Notices by GCU Prosthetic Conscience (gcupc@glitch.social), page 40

The nice thing about the web back when we were all on dial-up is that eventually all the content on websites actually fully loaded

Will send nudes for overthrowing the government, eliminating the money system, instituting complete automation and eliminating the male sex.

This morning I pulled out my inks to do a study of @viciousviscosity 's avatar. This one was challenging because:

a) I don't draw a whole lot of people.

b) The variety of colorblindness that I have makes pink a difficult color for me to work with.

c) I started with white paper, and had no idea how to arrive at the correct skin color using only transparent / semi-transparent ink washes.

#art #mastoart #creativetoots

thinking of writing a crossover fanfic where #seinfeld takes place in the same universe as twin peaks and retcons the renunion by having the gang pulled into increasingly lovecraftian/lynchian horror as they are picked off one by one. all of this so i can write a 40 page scene where kramer is trapped in a door knob.

@JPEG just a heads up in case you didn't see this yet: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roma-for-pleroma-and-mastodon/id1445328699

the saddest thing to me is when other trans guys bully and condition themselves until they've learned to act exactly like cis men.

We get screwed over in so many aspects because we're trans and yet we're throwing away one of our few virtues: being socialized from birth to be empathetic and compassionate toward others. "but its feminine!" my dudes if kindness and genuine connection to others is unequivocally feminine (which it isnt) i never want to be masculine. And being feminine doesn't make you less of a man anyway.

Don't drink the cis masculinity koolaid my dudes. Stay gold trans boy.

#SolarpunkReporting or maybe #reporting in general:

Have you heard about Solutions Journalism? Its main idea is to step beyond the regular investigative journalism and show solutions to the problem which worked in other places.

It combats news fatigue and allows people to see that they _can_ do something. It gives hope where regular journalism just exhausts us with a constant stream of bad news.

https://storytracker.solutionsjournalism.org/

https://www.solutionsjournalism.org/

#solarpunk #journalism

For all you lovers out there,

incremental sup gotcha...

#incremental #sup #cat #gotcha #animatedgif

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@jjg One obvious risk is them sending "first responders" (ie police) who are dangerous to the person in need of help. You get things like this: https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-threatens-suicide-police-kill-him

Besides the privacy risks, and the risks of informing the wrong person (eg someone's domestic abuser) about the post.

"The internet of 1995 and 1999 and 2001 and even 2007 was a backwater by today’s standards, but to me, it was the most wonderful thing. It was strange and silly and experimental and constantly surprising, and it made you feel good about other people, because online, away from corporate media and every channel of established culture, other people turned out to be constantly surprising too. They [...] told you, to your eternal benefit, about what it was like to be someone other than yourself."

This is the best article I've seen about Facebook lately, and I've seen a lot. It's going in my link blog, but I'd like to point it out now, so you don't miss it. It specifically contrasts Facebook and the Internet of 2018 with the Internet of 1995 to 2005.

https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review