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@coriander to be clear i think the remaining 10% is important and sometimes essential work, keeping the internet running for example is good, but it’s also not where the money is

the money is in convincing some billionaire that hiring a thousand people to build a website nobody wants or needs is a good idea

@coriander problem with tech is that it’s working class, but also a grift. 90% of it is conning rich people into paying lots of money for magic words that do nothing. and it’s hard to get people to take seriously that yes, we should keep conning rich people out of their money, but as a unionized workforce this time

propaganda 

or as ra scion puts it, “shoulda spent another year on the bottom tier instead of trying to dodge what it was i thought got em here”

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propaganda 

learned people don't understand the work better than the people doing the work, and you should aspire to be a person doing the work, not a learned person directing them

@Packbat @Satsuma (language has implications beyond just screenreaders and spellcheckers; it can be used to style CSS so it requires a certain level of formal rigidity)

@Packbat @Satsuma yeah it's the sort of thing i wouldn't have been surprised if it had worked but i checked the spec and there doesn't appear to be anything to support it

probably at least in part because it could create a weird conflicting situation where the HTML language and the XML language differ

@Packbat @Satsuma it will not afaict; the rules for determining the language of an element only look at parent elements (and col isn’t a parent of the elements in the column)

pokémon 

love that scarlet and violet made it canonical that you can travel with seven pokémon so long as you only battle with six

music 

man remember when the upper left of the west was the best air for your chest 😭

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music 

this album has zero duds. geo and sabzi put out 18 rap tracks and i can’t take issue with any of them. i don’t even care that Washington is actually alphabetically the fourth-to-last state

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music 

“to survivors of economic and natural disasters, living for the ‘right now’ and not the ‘hereafter’: a handful of tracks, each a snapshot to capture the trials and tribulations (and smiles, since you’ve been waiting awhile)”

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music 

damn maybe i should listen to Bayani (ReDux) again today

re: ph 

@aschmitz i always get really anxious around springtime so it's not exactly surprising but it is still a bother

ph 

my body has decided that gremlin hibernation season is Over and i am Not Here For It

very old interpersonal meta 

now i am the doggo who works for a library; i find this mildly unsettling

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very old interpersonal meta 

having this particular avatar keeps reminding me of the early days of the fediverse when i was in frequent communication with a doggo who was a librarian

awoo 

what’s your story? slowpoke

re: character sets 

@aschmitz i’ve been doing it but it’s taking a while to get to a place where i have things to share 😆

re: character sets 

@aescling just how the maths works out; anyway there’s three more of these

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.