Tweets from 2021/10
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leveraged trading of fractionalised tokens of the floor price of a record of ownership of a picture of a monkey. if it wasn't for the whole "same carbon consumption as the whole of New Zealand" thing i would be following with giddy glee. @Wowswap_io/1443575872644997122
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let's pretend i tweeted this in the same thread @v21/1443821154242867211?s=20
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see also: Salt Bae charging £630 for a steak @v21/1443675694429581312
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oh, hey, also: do you want my old job? careers.nianticlabs.com/openings/lead-game-designer/ (happy to answer questions about it, too, if anyone is pondering it - DMs are open) @v21/1443618666982019072
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@SarvasvKulpati i only see an incomplete list (specific bug: searching by followers with over 10000 followers & people i know should be there are missing)
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just a ridiculous decision. actively making things worse on purpose. Soho finally made sense! @BobFromAccounts/1443573834565570566
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RT @rinank_: You're in luck... this picture was literally taken within the last year
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@SarvasvKulpati ah-hah, figured it was something like that! thank you!
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@underskinnyhrt i have genuinely been trying to tweet more in prep for this move!! (here is the tweet where i decided this: @v21/1427565742036238336)
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@designCaitlin thank you! me too (also scared, definitely more scared this morning, hah)
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@syntqxypghvz courage!!!
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@jaytholen beautiful. i feel warmth radiating through me just gazing on this.
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@Skate121Ltd it has taken a long time to get set up for it!!
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RT @OguchiShinya: 昔のケータイのモックアップを改めて見てた。このinfobar2はほんとに名作だと思う。深澤直人さんデザイン。丸っとした形状にすべての要素が破綻なく詰め込まれてる。この色味と質感も最高。iPhone発売前の最後のau design projec…
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@alphachar i am adding you to my list of beta testers now!!!
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@KeirRice thank you!! me too!
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@RachelRayns @DigiCatapult i don't think i do! but that would be great, please do
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@faustbot2 hi there! thank you for asking & thank you for your patience: it's alive again! patreon.com/v21
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@Bart_Kamski oh! congraulations!!
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@undividual everyone i know is quitting their jobs and i cheer every time. thank you!
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RT @SzMarsupial: i think it is very difficult to fully process that given the particular interactions of male power and police power, there…
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RT @folmerkelly: one of the weirdest scariest things in indie dev is scrambling to play a newly released game bc it sounds similar to your…
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@eurmalian hah! no, i had actually handed in my notice by that point, but that seemed a bit rude/weird to mention on Discord!
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@eurmalian i had a lovely trip up & met some nice people playing on the Sunday, btw!
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@eurmalian thank you!
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RT @histoftech: I guess it just keeps making me think of a remote worker in a difficult working environment being given one more tool to (h…
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@visakanv the problem is, it helps the "conservative self-owns" Twitter account, too
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@visakanv hard not to get sucked in sometimes :)
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@spacetreasured it's like a generic version of an Ocean's 11 paradox @v21/993218430194069505
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rest is not productive, and that's the point of it. productivity is not the goal. @whereistanya/1444009587288514567
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@Beatboxingbot what's up?
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@Beatboxingbot hm, yeah, i see it. having a look into it now.
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@catacalypto @Theophite do you think we'll build a city on the moon?
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@Beatboxingbot hm - this is more mysterious than i hoped, I'm afraid - but will update you if I have news (& have kicked stuff that might make it start working)
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me reading about the Let's Encrypt certificate expiry issue: looks fun! glad that'll never affect me! me having to deal with errors caused by the Let's Encrypt cert expiring: oh noooo!
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@Beatboxingbot okay, i know what i have to do, but it involves upgrading something that might break something else... so i am not going to do it at 11pm, hah. will hopefully get to it this weekend, or else next week.
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@Beatboxingbot if you're curious, the issue is that the website that hosts the images your bot tweets from has a security certificate that relies upon a security certificate that has changed over... and my server doesn't yet know to trust the new certificate, so refuses to download the images.
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@Beatboxingbot this thing: @v21/1444063891206594561
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CBDQ notice: a subset of bots that tweet images have stopped doing that, for reasons related to the quote-tweet. will be fixing this soon, but not right now: upgrading things at 11:30pm is rarely a good idea. @v21/1444063891206594561
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on tree planting as a panacea @ForrestFleisch1/1444008823350603780
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RT @Trundles_bot: From The Thames and Hudson Manual of Rendering with Pen and Ink, by Robert W. Gill. Illustrations originally by Letraset.…
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RT @geoffmanaugh: Holy crap. Malware hidden in a strand of DNA hijacks the computer that analyzes that particular gene sequence. https://t.…
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RT @jennineak: An excerpt of my experience incl on-record confirmations from my editors that I was the subject of meetings with Israeli dip…
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RT @ahandvanish: Turning a Corner in ME/CFS Research: mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/medicina/medicina-57-01012/article_deploy/medicina-57-01012-v2.pdf #pwME #LongCovid ME/CFS is a multi-system disorder, with dy…
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was also seeing this when trying to install with nvm - nvm thinks it's there, "which node" points to the nvm install, but same error. old nvm installs of node continue to work fine.
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@mcclure111 tried both (tried restarting the machine, even), same deal
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@cr3 haha - there's an x in it! but i did try chmod a+x, no effect
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@russss ah, that would've made sense! but alas: v21@v21:~/node-v14.18.0-linux-x64/bin$ ldd ./node not a dynamic executable
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@mcclure111 @cr3 oh, that would make sense - but no, pretty sure this is 64 bit executable on a 64 bit machine
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@cr3 @mcclure111 @russss tipped me off to possibly the answer: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 does not exist, even though it's a 64 bit system.
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oh, hey, it is!
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@russss @cr3 @mcclure111 thank you all for your help in tracking down this issue. i have decided the actual fix is to migrate all my shit to a server that is less crufty and ancient, and meanwhile have patched it a different way. but it is very helpful to know what the core of the problem is.
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after delving into the very depths of linux system admin nonsense, i fixed it a different way (and have some less urgent maintenance to do generally) @v21/1444374209157898245?s=20
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but, as evidenced by this cover of Shonen Jump, it is now fixed @v21/1444381768870735878?s=20
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@radiodario i am so glad that worked and i did not have to actually solve the issue with not finding the 64 bit linker
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@radiodario haha, yes - pulled a failed image URL from @ShounenCovers in the logs to test on my own account.
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(is this a good time to plug my Patreon? i'm going to plug my Patreon) if you would like to support me diving down this kind of arcane rabbithole to keep things working, you can do that here: patreon.com/v21
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@slunglowalan seems to me that the polls still haven't shifted much - within the margin of error, or close to it. most people don't care about politics, didn't notice the speech, haven't changed their minds.
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RT @a2_4am: Quadrilaterals manual: archive.org/details/stx_Readers_Digest_Geometry_Series_Quadrilaterals
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@neoeno yep, I think so - newer node was looking for a linker in a 64 bit path (/lib64/something.so), but my server was upgraded from 32 bit and so doesn't have stuff at the right path (just /lib/something.so)
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@neoeno can see the communal debugging process playing out leading up to this reply @v21/1444377666669395972?s=19 if you want the action replay
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@Beatboxingbot you may have now noticed, but it's working again
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I'm reading Uzumaki to creep myself out before bedtime, and this has been said before, but the way that horrific things happen and people don't leave, they stay living in the town as the ominous spiral smoke gathers over the crematorium, as folks go mad.
