Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
@grammargirl One of the characters in my #ttrpg campaign is a self-described Space Karen. When their starship was attacked by Patriarchy drone craft, she demanded to speak with their supervisor.
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First, let's narrow down a few where the words are so close we shouldn't include both in the big competition.
Which word better describes the 2022 zeitgeist?
Sure, I'll step into the #FediGiftShop:
My card game about #Samoan #fireknife dancing was developed in consultation with professionals, features artwork by Samoan artist Troy Safotu, and has card text in Samoan and English. (The rules are in English.)
Cheehoo!
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Are you a creator who has an online store? Tag your posts #FediGiftShop - lots of people are asking for places to support indie creators for Christmas - you can use this tag to provide a quick way for people to find things to buy :D
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The Milwaukee airport has my favorite airport sign in the country, hands down.
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Visualizing one year of earthquake activity with depth data.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2022/11/earthquakes-with-depth.html
1. New York Zoo
2. Fast & Furious: Highway Heist
3. Wingspan
@pesh @objectinspace Instance doesn't matter so much, but hashtags will help you find others interested in similar topics.
Related fun fact: the Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates has the fabulous acronym AORTA.
@freemo It's an interesting topic for discussion. @godlessmon@mas.to may be a good one to make the case that online radicalization is a very real (and very dangerous) thing.
Empirically, is it true that it tends to only work in one direction? If so, why? Is it the nature of the Twitter / Facebook / YouTube outrage machine serving ever-more-extreme content in the name of "engagement"? Does it have to do with funding from extremist groups or, say, foreign actors trying to encourage polarization? What can we do to "counter-radicalize" people toward kindness and compassion?
I don't think propaganda instantly changes minds, but I also don't think it has no effect. Prolonged exposure shifts the Overton window.
Yesterday on the freeway we saw a pickup with a coffin in the back. Not clear if they got a great Black Friday deal or this was some kind of True Blood situation.
Automotive troubles
@jakeduhjake Prius Prime. It's by no means an off-road vehicle, but at least it has good anti-skid / anti-lock tech.
Automotive troubles
BAD NEWS: The hybrid car won't start. It says the 12-volt battery is low.
GOOD NEWS: It was in the garage when this happened, so at least I'm not stranded anywhere.
GOOD NEWS: We temporarily have a backup car. Maybe we can use that to jump the hybrid.
BAD NEWS: The jumper cables aren't long enough to connect the cars where the hybrid is parked.
GOOD NEWS: We're young enough that we might be able to push it into the driveway.
BAD NEWS: The hybrid refuses to shift into neutral when the 12v battery is low, so it can't be moved.
GOOD NEWS: We were able to buy a jump starter pack.
BAD NEWS: It has to be charged from wall power for 24 hours before use.
GOOD NEWS: We're not in a huge hurry.
BAD NEWS: It might snow later this week. The backup car is not nearly as good for driving in snow.
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Maybe people who meditate one hour/day are happier because they live a life that affords them one hour/day to meditate
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The title of this thread is called "Angry Black Women".
On January 20, 2017 this picture was my Facebook avatar. It is Michelle Obama at the inauguration of the 45th president. About a month later, a white female person I know texted me "Can you change your avatar photo, now." Which I did. The following is a selection of the Angry Black Women avatars I used since. These Angry Black Women changed out lives for the better.
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if C doesn't have reflection then explain this
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"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.
1. #Violet was friendly to an excited toddler and other dogs she met on her walk.
2. A rural church we drove past had a bell hooks quotation on the marquee sign.
3. Spirited was a creative and entertaining new take on A Christmas Carol.
@treyhunner I haven't used it explicitly, but [the initializer for] the csv package's DictReader class used to return OrderedDicts. It looks like that changed in 3.8:
Mastodon doesn't have perfect solutions to the moderation challenges that plague all social media platforms ... but at least we don't have ads.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
