Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
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On May 6, 1933, Nazi stormtroopers (Sturmbteilung) broke into this library, looted the building, killed at least one of the occupants, and hauled the majority of its books outside for a public book burning in the streets of the Opernplatz. Joseph Goebbels gave a speech to 40,000 people about "protecting our nation's children".
The photo has become an icon of Nazi German brutality and fascism. It is shown in school textbooks worldwide above the caption "Nazi book burnings, 1933". It is often published in news stories and social media whenever the subject of banning books arises.
What is not often mentioned in those stories is the SUBJECT of the burned books. The building was the Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The first of its kind, dedicated to studying trans people and trans identities, and performing gender confirming surgery for a number of patients. And the books that were burned were trans histories and trans patient records.
Remember, they came for trans people first.
@cheribaker Blame autocorrect.
I'm not saying @htdrake has an appalling amount of self-control, but she opened a new package of Girl Scout cookies *yesterday*.
Some insects à la Dean. #MastoArt #drawing #insects #BugsOfMastodon
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“but now that you have stung me, we will both surely drown,” said the users to the profit-seeking corporation.
“lol,” said the corporation. “lmao”
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Japan train captain carries cat off train, causes a 30-second delay https://mustsharenews.com/cat-board-train-in-japan/ #Trains #Cats #Japan
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Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world from nuclear disaster, on this day in 1983, 39 years ago today, saw the word "LAUNCH" flash across the Soviet Union's attack early warning system. His screen stated with high reliability that a total of five American intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) had been launched and were headed toward the Soviet Union.
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#Jenga shocker:
I learned in two podcasts I listened to recently (one of which was an interview with Leslie Scott, the woman who designed it) that the blocks are NOT identical. They have slight variations to make the game more challenging.
@Deglassco Interesting side fact about that scene: at least one of those hands does not belong to the actor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling_Banjos#Use_in_Deliverance
The same trick was used for the contact juggling in Labyrinth.
NPC: You must travel to the Carnival of Complaints and obtain the Tome of Grievances.
PC: So you're saying it's a ...
NPC: ... kvetch fest fetch quest.
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If you take a social media sabbatical, don’t announce it. Just make your last post something fun like “I wonder if there’s a bear in this cave?”
So if the very thin kind of #pizza is New York style, and the very thick kind is Chicago style, what do you call the intermediate kind?
@louie This ALMOST covers the VHF channels in one button each, but there was also a channel 13. Maybe 13 was omitted as unlucky ... but the numbers deemed unlucky would be different in Japan, right?
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My favorite feature of this remote is the 10, 11, and 12 buttons
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Question for blind and low vision people and other users of screen readers:
what are the main obstacles they encounter when browsing the web? That is, the things that they would like those of us who are in charge of them, to fix.
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- 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
