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This is the most regative thing I'll say all week:

Fandom.com is such a hideous and overtly reader-abusive website, and I refuse to share a link into it, ever. I don't care if it's the first google hit for a thing.

I will do the unthinkable and actually click to the second page of search results if I have to! Don't think I won’t!!

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@darius Not the first time I've been struck at how an 18th or 19th century work of Japanese art looks like something I'd naively peg at 1920 or later.

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@darius This is an inspiration.

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@darius amazing

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Laverne from “Day of the Tebtacle” is one of the most memorable video game characters I’ve ever spent a long time with. I love heroically mediocre female protagonists in any fiction, and few did it more colorfully.
icosahedron.website/@oreolek/1

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@darius Please, show some respect. At least use Gemini for it

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@darius Darius this is super cool.

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@workingclasshistory Cherchez la femme ✊

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Running your own services on the public internet can bring years—maybe even a lifetime—of joy, purpose, and connection. It also requires continuous attention and care, at least a little bit every day, even when you don't feel like it.

I believe in the philosophy that encourages folks to explore the option of owning their own digital resources, but I wonder if we under-emphasize how it's more like adopting a puppy than like getting into woodworking.

infosec.exchange/@jerry/111960

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@darius "Long thought to be a backwards sample of a child saying ‘Yeah’, a 2020 thread on Twoism found this to actually be a sample of a child saying ‘lake’ from an episode of Sesame Street.” Thank U Genius.Com

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@darius Absolutely the best moments of my day job are when I see the database I’m documenting do something really weird, and I start *digging*.

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@darius Among the worst things I have seen on the internet was a post by Wil Wheaton about how years and years of countless strangers telling him “Shut up, Wesley” actually hurt, and he knew how ridiculous it sounded so couldn't publicly admit to it until middle age, and guess what the bulk of the replies were, winky-face.

I don't know if I ever had the urge to reply like that but it stopped that day, at least. (And I am apologetic if I ever did engage in this.)

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@darius Do I read you right that you see Mastodon (and technologies adjacent!) as more of the latter than the former?

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