Snake Girl Ellie
I didn't get any billable hours last month and I don't have any indication that I'll get any this month. (In fact, I've barely heard from my clients at all for several weeks.)
At this rate, I'm going to run out of money by the end of the month, and this in a time when I also need to focus on moving by the end of the year and finding more work in general.
If you have a few dollars you could toss my way, I'd appreciate it.
https://paypal.me/joyeusenoelle
https://www.liberapay.com/joyeusenoelle
Snake Girl Ellie
It died, has become an icon of saving, and won't be back unless the apocalypse hits.
Snake Girl Ellie
I just want to remind everyone that it wasn't the justified callouts and dunking that got wilw to leave Mastodon. It was the collateral damage. It was people causing the admins of mastodon.cloud so much stress through abuse of the report system that they had to /ask/ wilw to leave /for their sake/.
If you participated in that wave of reporting: congratulations, you abused another human being in order to get your way, regardless of whether what you wanted was a good thing.
Snake Girl Ellie
Doghorn, adj. (a portmanteau of "dogwhistle" and "foghorn") Describes a statement or behavior that does not directly state the person's position on a subject, but indicates it so unsubtly that any observer could understand the person's true intent.
Also n. subst. and v.
Snake Girl Ellie
Here's a :birdsite: thread where a molecular biologist explains that physical sex isn't binary, and that treating it that way leads to broken science and erroneous medical treatment: https://twitter.com/ScienceVet2/status/1035246030500061184
Snake Girl Ellie
Before today, I knew: the reason Twitter was originally limited to 140 characters was so it could be transmitted over SMS (which was limited to 1120 bits, or 160 7-bit characters).
TIL: the reason SMS is limited to 160 7-bit characters is because Friedhelm Hillebrand, who was the chairman of the non-voice services committee within the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), found that a) the average sentence was <160 characters, and b) that matched the average postcard.
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@denidimochka your cheekbones make mortals despair 😍
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@bunnylyn Crossing my fingers and offering many petting. ❤️
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@tek ❤️
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melalandia.tk has a stated policy of unfettered free speech and their admin boosts child porn from pawoo and baraag.net. (also at least suspend media from pawoo and baraag.net.)
Snake Girl Ellie
I wonder if #PICO8 has the capacity to do a graphical RPG.
Candied Mint
Weekend officially starting, time for me to
Snake Girl Ellie
We should rethink "normal" human body temperature and what constitutes a fever. (For one thing, the original study that led us to 98.6F/100.4F used a miscalibrated thermometer and measured underarm, not oral, temperature.) https://www.wired.com/story/98-degrees-is-a-normal-body-temperature-right-not-quite/
freon
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@garbados Wow, I was thinking about that first toot in much simpler terms: the rich fear AI because AI is ultra-wealthy in a resource the rich /can't/ get more of - time.
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@hirojin There have been issues/prs on the Official Repo in the past; I'm not sure if any are still live. https://github.com/tootsuite/Mastodon/
Snake Girl Ellie
@fidgety 1) You can "soft block" someone, blocking and then unblocking them, which will force them to unfollow you.
2) That means the people following you. There isn't a "mutuals only" or "only people I'm following" option (yet).
Snake Girl Ellie
@Sylvhem I found a higher-res version of the cartoon that identifies the artist as Fred Wright, a longtime cartoonist for United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wright_(cartoonist)
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@Ympulse not everything is binary. If someone offers an idea that differs from your own, it is not always because they don't believe it and are just pretending for social cred. @Satsuma @zigg
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"Then... he pays /you/ thirty-five dollars a day to tell him to work faster!"
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