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The trains still run, people commute in and out for work or school. You could leave any time, but... no-one else is? Where would you go? Why would you say you left? You talk to your girlfriend but she isn't sure, so you don't.
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I'm sure there's no real life parallels you could make about this.
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so happy Grimes is back
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the normals are great, but it's the shadows that knock it out of the park @lettier/1444511129691213825
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RT @SellingAMirror:
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i had a chance to play frog zk with friends and it was a good time. pinging off corners and trying to get down some difficult cracks, going "oh, i think this was a bad route". best representation of going bouldering with friends in a videogame i've seen. thatsnot.fun/zk-map-for-stranger/
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however - it is the kind of game that wants you to strafe jump. so. might also be a representation of going bouldering with friends and then it turns out you're not actually very good at climbing.
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it is refreshing to play a videogame with extraneous elements, facing up to a problem without knowing there is a solution, or knowing there might be multiple solutions (but also, as Bennett says, without it being procedural. authored but loosely)
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the opposite of the thing you learn to do in a puzzle game, where it's unsatisfying if every clue is not used at least once. versus real life problems which are generally about wading through a mass of irrelevancies trying to pick out the crucial thing that it turns on.
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Boris Johnson saying judge me on wage growth vs Keir Starmer losing Andy McDonald for refusing to commit to a higher minimum wage. The problem with selling yourself as the lesser of two evils is what happens when the bigger evil starts making the right noises.
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see also, "common ownership doesn't mean nationalisation" vs the Southeastern rail franchise being taken over by the government.
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@nielsen_holly i was about to give the practical advice of pruning most of the little lemons early on, but, uh
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@Radstronomical @doougle saw the first ep and I thought there were some beautiful shots at the end but also, yeah, dunno if I want more of that
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@doougle @Radstronomical yeah, same. definitely fascinating that this is the first kdrama to land big in the English speaking world
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RT @Freedland: He's doing it quietly, but Boris Johnson is weakening the essential elements of a liberal democracy: independent courts, a f…
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@larsiusprime @mold_time naw, because the thing is, after doing the big long web series, you can edit it up as a book (& probably get it published by someone reputable, you have an audience built for it)
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@larsiusprime @mold_time I'd not argue for this path for everyone, because some people just like to write and are not up for all the labour of Being Online. But when it works it works...
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@hollygramazio @adrianhon There's a scene where he's playing the game she worked on! (but also, yes)
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@hollygramazio I was thinking of that list/graphs/etc while watching Squid Game, glad you're updating it!
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@hollygramazio Not watched, but saw "Alice in Borderland" on Netflix
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@Placebo_yue when the light stops moving, that gentle patchiness in the outline - if you look close you can see it's definitely not a standard blur.
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@vivschwarz had heard a rumour about this, thanks for checking it out
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@shalev_moran @hollygramazio @adrianhon oh, i guess. plus it solves plot problems: - well paying enough for her to live comfortably in NY - kinda creative/non corporate - matches her grumpy hermit nature - has to turn up to like, 1 meeting, but it's not a huge deal if she blows it off all week
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@hollygramazio i just remembered the "isekai" genre exists. i cannot hope to be comprehensive, but scanning this list tells me you'll find a bunch here fandomspot.com/best-isekai-anime/
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@hollygramazio i binged a bunch of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime while bedbound last year & have watched like one ep of Sword Art Online and never really got into it. SAO counts because it's explicitly a game, but most of these shows (like slime) just have generic RPG fantasy settings
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@hollygramazio by which i mean, like, they explicitly talk about gaining abilities, and monsters being "level 1" etc.
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@hollygramazio also remember reading this one about being a vending machine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborn_as_a_Vending_Machine,_I_Now_Wander_the_Dungeon - also not textually inside a videogame, just set in a RPG world
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@AnnaHollinrake @lyyyndseyyy @arranseaton can recommend this fella djmmusic.com/p-3466-tiger-laptop-stand-dj-stand-with-clamps.aspx?affiliateid=REP-000001&gclid=CjwKCAjwqeWKBhBFEiwABo_XBnioWAHlG7hQGsb6wHtwFmUbbXoMZXG9Dt6QZRQ5SLkpBH_D1mZWdBoCPKIQAvD_BwE (also with external monitor alongside)
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@thairyn I look forward to changing my name by deed poll to "V Buckenham" and then spending the rest of my life fighting with online forms that insist that a first name must be at least 2 letters long.
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today I am migrating CBDQ over to a shiny new server, which is a good excuse to bump the fact that I quit my job and relaunched my Patreon! if you would like to help pay for the new server, or indeed for me having to understand SSL cert migration, then: patreon.com/v21
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and the full announcement thread here: @v21/1443618666982019072?s=19
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I guess I should also say: CBDQ stands for Cheap Bots, Done Quick! It's a free site that will let you make a Twitterbot, and will run it for you. It's pretty easy to use, no coding experience necessary. Create one today: cheapbotsdonequick.com
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okay, back to messing with servers
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@sawdustbear oh that is so lovely to hear, thank you for saying. it's such a thing, to be able to just make something in an evening and share it immediately.
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RT @JenKatWrites: wait sorry, I found one exception, this man has to continue working, for his bird wife https://t.co/15IrmWWd82
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RT @danhett: I am delighted to say that the director's cut of Closed Hands is now LIVE on Steam, for Windows, Mac and Linux! to celebrate…
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@MaxKriegerVG I've been ambiently assuming lots of things are, without ever wanting to engage enough with either half of the equation to know.
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went into a flower labyrinth and found a baby shoe on a sundial and a couple making out
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also some flowers
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@folmerkelly unclear
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@tambourine very nice!
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@wynrush very different feeling thinking that before or after an engineer has spent weeks building the thing 😬
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@ThePatanoiac dril
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enjoying the image of a Facebook sysadmin stuck in traffic, trying to get to the datacenter to plug in a keyboard and monitor to bring facebook back up. t.co/tZPHVnidLe
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(without access to email or any internal tools or documentation. hope you have your colleague's phone number saved! and a good memory for BGP configs!)
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@SzMarsupial youtube.com/watch?v=eOfYent6UHQ
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@nachimir that'll do it
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@vogon/1445106139532722179?s=19 ahah, no, the image of them, like, physically battering down the armoured doors of the server rooms because their passes have stopped working is even better
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RT @TrueAnonPod: I found the intersection of tech and culture
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@nachimir saw a post that was like "if there's ever a time to expense a bulldozer on the company card..."
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@FreyaHolmer i did not realise that quaternions can't represent angles over 360 (it makes sense, i just hadn't considered it). thanks!
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this is a good explanation of the thing @alexhern/1445130869308538887?s=20
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boo, they fixed it
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@ojahnn oh WOW. congratulations!! welcome, little one!
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@Artaggg @nachimir named after the hardware device for preventing pushing buttons, which is in turn named after a small child called Molly who once pushed a button she wasn't supposed to.
