Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social

"I have come to grant you the power to protect this land."
"What, like magic?"
"Sort of. Come the need, you will be able to combine, to form a hugely powerful body."
"Cool! How does it work?"
"First, you register to vote, then you keep yourself informed..."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I don't want 1980s 8-bit microcomputing back. I don't even want the 1980s 8-bit microcomputing subculture back.

I want the future that I thought that subculture would lead to.

A world where we used technology to improve ourselves, improve our world, and share the results fairly with everyone.

And not as a battering ram to smash down other people's doors and take all their stuff.

I wasn’t joking when I said most of Nebraska is underwater. People are stranded and displaced everywhere, bridges and levis are busted, ice chunks all over the highways…just brutal.

RT @NETAGBohac@twitter.activitypub.actor

@NENationalGuard@twitter.activitypub.actor Blackhawk conducting sandbag operations this morning. Dropping 1.5T bags to protect @CityOfLincoln@twitter.activitypub.actor wells situated on island in Platte River.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NETAGBohac/status/1106917598929784835

it seems like a weird loophole that simply by not nominating new heads of government agencies the president gets to effectively control them without actually suffering the consequences for when those agencies fail

Oops. trumphotels.com has been hacked and filled with honesty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/03/09/i-dont-think-this-trumphotels-com-hack-will-be-up-for-long/

Serious Chrome zero-day – Google says update “right this minute”

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/06/serious-chrome-zero-day-google-says-update-right-this-minute/

She sang to the spiders to weave her armour of silk, to the wasps to forge her a blade of paper and barbs, to the beavers to build her a chariot of birch bark and aspen, and to the wild sows to pull it.
She never asked the larks to sing her vengeance song, but they do.
#Cassoland #MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

RT @daisyowl

engineers on a normal work day:
"Hmm, anyone know how to open a folder? Ugh I'll just google it."

engineers interviewing other engineers:
"How is the geodesic distance between quaternions defined and what are the implications for complex rotations in non-euclidean 4-space?"

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/daisyowl/status/1098748868705959936