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Lily Ingersoll / Briar
balloonpup@blimps.xyz
Bleps? In my floof derg? It's more likely than you think.
An absolutely adorable Halley by @felisrandomis
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Technology Connections
TechConnectify@mas.toI made this simple video just to prove to myself that I can do that. Oh and also you'll learn something cool probably.
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Alexis
LexYeen@plush.citydear furry fandom,
we wouldn't have the very concept of fursonas without Ken Sample, a Black man, being the first to popularize the idea.
so can we all agree to metaphorically whup the ass of any of our own who even jokingly bring up DEI policies as a reason for a business behaving badly towards its workers and/or customers?
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Stevan
withaveeay@mastodon.scotGood. Some African push-back against western systemic racism.
Namibia to require visitor visas for nationals of countries that require Namibians to have visas (“non-reciprocating countries”) These include the UK, US, Canada and others.
Even then, they're making their requirements simple by comparison.
Hope they make their point clearly, and hope other countries do the same.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmj2578r873o
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Marcus Hutchins 
malwaretech@infosec.exchange
mhmmm, yessss, Crowdstrike crash because EU didn't let Microsoft kill all their competitors and become an outright monopoly in the security space, I am very smrt
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Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️⚧
charliejane@wandering.shopIt's happening again!!! They're trying to put the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) up for a vote:
As I've written in the past, KOSA is a censorship nightmare that'll drive LGBTQIA+ folks out of social media spaces and suppress any content that Republicans think is harmful to kids.
Please call your reps NOW, especially your Senators. If you have a Republican senator, tell them you're worried this bill will impose an unfair burden on small businesses.
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Sarah Brown
goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.orgShow content
That thing transphobes do, where something trips in their brains and they end up doing nothing but obsessing about trans women, while probably in a darkened room with no clean underwear surrounded by empty pot noodles and bags of their own urine.
There is a pop-psychology concept amongst tech geeks of a "basilisk". This is something that, once you become aware of it, it breaks you. You cannot come back once you have experienced the basilisk. It's a one way ticket to, usually, madness, or perhaps total system shutdown. It's generalised from the idea from antiquity of the basilisk as a creature that turns you to stone.
There's a fun story called Blit - linked here, http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm about a visual basilisk. Another example is something called Roko's Basilisk which is basically Pascal's wager for atheists who spend too long in Silicon Valley (it's stupid, but some of the terrible people with more money than sense, like Musk and Thiel, actually appear to believe it, and are therefore broken by it, and I reiterate, it's really, really stupid).
Anyway, in the latter case, Roko's Basilisk breaks you by becoming aware of it, BUT, here's the thing: it only works on certain people. They have to be susceptible, and in the case of Roko, the susceptibility lies around a particular weak spot in the ability of otherwise intelligent people to think critically and realise, "this is fucking stupid".
But, here's the thing, TO THOSE WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE, I've realised that trans women are a basilisk.
Look at people like Graham Lineman, J K Rowling, and a load of less famous people who have ended up in the same state. They all reached a point where SOMETHING relating to the fact that trans women exist tripped them into some downward doom spiral that has basically pushed their brain into a self-reinforcing state of insanity that they can't recover from.
There are probably several psychology PhDs for the taking on the subject of this.
But it seems I, and many women like me, are basilisks. This is a public post. Some of the people hate reading it have already passed the trigger condition. If you're one of them, you should probably empty some of those bags of your own wee and eat a fresh vegetable, if you can. Good luck!
My name is Sarah, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.
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ENG. Tretron 🐲
tretron@bark.lgbtI am so tired of people going "research showed that a higher salary only temporary boosted happiness and productivity" as an excuse for poor arse salaries. It's miss leading cherry picking. Yes a few researches showed that, however the caviat was that that happens ONLY after someone has a living wage in the first place, because only then secondary agreements start to have an impact.
A fucking pool table ain't gonna do shit if you pay a slave wage, but if you pay your staff we'll, then yes a pool table and Friday drinks help with overall satisfaction.
Also, having only a limited amount of sick days is a scam. Having to pay for sick leave with holiday days is a scam. And having to rely on tips to have a living wage is a scam.
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubHas anyone made a spreadsheet with a different tiling yet?
Like the obvious one is hexagons.
Where's my hexagonal spreadsheet?
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Botch Frivarg
deetwenty@todon.nlEven a big wolf looks tiny in the wide expanse of nature
Fursuit by: Sarah Cat Fursuit ( https://www.sarahcatfursuits.com/ )
#SarahCatSunday #Fursuit #Furry #Photography
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Fi 🏳️⚧️
munin@infosec.exchangeOh, so, spicy take -
I expect to see other failures of similar nature to the crowdstrike issue, in other companies and their products.
My expectation is informed by the massive number of layoffs in the past couple years, and a suspicion that many companies' internal infrastructure has been running in a degrading or possibly entirely unmaintained state since heavy layoffs occurred.
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THE COMPUTER MANDATE
AUTHORITY: WHATEVER AUTHORITY IS GRANTED IT BY THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN WHICH IT OPERATES.
RESPONSIBILITY: TO PERFORM AS PRE-DIRECTED BY THE PROGRAMMER WHENEVER INSTRUCTED TO DO SO
ACCOUNTABILITY: NONE WHATSOEVER.
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
emilymbender@dair-community.socialDoes anyone have info about the context of this slide? I see it credited to an IBM presentation from 1979---but a presentation by whom, to whom about what?
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miifox
miifox- colours faded to oblivion
- you like purple? here be some purple!
- best colours in the universe.
interestingly, there does not seem to be any corrolation between what year the pictures have been shot in; and how faded they are. the 1990 dia's look amazing but so do some of the 1969 dia's.
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summer!
winter@pleroma.envs.net
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