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@gracebruxner *such* a good coat
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RT @Casparnova: Ngl. Really happy with how these pages came out in print
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current situation: need to upgrade the compiler to reinstall the database to test the upgrade to the dependency that doesn't work with the upgrade to the runtime needed to fix the certificate issue
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maybe the main virtue of programmers is bloodymindedness
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RT @pitdesi: Drones raining from the sky in Zhengzhou 😬 Word on the street is that a rival drone company that lost the bid interfered to…
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@GalaxyKate ah, a sequel! @a2_4am/1444408551498256399
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RT @sylvia_nyc: We are mostly taught about protest as being about convincing people in power to change their ideas, when it’s actually abou…
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@mcclure111 laughed out loud at this
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@badambulist hey, happy birthday
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update: my laptop's OS upgrade says it will be completed in 30 hours and 17 minutes.
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@lorenschmidt i know them better "random walk" algorithms, but i understand that might be underspecific in a library full of randomness.
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@Andy_Makes oh, this is really nice
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enjoyed this poem about worms @ryanjjvance/1444344710223499268
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RT @histoftech: This. And, as more women enter a field the pay GOES DOWN. So if women “chose” the “right subjects” in high numbers those wo…
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I admitted defeat & turned the heating on.
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@soft_jules Happy birthday!
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@yannseznec dunno about the thread, but they probably were referring to the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which, yeah, did have DARPA funding
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i'm clearing out my open, unsaved Sublime Text files
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a csv file of baby names for Scotland. a JSON file of all of my Twitter DMs, ever. notes about making sure i handle touchcancel (for what?). interview answers for something (apparently i like the videogame Kentucky Route Zero)
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drafts of a poem (not posting that). a text file that starts "what's The Point?". "leak in bedroom 1 - landlord on it". sql queries for finding spam on CBDQ. a list of rooms in this flat. this list: @v21/1372980782638243840
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a file with the details of how logrotate is set up on my server, which is a task i am currently procrastinating on doing by doing this. bingo_calls.csv ("Kelly’s Eye", "One Little Duck", "Cup of Tea",...). "slime rancher thoughts"
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a file which is mainly notes from a medical call ("no stroke / tumor / anything terrible"), then ends: ..e.t.o. ..r. question mark one two three four five six seven eight nine ten somewhere wales diving at quill lake
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@KommanderKlobb is twitter not an archive??
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@KommanderKlobb also i just remembered the context for @v21/1445683290338316288?s=20, it was trying to help you make things fly around in circles
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this textfile in full @v21/1142876464020246528?s=20
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a 90 day plan, written when i started at Niantic. "Apple is a type of food that restores 4 Hunger Points." "BFFFBBFRRR 1000110" "i%(t|0) b=i;a=2;while(i>a++){b=b%a} joe dep couple! job!!"
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"waking up, and opening your computer, and reading an unsaved text file, among many open and unsaved text files, containing only the words be kinder to yourself"
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and that's all of those windows closed. thanks for following along!
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RT @sam_lavigne: New work with @tegabrain: The Perfect Sleep App creates the ideal sleep, work and leisure schedule for you every day. The…
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@nielsen_holly @its_natclayton @innesmck back in the day, we considered doing Now Play This awards. much easier to get PR for awards than for a festival/exhibition. and it'd promote good people. but fundamentally... we didn't want to give specific people prizes and turn it into a competition.
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@nielsen_holly @its_natclayton @innesmck which is to say, I totally get why everyone keeps inventing awards to give people. but really, winning is usually about having the energy to apply/get people to apply for you to enough stuff.
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@tambourine i have only read the Chrestomanci series!
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QTing to say: yeahhh!! look at Marie's film! it looks so beautiful! @TheGrannies_ are great! so excited for this! @tigershungry/1445734186137042944
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@TheGrannies_ some spoilers for the film, maybe: @Kalonica_/1142302833657516032?s=20
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@tigershungry @TheGrannies_ if you read my tweet closely, it maps an emotional arc of going "yes! this looks great! excited for marie! but... also other people? also excited for other people! let's end with 'excited' before i start getting too bogged down with a credits list"
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i keep seeing stuff about how social media platforms should be obliged to show you a chronological feed. and imagining how TikTok would work that way.
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i like the reverse chronological feed on Twitter, too, but different platforms work in different ways.
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RT @pangalactic: Remember when the BBC said staff couldn't join Pride marches for fear of breaching "no bias" rules?
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whoa! great news! been great to see studios like Die Gute Fabrik & KO_OP shift to a 4 day week, but to see a big studio follow suit - well, it makes arguing for it elsewhere a lot easier. @EidosMontreal/1446113805272948738
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from the studio POV: it is hard to hire talented & experienced gamedevs right now, in pretty much all disciplines. i bet this'll work wonders for recruitment.
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not only does this say we care about employees' wellbeing (and we've demonstrated it in a meaningful way), it also says that there's the internal culture of productivity and actually getting things done that would enable this.
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@samuelthomson my understanding is that the tech industry in general has a labour shortage, because lots of people are burnt out and have saved up enough cash through the pandemic to quit.
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CBDQ test, pls ignore: 010110101 : testing local posting again ⤻⤼⤻⤼
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RT @jennygzhang: for @Gawker i wrote a long essay about the cynical weaponization of identity, how it's enabled by a culture that conflates…
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@starsandrobots i'm not saying this isn't the right way to do it... but i like the adrenaline of performing live, and i hate editing video
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@starsandrobots i guess mainly what i'm saying is that it is more work as a speaker
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revived my plotter! good to get stuff slowly going again.
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RT @brokenbottleboy: Absolutely delighted with this charity shop find — a copy of Gibbon’s ‘Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire’ recovered w…
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@notquitereal cheer up by listening to Angel Olsen covering Safety Dance
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approaching the end of my first week working on my own stuff, and i have not yet managed to complete the task i started Monday with
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my week: youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
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"deferred maintenance", etc etc
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reading this thread in juxtaposition with people posting about the desire & difficulty of doing a TV adaptation of The Culture books (lots of which are about a CIA-analogue operating on behalf of an ambiguous utopia) @michael___wave/1446513534842589187
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this week's 50 Years of Text Games is a motivating (to me) testament to the enabling power of accessible tools if50.substack.com/p/2008-violet
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as a toolmaker, I would say that the main reason that knowledge workers can't modify their tools is because their bosses won't let them, not because they can't code @ivanhzhao/1446501346929221661
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@J3dz Gcode over serial :) but I have an ebay search to see if I can pick up an old HP plotter if they come up...
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@JuleRiede I have an Eleksdraw, it works fine but needed a bit of custom software work to get a good setup for sending SVGs to it. But I plan to get an Axidraw - bigger plotting area & more reliable
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tautology cake is made of cake mix
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@awesommelier oh my god <3 <3 <3
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@awesommelier honestly, just impressive?! but newborns lose all their hair then grow it back, right? (maybe i take it back, babies are weird)
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@tszzl if i wanted to move to the suburbs i would've moved to the suburbs
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RT @woketopus: The guy who created PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) appears to have reached some higher level of coder enlightenment https://t.co/nD4EV…
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@jericawebber i got a fancy standing desk but it's lowest setting is high enough that my feet also dangle. i also went with a footrest.
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@jericawebber not really? but it's the footrest @vivschwarz got and then decided wasn't right for her, so it was the footrest that was available.
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@zizmakesgames @vivschwarz @jericawebber i also use a stool that was originally part of a Now Play This art installation about chess. this is also not helpful.
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as far as I can see, the fundamental difference between DAOs and co-ops is that in co-ops voting rights and ownership are typically split between all members equally, and in DAOs it's a function of how much equity you have bought or been given.
