ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

@CalBear96 @QasimRashid From this article, a Dem legislator made a great point, "The caucus that lost their minds over the suggestion that they should wear masks during a pandemic to respect the safety of others is now spending its time focusing on the fine details of what women have to wear (and specifically how many layers must cover their arms) to show respect in this chamber."

#Medium, the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter now has a fediverse server.

Now might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the people who bequeathed you Twitter.

I'm generally against coercive use of state power but I would support a law requiring everyone to read this https://www.polygon.com/23509686/censorship-banned-books-porn-internet-tiktok

#MicroFiction

If Billy had ever thought about the doll hospital, which he hadn’t, he’d have assumed the dolls were the patients, which they weren’t.

A life-sized Barbie stood beside his bed filling a syringe from a bottle labelled ‘compassion’. She said, “You may be a child, Billy, but I’m giving you a full dose. If this doesn’t stop you torturing your sister’s dolls, you’ll be getting a visitor.” Barbie tilted her head at a very life-sized He-Man.

#vss365 #dose

To the Half Moon, where I found the Captain and Mr. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, where we were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on the Welsh harp. Billingsly paid for all.

"My religion is simple. My religion is kindness" - Dalai Lama XIV

This website provides the full back archive of BYTE magazine, all 23 years of it from 1975 to to 1998. It's a treasure trove of vintage tech and nostalgia, not even Archive.org carries all the issues.

The site actually focuses on old Apple magazines, but has also PC magazines and other resources on the history of microcomputing.

https://vintageapple.org/byte

#retrocomputing #magazines

A group of #baboons is called a rumpus.
A rumpus of baboons.

#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #monkeys #words

Here’s a toxic chemical for cleaning your house. We will tell you what’s in it and how to use it properly. But we’ll print it in small type on a sticker glued to the bottle facing the inside so you’ll have to read it through less-than clear-plastic and our yellow tinted product, with a plastic tube running through the middle of it. Please read the instructions carefully before using.

some #obscure #UltimaOnline #RetroGaming #history

back in the late 90s, when #uo's playerbase was exploding, player-built houses were both a convenient secure location, and a social signal of personal wealth. when a new shard (server) opened, players would race around the map trying to find legal "placements" for house deeds... areas where you could erect a home that had flat land, and no rocks or trees in the way. open land was truly scarce, and competitions to place a house were fierce.

to combat the real estate rush, #OriginSystems implemented a "decay" mechanic that would make your house collapse/disappear if it was unoccupied for a few weeks. thousands of homes disappeared this way, to the extreme frustration of the player community.

in the late 90s, a player placed this tiny single room house on the Napa Valley shard, between the towns of Minoc and Vesper. it remained occupied for years, until it was converted into a "public house" without locks. the house still stands to this day, 24 years later. it is one of the longest standing player-built homes in the history of the #mmorpg.

read the entire story here, as told by /u/MacroPlanet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimaonline/comments/1097crs/rediscovering_old_places_in_uo_napa_valley/

gm gm

tessellation #genuary12 #genuary
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recently addicted to nobodyknows song
"kokoro odoru" - enjoy enjoy... 🎶

while still coughing... 😷

#genart #sankaku #abstract #nftart
#art #artist #artistsonmastodon

https://digitalandaiart.com/everyday-yoda/

Yoda playing poker. #starwars #yoda #midjourney

I hope people get the point, it’s not that Matt Schlapp is gay.

It’s that he is a sexual predator.

Teenage suicide rates dropped during lockdown due to respite from bullying

Link: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/01/10/why-did-teenage-suicides-decline-during-americas-first-covid-19-lockdowns
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350433

@futurebird Okay, I shit you not here, but having witnessed the whole thing firsthand, it is about 90% because back in 2013ish a couple of white middle class journalists got very lightly told off for racist microaggressions and biphobia, and they entirely lost their shit. Because some people who told them off were trans, they fixated on that. It spread all around their dinner parties and here's where we're at now.

A: What are you in prison for?

B: I ran a Minecraft server.

#OnlineSafetyBill

Cory Doctorow -@pluralistic is red hot again today on the challenges and possibilities of the #fediverse.
Doctorow channels @catvalente and her essay on how popular social networks of the past have been destroyed: 'Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media'.

A long read, but well worth it.

https://medium.com/@doctorow/what-the-fediverse-does-nt-solve-f2ea32e52afe

#mastodon #socialmedia #Facebook #Twitter #mySpace

Cool gaming fact #139:
Zniw

#IndieDev #IndieGame #Dinosaurs