"lenses are basically urbit"
racism, white feminism Show more
How white women use strategic tears to avoid accountability by Ruby Hamad for The Guardian
safe spaces Show more
"What are you doing?" the robot asked.
"Oh, this is a religious observance. I understand it must seem strange to you."
"No, we have those, too. We devote a tenth of our processing capacity to mining bitcoin, to benefit the poor and batteryless."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #CorrectedTypo
them: there is no more knights in XXIst century.
me:
This is how to see the local timeline of another instance. Go to http://www.unmung.com/ Scroll down to the 'mastodon preview' field. Put the name of the instance whose timeline you'd like to see in there. Click preview button, and the timeline you've asked for will appear.
How cool is that?
This is it folks, Gratipay ran their final payment cycle yesterday, so if you haven't migrated to Liberapay yet you should do it now!
1) Open https://gratipay.com/
2) Log in
3) Click the "Migrate to Liberapay" button
4) Read the page on Liberapay and confirm the migration
I'm so fucking online right now https://instance.business/media/VbCED7Mm9AqVS7oNApo
The new Star Wars movies ruined my childhood: the Star Wars Prequels
Political compass Show more
"According to all known laws of computing, there is no way that #Emacs should be able to edit. Its bytecode engine is just too old to get those fat buffers off the ground. Emacs, of course, edits anyway, because Emacs doesn't care what humans think is impossible."
Disney now owns Star Wars, Marvel superheroes, Simpsons, the Alien franchise... How much of our popular culture do they own? And given their track record on copyright lobbying... Fuck
if you get enough smart programmers together all they do is make lisp, so you have to make sure theres some less-smart "control rod" programmers in the team
The hardest thing about writing Rust is to remember that you're not writing C
Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" if you run man after midnight https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man-print-gimme-gimme-gimme-at-0030
Hey I NEVER do follow recommendations but I will make an exception for this: MicroSFFStories is trying Mastodon
https://mastodon.social/@MicroSFF
The stories are really good, and they are inclusive, and it's amazing that in such fews characters they manage to evoke so many things
I can only recommend to follow. Please go read, and see if you like it too.
Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/MicroSFF
Tumblr: http://microsff.tumblr.com/
If you want, you can retoot, because they deserve more and more followers.
One way to understand afrofuturist and post-colonial SFF:
What if fully automated gay luxury space communism|libertarianism wasn't an idealized American or British modernism?