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DAOs like to say the word "stakeholder", but in practice that just means "owner of tokens with voting rights"
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the blockchain is mainly relevant here because it means you can't identify the entities with control of particular tokens. this prevents DAOs from operating within the traditional co-op model: "one member, one vote" doesn't work if you have no idea even how many members you have.
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@GalaxyKate beetroot juice & oil from some sun roasted tomatoes, both from a jar
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RT @DarkPrimus: @quendergeer @crossslide @mcclure111 The revenge tragedy, which can be thought of as the precursor to both modern horror an…
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RT @ben_awareness: The Demi Lovato ghost/alien hunting show is so unbelievably good. She just drives around the country with her fucked up…
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the blockchain is kind of magical in the complex things it can build and prove to be true. but it can only prove properties of the blockchain - and people don't live on the blockchain, just wallet addresses and their respective tokens.
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RT @LiaSae: They’re just gonna make me keep tapping the sign aren’t they. The sign says “THIS IS WHY YOU CAN’T FIND SO-CALLED DIVERSE CANDI…
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(as a reminder, these cryptographic proofs are proved by either: - voraciously consuming electricity - voraciously consuming hard drives - directly rewarding people in proportion to their existing capital (this is the "good" one))
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@Jam_sponge i mean, it's a relatable series of events. but it will also be hard to have much sympathy when it crashes. and it shows you can speed-run creating a complex financial system from first principles in about... a decade?
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whew! finally! now for some dutch houses.
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look at that! @v21/1447846699309883392?s=20
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wait, are they Dutch? i guess they technically are, it turns out they're in Curaçao, which is officially a county of The Netherlands. but is also in the Caribbean. but Dutch architecture, still... anyway, the important thing is that the code works.
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@IainL7 oh, no, no, don't worry about that, that level of pun game is above me, i literally just grabbed a picture to debug with.
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can someone reply to this tweet with the word "frog"?
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@iotwatch love to open a meeting room, see that people are inside and i've just interrupted, say "oops, sorry", and then go off to find another meeting room to do that to
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@NotInventedHere hello there! (frog)
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@ignatzhoch hello there! (frog)
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@innesmck hello there! (frog)
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@bonaneh hello there! (frog)
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hey it works
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@pillowfort it only posts every five minutes! jeez, have a little patience
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@davemakes hello there! (frog)
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@bonaneh hello there! (frog)
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@pillowfort hello there! (frog)
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@pillowfort hello there! (frog)
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@yoondust hello there! (frog)
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@pillowfort hello there! (frog)
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@ConnorSherlock hello there! (frog)
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@lingmops hello there! (frog)
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@its_natclayton hello there! (frog)
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@sludgetown hello there! (frog)
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@cytgyt hello there! (frog)
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@alexhern hello there! (frog)
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whoo-hoo!
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i have now turned off the frogs
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@SzMarsupial maybe i'll turn them back on once i've finished this migration
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@vivschwarz so i can break things without people complaining!
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CBDQ notice: going to take down the website so i can migrate it to a new server! should all be up in an hour or so. wish me luck!
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@lupinlesbian yep - just have to transfer the database over, which i'm doing now
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@mtrc I am probably going to squish the frog with the new database, unfortunately
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@mtrc but here's a frog just for you
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@alexhern right click, save as :)
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posting from the new server!
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looks like it's all back up & running! a few things to tidy up, but looking good. will be keeping an eye on it - but please let me know if anything seems strange or broken!
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and thank you to my patrons for supporting me in scuttling around figuring out dependencies and database settings and so on patreon.com/v21
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RT @pangmeli: I don't often post glass because truthfully I don't like most glass art, but louis comfort tiffany's glass vases (tiffany as…
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just ordered this! it looks great - practical and inspiring at the same time (just like Rich). just from the chapter headings, it looks like it's all the bits i've kind of had to pick up from osmosis or figure out for myself written down in a sensible order. @rich_lem/1447930688150310913
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@Kinaetron tbf there are many more large scale websites (thousands) out there than there are games engines (tens). but also i agree that there is a lack of good resources in game dev, in all areas.
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"Sexbot 1.0 (NSFW [for AI research purposes only])" @lazerwalker/1447945037849972741
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RT @mediumnaturals: Happy national coming out day! Be gentle with yourself- there is no “right way” to come out. For example, I came out by…
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@come_home_dad is this cake from Death Stranding???
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@come_home_dad anyway: happy birthday!! so glad you decided to become an art critic & also very glad you decided to stop doing that and become a games critic!
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@come_home_dad ah-hahah, that's such a Death Stranding thing to do
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RT @golan: Generative plots by @CMUSchoolofArt +@CMUIDeATe undergraduates in my #PlotterTwitter "Drawing with Machines" course at @creative…
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RT @metasynthie: I've been thinking about this for a while... and realized that trends for playing at labor in games have moved over time f…
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@metasynthie i feel like the game design problem of "make it satisfying that the numbers go up" is better understood than "make it satisfying to repeat the same action over and over". but that might be a result of the preferences you just described.
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@Coleo_Kin holy shit
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@Coleo_Kin i love this, i love that the Ariane guy is on itch making Hopepunk games
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@Coleo_Kin i'm gonna steal this for my "i love videogames" thread, if that's okay - do you want to be credited for it?
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i love videogames (from arianeb.itch.io/hopepunk-city)
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RT @darth_erogenous: A number does not increase. 2 doesn't 'become' 3, it is replaced. Do you understand? We don't die, we do not 'become'…
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"A banking system is a superposition of fraud and genius that interposes itself between investors and entrepreneurs." interfluidity.com/v2/2669.html
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wait, authors on Medium can see the random bits of text you select within their articles?? and your name??? huh!! @christapeterso/1448020116264800256
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do you idly select chunks of text on webpages as you read them?
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@henryfaber look i only have 4 options to play with here!!
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RT @TatianaTMac: an indirect demand could look like, “we need to do X ASAP.” “we” in a lot of situations is an unspoken substitute for “yo…
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@MummyComic @DS_90210 huh! thanks for letting me know, i'll dig into it (now 10pm here, so might be a Tomorrow Problem)
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@MummyComic @DS_90210 wow! this is seriously impressive work. hey, @GalaxyKate have you seen this source code?
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hey look, it's duplicated
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ah, looks like @MummyComic found a bug! 😅 if you have two SVG images in a single tweet, then the SVG renderer gets confused and only gives you one of them back. will fix tomorrow! (and the other issue i found looking into this one, hah)
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not duplicated! just the same colourscheme, which is fine, there's only so many colours to choose from.
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(what we learn here is that parallelism is bad and confuses the computer)
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@SzMarsupial
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@SzMarsupial nature red in tooth and claw
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@MummyComic @DS_90210 okay! made a fix & pushed it - please do let me know if anything weird pops up, or if the bug remains. it's a bit of a tricky race condition one, so...
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@MichaelBaird i think you have to click the highlight button - but it would be easy to do that by accident
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what's better?
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@GeorgiaBronte @JaneCommon @EmmaSzewczak as someone waiting to hear back from Kings about getting a wisdom tooth out (that has now broken in half), this is useful but also disappointing to hear.
