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Me last night: Changing this flat tire sucks. Perhaps should I opt into the road side assist that comes with my insurance.
Me this morning: what do you mean I already have roadside assistance?

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Happy 83rd birthday to synth godmother and transgender icon Wendy Carlos!

#wendycarlos #botd #transgender

Edit: I failed-ish, that was a photo of not Wendy leaning over a synth, mislabelled. I've subbed a photo of actually Wendy (I think, I trust nothing now) and placed the photo of Roger Joseph Manning Jr in the comments. Really cool that Wendy's getting so much love on Mastodon ❤

Wendy Carlos working the patchbay on a classic synth bank
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My wish is for every single future trans person to be able to accept themselves without ever having to first reach that sorry state of “fuck it, it's either this or death, so just fuck everything”.

The passage through that point of pain is so pointless. We deserve to start out from a place of joy.

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Ah yes. When 3 key rollover gave the player on the left advantage over everyone else.


Kids these days have no idea.
A photo of two pairs of hands on a keyboard in contorted positions to reach particular keys to control a multiplayer game. 
Caption: MULTIPLAYER IN THE 90’s.


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Lessons were learned 😝
Screenshot of a tumble thread by random-ferret: 

I read that capsaicin makes your mouth feel like it's burning because it increases your nerve sensitivity to heat, and menthol works by doing the same thing to cold 
So if I eat a habanero pepper and then chew a bunch of breath mints they'll each other out and I'II be fine 

• random-ferret
Hey guess what hellfire tastes like

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Touch Pianist


A suppringly fun piano rhythm toy,

https://touchpianist.com/



Socratic method


Been re-reading the Questionable Content archive (I'm in the mood for comfortable and familiar lately, but that's another story). Saw this in the news post and though it's worth recirculating:

Teaching Binary using the Socratic Method

#Teaching #ComputerScience

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Apparently Channel 7 is showing a rather dramatic special about de-transitioning, so here's a helpful summary of the actual evidence available on the subject:

"Detransitioner Wave" Fails To Materialize, Trans Regret Rates Remain Low https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/detransitioner-wave-fails-to-materialize

#ErinInTheMorning #Channel7 #SevenNews #7News #AusPol #transgender #trans

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I AM UGLY CRYING NOT THE ALT TEXT LMFAO
This is what ALT text was made for.


I don't think Stan sang that. Also probably not a sex offender.
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Support for a republic reaches all time high https://chaser.com.au/national/support-for-a-republic-reaches-all-time-high/

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😞🇦🇺⚽

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I'm a tiny bit late but happy International Cat Day!! 💖

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@jdgPULANCO that's so lovely of you! What a nice thing to do :)
heart-warming 🌸

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LCD, Please
The de-make no one asked for.
https://dukope.itch.io/lcd-please

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Congratulations on the anniversary
Very cool!
I only wonder if it would be possible as a real LCD Game ^_^
But looks solid like it would've been one!


Rainy Day


Rainy days are perfect for a little Maynard.

Swing into spring with the Melba Big band Sunday Sept 10th
Melba Big Band Presents - Swing Into Spring Ball | Memo Music Hall
#Jazz #BigBand #Music #Gigs
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Hang on. Wait a minute. You know what? Holy smokes. THIS is the bad place This is the bad place, this is the bad place. This is. the. bad. place.

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Mocking Google for their totally-not-an-attempt-to-DRM-the-Web is the right thing to do.

Open issues on the proposal repo and let them know what you think.

Politely.

But, don't be fooled. Even if they take this back, it doesn't change how they think. This is their intention. They just failed to slip it by this time.

The answer is to take power away from Google. Stop using their stuff. Build alternatives. It's not easy, but it's the only way.

And mock them. That's always fun.

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People replacing their websites with #gopher servers has strong hipster/indy "you probably haven't even heard of them" vibes, and yet...

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old comic ☎️

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so what comic did someone give you that made you share this old comic with us?
Hermit crabs so very similar with their shells. They all gather for an upgrade party

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Some of you didn't have to build networks for LAN parties and then spend 2 hours troubleshooting your NIC and it shows.

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I'm 59. When I was born, segregation existed, interracial marriage was illegal and women were not allowed to have credit cards in their own names until I was 11 years old. CIVIL RIGHTS ARE A NEW THING.
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Just gonna leave this here.
Meme of person looking very disapprovingly at Mark Zuckerberg (with a facebook logo in front of him) and Jack Dorsey (with a twitter logo in front of him) and then the same person looking excitedly at Mark Zuckerberg with a Groucho Mark mask (with a threads logo in front of him) and Jack Dorsey in a Grouche Mark mask (with a Bluesky logo in front of him).

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Mood



One of my goals is to be so good at what I do and so trans that if someone doesn't want to work with me it will cost them a lot financially.