there is only one gender, the human gender
social anxiety Afficher plus
I didn't notice that yesterday was the 88th birthday of one of my favourite authors!
“Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words..” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Inktober Day 19 - Cloud
i just found out that back in the day, after my dad had listened to his favorite records often enough to get tired of them, rather than taking a break he would just record them backwards & listen to those recordings instead
i have so much to learn from this man
a masto feature like fb memories (ex: “one year ago you tooted this”) except that the posts it shows you are generated by a markov bot
I named this guy Scottie, so far all I have is that he's retired & hangs out with a gang of pigeons.
When we talk about offline stores we usually say "brick and mortar" so what if we used that in place of "irl"
"Oh yeah some of my brick and mortar friends are coming over tonight"
In case you didn't know: in "Jurassic Park", when Lex says "It's a Unix system! I know this!", it's not a Hollywood mockup.
What she's looking at is fsn, the File System Navigator, running on an SGI IRIS Crimson computer running the IRIX filesystem. IRIX was a variant of Unix System V with BSD extensions.
transferring...
okay, reading more about this wifi vulnerability, here's what i got:
- the biggest vulnerability is on the device side, and every OS is affected. install your gosh-dang security updates
- update your router firmware if possible
- if your device doesn't have a security update, assume every wifi hotspot (including your home) is 100% public and unencrypted, forever
when you learn all the rules
so you don't look a fool
that's a more
Also completely spaced posting my Inktober 14 here earlier!
Areal blast from the past, it’s Scare-Crow! An old D&D character I haven’t drawn since ‘10, a mischievous kenku beguiler. I based her design off of a rook because they’re a personal favorite corvid. She has a very Cheshire Cat habit of floating, laughing, and disappearing before the conversation is over.
China Miéville, on how to portray authentically alien intelligences:
"I don’t just think it’s difficult, I think it’s literally impossible. If you are a writer who happens to be a human, I think it’s definitionally beyond your ken to describe something truly inhuman, psychologically, something alien. However, that doesn’t mean there’s no point trying...I don’t think you can succeed, but I think you might just fail pretty wonderfully."
http://www.unboundworlds.com/2011/05/a-brief-interview-with-china-mieville-author-embassytown/
In the US, legal case names in federal civil forfeitures are formulated thus: "United States v. <item being seized>".
This leads to some entertaining case titles. Particularly well-known are "United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins" and "United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls".
photo study of a forest friend! https://mastodon.art/media/dcXqvadBs9IUJJa-MEs
@cooler_ranch haha, of course! it's no fun to play with household objects unless there's a chance of making them inaccessible to everyone
Top 5 Places To Harvest Your Cousins
1) Peel their husks in an Autumn field and be the first person to greet their vegetable grins as they leave the stalk.
2) Dig them free from the shallow mud behind the pens and baptize them with a garden hose
3) Set up body-sized lightning traps on the barn roof when heavy clouds roll in and capture cousins as they bolt from the heavens
4) See if your aunts or uncles have any kids
5) Rest in the sun 'til your skin tightens, then carefully peel yourself to find the cousin within
@cooler_ranch what a cat!