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Linux people, *please* understand this. Sometimes people need to run Windows.
They’re allowed to complain about Windows ads, or tracking, or any other enshittification problems, without you saying “use Linux” every time.
Here's a depressing Ontario thing: countdown to when our landfills are full (currently in 2033 but likely earlier) https://www.owma.org/cpages/home
Found it from this great @thenarwhal piece https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-landfill-explainer/
Infuriating that businesses aren't playing by the same rules residential systems are. That should be the bare minimum.
Industries, businesses and institutions make two-thirds of Ontario's garbage. It's too easy for them to dump, burn and export instead of reduce, reuse and recycleFatima Syed (The Narwhal)
GERMANY HAS PASSED SELF-ID LAWS!
The Federal Republic joins 20 countries which have passed laws allowing people to declare their own legal gender. I hope someday this will apply across the whole EU.
On a more personal level, this means I can finally change my own legal gender to #nonbinary 🎉🏳️⚧️
he looks kinda....holy
📷 https://bsky.app/profile/meanyeen.bsky.social
Spotty: https://sig.dog
#spottyshots #photography #fursuit #fursuitphotography
🔥NSFW 18+ NO MINORS🔥 -Fursuits -Latex -Pup Stuff hood by @SnapJawForge - Yeen by @FursuitsByLacy -Dobie by @MidnightMakersBluesky Social
Spotted this by @Iris over on the ex-birdsite: "Catch-22 for women scientists: If your ideas are seen as coming from you, no-one likes the ideas. When the same ideas are disconnected from you, the ideas are liked, recognised as useful, and then taken without credit. This means the only way to have real impact is to be erased."
A key thing to do for allies is to not be complicit in such erasure but instead try to give credit where credit is due
Look! No ads!
Take back control. Choose Plasma.
https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/
(Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations)
#Windows #Windows11 #Plasma6 #Microsoft
The first ads in the Windows 11 Start menu will be very similar to the app recommendations Microsoft used in Windows 10.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Odin: mother, making me walk FIVE MINUTES to the end of the street we live on is a CRIME AGAINST DOGNITY. I shall register my protest by making this as obscenely difficult as possible and dragging this out to twen— IS THAT THE PARK?!
Me: yes, it’s the park, the same place we’re going every time I drag you this way
Odin: I LOVE THE PARK
Me: 😑
Every time I go to my local rubbish tip, a small part of me dies.
"I've got one bit of e-waste, this LED headlight has a bunch of electronics in it.
"No worries mate, just chuck that in the general waste."
😿
So, naturally, I brought it back home and stripped it down (1/2)
@jpm Not according to my tip guy!
(The worst thing is I think he figured he was doing me a favour by saving me the extra charge, as I had a ute full of other general waste - mostly pieces of car interior with no consumer recycling marks on the plastic. 😐)
@jpm Same thing happens at my tip. I went with about half a boot full of e-waste (mainly broken appliances accumulated over 10 years), the other half was general rubbish. I went to the general rubbish area and pulled the general rubbish stuff out, but couldn’t find the e-waste section. Found a worker there, asked him the question, response was “yeah just chuck it all in the general rubbish section”.
The marketing flyers from my council make it sound like this stuff gets sorted and disposed of responsibly, but the reality is that it all goes into the same hole in the ground. Very frustrating.
People trying to train AIs are now complaining that all of the AI data on the internet are making it hard for them to get quality training sets of natural language and images.
*bitter snickering*
The Tories wants to criminalise carers who have the temerity of working in Tescos on the weekend and infringe their weekly earnings cliff edge by somewhere between 50p and £3.
These are people working very low paid jobs to keep the wolf from the door and have a chance to talk to other humans outside of their caring responsibilities.
Why is limit so low and always assumption of deceit?
Karina Moon, who is sole carer for her daughter most of the week, was told she needed to repay £11,292.75 or be prosecuted for fraudJosh Halliday (The Guardian)
What sits on your shoulder and squaks "pieces of 7! pieces of 7!" ?
Parroty error.
Libraries are safe public spaces which you don’t have to pay to access. They spread knowledge and feed creative minds…they allow those without a computer to access the internet to find jobs and support.