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@lingmops sometimes i post polls because i'm curious to see what people think, and sometimes i post polls because i want to impose a forced binary choice on my followers
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@lingmops what i'm saying is: you're welcome :)
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@yannseznec yessss. just leaving this on on a loop
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okay, i'm having to deal with it myself now, and the commonjs => ECMA module transition is really annoying
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@faustbot2 thank you!!! <3
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more programming moaning: the package i use to render SVGs has a deep dependency that injects itself and breaks a particular usage of https.request that the nicer twitter API library i'm trying to switch to uses
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time to fork some packages, i guess!!
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@DavidLublin @Patreon thank you <3333
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@DavidLublin @Patreon nearly typoed that <£ which is maybe just as fitting, haha
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RT @DavidLublin: Yessss! I am now a proud patron of @v21 on @Patreon, and if you love the amazing “Cheap Bots Done Quick” as much as me the…
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the package i use to render SVGs is within a lerna monorepo, which means it's basically impossible to fork? currently moving to a different and less efficient SVG rendering package with the same bug, but that's easier to fork
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CBDQ notice: some bumpy service for the next few hours, trying to deploy some big updates
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still some stuff to fish through & tidy up, but it seems to be okay?? do let me know if you notice any changed behaviour (especially around SVG rendering)
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@genmon ah, i feel like i read something about someone getting banned for trying to do this... a retargeting link you keep a secret, and only click on it yourself...
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@genmon or just block book all the ads for yourself, for an expensive and ineffective way to do ad blocking
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@kevinmarks @genmon oh wow, that's great
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@ldodds @allthebarclays here is a good place to post! thank you for letting me know, this is very helpful (see earlier tweets about deploying a new version of the SVG generation code)
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RT @boringwhitedad:
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free frogs! limited time offer! just reply to this tweet with the word "frog"
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the frogs are going to be delayed until i fix the bug i was testing with the frog offer. i might even have to frog by hand.
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@v21_priv hello
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@dethe there shouldn't be! especially not when using the button from within the website.
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@dethe i have been upgrading code (read breaking things) today, so very possible that's the cause - looking into it now
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@acgodliman manual frog
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@xuhulk no frog for you!!
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@LydNicholas sometimes the frog was with us all along @v21/1448684964153749508?s=20
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hey look i posted a frog (from within an SVG)
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@bang_noise thank you for letting me know! there was an annoying thing where the renderer was taking the snapshot before rendering external images, which i fixed by... manually inserting a delay. i love it.
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update: things were not okay (replies were broken, as were SVGs containing images). but those things are, i hope, now fixed. still some odd stuff to look into, but going to dig into that more tomorrow.
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thank you everyone who helped me test whether CBDQ could post frogs :)
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and i am obliged to plug my Patreon: patreon.com/v21. if you want to help me keep the Twitterbots posting, here's where you can do that.
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@israelcevans sssh!
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@LydNicholas if i knew how to do that on purpose i would get up to such mischief! maybe Twitter is hiding my tweets because i have posted too many frogs?
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@SerinDelaunay @Trichet_Nested oh, thanks for letting me know - might be a permanent thing, but I think I saw an option for it.
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@SerinDelaunay @Trichet_Nested (now using Puppeteer as a rendering backend, as the previous one had been deprecated for a few years now)
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@jonty no way I'm writing a regex that'll catch that
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@SerinDelaunay @Trichet_Nested we're cooking with modern Chrome!!!
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@duncangeere dunno what happened there. here's your frog
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@terrycavanagh that... seems pretty reasonable, yeah. Will add it to the list!
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I just saw The Green Knight. Big film. I like it when films have a strong theme through them, in this case "Dev Patel is hot and people want to fuck him".
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@TheWhitePube It's not like I've never clicked a hashtag in this kind of context. But, like, I probably wouldn't in this situation.
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@lauraehall oh!! thank you for the frog!
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@ldodds @allthebarclays huh, damn. thanks for letting me know. had hoped I'd fixed it by bodging in a delay for it to render, but I guess I have to bodge in even more delay?
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frontend experts, a question for you. I'm using Puppeteer to puppet a headless Chromium to render SVGs. tried triggering the capture after the load event, but images within the SVGs hadn't rendered. is there a better event to listen for? or do I just bodge a few seconds delay in?
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@ldodds @allthebarclays think it's just rendering delays - waiting for all the networking stuff to have happened. are the images especially large? (I would still like to fix this on my end, it's a sharp corner for any future user)
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@guided1 SVGs are in the initial page, but DOMContentLoaded happens before all the network requests are done, so I think it's too early
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after a bit of digging into it, it seems like the answer is to wait for two requestAnimationFrames to pass. seems like there should be a simpler way! stackoverflow.com/questions/14578356/how-to-detect-when-an-image-has-finished-rendering-in-the-browser-i-e-painted
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('load' is fired after the browser knows what to paint. but it just does the actual painting on it's own time, some time after that)
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@guided1 yep! getting this after waiting for the load event, then waiting half a sec!
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@guided1 it's slow because it's running on a server without any GPUs. but the order of events is normal!
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@Orangetronic just loaded as DOM nodes
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@guided1 was looking at those - but no event for "done painting" only "we're starting painting now!"
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after actually trying that... nope. time to just crank the delay up!
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@Orangetronic i would've assumed that would fire after the 'load' event - which is too early!
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@ldodds @allthebarclays have cranked up the delay again & tested with a few Barclays - seems to be good now? lmk!
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@Orangetronic @defaced i did think about that... but: - a SO comment saying that the resize happens before load these days - they're user-supplied SVGs, so lots of potential for hairy edge cases once i start poking around inside the SVGs themselves.
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@netgal_emi it.. should be? not sure why this didn't frog
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@Orangetronic @defaced i wish it was just a timeout!! no, it's a full-on delay.
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@Orangetronic @defaced yeah - pulling in external images, doing funky stuff to make text wrapping work. maybe i would go that route if i was making it now, but i don't want to retroactively break bots if i can avoid it.
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@defaced @Orangetronic already waiting on that - it's the delay between getting the data and painting it that's the issue.
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@v21_priv hello
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@defaced @Orangetronic happy to not support animation: my test SVG is a simple one just containing an <image> element. and i tried 4 RAFs, and it still wasn't fully painted- doesn't seem like they necessarily block on waiting for painting to complete.
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loved Jelly No Puzzle, so I'm excited for this qrostar0.itch.io/yugo-puzzle @qrostar_en is one of my favourite puzzle designers. hard but always interesting.
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@DavidJEastman1 @qrostar_en maybe not as hard as either? I finished Jelly no Puzzle & didn't manage that with either of those. but still within that genre.
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hey, nice! @Toadsanime/1449050962149187584
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makes total sense, too, from a purely pragmatic POV. either the game doesn't use Steam payment services, in which case they're freeloaders and why not boot 'em. or they do, in which case Steam is acting like a complicated crypto exchange. which they absolutely don't wanna be.
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one of the biggest headaches Steam has to deal with is people using it to launder stolen money/rinse stolen credit cards. buy games/items, resell for real money, etc. this is just another channel for that to happen via.
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@alexhern those things absolutely have value, and they know it. but the problem with allowing people to extract that value is that game economies become another way to use stolen credit cards. and then Steam gets hit with the chargebacks.
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@SzMarsupial two ways to read it, too: - they genuinely suck at the difficult jobs they just picked up with no training - they are deliberately sabotaging the strikebreaking attempt
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@SzMarsupial both are good, tbqh!
