Lady @Lady@cat.family

« A thousand things make it impossible to mistake the verdict on queer lives and on women’s lives, as on the lives of those who are poor or not white. The hecatombs of queer youth; a decade squandered in a killing inaction on AIDS; the rapacious seizure from women of our defense against forced childbirth; tens of millions of adults and children excluded from the health care economy; treatment of homeless people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic “sweeps”; refusal of condoms in prisons, persecution of needle‐exchange programs; denial and trivialization of histories of racism; merely the pivot of a disavowing pronoun in a newspaper editorial: Such things as these are facts, but at the same time they are piercing or murmring voices in the heads of those of us struggling to marshal “our” resources against illness, dread, and devaluation. They speak to us. They have an amazing clarity. »

eve kosofsky sedgwick, 1993

you say you listen to queer elders? ok name five of their songs

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

if your posts are indistinguishable from that of a CIA plant trying to sow controversy and foil collective action, maybe consider making different posts

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

…and i¦ve been amazed at how people will, with no fear of repercussions, just out and say the most batshit things (from a technical perspective) and sign it with their full name and employer and forward it to the whole mailing list.

Probably the single greatest argument in favour of software work being any form of “engineering” is that you can’t just say blatantly wrong, infeasible, or uninformed shit in a professional capacity these days and have it be treated as mere “academic disagreement”.

On the one hand, i wonder if the internet making the whole of our professional lives, for those of us that work in the open, searchable and accessible hasn¦t magnified the reputational penalties of being wrong and stifled learning, growth, and innovation.

On the other hand, i want some·one technically‐minded to go thru the professional output of todays “tech greats” and see what batshit things THEY have said above a signature of their full name and institution. For certain figures i wish the reputational penalties were greater.

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» In my opinion, there is no real obstacle to establishing the registry in the ARPA network now, getting the standards organization to work, and being able to exchange documents in extended character sets as soon as the various installations can acquire the printers and display devices.

<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc373.html>="RFC 0373: “Arbitrary Character Sets”"

#Snippets

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‘<https://musicbrainz.org/release/a3defc19-b4f2-4939-8530-3033c25b73b3>="Phonetics On and On"’ (2025-02-14), by Horsegirl.

#OnRepeat

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I just want people to e·mail me about pokémon !

#mood

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they’ve added “orthographic at sign” using capital and small circled A because Unicode remains a coward and won’t encode it

new SIL fonts release: https://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/charis-doulos-gentium-andika-v7-000/

pride moodboard no download

hey all you might not know this but. i’m a lesbian. and i have a partner who is a lesbian. so we are both lesbians. together

im being hugged. in bed

the wiki was sort of wrong

if @aescling somehow turns out to be an awakening fanfic writer i’m gonna be so upset

you may think “boon” and “bonus” are related, but it’s actually “boon” and “phone”

SOMEBODY is asleep in this bed and it’s NOT ME

video games

apparently some newer games use a sine curve instead which feels overly posh

i thought that fire emblem calculated percentages by rolling two d50s and adding them, but apparently it actually rolls two d100s and averages them, but turns out these are the same thing

did lots of thinking to realize that averaging two even numbers between 0 and 100 is the same as adding two numbers between 0 and 50

the internet is for saying cute things your partner did, posting pictures of food, and talking about the plants and animals you see on your walks. i can think of no other reasons to Post

i think the wiki is just Wrong about this level but we’ll see i guess