I'm a queer and nonbinary person with disability. (Here are my pronouns: they/them; here are my acronyms: #AuDHD, #BP2, #CPTSD). I am sweary and acerbic and occasionally need to remind myself to assume positive intent. I am moderately techie but prefer not to have #FOSS projects recommended to me out of the blue unless you've really taken the time to understand my requirements.
@augustusbrown You're absolutely right โ e-mail is so old it was developed to cope with *servers* only going online for short bursts of time.
The notion of having a local e-mail app (rather than just telnetting into your server) is more recent and dates back to the dialup era in home computing. Outlook has swung back to the early model of providing a thin client for an application that is mostly delivered server-side.
Clear-eyed piece by Josh Bornstein on Albanese's invitation to Israeli pres Isaac Gerzog to visit Australia to comfort Jews in the wake of the Bondi attack.
He lays out how this blurs the distinction between Jews and Israel, a distinction that matters because so many Jews are anti-Zionist in their politics.
FUCK IT, MISSING DOS WEDNESDAY
Trying to locate an Australian DOS game from โ 1988, ๐๐๐ฑ, ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ง ๐.
The game was part of a series of four Edutainment games by Reckon Software/John Grimley.
Here's the box cover art, a text ad, and screenshots of 2 other games in the series! Help a gal out!?
@ryanrandall Most people require a lot of encouragement to 'show their work.' You apparently do not ๐
@Susan60 @emily_rugburn @AnthoDerv It's the babies we have to thank for giving us a vocabulary to talk about these experiences, though ๐
This is giving me LIFE โ there's a tit-for-tat drag war happening between two young creators, a gay lad in the Philippines and a young woman in Viet Nam. She ruthlessly mocks his transitions and satirises his blond haired, blue eyed drag persona, while he responds by savaging her in elaborately sarcastic Tagalog. There are dozens if not hundreds of videos in this exchange.
@Susan60 @emily_rugburn @AnthoDerv 40 here. But I think what we have in common is that we woke up to being neurodivergent as a result of a huge social upswell in conversation and cultural production about neurodiversity. We are siblings of different ages, that's all.
(Now who's being pollyanna!!)
The perfect movie review doesnโtโฆ.
I had one of these teeny tiny phones! It was my daily driver for a number of years. I loved that it fit in the coin pocket of my jeans. No doubt the piezo ringer directly caused some of my hearing loss and tinnitus.
This was all pre-apps, pre mobile browsing, and SMS still cost 20 cents per each* so I never really noticed the limitations of the teeny tiny keyboard. The phone software was exquisitely designed for efficient use with only up/down OK/cancel buttons for navigation. I miss it heaps.
* sorry to be obnoxious but this phrase has colonised the supermarkets I shop at and I just find it so cute: per each! What even is that use of language?
@welshpixie Oh this is making me think of deep still pools of water in the incredible watercolour cartoon series Stand Still Stay Silent.
@ygathgoch that's bliss
@AnthoDerv ooh that is a good list.
And I'd completely forgotten about Wendy Matthews!!! Stunning artist.
@AnthoDerv but don't let me put you off your Dashi explorations. I look forward to seeing all your... stock photography
@AnthoDerv natto is live, right? it's gotta eat! sugars are slime food!
...but have you ever used a keyboard with a touchscreen with a keyboard on it?
@Susan60 @emily_rugburn @AnthoDerv Apologies, that was an unnecessarily sarcastic response when I could have just said, yes, I agree!