They are also underfunded and underused by the wealthy elite.
This I’m sure is as true in the US as UK.
But what we don’t have yet is fascists removing books and spreading fear to rob people of their safe place.
https://www.rawstory.com/amp/fox-news-libraries-den-2667751120
@luke
Under Cameron they tried to pitch this battle between the deserving and undeserving poor…which basically went along the lines of if you claim benefits to survive you must be out to con the system and if you work for slave wages, the government recognises your ‘right’ to hate all others ‘conning’ the system.
Disabled and their carers were thrown to the wolves…but also many others who don’t have ‘conventional’ Mail tick box lives.
But Tories really hate all poor.
windows 11 is putting ads in the start menu
no, not like, the preinstalled apps that windows 10 and 11 already have. literally just, advertisements
may i remind you that the expected, official way to obtain a legitimate official windows license is via an oem or paying microsoft $140 directly
i know you can buy shady keys online or pirate it trivially, but the EXPECTED METHOD of activating windows is either you or the oem pay microsoft for a license
despite that, ads. wow this is just cable tv!
🎞️Yay! Finally got the analog kemono group pic.
All of the fluffs (tw):
Top row 1
@\_.danarius._
@Lara_wrr
Row 2
@kurot0shi
@ ???
@tuftuffi
@LexyBytes
@VinFurr
@AilurusThePanda
@Crispy_Dwagon
@Naki_Jace
@Malcompard
@Bakufluff
@C4K3L0V3R
Row 3:
@CZhony
@lucarikeytar
@Kitzen_Waffles
@FrozenNeroj
@NivuEvilMaster
@draner_fox
@LennyaaFluff (me)
@Yuzu8775
Row 4:
@NaruseWolf
@WeirdWoffDragon
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #fursuitfriday #fursuitsfriday #nfc2024 #nordicfuzzcon #nordicfuzzcon2024
Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".
90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.
Better tech ed won't fix this.
It's that time again. There was no active UK parliament petition about #nonbinary identities being recognised in law, so I made one.
#UK #petition: Recognise nonbinary people's genders in law and in identity documents
Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659107
Track signatures here: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/659107
Deadline: 11th October 2024
High five! Or 4?
⚪️🐈@lennyaa
⚪️⚫️🦊@draner_fox (tw)
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #FursuitFriday #fursuitsfriday #nfc2024 #nordicfuzzcon #nordicfuzzcon2024
Sometimes I like to just stop and contemplate. Surroundings, nature, life, people. Especially at conventions, seeing people happy about hanging with each other and having fun, like here at NFC last February :3 #FursuitFriday
📸 by @krymson_k
Ipequey, the inflatable wolf, and Ronin, the fox, enjoying bowls of ramen together.
Pic for Ronin and Ipequey, requested during TFF 2024 Artists Alley
Traditional. Pencil.
If you ever see a dress or a skirt or something and go "God, I wish I could wear that", just wear it. You can. Literally nobody is going to stop you.
One of the biggest things us transfemmes have to overcome is that voice in our heads telling us femininity is off-limits. Yes, sometimes the feeling really is the usual cis girl feeling of "I won't look good in that" but few people ever look as good as the models. 90% of the time, it's just internalized transphobia.
Just buy the damn skirt, girl. 💜
Great news coming from Germany: today, the Bundestag adopted the gender self-determination law, which will allow trans people to change their gender on their official papers with a simple declaration at the civil registry. Gone are the medical requirements. 🏳️⚧️
The law isn't perfect (a 3-month delay is to be observed before the change takes effect; minors will have to go through a dispute in court if their parents oppose the change), but it's still a huge step forward.
https://www.dw.com/en/gender-identity-law-passes-in-german-parliament/a-68800054
The German parliament has voted for legislation smoothing the process for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender identity.Deutsche Welle
The dragon read the letter, then studied the maid who had brought it.
"The princess you serve asks to be abducted."
"And not eaten."
"You came knowing I might eat you?"
"I'd do anything to free her from her parents and their plans!"
"I care not about her. But I'll do it for you."
why?
No, I mean, really. Why does someone "have" to use it.