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excellent advice for game designers, too t.co/3Vd5GKiBau
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@FreyaHolmer I have a Jekyll setup that basically just embeds a set of files into some templates. Has survived not being looked at for many years! not that I'm especially recommending Jekyll, but there are simple ways to use static site generators to do templating.
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friends are looking for a videogames project manager with experience shipping for consoles. 3 days per week (but pays enough I could live off just this), remote (EU timezone), cool team (& genuinely diverse). DM me if you're interested & I can give more details/forward you on.
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@dethe hi - just to let you know, i looked into it & the "Tweet" button was broken. but has now been fixed!
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@catacalypto Mastaba Snoopy
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@dethe <3
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@tanyaxshort I love following @leighalexander
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@mountain_ghosts these are secondary markets for the games, vs the original digital release. iam8bit etc take it on because there's a lot of expertise and inventory risk with making physical goods, and the original publisher wouldn't want to take that on themselves.
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@mountain_ghosts the biggest appeal for the devs is it's nice to have your game in a box. and also a supplementary (and probably largely non-rivalrous) sales stream.
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@mountain_ghosts idk typical splits for physical editions, but i don't think the devs are getting shafted by them - buy them if you like the game & want to have it in box form!
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@polm23 wow!! v important feature, thank you so much for letting me know!
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RT @mushymoss_:
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RT @joewintergreen: reminder that Robo Recall has the classic "office chair with a fucked wheel" and they did it by making all the wheels'…
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at a party and a bit drunk and talking about trans stuff and I then started remembering Daniel Lavery's article about trying a binder & tearing up shondaland.com/live/style/a12256604/product-review-g2cb-binder/
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this piece is absolutely the companion piece to the experience of watching the music video for It's Okay To Cry as understanding starts to dawn
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wild to read "the achievement launches mankind into a whole new era of creative visual electronics, with unlimited possibilities in nearly every field from entertainment and education to architecture and medicine" and go... yeah, fair, you were right, no hyperbole. @xfoml/1449408127418331138
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RT @LiamODC: We're looking to hire an organiser for the game workers branch of our union! See the link for more info, and I'm happy to answ…
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love this story. Tamsyn Muir being gentle & sweet & slightly silly. fantasy-magazine.com/11/fiction-archive/the-house-that-made-the-sixteen-loops-of-time/
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seems like I've managed to solve getting the plotter to plot in graphite! however, I have not solved the problem of the cat sitting on the paper mid-plot and ruining the alignment.
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solution involved an upgraded servo motor, a mechanical pencil with an auto-feed mechanism, and a hairband.
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@nachimir still just using a hairband - adjustable pressure is still a dream
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forgot to do my rapid test, was worried I was going to be late leaving waiting for it. but the new pack I have is more rapid than before. 15 minutes!
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RT @youngvulgarian: every politician coming out in favour of banning anonymity on the internet should also give up the right to ever give a…
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at the weekend i was at a party and someone who follows me said they didn't recognise me in person because my profile pic is serious and in person i am very smily. so. if you don't know what i look like irl, i guess you should imagine me smiling.
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my macbook opinion is that the late 2013 macbook pro I use is a good computer and was a good purchasing decision
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i had a much newer macbook pro i used when i was at Niantic. only two things that were better about it were: - battery was less worn out - Zoom would let me do virtual backgrounds
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anyway, the new computers look nice. i could imagine getting one if this computer dies or Apple refuses to let me build for modern iOS on it.
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@reneereizman it's weird, right, especially if like me you think a good talk should have a throughline & a sense of an narrative arc. but the best artist's talks i've seen have been an artist just kind of puttering around & showing you files on their computer and some cool stuff they once did.
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@reneereizman just a lot of "here's a cool project i did, here's why i thought it was a good idea to do"
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@artbymarek comes with a new charger that doesn't have electrical tape on it
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@artbymarek (pls don't look at the state of my charging cable)
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RT @ojahnn: So we also got into the habit of saying hello this way - first to the birds, then to each other. It's a simple but extremely re…
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@mountain_ghosts do you have XCode installed?
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@reneereizman the focus is you! just gotta lean into the ego of it & trust that the work is interesting & that the connections are invisible to you because they're literally the way your tastes & interests work.
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@mcclure111 @MuhammadSmiry the book's cover has several people lying together inside a sardine tin
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@mcclure111 @MuhammadSmiry the book "Normal People" by Sally Rooney, that is
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@qrostar_en every level is either impossible or have a cool trick i see immediately. the impossible ones also have a cool trick, it just hides in the gaps between what i know to be true and what i assume to be true.
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building forests for cats wellcomecollection.org/articles/YV3HHRIAACEARa1V
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@LydNicholas I also get it! (I have read "More Work For Mother")
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RT @MarsMissionImgs: #CuriosityRover image taken on #Sol3265 at 11:37:04.364 AM with #RearHazcam #Mars #NASA #Space
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@notquitereal i want to like it, just to be contrary, but...
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@notquitereal it's a teaser not the actual show, but i can't help but think about how much the show gives everything room to breathe, the kind of unhurried jazz cool of the whole thing. whereas this feels like Dick & Dom In Da Bungalow.
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RT @thebadbucket: been drawing these tiny avenues of a town as warmups. i find them quite meditative
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@katbamkapow I quit my job (you might've seen), but am doing some contracting back in the office, and the experience of doing a specific set of tasks without any meetings or vague "keeping up with" to do is amazing.
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the thing that gets me is how reasonable these asks are. they would make the content moderation situation on Facebook better, and they would not be especially costly to implement. @RMac18/1382366931307565057
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@__eel__ yes, I assume that's a huge part of it. and they do want to be able to hire & fire moderator workforce quickly.
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RT @Antpantone: starfruit ⁂
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@ArgosHelpers hi - I can't login to the Argos website. Upon pressing the login button, I see a loading spinner momentarily, and then no response. I see the same across multiple browsers. I have tried creating a new account - same spinner upon hitting register.
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@ArgosHelpers And I can't reset my password either - password reset attempts to go through, but no email has been received (including in my spam folder)
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@ArgosHelpers I am stuck talking to the chatbot in your DMs, and can't seem to send a message that isn't picked up by it
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@ArgosHelpers none of these options apply? what's the sequence of options i need to enter to get put through to an advisor?
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@ArgosHelpers this loop is the best i can seem to do
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currently playing a very difficult videogame called "attempting to order a laminator from Argos"
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> login to website > website does not respond to login attempt > use web inspector to see if i can debug the issue remotely > try creating new account > website also does not respond to that > try new browser, same > try resetting password, no email
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@hollygramazio maybe! i was hoping to just get one since i can expense it & pick it up locally. we'll see how this goes...
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> try contacting customer services on twitter @v21/1450770797119868931 (i have now finally figured out how to break through the loop)
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i have posted about "found videogames" before @v21/1293111483451285505
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i'm sure stand up comedians are glad to hear that nothing people watch on screens has any impact on the real world @adrianhon/1450782886253191169
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@adrianhon thank you! me too!
