Lady @Lady@cat.family

@tindall@cybre.space does it involve NCIS

everyone knows “has raised questions” is bullshit for “we don’t know what we’re talking about” right

the question wasn’t raised, you just finally started paying attention

and you are listening to national public radio 🎵

the controversy of whether trans people should be respected or punched in the face has raised questions about identity, sexuality, and the future of martial arts

“what is StatusNet??” the curious reader may ask

well, you may have heard of GNU Social?? no??

StatusNet is what they called GNU Social before 2014

if you know what rainbow dash network is, you have officially been on this website too long

it runs StatusNet 1.0.1

SOMEDAY

SOMEDAY i will see someone posting from mspsocial.net and my initial thought won’t be to mistake it for Rainbow Dash Network

use it to tie knots!!

continue with your yarns and lies, TIME; i see you

TIME claims “Male movie stars have often been defined by an old model of masculinity”, but i think those of us who have read “One Hundred Years Of Men Taking Off Their Shirts” in BuzzFeed.News know it’s actually the opposite

you think the Xbox has confusing names but wait until you learn about firearm ammunition

the kind of idle linkfollowing which people now see as relegated to sites like Wikipedia or TVTropes was once how the entire internet operated

when i was in high school most of the art i was exposed to was from browsing e.g. Category:Romanticism on Wikimedia Commons, and maybe part of this is the blame of Wikimedia Foundation for not prioritizing that kind of discovery in their apps, but it just seems to me like that kind of web browsing has died a slow, gothic death over the past decade

@Satsuma definitely and i’m not sure public domain in general is that much more obtuse now than it used to be; it might even be less considering the discoverability of like, searching for a book for your high school lit class and seeing a free copy in the books store

but it’s more faceless; the specifics of project gutenberg with their specific catalogue is a lot easier to miss out on when you’re just downloading from the app store

it’s easier not to get that this is a volunteer project that has been running for decades, not to understand the mission and principles of it, etc

and just say “oh hey someone put it up here for free”

@Satsuma i’m kind of not joking lmao

Apple TV+ did a reboot of Ghostwriter which from what i saw was mostly bad, but one good thing it did have was it used entirely public domain works and the kids in the show just went to the books store and downloaded it for free and basically were like “hey, kids, watching this, yes you, did you know you could get this book for free, it’s public domain”

i’m certain kids are finding project gutenberg books still and they all carry the disclaimer in the front but it’s a VERY different vibe compared to back in the day