of your financial records and WhatsApp messages, as corporate interests were prioritised over user safety. And it’s enabled by default.
We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans