Show newer

The Rise of Kyoshi 

« “Those aren’t excuses to murder him!”

“You’re right. They’re not excuses—they’re ample justifications. I guarantee you that many citizens have suffered immensely from his greed and negligence, and many more will die if he is allowed to keep breathing.” »

Show thread

The Rise of Kyoshi 

« The darkness of her abandonment must have boiled to her surface as the three of them trudged uphill back toward town, because Rangi ran the back of her nails down Kyoshi’s hand, a playful and teasing distraction that held more meaning now than a hundred volumes of history. Kyoshi nearly tripped and fell on her face. »

Show thread

:blobmeow_happy: having a calendar full of important days

:blobmeow_terrified: coming up with names for the days

some things you gotta lose; some things are worth keeping

as a student of Marxism, one must learn to look beyond appearances and understand the true essence of things

Show thread

anyway bea called my homepage oldschool and yes it is but also that page uses Grid Layout and Fetch API

Show thread

what kids don’t realize is that for the first few decades of the internet, people wrote webpages which were useful to themselves rather than portfolio pieces for social media followers or potential employers

Show thread

the true oldschool is webpages which are actually useful

Show thread

these nerds think a black background and green text is oldschool but don’t know how to build an actually functional website

for ( const button of document.getElementById("search").querySelectorAll("button") ) {
button.addEventListener("click", ( ) => location.href = button.dataset.search.replace("%s", document.getElementById("query").value)) }

Show thread

sometimes i write code which might be useful to others

and sometimes i write code which no person should ever try to replicate

and i like to think that usually it is clear which is which

no changes to the underlying XML, or to the /Fortune/ page which renders it, i just parsed and extracted data from it instead of using an IFRAME

Show thread

Are you ‘ out of town ?’ Do you ‘ give it up ?’

one must also consider that perhaps the reason why so many people die on international ski accident day is because it is in a dark, cold month which is difficult for skiers

Show thread

what is important is to use international ski accident day to deglorify dangerous ski behaviours, educate people on ski safety, and implement measures to prevent deadly accidents from happening. the solution is not to eliminate all recognition of the fact that sometimes people on the slopes die, because they do.

Show thread

i think the take that if we got rid of international ski accident day fewer people would die of horrific ski accidents is perhaps a delusion of grief. it is true that on international ski accident day, more people are thinking of skiing and thus show up on the slopes. more accidents do happen on international ski accident day. but if the day was gone, it's not like people wouldn't still ski or have accidents. they'd just happen on different days.

« Finally, as if this were not potentially alienating enough to female users, the Usenet guidelines also actively discourage appreciative and supportive postings in the name of reducing message volume:

In aggregate, small savings in disk or CPU add up to a great deal. For instance, messages offering thanks, jibes, or congratulations will only need to be seen by the interested parties—send these by mail rather than posting them. The same goes for simple questions, and especially for any form of 'me too' posting. (Horton and Spafford 1993) »

Show thread
Show older
📟🐱 GlitchCat

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