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Jeder :blobPikaSleepy: :verified_blobcat:

Polish IPN (and government) wants this photo gone, make sure to spread it as much as you can

cw nazi salute

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slur 

@tomxcd@fedi.nullob.si As soon as I have grandchildren this is how I'm reclaiming the slur.

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@mauro There are definitely communities for at least some programming languages that have very strong participation in the way you describe. I vaguely take part in the Rust one, and I know many of the people I work with also do.

There is also the free software movement, which associates much more around an ideological/political cause, so it's a bit of a counterexample. I'm pretty sure this is the largest thing that could be called a community among software developers, even if perhaps only a minority belong to it.

There is also a bit of a organizing around IDEs or text editors, although the only thing I would really call a community here is emacs, and that I suspect mostly because people tend to use it for more than just work.

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It's a me, Mauro

Question for developers of any kind here:

Do your online communities revolve around particular computer programs (or programming languages maybe) more than anything else?

I've always noticed this in the motion graphics community. The aggregation tends to be stronger around user groups of software more than around design or the industry in general, at least on the internet. Or maybe this is just a personal bias of mine, and if so I'd like to overcome it.

#mograph #motion #design

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agatha, fangs gf 🎀

pol annoyance 

god redditors are fucking pathetic

"protest is only good as long as it's not an inconvenience to anyone and also if it's actually effective it will make the movement look bad and also you should simply stop doing anything"

every fucking time, it's either the SUV tire deflating people, or the van gogh painting thing (where the painting is safe behind a glass panel btw), or that one person who cemented their hand to a road to create a traffic jam

the responses are always "oh but what if the person driving that SUV happened to be in a life or death situation. see you just killed a person. what if the SUV was actually an ambulance. youre basically jeff bezos" "oh but theyre just making the movement look bad!! much better activism is when you do nothing"

fucking hell, a quote: "No, in response to some of the posts here, I am not a radical, because radical activism generally just harms everyone."

imagine being such a coward

people say "I think [thing] is good and we should definitely stop climate change/car dependency/etc" but then as soon as anyone actually does anything about it, and is in any way effective (you can't just say it's not effective when hundreds of millions of people saw it in the news. that's just not how it works), they come up with the silliest excuses to go "actually they should simply not do anything about it. we should get rid of climate change but at the same time not do anything to get rid of it"

it's the classic "I /would/ have supported gay people, but there's this one person [name], and they make gay people look bad, so actually I don't support gay people because of that person" - person who has never supported gay people

its frustrating. any time anyone is getting shit done there's always a huge group of people who go "hmmm no. this is probably a hypothetical slight inconvenience to someone, so it's bad activism. it's better to get things done by doing nothing"

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Wolf480pl

angry perfectionist shouting at humanity 

How we build nuclear power plants:

We need 1 pumo to cool the reactor, so we bult 4 pumps:
- one can be down for maintenance
- one can have a hidden fault that we won't notice until we try to use it
- one can break during operation
- and we still have one to cool the reactor
- and we also have gravity-powered Emergency Core Cooling System on top of that

How we build our economy:

Oh if they fail to deliver we can just sue them.

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hypothetical injury 

@robryk Depends how badly, if I cannot get out of the house at all then the last footwear counts.

Also, it might still be half-summer. @moonbolt

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@moonbolt Winter starts when I stop wearing sandals outside.

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@robryk I thought that just like in any programming language, a couple base types and you can define more wherever. Preferably dependent types, these are always cool.

Disclaimer: I have no idea why any of this would be useful, especially dependent types.

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Either the most cursed or the most blessed idea I have ever had:

Strongly Typed Typesetting System

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@moonbolt Afaik placebo is only minimally diminished by knowing it's placebo. That's why I really wish there was an inexpensive medicine officially sold at pharmacies called "Placebix" or something. Would be much better than homeopathy.

Although the effects are mostly on pain and some mental things, other effects are almost nonexistent.

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:anne_triangle: Anne, Gata Tió 🪵

you call yourself a free software fanatic, but I bet you still live in a proprietary house

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@chfour I have never identified with a tumblr post so hard in my life. And I haven't even watched seinfeld.

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fops

RT @voxybunch@twitter.com

new trans seinfeld installment just dropped

🐦🔗: twitter.com/voxybunch/status/1

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crows call me breadlady

systems thinking taught me to see the gods behind the deeds, the fleshless spirits in the patterns of our collective works and how they work their disembodied wills to propagate and entrench, and thus has made me incomprehensible to liberals

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Mars Buttfield-Addison 🛰

This week I:

🛰️ spent ages talking to journalists about the DART Mission, only for them to either not credit me or call my boss and quote him instead.

🏆 won a competition round and placed in another to now become an Australian representative at a large International competition, but got no press about it.

📡 was scrubbed from or not mentioned in all media releases about a huge grant project I spearheaded at work that is based almost entirely on my labour.

Most weeks it doesn’t get to me, but sometimes it is pretty depressingly thankless to be a young woman in academia.

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varelse

Zacząłem pisać posta o Bombie Megabitowej i wyszedł mi na tyle długi rant/recenzja/relacja że postanowiłem go rozbić na trzy części. Dzisiaj przede wszystkim rant.

wordsmith.social/ekofikcje/nie

#ekofikcje #scifi #fantastyka #climatefiction (hasztagi mylące, bo fantastyki za bardzo w tym poście nie ma, a powinna być)

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Many Colors, Maybe Moved

Be /broad/ in what you accept and /precise/ in what you emit. #linguisticshift #PostelsLaw

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@chjara Iirc the exact story is that some towns were accidentally gassed and much later someone noticed they had suspiciously low cancer rates.

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@chjara Chemotherapy is a bad example, it was actually initially discovered as a result of war crimes.

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