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i think about this interview all the time @v21/836257339330203649
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@LydNicholas thank you for sharing that <3
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reckon it'll be "Meta"
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@ellaguro @vectorpoem not that I watched much of Veep, but the transition from The Thick of It to Veep feels instructive. although The Thick of It already feels very sympathetic of you compare it to The Day Today/Brass Eye
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I found it @Afro_Herper/1450945056886689802
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people find their own uses for tools @davemakes/1451056787721916420?t=UhWO1iJEh_9g-JCBZR0g-A&s=19
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@davemakes they DO! this is fantastic, thanks for sharing
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RT @jayapapaya: Will use this opportunity to repost a sticker I made for CCC a few tears back https://t.co/VjbPr0D6dJ
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it's definitely "aw fuck, time to unpack the wooly hats and scarves" weather
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thinking up an obscure inside joke to figure out what to name a computer. and then forgetting it. why is this server called Sebastian? I will never (again) know.
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and gloves! fuck!
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@jericawebber exactly!!!
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RT @milkjuus: lmaooo
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@PixieStitchs thank you for participating. your frog:
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@PixieStitchs oh, yeah, whoops, i should... continue to leave that set up exactly the way it is??
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@RandomGameNight ah! yes, i am not too surprised to hear that. i have switched the backend that generates that code. please do send me some examples, i can have a look, and maybe fix it on my end, or maybe suggest some code changes on your side.
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the thing about Typescript is that it is nicer to write Javascript code that interfaces with Typescript code than Javascript code that interfaces with Javascript.
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admittedly you can get most of these benefits by writing JSDoc comments on regular Javascript. but that's basically just a more annoying way to write Typescript.
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not many languages where interfacing with them is easier than interfacing with the language you're writing in
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but then arguably Typescript is more of a souped up linter than a language
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RT @gaymoomin: hi cuties if you read my new short story called IS IT COLD IN THE WATER? i will give you a little kiss: https://t.co/D6U7u4Z…
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@gaymoomin this is fantastic, thank you
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@rachelcoldicutt "available in all good bookshops", as a comparison?
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@rachelcoldicutt and yes, I reckon Apple could've... if they wanted to make iTunes a pleasure to use on Windows & Android. which they didn't & didn't want to.
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@rachelcoldicutt like, it's interesting that the podcast player I use on Android is hooked up to the iTunes podcast directory
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RT @KommanderKlobb: Hello! We're looking for a Technical Artist experienced in Unreal Engine to work with us on our next game. Details here…
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RT @GabrielleBates: Was *not* prepared for this poem by @NatashaOladokun to do what it just did to me??? Someone needs to letterpress this…
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@PunkHotelier seated far left
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RT @katbamkapow: rockstar games' 2006 release "bully" but set in a boarding school for horse girls. thank you
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RT @nickhirst: I absolutely love this. I love that it would make no sense in PowerPoint and yet is utterly perfect.
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are there any proposals for how the ID verification system would work? like, my first instinct would just to be to use a VPN and set up an account abroad. and what counts as social media - would you have to send in ID to comment on a newspaper article?
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(ignoring for a sec the fact that people are perfectly happy to be racist & abusive with their real names attached, and that online abuse had nothing to do with David Amess' death, and... and...)
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many apologies for putting LGB Alliance content on your timeline but my mind just did several loops trying to process this guy's T-shirt. @christapeterso/1451419067722584064
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feels like this basically clears up that "ending online anonymity" is basically a "old media attacks new media" move. @pillowfort/1451474946132258816?t=aYgih9Di7Bf2HSTgTIQyhQ&s=19
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RT @hautepop: Who do you imagine yourself as?
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@pillowfort thank you for participating. your frog:
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@dhof but which parallel do you love?
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in conclusion, no
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CBDQ is down. Not sure why, and I'm currently on a windswept bit of shingle in East Anglia. Will have a look, probably in an hour or two.
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still don't know the cause, but it's back up & running. will investigate more when I am home & reunited with my laptop tomorrow.
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@mrsambarlow I really want to see this film
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based on being offered one of these to accompany it, which meal would you imagine would be most enjoyable?
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@oopsohno Orford Ness!
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@oopsohno it is! and it has a lot of shingle. saw the art exhibition & learned about how they figured out how far bombs fall when they're dropped from a plane
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RT @fasterthanlime: RT 🔒 (with permission): "Ok so, I just read through all 173 pages of the unredacted Google antitrust filing and I have…
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@logodaedalus I am not an expert on this, but I would assume it would be pretty doable! Like, a few days to get it running (for me, someone who hasn't done this before), more time if you want features to make it seem nicer & like it was designed to work that way.
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@logodaedalus this might be a real over-estimate - like, maybe github.com/lazerwalker/twine-app-builder will Just Work
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@logodaedalus I don't know a good job board for it - but if it does turn out to be tricky, I would be happy to have a chat about it (I have been writing a bunch of modern node code recently, am am generally good at pushing my way through dumb code problems)
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@logodaedalus yeah. but also I do think there's a good chance this will Just Work, tbh! so, yeah, either way good luck!
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RT @LauraKerrArt: I write stick work decoration poems for the gothic carpenter the freest artistic kinetic woodworker reprimands dowel…
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CARI here taking the role of the oracle at Delphi in prophecying an event and thereby helping it to come into existence. someone surely is going to see this, google it, and then decide to post. @realmaxkeeble/1451710204110905347
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immediately after posting this, I looked at the QTs. the first post after mine... @DedusmulnTXT/1452240436534337539?t=L8YNeQPs212XlnT8y_mdTg&s=19
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@Lu9_ST it is! would love to see examples of any changes or lingering problems
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I have been saying that Twitter is a collaborative Zettlekasten. @exgenesis/1452226529065422852
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on the other hand... "a play starts when you first hear about it, and ends when you forget it"
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"Play requires the safety of a responsible container" @TheClaudiaBlack/1452219873761898496
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@Lu9_ST should now match up to the behaviour of modern Chrome, so hopefully the browser-rendered preview is accurate
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RT @robdubbin: This Judith Butler piece is so deft and cathartic, on how the fight for trans rights is also the fight against modern fascis…
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a while ago, i started seeing people online who were really horny for Tom Hardy & Venom from Venom as like... a body horror odd couple pairing. which is pretty great? i ended up watching Venom because of it & enjoyed it for that. so, my question is: how horny is the new Venom?
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RT @mattzollerseitz: Reminder that Fox Searchlight is now a subsidiary of the Walt Disney corporation, which is not in the business of dist…
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RT @M_WrenchGang: You want to challenge the car dominated street regime? Start by using the design flaw of the iron cage against it in this…
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RT @seanparsons: So those game developers whining about making a Linux build were actually missing out on decent feedback after all? https:…
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RT @paprbckparadise: Dracula this is wrong
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RT @visakanv: John Berger wrote about them. "Why does their individuality feel like our own? Why is their look more contemporary than any l…
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@katbamkapow WOW!
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RT @amyhoy: if this were true, rugpulls couldn’t happen. but they do. true decentralization is interesting but “web3” doesn’t deliver
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@v21_priv landscape please
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@v21_priv thank you for participating. your frog:
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@SzMarsupial one might even say... "Given that most of these opponents refuse to read any material that might contradict their beliefs or cherrypick from complex texts to support a caricature, how is one to proceed?"
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@Pentadact My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress as Him and Now I Have to Deal with a Geeky Stalker and a Domme Beauty Who Want Me in a Bind!!, or Ladykiller in a Bind
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@Jam_sponge going to make a boardgame built around a jigsaw puzzle just to curse myself with an ambiguous customs classification
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@NotBrunoAgain i could see a reasonable "tiling mud texture" being done through a GAN, but oh right i see what you're referring to, what the hell, don't do that.
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as far as I can tell, in the UK this happened in 1988 (with the introduction of the burgundy machine-readable passport) @kyle_snow_miron/1452715060170735616
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(which was mainly introduced to comply with US standards for their visa waiver programme, fun fact for you there)
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I should say, UK passports were not free of gender before that - they would include title ("Mr" etc), they had a subsidiary section for wives, and if children were included their genders would be marked. But explicit recording and categorising of gender is relatively new.
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holy shit this is an incredibly specific hit of nostalgia @film_girl/1452714517553500162
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@hoskingc she might've just got her own passport!
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@hoskingc (I read "deleted" not "deceased")
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@LiaSae I disagree? Or, with a distributed remote workforce, I don't see that there's much choice but to use it to reach large segments of the workforce. of course, you want to shift conversations off there asap, but for broad activation it's hard to avoid.
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@LiaSae like, the context is Apple blocking channels where people were sharing salary info - it's not union organising itself, but it is creating the conditions for support for unionisation
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@LiaSae basically, i am sure the employees doing this know the risks as well as we do & are taking a calculated risk
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@ladyaeva oh! the US has tiny bricks!
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the US has tiny bricks, pass it on @ladyaeva/1452901115767443456
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@LiaSae yeah, you might be right...
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I want to listen to a compilation album of stupid little songs musicians have made up to sing to their cats
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@rumblesan i had forgotten about this!
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@designCaitlin i want to hear that talk!
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RT @talkRADIO: Mike's interview with Insulate Britain spokesman Cameron lasts less than a minute. @Iromg | @InsulateLove https://t.co/yJS7…
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RT @SmartAssJen: And frankly, at every stage in that process trans people are attractive to someone, for a multiplicity of reasons, because…
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I recently read Sara Hendren's What Can a Body Do? which is an excellent book on design & disability. But it made me think a lot about the limits of design - about money & power. Which is to say: I recommend this piece, on just that. wired.com/story/disability-justice-prosthetics-military-history/
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RT @aliadarola: I crashed my car into the bridge. I don’t care! I love it
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@iotwatch those are a bit more "monitor the state of things", though. but yeah, Monday & Thursday, a slightly odd routine.
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life is just a series of lithium batteries slowly running out of juice
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@acgodliman 100% canon
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i am personally fine with niblings, but what's the replacement for aunt/uncle? @CartaMonir/1453149852154597392
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specifically i am thinking about the fact that my brother is having a kid & how i feel about that & my future relationship to them. i'm gonna be a.......
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all of these are terrible
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@philippawarr just looked it up in Danish, and they've got extra words with those distinctions (they're in Denmark/kid is going to grow up Danish) uncle: onkel; farbror (pt); morbror (mt) aunt: tante; faster (pt); moster (mt) pt = paternal side mt = maternal side
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@hautepop ah-hahah
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RT @quendergeer: @ScribblerMcgee @AliceAvizandum those who make peaceful protest impossible can just kick back and relax, having solved the…
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@jwaaaap ugh fine, i should read Grass
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RT @andytuba: go go gadget art bots, who needs government grants when we can crowdfund directly patreon.com/v21
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RT @SloughOff: Softened by friends, adventuring and succeeding. Drawn to the light, changed, see you after.
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RT @What_Hastings: The Hastings Vegan Fashion & Vintage Belt-Buckle Week is about to start.
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@its_natclayton i remember reading his text based reviews years ago... there is a consistent style he has carried through!
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@its_natclayton still remember the subheading, 1/3rd of the way through his review of Earthbound, which read "ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT THE GAME NOW"
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RT @folmerkelly: buzz: i’m… a toy?? woody: yea. tie-in merch from a movie called lightyear buzz: what’s that about? woody: it’s the orig…
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@andytuba thank you for subscribing!!! <3
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a story about gay people dealing with being attracted to trans people, just as a palette cleanser @supermattachine/1453397503429287944
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@SebWatts actually this one is pretty nice
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RT @i_zzzzzz: Your honor, I just need to correct something my ex-wife said during her testimony. It wasn't a movie about the toy. It was a…
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wow, kids really love to take the AR code stickers off Lime bikes. used one to get home yesterday, still there this morning in the same spot - sans sticker. wonder how long it'll sit there. wonder if they do it to reserve it for personal use, or out of the sheer joy of vandalism
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RT @lewis_lakes: Colors of limnology 🎨 This white rope was in a eutrophic reservoir all summer. Any guesses which end was at the surface? h…
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based on the horror stories of artists being commissioned for work which turns out to secretly be for an NFT project... I am sceptical that financialisation naturally leads to an equitable distribution of revenue @Chris_J_King/1453688833959149568
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@Chris_J_King yeah, in agreement with you there.
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i keep seeing tweets that are factually inaccurate & when i click on them they have been deleted. well done.
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@moreelen ahh! it looks great!
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@lazerwalker same
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of course in a creative field the easiest way to find that out is to break them, and often the reasons are "because the stuff we grew up with did it this way", so.
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this is a dumb cliche, I agree, but I guess the thing that can be useful is Chesterton's Fence. ie, know what the purpose of the rules are before you break them. @ellaguro/1453762957851115533
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but like... "practice doing it this way and perfect your application of these rules... and only then decide they're bad" is garbage
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RT @maridapr: this week I wrote about U2 and being the opposite of a hater theimmensewave.substack.com/p/all-i-want-is-you?r=7iilg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=
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i love being right @v21/1450856980873101316
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@em_cooper i agree!!!!
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doing a roll call of who has and who hasn't got a staple gun in the family zoom call
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the metaverse isn't going to happen & i think it will be funny to see what Facebook, sorry, Meta does about that in about... 4 years time?
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RT @MaxKriegerVG: teenage engineering is truly a shining light in the darkness
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huh!! (but not posts, still) @GIFmodel/1453729163567792137
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@boring_cactus I don't think the metaverse would be actively bad, or conclusively bad unless it was a walled capitalist monopoly hellscape? so I think metaverse stuff that pushes against that is fine?
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@boring_cactus like, I also don't think the idea of the "metaverse" is even really meaningful, it's a lot of stuff thrown together without a clear idea of why or what people are going to actually do with it. which lessens the downsides, tbh.
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RT @TonyTwtch: Yugo Puzzle really is a master class in level design. 🎓 Take for example these four levels that are identical in design wit…
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RT @PeterKGeoghegan: I wrote a thing, for first time in ages. Prompted by Telegraph story that said 'the British public wants a referendu…
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@gereon_gerides yeah, that was definitely the vibe i was going for
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I had never heard of the Herero and Nama genocide before. t.co/gNm3G4zoNj
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@pillowfort yes yes yes
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RT @ABetterABK: Bobby Kotick, Given your visible stance to bettering ABK and the working conditions within for the benefit of your employee…
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RT @kelechnekoff: Fuck colonialism for real.
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RT @lostsupper: Within only a few days, the enzymes in the sardines' viscera liquefied the flesh. No water or brine was added—the fish just…
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RT @GIFmodel: pad.profolia.org/s/experience I advise my students to pause every time they want to say "experience" or "technology" and try to ref…
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RT @partytimeHXLNT: @Sierra_OffLine Survivorship bias is such an undervalued contributing factor to how computer history is authored. Espec…