If you ever want feel-good tears, go read the reviews of electric tricycles.
There are so many great stories and photos of people regaining mobility, reconnecting with their spouse/friends/family, and just having fun.
Migrated from mastodon.social | secretly a gay cat/badger hybrid | shouldn't encourage cursed computing but does anyway
Pro tip: Moral superiority doesn't bring you shit, when you're dead.
Hey, some fun news! Sir Ian McKellen is headlining an all #trans and #nonbinary reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. It’s a delightful play with much playing with #gender and the understanding of it. I’m very excited and am buying livestream tickets. 🥰
#theatre #arts #plays #Shakespeare #yay #GoodNews
(Edit to add hashtags)
i prefer working with folks to help them kill their inner nazi as i pretty much am guaranteed to gain an ally that also wants to fight fascism in exchange
nazi’s just as dead, but the person remains.
This picture is like a distillation of many parts of my life into one eccentric image. It was taken at a workshop I helped to facilitate at the Toronto Reference Library today, introducing members of the Blind community to 3D printing resources available to the public.
We've posted an overview and recommendations with regard to the passing of the "Take It Down Act" which mandates removal of non-consensual intimate images and videos, and deepfakes, within 48 hours of reporting.
We will update the post as we get more insight. This is of interest to US-based service providers, as well as any services that have vendors or payment processors in the US.
https://connect.iftas.org/library/legal-regulatory/take-it-down-act-2025-usa/
@mynameistillian honestly yeah. I quite like something in the way too
@mynameistillian not gonna fight you on that, but wondering what the other two are
@Flute oh I love!
@EeveeEuphoria y'know, I thought it was a vampire. …Maybe it's a vampire horse
Update: This was our April 1st 2025 prank. It was a reminder that burnout is real, especially in volunteer efforts, and that it has no easy answers. This is also a protest about the social burden created by LLMs - often trained using questionable ethics - including on the quality of support resources. And sometimes with the ultimate goal of replacing real human interactions that make communities like ours so special. <3
@danielaKay the shopping version of "I will take no tea" it seems
@MostlyHarmless yeeeeep
@mkennedy "I hear you honking, and I also don't want me to be doing what I'm doing" has just been an especially relatable quote lately
Some great litanies from Tumblr:
❧ if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost
❧ take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle
❧ fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism
❧ now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning
❧ bigger idiots than you have done it <- litany against imposter syndrome
❧ holy shit two cakes <- litany against self-deprecation
❧ not [a] or [b] but a secret third thing <- litany against false dichotomies
Source: https://elanorpam.tumblr.com/post/767119863534764032/amp
Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.