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Chibi is boss. Bring her her coffee. Bring her her squeaky ball. Type up her homework. Bossy. Bossy. Boss dog.

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turns out the woke in government was load bearing

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I once worked at a game company/publisher where the head of biz dev said "In any business deal there are two parties. The Fuckie and the Fucker and we are the fucker". This company is no longer in business.

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We literally told everyone that if Trump got elected again, we’d be living in a police state. But a lot of people thought it wasn’t the biggest issue we faced, accused us of being hyperbolic, or fell for and spread pro-fascist propaganda.

Congress erupts over FBI arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan:
axios.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arres

Oh, good. We’re arresting judges now.

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We should make a thing that's like...

We start a wiki for projects that don't yet exist. Something that really lays out the essential elements of the thing in our mind.

Basically, what the fan wiki for our thing would look like if we had the time/funding to make it. Yes, that includes spoilers.

And then, once completed to a satisfactory degree, use them as planning docs to build the thing.

It's more open source and would provide transparency should such an effort ever go for crowdfunding.

As a transgender woman, I think I’ll spend the rest of my life contemplating the practical and philosophical gradient between “being a woman” and “being a man who lives as a woman”.

Where I sit on that gradient is only as important as what it entails, but we spend most of our time focused exclusively on where to stick the pin.

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is starbucks coffee named after battlestar galactica or moby dick

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Public service announcement:

If you're on estrogen and you take a multivitamin or if you take biotin to make your hair and nails healthier, it's ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL that you stop all of that stuff for at least 3, and preferably 4, days before you get your blood levels checked.

Biotin is the chemical they use in the estrogen level test, and if you've got a higher-than-normal amount of biotin in your bloodstream, your labs will come back saying you've got much more estrogen in there than is there in reality.

If you want accurate results, take a break from the multivitamins!

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I was busy in my garden when my neighbour looked over the fence and asked what I was doing ...

I said 'I'm putting all my plants 🌿 in alphabetical order'

She replied 'Really? I don't know how you find the time'

Oh that's easy I said, 'It's right next to the sage ... '

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I love it when a review moves quickly from an embarassing overstock of notes to a cludgy arrangement of paragraphs you can provoke until it convulses suddenly & disgorges the final piece of the argument you were sure was in there somewhere. After that, you can write it to your heart's content.

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It’s rude for the weather to be nice when you’re surrounded by existential dread

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the feminine urge

to write an OS for a Sega Saturn, that can run a windowing GUI, that speaks X11, and can run networked programs

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Did my taxes, as if that actually means anything anymore

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Aaaand of course we got the email today that DOGE has illegally defunded us.

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I donated to her because:
1) She’s willing to throw a punch
2) She’s not throwing trans people under the bus
3) She’s too young to remember Vietnam

From: @nberlat.bsky.social
fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

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The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:

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It drives home how much passing is really a proxy for safety: I don’t mind being clocked in SF, because I know it’s not likely to end in an assault. The same can’t be said when I’m bouncing around my hometown, where I feel safest when I’m unnoticable.

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I live in SF. There are advantages and disadvantages to that. One thing I learned after FFS is that, despite my size, I pass pretty consistently when I travel. The same is not true in SF, where us trans folk are such a common sight that pretty much anyone can pick us out of crowd.

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.