I was thinking it was a movement for sex worker rights, or something

Times New Roman is wayyyy too classy for Trump Administration. They should switch to Comic Sans MS.

…Oh no, I’m re-heating font jokes that people older than me found funny decades ago. What has this present political climate reduced us to?

Physical copies of Half-Life 2 are probably, dunno, considered unholy artefacts or something. (The very first versions of Steam were not fondly remembered)

I’d love it if that was a menu item in a restaurant. “Lefty nonsense”. No explanation. If you ask about it, they’d just say “you’ll just have to find out”. You see, cooking is an art, it tells a lot about the artist. Will you get served social commentary thick with sarcasm or do they just reveal troubling things about themselves? It’s a gamble.

Sorry haven’t had coffee yet

🤦🏻‍♀️ What about the people who don’t use social media? Or have used social media for less than 5 years?

Or people who disclose a suspiciously wholesome 5 years of social media use? Or use social media platforms that allow backdated posts - how well are those going to be scrutinised?

Why am I even asking? This is all so stupid. People only want to travel to places where they won’t be immediately grilled on what they think of the dictator. (…Out of curiosity, what’s the process like for North Korea? Strictly for comparison.)

I have uBlock origin on my browser. The ads are only a problem in YouTube for TV and Android, which is sadly where I watch most of YouTube. But I do my part of backing out whenever the damn counter says 50 seconds remaining, and whenever YouTube pops up a quiz about the quality of advertising, I say it’s shit. Someone has to be in the trenches to observe that the thing is shit.

I’m a trans girl, and this shit is the only thing that has even mildly piqued my testosterones in recent years:

(Doom Mower: Lawn of the Dead mod)

I’m pretty sure Google figured out I’m a woman in my 40s living in Finland so my YouTube ads reflect that. Get feminine product ads and toy ads before Christmas.

And sometimes weird B2B adverts like business software and logistics services and industrial equipment.

One time it was straight up “hey, gurl, wanna buy a tractor???” …probably because I have watched Farming Simulator let’s plays. Years ago.

One of the reasons I stopped playing Destiny 2 was that, when the vaulting started, they just straight up sunset my favourite cloak. And none of the packs released after that gave me a radder cloak. And nowadays I have zero confidence in that they eventually will.

My first instances were mastodon.lol and kbin.social. Guess I was unlucky.

It’s easy to say that it’s the same thing with aviation: every time something bad happens, we have to improve the technology and introduce safety features to planes.

Yet it’s surprisingly easy to forget that that’s only a small part of the entire safety process. They also improve pilot training. They set new requirements for infrastructure. New rules for air traffic control.

When I look at a lot of traffic accidents, I usually don’t say “wow, a new car safety feature would have saved the day” but “why were these people given a licence again?” or “what were they thinking when they designed this bit of road?”

I’ve heard of slow cooking, but this is next level stuff.

The avatar is a self-portrait. I made an avatar for Mastodon and decided to make a separate avatar for slrpnk.net to, you know, make it more solarpunk-y.

As for name, I picked Rose as my cutesy trans girl name - I also picked Xbox gamertag “Rose in Shadows” one day, and use “Yesterday’s Rose” in realname field in places. I guess I was mostly inspired by the last line of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose: “Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus” (roughly “the rose of the past endures only in name; we hold only the bare names”) Dunno why I decided to put the z in “roze”. A momentary bit of edginess? Notorious Hacker Alias???

Tortoise: “I’m not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! …Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?”

But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)

My father had an Acer laptop. It broke.

One of my friends had an Acer laptop. It broke.

I think my father had a 486SX Acer laptop which worked wayyyy past its reasonable age, but it’s in the closet and the hinges look crumbly and I kinda fear that if I touch it it will be atomised.

Me, I’ve used Asus laptops since 2011, and these things are only slightly less resistant to nuclear explosions than Thinkpads

You just know the owner plastered the car with words like Joy, Knowledge, Self-control and Virtue because deep down they know they have none of those qualities and hope that this ritual will manifest them.

That’s not Zombo COM1:, that’s the serial port, the one above it. This is Zombo VGA.

You think it’s bad that the save icons have floppy disks?

A while ago, I was wondering why the usual icon for “database” (upright cylinder divided into multiple horizontal slices) looks like the original flowchart symbol for drum memory, further refined to look like a 1960s hard drive, you know, one of those washing machine sized units. But then again, if you have a serious database, chances are it’s running on some several layers deep virtualised replica of a 1960s system

I think one GTK/GNOME icon set had downward arrow pointing to a hard disk. Seemed clear enough to me.

Oh crap. Reminds me that for some reason or other (Mostly just time issues I guess, and because dualbooting Windows was pain I guess) I never completed Max Payne 2. As a giant fan of the first game I loved it.

Wonder if I need to go dig out the discs. Wait wait what, I already have MP1&2 on Steam? How? When did I get them? Never mind. Hope these aren’t a massive headache to get running