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Photographer, UI & Firmware Engineer, Software Developer, Embedded Linux Developer, Comic Media Enthusiast, Podcaster, Father, Nerd
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vampiress , to random
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40 minute walk.

Solved my UI problem.

Going to scribble it down, break for lunch, then spend this afternoon implementing it to see how it goes.

mrcopilot ,
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@vampiress I saw [LB + RB] used in a similar menu recently, didn't hate it. What was that...

alice , (edited ) to random
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Hey Internet Queerdos and Allies,

It's :_gaysparkle: Pride :_gaysparkle: month, which means it's time to bring on the corporate rainbow washing!

Before we get started, here's a content warning () for some swearing, dark topics, and a lot of :100_gay: If that's alright with you, then let's goooo!

Okay, so it's been an interesting past year. The Cass report came out and helped roll back trans rights in some pretty serious ways, the conservative Right kept right on proving to be downright 💩 humans, there's at least one genocide threatening people's right to exist, and billionaires continued to exercise their (money-given) right to make everything worse for everyone but them. Rights have been a big topic lately.

Oh, and I almost threw myself off a bridge several months back—but we'll get to that in a moment.

Fuck. I need some rainbow-safe brain-bleach before we continue, so here are some good things that happened:

I traded in my old gender for a shiny new one :v_trans: (technically I just binned the old one—it was pretty outdated). Speaking of dating, I started seeing a lovely enby (hi @catsalad!) from the infosec community. All the people I do safety checks with are still here, and Trump became an official felon 🎉

Alright, that's a bit better. Now on to the actual point of this article: acceptance, community, and safety.

Those three things are right up there with staying hydrated and memes when I think about what any queer person needs to thrive.

Acceptance is a prerequisite for community. Our diversity of experience is just as important as our shared experience. Without being accepting of what makes us each unique and wonderful, our communities are fragile and prone to fracturing. You only have to look at those who try to define what a "real man" or "real woman" is to see how they draw circles around their in-group that get smaller and smaller until no one fits.

Community breeds safety. You may snap a twig with your bare hands, but bind 'em together and you'll find a fagot much harder. Members of our community support each other—and that support becomes so much more important when our queer friends and family run up against the bigotry and horrors of this world. But we're not just one community; we're an alphabet soup of people who come together under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. Regardless of the specifics, we're the ones who weren't born with the default settings...and that's beautiful—that's worth protecting.

So what about the bridge? Well, like so many people who identify as LGBTQ+, I had a lot of trauma growing up. Trauma that I continue to collect and box up like newly caught Pokémon. There are a lot of sources of that trauma for me: tech-industry layoffs, an abusive partner, neuro-divergence, as well as non-conforming gender and sexuality in a world whose motto might as well be "Of the Default, by the Default, and for the Default".

This all came together one day after a fight with my spouse that left me in a very dark place. I didn't feel safe, I didn't feel like I really belonged to any community, and I didn't feel accepted by those closest to me.

As I stood on the bridge, I got a notification on my phone...then another. It was enough to snap me out of it for a second, and I checked my messages through the tears. Thinking back I honestly don't remember who they were from or what they said, but I do remember that they were from Mastodon, from a couple people who just happened to reach out at the exact right moment. I'll skip the rest of the details, because some of you have already heard this story and they're not really important to this article.

The important part is that I made it home in one piece because someone reached out. Someone who didn't even know how much I needed them to.

That little tie to the queer community was all it took to ground me in the moment and save my life.

Since then I've been keeping an eye out for others that might need grounding and doing my best to make sure they feel accepted. I've been welcoming as many new people into the community as I can, and I've been trying my best to be a safe space for anyone who needs it.

So, wrapping this up, I want to ask you to do the same. Not just today, but every day—as often as you can. Sometimes all it takes is showing a little kindness and compassion to make a big difference in someone's life.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go check in on some people and tell them how glad I am that they're here.

—Alice Watson 💜

mrcopilot ,
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@alice @teejay @rye

The ethical struggle of social media some days amirite? Imma go with this.

Support the creator if you can.

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4 Panel comic posted to Facebook by EastCoastComics "Its that time again" Panel 1 Stick figure character looks at phone and says "Oh Hey Its pride Mo-" Panel 2 Door in room Kicked open by new head to toe rainbow colored stick figure with the words Kick and Slam frightening first character. Panel 3 Turns around to look at rainbow figure in doorway Panel 4 Close up of Rainbow Figure whose shirt reads EVERY COMPANY saying "Give us your gay money"
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    If there is one thing I’ve learned (and that’s being generous) from caring for my brother it’s that the line between disabled and abled (physically, intellectually, developmentally, etc.) is much more porous, unfixed, and ephemeral than we want to admit; attempting to rigidly categorize and classify ourselves and others ‘once and for all’ is at best futile.

    mrcopilot ,
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    @nathanlovestrees Could have said exactly this only replacing the word brother with self.

    vampiress , (edited ) to random
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    When someone asks if you're a God, you say:

    mrcopilot ,
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    @vampiress "Yes, but I prefer the title creator."

    GottaLaff , to random
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    “How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk

    Justice gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most coveted positions in the legal world.”

