Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

Black Women Kept Roy Moore Out of Office. Here’s How to Actually Thank Them. https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/black-women-turnout-roy-moore-doug-jones.html

reminder: most browsers support *lossless* VP9, which is great for animated pixel art - Mastodon converts incoming GIFs to lossy H.264

you can do this with ffmpeg (preserves alpha)

ffmpeg -i crispy.gif -vcodec libvpx-vp9 -lossless 1 crispy.webm

if you get enough smart programmers together all they do is make lisp, so you have to make sure theres some less-smart "control rod" programmers in the team

Huffington Post claims possession of a Daily Stormer 'style guide' for writers: written by Andrew Anglin, the site's founder, and promoted by Vox Day and Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer.

Unless the provenance of this document can be disproved (because it is the Internet), it appears very explicit that yes, these are in fact *literal*, not ironic, Nazis and they are in fact committed to anti-Semitism and an end game of genocide.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-stormer-nazi-style-guide_us_5a2ece19e4b0ce3b344492f2?m3a

Want a unisex name for a character?

538 has a dataset of over 900 unisex names. The names are drawn from public Social Security records where a name shows up at least 100 times, and neither percentage of name holders listed as male or female is under one third. The data is provided in CSV format with the following columns: name, number of recorded living Americans with the name, percentage listed as male, percentage listed as female, and the gap between the two.

https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/unisex-names

last christmas you promised a riot
but the very next day, nobody sized the means of production

I love Tumblr sometimes!!

I'm 91% of the way to my goal of raising $2000 for the Pioneer Valley Workers Center, an organization that fights capitalism, fights for workers, & fights for undocumented families in Western Massachusetts; the most impoverished region in MA. We do everything from hassling state legislatures for anti-wage theft laws, a 24/7 support hotline for undocumented people facing deportation, vigils and rallies, to bail & barricading construction on the local ICE office.

Please donate here: https://pvworkerscenter.z2systems.com/shelPVWC

smearing poop on the sensors of an anti-homeless robot is the best kind of praxis http://www.businessinsider.com/security-robots-are-monitoring-the-homeless-in-san-francisco-2017-12

https://mastodon.social/media/In8SLfzuHsGFGms3u7Q