    Gift link:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/politics/clarence-thomas-crystal-clanton-clerk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk0.J5XS.gfzU1UfWYsNu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

    mrcopilot ,
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    @GottaLaff Can you spot the one sentence to explain all of this?

    Hint:
    "departure from a group she helped build, Turning Point USA"

    How could Ginni resist?

    " that poor mistreated child, move her in..."

    is the latest triumph in her redemption from a highly publicized 2017 controversy over the racist messages. The blowup led to her departure from a group she helped build, Turning Point USA, which seeks to increase the influence of conservative students on college campuses across the country.
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    1/... Via Lawfare:

    JUST IN: #Trump's defense team sent a premotion letter to Justice Merchan clarifying the express terms of the #GagOrder, saying that contrary to the People's suggestion, "the Court cannot 'direct' Pres Trump to do something that the gag order does not require." #legal

    IOW: Trump's lawyers now argue that not only is Judge Merchan's daughter NOT covered by the gag order, but also that she SHOULD NOT be covered.

    ‘The express terms of the gag order do not apply in the manner claimed by the People, which they seem to acknowledge by suggesting the need to “avoid any doubt.” That the gag order has been publicly interpreted in the way that Pres Trump reads it further supports defense position on order’s meaning." As a result, there was nothing “contumacious” about soc media posts cited in footnote ofPeople’s pre-motion letter, & no “warning]” would be approp. That s partic true i light of fact defense obj to vagueness of proposed gag order in opp to People’s motion. ..Court cannot “direct” Pres Trump to do sthg that gag order does not require. To “clarify or confirm” meaning of order in way People sugg would be to expand it. No expansion is approp on basis of 1-pg letter citing only 2cases, &where P Trump’s response been restricted to sgl page required 10 be submitted the following day while PTrump & defense counsel are preparing for trial. Given sensitvities assoc w prior restraints, if Court wishes to consider such an expansion, complete opp for full adversarial briefing s necessary. Such bricfing would address, constitutional problems attendant with any additional improper restrictions on protected campaign speech—which would implicate First Amendment rights that belong to not only President Trump but also the public, see Def. Opp'n 7- 1—where the family member referenced in the pre-motion letter is actively supporting adversarial campaign speech by Pres Trump's political opponents
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    mrcopilot ,
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    @GottaLaff Oh sure, like you all knew...

    but oh hell yes it was.

    He may in fact be the patron Saint .

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    @vampiress should we do a video telling people how to find it?

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    So let me get this straight. Gov. Abbott of TX says he’ll defy federal law because an “invasion” has happened at the border, but the GOP refuses to fix the border because that would hand Biden a political win? Have I got that right?

    mrcopilot ,
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    @rbreich yes, I believe you could only come to that conclusion.

    https://mstdn.social/@mrcopilot/111823164834541635

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    @vampiress Ahh the old "What does the point of no return area look like without nagging? question.

    Interestingly enough I've never seen 2 projects come up with the same answer.

    mrcopilot ,
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    @vampiress Oh I see. Interesting constraints. and I forgot the game in question.

    Therefore I guess I should re-edit, Besides text, I've never seen it done the same way twice.

    However that bullet point did send my brain racing through all the ways I could concieve that I have yet to see, and so, honestly, thank you for that.

    I have a note here to check out how it turns out now next to the previous note to pick it up.

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    mrcopilot ,
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    @vampiress
    funny story. Ubisoft sold me games through a service. Service went bust, Service refunded everyone's purchased.

    & I want to make it clear beside the games this is the highest compliment I could ever bestow, they CORRECTLY made the decision to honor those purchases through their and other services because I BOUGHT those games, I had much time invested in them.

    They of course borked that last part and all progress reset across multiple open world games.

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    @vampiress This decision I am sure impacted their sudden realignment of thought.

    But someone there should note it somehow greatly increased my esteem for this horrible horrible company.

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    @vampiress It was extremely rare no other publisher did the same.

    I should note I repurchased very few of those games or sequels thereof.

    I did however purchase a few more games from the aforementioned horrible horrible company.

    Weighing 60 to 90 bucks to play prince of persia versus renting it for a month is an evil.

    Put a slot on it in the mall. Or let me purchase it & play it on my machine at my pace.

    You can't have both.

    mrcopilot ,
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    @vampiress We all have to make choices.

    I am not averse to a curated list of pay for access gaming, obvious by my credit card statements...

    When we agree to a purchase things start to change. Having the game you pay a service for leave the service is a new kind of feeling. Having the service you paid many hundreds of dollars to disappear that was a familiar enough feeling I guess, not a good one but not a new one.

    I too prefer my games sold to me as unencumbered & permanently as possible.

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    @vampiress I'm not that hung up on how its store pakaged or delivered though.

    mrcopilot ,
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    @vampiress I have limited experience with these games as I'm a solo or couch co-op player for the most part.

    Destiny2 & Avengers:

    Both seemed like reasonable live service required games.

    I stopped Destiny2 when Stadia went down.

    Avengers was a habit...
    But not a fun one, a repetitive money grab. There are a million Marvel characters here are 6 to 10 to endlessly smash robots against, does not require a live service but changing their clothes for 29.99 does. Wasn't my habit fortunately.

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